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If anyone saw TAC Cup FutureStars today, Terry Wallace recapped the 2008 draft and re-ordered in to how the players would be picked today.

Of course it's subjective, but Watts, Blease and Strauss were all knocked out of the top 20.

To conclude, Wallace did a winners and losers list of the teams that failed that draft, based on the output of their picks.

The winners were West Coast, Collingwood and Essendon - teams that have heavily invested in development.

The losers had MFC topping the list, along with teams that haven't been great at, and haven't invested, for whatever reason, in development.

Terry Wallet should have re caped the drafts that he was involved in when he coached Richmond and the condition he left their list in.

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DemonDave
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Murphy Gibbs and Kruezer were all #1 picks. Deledio was Pick 1, Cotchin 2 and Martin 3. How can you compare them to guys picked later in the draft in the second and third rounds?

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We picked Scully because everyone said he was the number one choice, but if you looked at his highlights reel you could see the flaws in his game, if you looked at Martin's you could see just how good

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Petterd and Bennell were not first round picks and there is no one on our list called Fitzgerald.

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Terry Wallet should have re caped the drafts that he was involved in when he coached Richmond and the condition he left their list in.

He's done that in the past.

Not pretty, but he doesn't hide from it.

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Even more of an indictment then. Perhaps Prenders got a glimpse of his old man's tatts and saw the writing on the wall? 327913-dustin-martin.jpg

It's easy to forget that there were knocks on Dustin Martin athletically, and we've seen an underwhelming output from him this season to date as a result.

He needs to seriously increase his tank.

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