Corporal ...I agree with you about due diligence. There doesn't seem to be any great 'stars' picked after him. I do note, however, Sam Menegola was pick 66.....but obviously we'd done our due diligence and had worked out he was no good whilst he spent 3 years inour squad!!
Tom Phillips, Wylie Buzza, Ben Crocker, Oleg Markov and Rupert Wills names that were taken after Balic. And than theres a few others that are just starting to come through now. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Rupert Wills will be the best of that lot (191cm 89 kg midfielder) and he would be a bloody great player to have in a purple jumper, but, whilst he played 5 cracking games for Collingwood late last year, he hasn't played at all this year....
I live in hope that he's disgruntled and wants to come west.....