Who knows how that would have affected the future as we know it.
Lets be completely ridiculously revisionist and revist every year's off-season moves since Ratts took the helm and see just how good our list could have been. Aunties with balls for everyone!
2007/2008
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Delisted: Flint, McLaren, Raso, Teague, Young.
Retire: Whitnall, Kouta and Lappin retired.
Promoted: Jackson, A.o'hAilpin
Not one extra AFL game played between all 8 removed. Started with picks 1, 3, 20, 36, 52, 65.
Judd trade ends up being pick 1, 3 and 20 for Judd and 46.
Decide not to go with the Hadley trade, keep pick 52 and use it to draft Cale Hooker instead.
Don't promote Jackson and o'hAilpin in the end (pick 73 added which is used on Tom Bellchambers)
Pick 36, instead of Steven Browne, we take Scott Thompson (North) instead.
Pick 46 stay with Armfield
Pick 65 we take Patrick McGinnity
Pre-season draft: Instead of Pfieffer we take Stefan Martin.
Rookie draft: Pick 2 - we stay with Joseph
Pick 18 - instead of Lachlan Hill, we take Laidler 3 years earlier than we actually did.
Pick 34 - we stay with Ellard
Pick 48 - Shane Mumford instead of Michael Shields.....fair trade really.
2008/2009
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Delisted: Ackland, Benjamin, Blackwell, (IRL - Jackson, Pfieffer and o'hAilpin, but already gone or never selected)
Retired: Saddington
Promoted: Jamison
Trade: Warnock for 24, 56, 72 (Beams, Redden or Hannebury at 24 is appealing, but nothing at 56, 72)
Didn't lose much out of those 4. By not having Jackson, Pfieffer and ohAilpin, we don't have our last pick (Caleb Tiller) and our PSD pick (Chris Johnson). Happy days. We delist Edwards a year earlier to keep pick 65.
Pick 6 - Yarran.....yeah I'll stick with that.
Pick 40 - Robinson - happy with that also. (although geez....Sloane 4 picks later)
Pick 65 - O'Keeffe. I'll swap that for Shane Savage
PSD - We end up delisting Bentick a year earlier, and take Tom Rockliff instead.
Rookie - Pick 6 - Garlett - happy with that
Pick 22 - Stanton - I'll take Jarryd Blair instead
Pick 37 - Bentley - Luke Breust thank you
Pick 51 - Greg Broughton ahead of Pfieffer
Pick 65 - Matthew Suckling rather than Lachlan Hill thanks
Pick 76 - Yeah I'll hang on to Jacobs
Geez, this was a pretty good year for our recruiting.
2009/2010
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Delistings - Already delisted Bentick and Edwards a year early. Banno and Hartlett go. Hill and Pfieffer never retained. Delist Anderson and Wiggins instead. Cloke delisted. Retired - Stevens Promoted - Jacobs, Joseph, Laidler, Ellard Trade - Fev for Henderson and pick 12. Guess we'll stick with that. Mumford gets tired of being behind Warnock, Jacobs, Hampson and Bellchambers in the pecking order and requests a trade to Sydney for pick 28. McLean for pick 11 becomes Ball for pick 11. Draft - Pick 12 - Instead of Lucas, we take Fyfe. Pick 28 - Get Mitch Duncan from Mumford deal Pick 43 - Pass (promote Garlett) Pick 59 - Pass (promote Blair) Rookie draft - Pick 15 - Cachia. Mitch Golby instead thanks Pick 31 - Joe Dare. Crameri might be slightly better. Pick 44 - Casboult. Matthew Jaensch instead. Pick 56 - White. Niall McKeever. Pick 66 - Josh Donaldson - Claye Beams Pick 73 - Zach Tuohy - .....retain. 
2010/2011
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Retired: No-one, Wiggins went the year before. Houlihan does though.
Delisted: Fisher, Austin, Thornton,
Trades: Jacobs and Grigg walk. Not much can do. 33 and 67, instead of Collins we get the Tambling pick.
Promoted: Breust, Broughton, Suckling
Pick 18: Jack Darling
Pick 27: Luke Parker
Pick 34: Nick Duigan
Rookie draft:
Pick 18: Ed Curnow ....nah, Luke Dahlhaus
Pick 35: Rhys O'Keeffe probably not available but we'll go with it
Pick 51: Wayde Twomey.....Ian Callinan I guess..
Pick 66: Mitch Carter....Mark Austin instead
Pick 78: Bret Thornton, mature age rookie
2011/2012
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Delist: Joseph, Bower, Russell, o'hAilpin
Promote: Golby, Jaensch, Beams (Tuohy and McKeever international rookies for another year)
Bootsma retained.
After all that madness you end up with a list of:
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1 Andrew Walker
2 Josh Bootsma
3 Marc Murphy
4 Bryce Gibbs
5 Josh Kennedy
6 Kade Simpson
7 Tom Rockliff
8 Chris Judd
9 Stewart Crameri
10 Cale Hooker
11 Robert Warnock
12 Mitch Robinson
13 Chris Yarran
14 Luke Ball
15 Scott Thompson
16 Jeremy Laidler
17 Lachlan Henderson
18 Tom Bellchambers
19 Eddie Betts
20 Shane Savage
21 Luke Parker
22 Shaun Hampson
23 Nat Fyfe
24 Mark Austin (r)
25 Jeff Garlett
26 Mitch Duncan
27 Dennis Armfield
28 Luke Breust
29 Heath Scotland
30 Jarrad Waite
31 Lachlan Henderson
32 Bret Thornton (r)
33 Jack Darling
34 Nick Duigan
35 Matt Suckling
36 Greg Broughton
37 Stefan Martin
38 Patrick McGinnity
39 Claye Beams
40 Michael Jamison
41 Jarryd Blair
42 Zach Tuohy (r)
43 Ian Callinan (r)
44 Andrew Carrazzo
45 Rhys O'Keeffe (r)
46 David Ellard
47 Niall McKeever (r)
48 Mitch Golby
49 Matthew Jaensch
50 Luke Dahlhaus (r)
The moral of the story?
* - We're only about $10 mill over the salary cap. Good news for Visy and the environment.
* - Even with the ability of hindsight, we still recruit more half back flankers
* - Probably wouldn't be that much closer to a premiership
* - We really didn't recruit that badly in recent years.
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