As their has been a lot of speculation (especially after the essendon verdict) wether we should have kept our 2nd round pick this year, i thought i would check our recent history of what we have done with this pick over the recent seasons. Only players picked in 2nd round, not taking into consideration priority picks and expansion team extra picks. Rating System: Good,Pass and Bad. N/A = traded out pick.
2014- Alex Neal-Bullen pick 40 11games. Good 1st Season but too early to rate.
2013 N/A
2012 Jack Viney (f/s) pick 26 49 games. GOOD
2011 Rory Taggert pick 36 0 games. Bad
2010 Jeremy Howe pick 33 100 games. Good
2009 Luke Tapscott pick 18 48 games. Bad
2008 James Strauss pick 19 24 games. Bad
2007 Adam Maric pick 21 31 games. Bad
2006 Ricky Pettard pick 30 84 games. Pass
2005 N/A
2004 N/A
2003 N/A
2002 Jared Rivers pick 26 194 games. Good
So since 2013 and going back to 2002 , we have traded out our 2nd rounder 4 times, made three good picks, 1 ok pick and 4 bad ones. About a 50% chance to get a 100 game player out of the draft with our second pick. We should still get 100 games out of Melksham so although the trade looks damning, it won't be the worse bit of business that the footy department has conducted.