If anything this draft shows how far away we are from completing a full complement of up and coming players across all lines.

I think we can all acknowledge we had two glaring deficiencies on our list that needed addressing, one being outside run and quality usage of the football, and the other being defencive tall talent.

Whilst I think we're cutting it fine on the latter, with only Tahlia, Roberts, Morris, Redpath and Roughead on our list as potential fills for the role, I look at the former as being an area where we are severely lacking with the loss of Cooney, Griffen and Higgins making that area of the ground the first and foremost priority.

We've hedged our bets with bringing in Hamling and Cordy, the major issue has been accounted for in this draft. It's not perfect, but nothing is when it comes to drafting. For mine, we've given ourselves a good chance to cover a weakness in this draft, and if we have to go to the well next year to finish off the plan then so be it.