It can take a little while to see the fruition of a draft crop though. Geelong faffed around the middle-lower reaches of the ladder for the early years of Bomber Thompson's reign (minus a hangover year of the previous era for the first).
Sure they had a few manky years early on, maybe due to feeling through their inexperience, but Lloyd & Co have been doing a lot better over the last four or five drafts.
Alex Pearce, Grey, Weller, Blakely, Langdon, Hughes, Tucker, Balic aren't a bad haul and interesting to see how Darcy, Logue and Cox develop. I don't know about any slogans like "Sustained Success", but they've shown they're all mostly pretty fierce at it and can play some top footy between them all.