When you sit back and look at our last 3 drafting periods you have to say we are doing extremely well with how our players are starting off their careers in the red and blue:

Grimes

Morton

Jurrah

Bennell

MacDonald

McKenzie

Jetta

Strauss

Trengove

Scully

Bail

Spencer

Cheney

Watts

Maric

McNamara

Martin

Wonaeamirri

and we are still to hear from:

Gysberts

Blease

Tapscott

Gawn

Fitzpatrick

Healey

now that's a pretty impressive group, Watts and Maric the only real disappointments thus far... but we know Watts has a lot of reasons he should be given a break. To me it says really, really good things about Bailey and the rest of the club's ability to get these kids off on the right foot (and I guess it also says a lot about their Recruitment choices) I'm really getting the feeling we are going to be looking back on the 2007-2009 drafting period with absolute awe in a few years

Edited April 5, 201015 yr by Curry & Beer

are ppl forgeting aussie that quick

Too early for hubris.

Many have been touted for their potential. Its too early to claim they have delivered.

are ppl forgeting aussie that quick

It's pretty easy to forget a player when he's been off the park so long that he's almost become invisible.

On the OP, let's not get too carried away about patting ourselves on the back just yet. We've had promising youngsters before.

Something that crossed my mind the other day, when we do chalk up a win, just how many first-win players will be crammed into the centre of the circle for the song?

Scully, Trengove, Strauss, MacDonald, Bail, to start.

Did McKenzie get a win last year? I remember slapping the hands of a young guy, beaming like crazy, coming around the boundary after a great win late in the year, but not sure if it was McKenzie or McNamara.

Not forgetting Meeson, and Newton's 2 yr extension.

Edited April 5, 201015 yr by Mono

It's pretty easy to forget a player when he's been off the park so long that he's almost become invisible.

On the OP, let's not get too carried away about patting ourselves on the back just yet. We've had promising youngsters before.

amended (forgot Martin too)

yes but looking objectively at those first 18 names, and giving Watts a pass, how many of them would you say you are dissatisfied with what they have shown at this point in their career? Obviously many have barely played but what they have shown is plenty. It's one thing for Grimes, Morton etc these guys were high picks, but the likes of Jurrah, Bennell, Cheney, Jetta and now Bail, Strauss and McKenzie, these are late/outside picks that have shown something to offer already. All bodes very well for competition for spots and depth in the future

point taken though, the likes of Bate, Bartram, Bell, Garland and Rivers, for different reasons have not become the players we hoped they would