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The claim was you need extreme quality (being connected to high picks) to win premierships.

If someone specifically mentions a player (Rayner) as a high pick, which LP1 had done in the post I was responding to (!), and is using him to tout the need to have high picks to win premierships, then:

a) why would I bring up the same player when I am countering that claim (bizarre)

b) showing that high quality, even better quality imo, can be found with later picks, undercuts the argument that I was countering.

Nowhere have I suggested that having extreme quality doesn't help, that's your invention, I am however suggesting (if you read) that such quality isn't only found with the highest picks. LP1 themselves "handpicked" some players for the Lions that were high picks, so I brought up other players, including a late 1st (a pick range which he had been scoffing at shortly before), who are high quality and played at least an equal role in the Lions flag.