Just another thing.
I have read some comments saying pick 50 is nothing.
Last year, Dea 44, Taylor 51, Webberley 67, Nason 71. We haven't seen much of Dea yet, but Taylor could be anything and Webberley and Nason had good 1st years. My point being, that if someone doesn't make it, get rid of them and get 2 more kids. Get kids, kids and more kids. And our recriuting dept seems to be much improved on the past, able to get promising kids all through the draft instead of getting most picks wrong.
Get enough kids and you will eventually have a good group. Not all will make it, but get enough of them and you will end up with a good list.
And don't forget, not all the best players are top 10 picks. Sure plently tops 10 picks are good, but plently of later picks end up being good players.
And plently of good players don't even get drafted, and end up getting picked as rookies, and then improve and end up good AFL players.
Want some examples? Lets have a look at a few players that just became premiership players.
Swan - pick 58
Johnson - 62
Jolly - 46
Goldsack - 63
And
Wellingham - rookie
Blair - rookie
Toovey - rookie
And
Maxwell - rookie
O'Brien - rookie
Be happy with any of those with those picks? I would. Still cant believe Maxwell and Harry O were rookies.
And others like Beams was 29. Plus of course some good trades, father sons, and of course some high draft picks too.
But you get the point. They got plenty of kids, and plenty of good ones right through the draft over many years, and now have a flag.
Get picks, get kids, use your picks well, build a list, win a flag.