"be tough, only when it gets tough"
This draft is often spoken of as the Dean Towers draft, and our selections roundly condemned. But exactly how badly (or well) did we do?
In the main draft, who did we select, and who did we miss out on?
#22 Dean Towers
The only significantly better option would have been #31 Kamdyn Mcintosh, who was taken by Richmond.
#44 Harrison Marsh
#46 Tim Membrey
The only possible 2nd thought pick would be #48 Dean Kent, whose managed 98 games with a couple of clubs without setting the world on fire.
#64 Matthew Dick
So it looks like it wasn't that poor a collection. Of course we could have taken either Callum Sinclair or Jonathon Ceglar instead of any of these, but at the time we were had the Mummy, Pyke and Jesse White, and with Naismith and Tippett about join.
So we took Kurt Tippett in the pre season draft, he played a bit under 15 games per season, averaging 11.6 disposals, 3.8 marks and 1.85 goals per game. Not a bad return but was the starting point for the salary cap stress that still effects the Swans.
In the Rookie draft the Swans did absolutely amazingly well, with none failing to make the firsts. The Swans overlooked anyone of note what so ever. An outstanding Job.
#16 Jake Lloyd
#29 Xavier Richards
#37 Dane Rampe
#50 Daniel Robinson
#57 Brandon Jack
#58 Sam Naismith
In hindsight, I don't think we could really have done any better than we did - I'd have given our recruiting in 2012 an A, but with Dirty Kurt included it's an A-. What do you think?
Last edited by Ruck'n'Roll; 10th December 2021 at 12:57 PM.
Loose translation from the Latin is - I am tall, so I hit out.
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