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Slim pickings at this years draft

Pepe Dee Pew
in Melbourne Demons

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I think us ppicing sylvia at the time was the right one, he had shown alot of promise and looking at the other options well theres not much else id rather have, belive it or not you could almost tip the draft upside down lol. Just dont include pic 1 ;)

Yep Fair call, But those Draft Camps are pretty Full on & rigorous so he must have been good as well as during the year to go that High.

It's just hardly been shown since. Its actually quite sad.

My only hope with Col is that he may turn his career around once we recruit some Class Forwards. We wait.....

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    1:46 of Scully's clip was completely awesome.

    Just watched both clips for the first time. Both had obvious football smarts. Scully had a touch of Judd/Ablett/Cousins about him. How tall is Butcher. Oh God wouldn't it be wonderful........................

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    Are you saying that we would expect to just cut him and get nothing in return? You have to remember that in the year's ahead the middle ranked club's are going to really struggle using the draft. They will have to trade and players of Sylvia's ability will be tradeable.

    He's had six years 73 games, an OP crippled body with attitude problems and a lack of footy smarts and little performance.

    Other Clubs would be salivating to give up their valuable draft picks for that!!! :lol:

    Trade week is the most over hyped event on the football calendar.

    FWIW, Sylvia though he frustrates me no end is probably closer to a retain than other NQRs atm.

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    The west Aus teams will both win more than 4.

    I heard Harvey on the radio interviewed late last night. Smart man. Like DB starting from scratch.

    I'm not following you there WYL. You are confident they will win more than 4 (and I think they might too)

    but also think he he starting from scratch, in which case he is one coach you might expect to take a little dive

    like WCE did last year.

    I also think we made the right choice with Sylvia, but what was sad was that it

    was a very poor draft that year. Sylvia was always going to take some time coming to

    us with his OP problems, still just walking around the oval at the end of Jamuary.

    Freo have some talent in that side. (It's whether they have ticker during the cold months of eastern Australia). They will win at least 8 at home. A two team town Harvey cannot afford to bottom out like we can. He must start his journey from mid table.

    Perks of the job i believe.

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    Agreed. I would doubt we'd give up our top picks. I can't imagine for who we might trade them.

    We've just got to keep bringing in the young talent and Scully sounds like a perfect fit for us right now.

    I've heard mixed reviews of Butcher. But if the recruiters deem him the next best available talent, we should definately take him.

    We've just got to take the best available.

    Ahh draft time, seems so far away right now.

    I'd like to know more about Butcher, so if you have information, I wish you would share it.

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    All the interviews I've seen of him, particularly on the couch last year, paint the opposite picture of Mark Harvey.

    He sounded together on SEN interview yesterday, I was surprised when I heard it was him.

    That's what i heard replayed early this morning. I was impressed,

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    He's had six years 73 games, an OP crippled body with attitude problems and a lack of footy smarts and little performance.

    Other Clubs would be salivating to give up their valuable draft picks for that!!! :lol:

    Trade week is the most over hyped event on the football calendar.

    FWIW, Sylvia though he frustrates me no end is probably closer to a retain than other NQRs atm.

    The point is Rhino is that middle ranked clubs won't have any valuable draft picks over the next few years so players like Sylvia won't just be cut from lists they'll get traded.

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    The point is Rhino is that middle ranked clubs won't have any valuable draft picks over the next few years so players like Sylvia won't just be cut from lists they'll get traded.

    If Sylvia was traded to a middle ranked club what would we be offered in return though?

    Other Clubs would not offer much so i would guess Melbourne would keep him.

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