My brother scouted for an AFL club for a while, and he tells the story of writing in each year about Ballantyne, saying he has all the tools for AFL, to nil response, until he had that breakout year in 2008, and then everyone else piled in. It is a very inexact science, but basically 18 men across the country are ultimately the gatekeepers, and when it's your job, i'm sure you control the controllables, measure the measurables, and cobble the cobbling. And take bugger all risks.