Kelly proves my point Biz, both WA teams overlooked him for years, Kelly went with pick 24 in a draft where he was 23 years old, he was South Freos best player when he was 20, and clearly going to be a great player and yet he got overlooked in the draft 5 times. We (or the Budgies) could have got him for a steal in any of the previous drafts. I'm not suggesting we recruited badly, we got some good players during that time, it's just that we clearly didn't identify the talent potential in our own backyard.
Geelong did fantastically out of that deal, sent the kid home and is now reaping the rewards of smart trading to bring in someone who wants to be there.