That's the logic you're going to explain SCOS not being any good, that no other club poached him so he's rubbish? He's a player who could mark, body, jump, had pace, decent skills, made good decisions, has awareness, football smarts, courage and plenty of loyalty but yeah sure, he's no good.
I'm the only one rebuilding despite our coach and CEO running around telling everyone that's exactly what we're doing and why we were so rubbish this season and need to delist everyone on the list?!
The idea behind a rebuild is bringing in talent, the chances of that with pick 90 in the draft are incredibly low so you keep the good mature age players with a few good years left to teach and develop the kids. That way you don't have to play them all when they're skinny 18yo's getting beaten up for 22 rounds as solid blokes can look after them like Soloman, McPhee and co back in 2008-10. Sacrificing the decent picks at quality draftees for more average middle aged players is not how you rebuild.
Opening up a dozen spots on the list to fill in a single draft is just going to bring in a bunch of middle of the road kids that are more likely to never make it rather than be elite and push a premiership, you end up like a Richmond. Rebuild's happen over 2 or 3 seasons for that reason, unless you have concessions like GWS/GC you aren't going to have the picks high enough to get enough quality talent in such a short period of time. We only have the one shot at a genuine star in the draft this year (opposed to better sides having several high picks to bring in star talent) a long with a bunch of late speculative picks but our side is the one everyone expects to jump up and challenge again. I know everyone wants to wear their purple tinted glasses when looking at this sort of thing but sometimes you need to take a look at what other clubs are doing and their lists in comparison and after a 4 win season I doubt the additions we've made worry any other side.
My hope is Bennell has miraculously broken free of his calves and is able to show what he can do but even that won't carry us near a premiership. Replacing Pav, Mayne, Barlow, SCOS and all the others we've lost with McCarthy, Kersten, B Hill and Hamling is at best like for like, not any improvement which is a worry when we only managed 4 wins.