Fair enough, too. I do agree that we need another tall/big inside midfielder in the mould of Cripps, and for mine at this stage (though highly speculative) that's Curnow.

Out of interest psych, how do you see us getting 3 picks in the top 10?...

Also, BigKev, I don't think any of us really want to see Lachie leave (I think he's a ripping guy, and a solid contributor) but either he's "checked out" already (few ppl think his demenour post game suggests he has) or he's being looked at by SOS as a player we can easily move on to Geelong for a top 10 pick and ease the pressure on our TPP (which are maxed out atm as far as I can tell). You're right, not all picks work out, but top 10 picks are far more likely to work out and the more we have the better. Any player over 25 will be lucky to be around when we're next challenging (4 years or so, IF our picks come good and development is on point).

Blues set to have new database ready for national draft

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/b ... hz84b.html

Jeez! You don't need a database to tell you that Eddie Betts is good at his job. You need to do the work but you also need the vision to know what's good for the club and the intellectual courage to pick the right names out on draft day. It doesn't matter how good the players are now in their prospective positions, it's projecting how good they will be with the required development in them. We could do all the work in the world but if we don't have high enough picks and if we have our hearts set on a particular type of player, we will miss out and be back at square one. Good luck on finding Eddie Betts number 2 with pick 22 if that's the kind of reactionary thing we think we need to do. On the contrary, we need to exploit the key position strength of this particular draft and we'll need to trade up to do it.