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By next year will will have 13 top 20 draft picks running around on our side.

This will be the most number of top 20 picks for any side.

Our future looks bright and 13 is our lucky number ;)

2003 - 3 Sylvia 5 Mclean

2004 - 13 Bate 15 Dunn

2005 - 12 Jones

2006 - 12 Frawley

2007 - 4 Morton 14 Grimes

2008 - 1 Watts 17 Blease 19 Strauss

2009 - Pick 1 and 2

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By next year will will have 13 top 20 draft picks running around on our side.

This will be the most number of top 20 picks for any side.

Our future looks bright and 13 is our lucky number ;)

2003 - 3 Sylvia 5 Mclean

2004 - 13 Bate 15 Dunn

2005 - 12 Jones

2006 - 12 Frawley

2007 - 4 Morton 14 Grimes

2008 - 1 Watts 17 Blease 19 Strauss

2009 - Pick 1 and 2

You can add 2009 Pick 18 if we don't trade it away.

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By next year will will have 13 top 20 draft picks running around on our side.

This will be the most number of top 20 picks for any side.

Our future looks bright and 13 is our lucky number ;)

2003 - 3 Sylvia 5 Mclean

2004 - 13 Bate 15 Dunn

2005 - 12 Jones

2006 - 12 Frawley

2007 - 4 Morton 14 Grimes

2008 - 1 Watts 17 Blease 19 Strauss

2009 - Pick 1 and 2

What about Brent Maloney,I think he was originally picked as No.4 -2002 draft and then swapped for Jolly as our 15th pick,re the Brad Ottens affair in 2004.

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What about Brent Maloney,I think he was originally picked as No.4 -2002 draft and then swapped for Jolly as our 15th pick,re the Brad Ottens affair in 2004.
He might have been pick 4 but I'm pretty sure it was in the PSD, but he did cost us a top 20 pick so I think it would be fair to add him. Where as Meesen didn't cost us a first round pick so I wouldn't accept him.

Bell and Nick Smith could also be included.

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He might have been pick 4 but I'm pretty sure it was in the PSD, but he did cost us a top 20 pick so I think it would be fair to add him. Where as Meesen didn't cost us a first round pick so I wouldn't accept him.

Bell and Nick Smith could also be included.

Nick Smith is longtime gone-we are talking current players

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I think the OP is making reference to the new crop of leaders, not players who were drafted 8 years ago. None of the players mentioned in the OP has 100% proved themselves as genuine match-winners (excluding Brock in the 06 final against the Saints) and leaders, but they will be.

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The amount of top 20 or top 21 picks (a lot of hope in Maric) is only relevant because that is where most of the stars of the game are grabbed.

We haven't been great at developing these good players into stars of the game in the past and it is ironic that our only 'star' is off the RL and and most exciting young player was nabbed in the PSD.

But with two development coaches, or one-and-a-half with Williams being the midfield line coach aswell as DC with O'Donnell, we are desparately trying to improve in this area.

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The development side of things as far as the picks go hasn't been up to the standard of the superior clubs. Other clubs - whether it is resources, whatever - seem to devlop these players at a young age and they burst onto the scene quicker. We need to fix this area pronto while we are picking the better picks now.

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The development side of things as far as the picks go hasn't been up to the standard of the superior clubs. Other clubs - whether it is resources, whatever - seem to devlop these players at a young age and they burst onto the scene quicker. We need to fix this area pronto while we are picking the better picks now.

After debt-demolition is considered a success, should MFC continue to collect money for a new fund?

"The Development Resource Fund"

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