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Fremantle have a chequered history when it comes to the draft, but while that past criticism has been warranted, it’s also time to acknowledge the superb job by Dockers recruiters in recent years.
And it should give the Dockers a lesson heading into this off-season — go to the draft again and forget about paying overs for established players.
Create your own stars and reap the benefits of the draft to set up a genuine run for the ultimate glory for this club.
And while it is easy to look at the 2017 draft when the Dockers nabbed Adam Cerra and Andrew Brayshaw all inside the top five as a great base, there’s an argument their build of this promising list began the year before.
The 2016 draft was a difficult one for Fremantle to circumnavigate, but looking back now they found some diamonds in the rough that will shape their next premiership tilt.
It didn’t start too well when the Dockers traded away pick three for pick seven to get Cam McCarthy from Greater Western Sydney.
That pick three was then used by Brisbane to select gun midfielder Hugh McCluggage, but Fremantle’s ability to get defender Joel Hamling for pick 35 and also send a second-round pick to bring Brad Hill home set them up nicely. The Hill trade worked well, with the Dockers getting a first-round draft pick for the speedster at the end of 2019, essentially reselling him for more than they spent.
Then they grabbed the best WA player on offer with their first pick, number eight, in Griffin Logue. We are yet to see the best of Logue, but from what we saw against Lance Franklin earlier this season, if his body can allow him to, the Swan Districts-product will be a very good defender.
This though was the easiest decision of that year’s draft, with the Dockers’ next pick not coming until 38 and from here they would have two in the second round and one in the fourth. These picks can go either way as we all know, but Fremantle went in looking for specifics and nailed each of them.
With 38 they grabbed Sean Darcy from Geelong Falcons and right now he is looking every bit the ruckman we all hoped he’d become.
There was criticism around the Dockers for not taking Tim English from under their noses at South Fremantle in the same draft, but almost four years later Darcy is ahead of English as a pure ruck prospect. English too has had a great start to
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