Prestia from the suns has to be target #1...Out of contract, melbourne lad and can seriously play. Agreed but doubt we would be prepared to pay double what he is worth whereas at least two other Melbourne clubs including the club he barracked for as a kid, which has more room than any in its cap, a...

Haven't seen the replay but it was right in front of us and we all thought it was a headbut. Doesn't matter it was so late and Betts so obviously went in with intent that he must get two weeks.

Best endurance runner at the club. We need more.

Fisher, Geary, Roberton aside Riewoldt, Steven, Armitage just The other 15 were soft. Gutless in fact! Get to the ground for a change. We aren't good enough. No one is gutless except the pathetic you. Sometimes sides just aren't good enough. Get used to it instead of calling players gutless Just go...

If he's not injured he'll debut in NZ next week.

Thought TDL was pretty average to be quite frank. Yes he kicked 5 goals but that was basically it. Only had 9 disposals for the day. Tommy Curren was BOG once again, 24 disposals, 4 tackles, 4 marks and 2 goals 3 behinds. I was best game ive seen Seb Ross play. Finished with 19 disposals, 2 tackles...

He's a restricted free agent at the end of this season.

He worked his arse off, was better than last week and deserves to have some faith shown in him. Fitter and better than he was last year and has lost the histrionics as well which is good. Is he the messiah -no of course not but he's well in front of Kosi and Lee at this stage.

Agree with both the previous posters especially concerning his kicking which has been important to us. He's tough and level-headed as well. Doubtless Siposs will be called on to play the same role, let's hope that works out.

Fisher, Dempster, Scheidner, Simpkins and Joey all sound like wonderful inclusions to have....................... but wait a minute folks, all coming back for the same match, could be a bit iffy. The only one I would have confidence being able to run out the game would be Joey as he had plenty of g...

The club had many areas of weakness, especially with the aging list. Can't fix them all at once. But we're heading in the right direction. Midfielders - tick Goal kickers - tick Speed - tick Ruckmen - tick Lack of height in general - tick In regards to those FBs everyone's talking about it's unlike...

Hawks as good as said they'd have taken Wright just after us. No way in any event that he would have got to us at 40. I've only seen him in the flesh 3 or 4 times but he is genuinely quick and it's pleasing to see that we have enough creativity to depart from the 'pert left footer, great kick, needs...

prwilkinson wrote:Heard on the wireless this morning that we'll be picking up Sam Lonegan. Anyone know if there's any merit in that?

I think there's a fair chance we will. He's v inside and can get it but faced, ultimately, too much criticism at Essendon about what he did with it once he got it.

I'd take what Sheehan says with a bucket of salt if I were you. Find the draft where he commented immediately beforehand 'it falls away after pick 20 and gets a bit thin on the ground for talent...' It's his job to promote young players and the romance of potential and the draft. In fact, true to fo...

At a guess, they're anticipating being found guilty and would rather lose their picks in this draft than the next one. Their conduct throughout the entire saga has been very odd. Between Adelaide, Melbourne and North it's been a very bad off season. I can't decide which one of them is the worst. Sp...

Should have looked harder -3 games at the G, even .

Softest draw we've had for quite a while. The only real disappointment is that we have only one game at the G and even that isn't too bad as Melbourne will probably have to play in handcuffs.

My point is that it is too much trouble, it risks further cost and our list is not so wonderful that we would view it as an option when we can discard out of contract players we don't or shouldn't want. There maybe not enough to discard though to use all our picks. On a quick calculation that would...

My point is that it is too much trouble, it risks further cost and our list is not so wonderful that we would view it as an option when we can discard out of contract players we don't or shouldn't want.

Raph and Blake are in trouble and they could downgrade Winmar. Does that give us enough if we promote one rookie? How exactly does this happen? Winmar is a contracted senior list player for next year. We have to delist him and pick him back up in the rookie draft, I think - if no-one else picks him...

plugger66 wrote:

WinnersOnly wrote:Who gets delisted if we use all four picks?

Raph and Blake are in trouble and they could downgrade Winmar. Does that give us enough if we promote one rookie?

How exactly does this happen? Winmar is a contracted senior list player for next year.

Con Gorozidis wrote:

#1GILL wrote:25,26, 41, 44. Looks like they're the picks we'll use at this stage.

decent picks. im happy with that.
Still 3 hours to get Brown.....

Trading period finished at 2.

West Coast screwed us. Cripps for pick 41 and an uprade of pick 46 to pick 44, just 2 places. That means that Cripps has been valued as a pick 39 That's about right. How many games do you think he'll play for WC next year? I'd say no more than 7-8. There's no obvious spot for him. He was okay for u...

It must mean we don't rate this draft at all. We've now given up two first round picks for, respectively, an untried forward and a young ruckman with twelve games behind him. That's way overs unless we don't rate the draft. At this stage with our promise of further 'action' our three compulsory pick...

If GC want a first round pick do we ask for both Toy and Hickey then? I've heard Toy's heart problem has been over hyped a fair bit. I wouldn't worry about his heart, it's his feet that are the problem: he is a very ordinary footballer that no club has expressed the slightest interest in to date. H...