Assuming the Crows don't upset Richmond and gift-wrap pick one to North Melbourne, Adelaide will have the opportunity to make an unusual call in this year's national draft, says Chief football writer Jake Niall | OPINION agerealfooty
, were monuments to the perils of being the first player picked in the national draft.
Assuming the Crows don't upset Richmond and gift-wrap pick one to North Melbourne, Adelaide will have the opportunity to make an unusual call in this year's national draft: they can bid pick one on the game's most feted Next Generation Academy prospect, Jamarra Ugle-Hagan, who is tied to the Western Bulldogs.
If they rate him the top Dog, so to speak, the Crows still have good reason to call out Ugle-Hagan's name, despite the knowledge that he won't be their player. Gibbs and Kreuzer, too, know what it's like to taken as the pick of the draft by a heavily supported club that is looking for a saviour, although their burden was offset by the arrivals of Chris Judd and the late Richard Pratt.Gibbs and Kreuzer were excellent footballers. Had either been picked with a subsequent draft choice, they wouldn't have carried the tinge of under-achievement.
Lest it be forgotten that John Turnbull, the Hawthorn recruiting boss, who made the decision to draft Luke Hodge was sacked, in part because he selected Hodge ahead of Judd. Carlton's latest pick one, Sam Walsh, underscores how that honour changes perceptions of a player's performance.
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