Though more A graders can be found in the top 10, there’s been plenty of A graders found outside of that .
Rance pick 18
Shane Edwards pick 26
Noah Balta mid 20's pick
I could go on.
The proportion of picks taken from 18-20 and beyond versus the number of A graders found is heavily skewed.
Yeah there's elite, not just A grade, players who started off being rookies too. I can find them quite quickly. You're being disingenuous.
The point is, you can build many premiership quality lists, if you're taking picks in the very late teens, early 20s, year on year. That's the entire purpose of the draft, to level the competition out.
Even if you do find someone with elite or a grade qualities, they're also going to come with some deficiencies as well. I'd they didn't have them, they'd go higher in the draft.
Players like RCD and Ross are going to be what we have to work with. That'll be the case until we can get into the upper echelon of picks, we land a super draft (in which case, lots of clubs get that talent and you struggle to close the gap) or we rely on someone else making a mistake and a player "slips through".