John Ralph reported at half time of the Swans/Cats match on Channel 10 that Cameron Schwab had been offered the CEO role and declined. He also said that the club had met with Robbie Warnock last week, given him the full tour, powerpoint etc and used 8 of our younger players to encourage him to join the Demons next year. He said that other clubs felt that Melbourne was over the line to secure his services.

Lets just hope Freo don't make it too hard or costly for us.

John Ralph reported at half time of the Swans/Cats match on Channel 10 that Cameron Schwab had been offered the CEO role and declined.

Interesting. Big noting himself, if true. Not smart. (If true, I am pleased - don't want him.)

He also said that the club had met with Robbie Warnock last week, given him the full tour, powerpoint etc and used 8 of our younger players to encourage him to join the Demons next year. He said that other clubs felt that Melbourne was over the line to secure his services.

If we get Warnock in the PSD for nothing, so be it. We gave up Farmer to Freo and Thompson to Adelaide for nothing as well, under similar circumstances.

If Freo want a late pick for him - fine. We then get another go at PSD.

Interesting. Big noting himself, if true. Not smart. (If true, I am pleased - don't want him.)

If we get Warnock in the PSD for nothing, so be it. We gave up Farmer to Freo and Thompson to Adelaide for nothing as well, under similar circumstances.

If Freo want a late pick for him - fine. We then get another go at PSD.

Thompson was traded for pick 12.

Lets just hope Freo don't make it too hard or costly for us.

How?

lets give meesen to freo..straight trade and keep the pick

How?

At the trade table..

PSD makes his trade value irrelevant. Freo can take what we want to give them or lose him for nothing.

At the trade table..

He is out of contract and we have PSD#1!

PSD makes his trade value irrelevant. Freo can take what we want to give them or lose him for nothing.

Exactly

At the trade table..

He's coming out of contract and wants to come home to Vic, and we are the only Vic club in first 3 PSD picks. Presuming he wants to come to MFC, best case for us - we get him for 0 (depending on his $ wants); worst case, we get him for a late draft pick (which leaves us to go after any other in PSD).

Freo have bugger all bartering chips.

This is freaking great news.

Let's screw Freo. Get him in the pre season draft. If they want something give pick 90 odd lol.

There is now way we'll give him any of our first 4 picks.

Thompson was traded for pick 12.

And we got 17 for Farmer, although admittedly we weren't happy about it.

And we got 17 for Farmer, although admittedly we weren't happy about it.

In hindsight it's a good thing we got rid of him before he lost the plot. Who did we get with that pick btw?

Watching Scotty Thompson still breaks my heart... the superstar we almost had.

And we got 17 for Farmer, although admittedly we weren't happy about it.

especially since Freo were over the cap and couldn't use their 1st PSD pick. They also did Hawthorn over with McPharlin. But this maybe just karma as both clubs have history with Freo: Gilbert v Farmer & Jeff White (when Melb was over the cap) & 1st pick (Hodge) v Croad

John Ralph reported at half time of the Swans/Cats match on Channel 10 that Cameron Schwab had been offered the CEO role and declined.

Another nail in the coffin of dills like Charles Happell who came up with that conspiracy theory about the old mates from the 1990's all getting back together again.

And we got 17 for Farmer, although admittedly we weren't happy about it.

To his credt Farmer insisted that Freo deal with us; he didn't want to leave us high and dry, so we got a first round pick for The Wizz in what is generally considered to be the strongest draft of all. We traded pick 17 and 41 to Geelong for Bizzell; Geelong drafted James Kelly with pick 17 and Henry Playfair with pick 41. The 2001 'superdraft' was a disaster for us: while other teams were gorging themselves silly on quality players we picked up Molan, Rogers, Armstrong, Bizzell (losing Farmer in the process), and Miller. Although, now that I think of it, we also off loaded Grgic in that draft ...

The issue with that was that Freo promised us a better pick than 17, and then bailed out of that committment when Trent Croad became available.

He is out of contract and we have PSD#1!

At the moment.

At the moment.

I seem to have got a few things wrong in this topic , however, I understand Warnock wants to return to Vic. The only other team who could get PSD#1 is WC.

So we are still in box seat.

Stevens went to Carlton for 0 (pretty sure there) because Power wouldn't deal with the filth.

However, Stevens, Farmer, Thompson were all A graders. Warnock has promise, but a long way short of being proven. Not worth early pick, even to be nice.

Another nail in the coffin of dills like Charles Happell who came up with that conspiracy theory about the old mates from the 1990's all getting back together again.

If John Ralph is right (and who would know?) then why is Happell a dill and why does he have a nail in his coffin?

Happell wrote: "Now Stynes is looking at bestowing patronage of another "mate", Cameron Schwab, whom he has openly urged to apply for McNamee’s vacant position".

Ralph confirms Happell's article. It brings no credit to Jim Stynes and the mates that another "mate" had the good sense to reject Stynes' offer.

I seem to have got a few things wrong in this topic , however, I understand Warnock wants to return to Vic. The only other team who could get PSD#1 is WC.

So we are still in box seat.

Stevens went to Carlton for 0 (pretty sure there) because Power wouldn't deal with the filth.

However, Stevens, Farmer, Thompson were all A graders. Warnock has promise, but a long way short of being proven. Not worth early pick, even to be nice.

Only if Warnock wants to play with us.

If we dont shore him up, MFC will have to use a reasonable draft pick to get a better alternative to what we have now.

If John Ralph is right (and who would know?) then why is Happell a dill and why does he have a nail in his coffin?

Happell wrote: "Now Stynes is looking at bestowing patronage of another "mate", Cameron Schwab, whom he has openly urged to apply for McNamee’s vacant position".

Ralph confirms Happell's article. It brings no credit to Jim Stynes and the mates that another "mate" had the good sense to reject Stynes' offer.

Agree with your logic but cant say whether it was good sense or not. Schwab had said that he did not want another CEO role at an AFL club some time ago prior to McNamara's sacking.

it is good to see how proactive we have been re warnock. not something you associate with the dees in the past.

Ralph reports that Schwab declines the CEO role. I was under the impression that we were using a company(Slade maybe?) to do the recruiting for us.

Now why would Schwab go through the whole interview process, get offered the job and then decline it?

If he hasn't gone through the interview process, then hasn't he just withdrawn himself? Not declined the job as Ralph reports.

MFC want a backroom administrator we have Jimmy and Chris that will be do the promoting of the club attracking sponsers, we need a dot the i's cross the t's type of person. The Hawthorn bloke mentioned in yesterday's Sun is my bet.