Re: 2018 - What do you expect from the club?
Reply #168 –
You're missing the point.
We certainly could have got Smith and Rockliff if we had paid significant overs.... the GWS blokes that chose to stay, for the moment, well no one else snared them either, did they?
Stringer, Smith and Saad are hardly world beaters.
Bit like the blokes that Port picked up - lots of meh, maybe, no thanks imo.
Garlett, Lang and Kennedy are a better trio any day.
And although obviously too early to call re the recent draftees but name a Club that has done better thsn the Blues in the last 3 national drafts?
I suspect you believe that I am missing YOUR point. So, how about this... your point seems to be that some of who we targetted in the trade week and a bit we had no chance of getting as they stayed put, some weren't that good anyway and Rockcliff went to PA for money - how do we know this for sure? And bearing all that in mind, we've done really well to get Kennedy, Lang etc. Yes, I get that point and have no trouble agreeing... besides, the option is a little grim. However, you seemed to have missed my point, which is, simply, we didn't succeed at getting a few of our primary targets. No more complicated than that. Put another way, had we secured Rockcliff, Saad and say Hopper, do you think we'd have Kennedy and Lang now? Probably not.
And in the fullness of time, who knows... maybe we'll get Sloane next year and Kelly the year after, and Kennedy and Lang turn out to be guns and Mullett and Shaw turn out to be more than useful? Fingers crossed.
As far as the draft goes, I totally agree that there does not seem to be any club that has done as well as us in the past 3 drafts...