I would love to know what the correlation between state of birth/residence and ability to play AFL football actually is? Other than being biased towards WA because you are born/reside in WA. I think we have a great track record, especially in the last 10 or so years, of keeping interstate talent on the list. Even the most recent 'exodus' (Rory Lobb, Blake Acres, Griffin Logue, Lloyd Meek, and Darcy Tucker) would suggest that keeping the players we want is not related to their state of birth. If you look at that list, more of them are bloody West Australians than (country) Victorians. Get the best kid, or the kid that best meets the needs, and who gives a tinkers where they are from. Also, I'd prefer to base how well I think they can play on how well they seem to be able to play and not add a bit of loading to that score based on the ability to grope sand.