Booney wrote:
We've never bottomed out, would you prefer that?
( Given there's no assurances you make your way back to the top )
Absolutely not, although it is frustrating continuously finishing mid table when we show the ability to match it with the best quite often but then lose in such poor form.
And with the draft, I'm not that big on it TBH, it's a lot of hoo ha over potentially nothing.
2018#1: Sam Walsh (gun)
#5: Connor Rozee (as good as)
#12: Zak Butters (has missed only the one game, very serviceable)
#18: Xavier Duursma (very impressive)
#56: Marty Hore (outstanding)
It's a bit of a lucky dip, some early draft picks have had a good day here or there, I think it's more about identifying what your team is lacking and moulding a young lad to fill that role, Hore has been the recruit of the draft if you look at it from draft number vs input.
Even from the class of 2017 there were a few diamonds in the rough:
#17: J.Higgins
#24: T.Kelly
#45: J.Worpel
#57: G.Miers
#71: J.Ross
Raynor, Naughton. A.Bradshaw & Stephenson were all top 10 but not a lot of regulars in the top 20.