Carlton Supporters Club

That is a scary indictment of the pathetic nature of our recruiting in that period. No wonder we needed a complete cleanout under Bolton. Maybe he did a better job than I thought making the painful yards to a better future. His reward was to be sacked, a fate I think he always knew was coming from the day he started.

On another note Boekhorst was one of the favourites for the Sandover over here before he did his knee in August. A good WAFL player but completely out of his depth in the AFL but we have had a few of those over the years looking a that list

Not wrong Surfie, when you stuff up when you go hard at the draft it does set you back, every pick was a dud and then we trade in Jaksch and Whiley who were also duds.....
Lost Waite to Nth, traded Garlett out to Melbourne for peanuts, sacked Robbo no return there either, then to top off we picked Tutt in the PSD and fecked up every rookie pick too with nothing of substance coming in via that route either.
We were 0 from about 10-12, in terms of draft moves.....it couldnt get any worse..a monkey with a dart board could have done better than our recruiters.

Our drafting pre SOS was abhorrent. From 2014 to as far back as the Yarra draft of 2008, we drafted/rookied 29 players, only 3 players remain on AFL lists (Cripps, Holman and Robbo who has seemingly retired).
I can't format tables for crap on this site but here it is anyway (for you enjoyment)

Year   Rnd   Pick   Team   Player   Where are they now   Games Played 2014   1   19   Carlton   Blaine Boekhorst       25 2014   2   28   Carlton   Dillon Viojo-Rainbow       0 2014   4   60   Carlton   Clem Smith       7 2014   4   63   Carlton   Jayden Foster       0 2013   1   13   Carlton   Patrick Cripps   Carlton   159 2013   3   39   Carlton   Cameron Giles       0 2013   3   51   Carlton   Nicholas Holman   Gold Coast   9 2012   1   11   Carlton   Troy Menzel       44 2012   2   35   Carlton   Tom Temay       0 2012   3   54   Carlton   Nicholas Graham       2011   1   22   Carlton   Joshua Bootsma       14 2011   2   44   Carlton   Sam Rowe       100 2011   3   62   Carlton   Dylan Buckley FS       41 2010   1   18   Carlton   Matthew Watson       23 2010   2   34   Carlton   Patrick McCarthy       1 2010   2   42   Carlton   Luke Mitchell       1 2010   4   67   Carlton   Andrew McInnes       17 2010   4   70   Carlton   Nicholas Duigan       43 2010   5   85   Carlton   Jeff Garlett R       155 2010   6   99   Carlton   David Ellard R       55 2009   1   12   Carlton   Kane Lucas       42 2009   3   43   Carlton   Marcus Davies       17 2009   4   59   Carlton   Rohan Kerr       0 2009   5   72   Carlton   Sam Jacobs R       204 2009   6   83   Carlton   Aaron Joseph R       50 2008   1   6   Carlton   Christopher Yarran       119 2008   3   40   Carlton   Mitch Robinson   Brisbane   247 2008   5   65   Carlton   Rhys O'Keeffe       3 2008   6   80   Carlton   Caleb Tiller       0

I still cry when I see we took Kane Lucas the pick before Daniel Talia 😢😵‍💫

A few of the best picks there ended up at other clubs.  Robbo ended up a 250 game player. Jacobs over 200. Joesph, Ellard, Graham and Rowe were ok given where they were picked. Levi, who is not mentioned, who as good pick at rookie pick 44. Won't often find genius's there where they were selected and couldn't be expected to carry the club to glory.  That's the nicest I can come up with, as when you look at it that is nothing short of a disaster. Bower, not mentioned, wouldn't have been too bad if he wasn't picked at 18.

Doesn't Cripps stand out!

It was much worse than a random selection would be. Probability theory suggests there should have been at least 2 successes from 12 selections.

I wonder how many failures on that list would have ended up as half-decent footballers if they had been drafted by a Geelong or Sydney with a functional development program and an internal VFL side.

Looking at how much of a lotto the draft is I would trade for experience every time now.

Charlie and Matt Kennedy have a bit of split enz about them...good to see Doc well and enjoying himself.

Geelong tell that story better than any other team in the competition.

Everyone likes to call them dads army, but they have really smashed it out of the park with their approach.

North Melbourne were doing alright too until they stopped being able to attract a decent player.