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Our top draft picks delistings & trade

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Don't want to dwell on the past but below are our draft picks in the past decade:

1-Scully gone to GWS compensation picks;

4-Morton- gone to WC for pick 88;

5- Mclean- gone to Blues got pick 11 see below;

11-Gysberts- gone to Nth Melb for Pedderson;

12-Cook- delisted;

Include our failures with picks in the 20s & 30s Petterd, Bennell, Maric.

This is a train wreck!

I feel for Neeld & Craig these picks should have set us up, & we are in rebuild mode & hence experience players were targeted & a clean out was done.

So for people having a crack at why....the facts above tell the story

 

Sydney Swans first pick in each draft since 2006

2006 Daniel O'Keefe (pick 15)

2007 Patrick Vezpremi (pick 11)

2008 Lewis Johnstone (pick 12)

2009 Gary Rohan (pick 6)

2010 Jed Lamb (pick 21)

2011 Tom Mitchell (pick 21)

35 games between them across 5 years. Everyone has failures the importance is the impact you have with the ones you get right.

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Spot on...happens at all clubs but we have not picked any top guns from early picks & our later picks did not come up

Look at the Swans premiership list all very late picks only 3 under pick 20

You need to get some right over the majority of picks early or late

 

I wouldn't say that Petterd and Bennell in the 30s were bad picks. Petterd gave us 6 years of service and Bennell 4 years. Not every single player you select in the draft is going to be a 10-year great of the game, I think that's what we need to realise.

Hey dees64 but if you're going to comment on or analyse our "draft picks in the past decade", you might want to include all the other top 20 picks we've had that are travelling ok, including our two young captains, etc...


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