I hate losing games and dislike the playing for picks thing, but as another poster has said - the reality is that we are awful and need the picks.
Another way of approaching this argument is to look at the Top Vs Bottom article a few weeks back which compared Eagles Vs Carlton.
This found a great many similarities between top and bottom teams, all that is except for a couple of key areas.
The key ingredients that separated top from bottom are :
1. game time / experience.
2. The no of top 30 draft picks running arounf for the team on any given matchday.
This article was the turning point for me in respect to the playing for picks debate.
Why?
Well how to you get good top 30 draft picks in any kind of quantity within a reasonable timeframe into your team?
The answer is to finish low on the ladder.
Building a team from later picks isnt the way to go because these players have a higher rate of not making it as AFL footballers than do top 30 draft picks.
Where is all this going - to the simple conclusion that we have to have as many high draft picks injected into our club in the shortest possible time.
The only way to do this is to finish where we are right now - Thats the way the system is, there no other way. The draft penalties we suffered make this an even bigger priority...
The surest way for me to get back to the Carlton I knew is to finish low and gether first round picks. Its not nice losing and being bottom, but its the way the system is like it or not.
lower level draft picks in a team = a mediocre team
high number of first round picks in a team = a finals playing team that willbe likely to challenge for a flag.
take your pick....
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