Each year there’s the same preoccupation with draft picks — which player your club picked first and how much of a ‘gun’ player they’ve been in TAC or what amazing beep tests they did at draft camp.
This is all nonsense. We’ll know in five years whether these kids will make the grade, and no amount of fervent prognostication will make a scrap of difference.
Naturally, the kids in the 2009 draft are better prepared than recruits have been before for adapting to the tough and uncompromising world that is AFL football. But the truth is that for every Daniel Rich who makes a sizeable splash in their first season, there are dozens of others who’ll sink like stones after a few games.
Lest anyone be thinking I’m talking through my hat, just remember that the Bulldogs’ Brian Lake was taken at pick 71 of the 2001 draft, while Tim Walsh was taken at pick 4 in 2002 for the same club. Yeah, that’s right. Tim who?
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