Tall Defence said:

With certain trades now having been discussed and draft order to alter along with some bolters and drifters from darft camp, here is my phantom draft for picks 1 - 21.

1. Melbourne: T. Scully

2. Melbourne: J. Trengove

3. Richmond: D. Martin

4. Fremantle: A. Morabito

5. North Melbourne: G. Rohan

6. Sydney: D. Talia

7. West Coast: K. Lucas

8. Port Adelaide: L. Tapscott

9. Port Adelaide: J. Craig (assuming Burgoyne deal with Hawthorn goes through)

10. Essendon: B. Cunnington

11. Melbourne: J. Butcher (once McLean deal goes through with Carlton)

12. Brisbane: A. Christensen

13. Adelaide: M. Panos

14. Collingwood: K. Stevens

15. Western Bulldogs: J. Gysberts

16. Carlton: N. Vardy (I suspect St. Kilda will trade for Fevola, possibly pick 16 & Maguire)

17. Geelong: J. Carlisle

18. Melbourne: L. Jetta

19. Richmond: D. Moore

20. Fremantle: A. Black

21. North Melbourne: J. Crichton

Top 5 is correct, from the tumurs down at punt road they would prefer to take Martin over Morabito and that he has already visited the club pre-draft camp and told him that they would take him (assuming that melbourne take trengrove and scully)

Jetta at pick 18?

He sounds solid, but I have 2 concerns.

1. he may go earlier in the draft.

2. Where will he fit in the dees best 22, can he be groomed to fill a need?

Jetta or Black @ pick 18 is the question. Seems to be many building a case for either, and it could come down to who gets snapped up with pick 11. leaving the dees to draft for best available player to fill a needed position at pick 18.

  Wrathchild said:

Jetta at pick 18?

He sounds solid, but I have 2 concerns.

1. he may go earlier in the draft.

2. Where will he fit in the dees best 22, can he be groomed to fill a need?

Jetta or Black @ pick 18 is the question. Seems to be many building a case for either, and it could come down to who gets snapped up with pick 11. leaving the dees to draft for best available player to fill a needed position at pick 18.

Fair enough for those concerns.

1. Yes I have heard West Coast maybe considering him at pick 7 which I would have thought would be a bit to high for him. I think the fact that's he's already mature aged may mean that some clubs may prefer the younger players ahead of him, ala Mitch Robinson last year who I thought could have gone top 10.

2. I think Jetta will be able to play midfield/forward, could be the ideal replacement for Davey when injured and or retires in 4 to 5 years time. In the mean time I'd imagine he'd be battling it out with Wonna, N. Jetta, Maric and Petterd for the 2 smaller forward roles in the team, think Petterd and Wonna have a hold on them for now.

Where Butcher will be drafted is getting VERY interesting.

Tigers will pick up Martin for sure, after picking up Post and Vickery in previous drafts. The bombers are looking to strengthen their midfield (ala Cunnington) so will pass as well... (see article below).

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/tige...f-1225782480791

1. Melbourne: T. Scully

2. Melbourne: J. Trengove

3. Richmond: D. Martin

4. Fremantle: A. Morabito

5. North Melbourne: G. Rohan

6. Sydney: K. Lucas

7. West Coast: L.Jetta

8. Port Adelaide: L. Tapscott

9. Port Adelaide: Panos/ Craig/ Tahlia (Burgoyne deal)

10. Essendon: B. Cunnington

11. Melbourne: J. Butcher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The top 4 is set....

North have a number of huge forwards.... WCE are set on Jetta. Lucas and Cunnington are certain top 10 picks.

I would love

Butcher

As long as those Top 2 are set in stone, then I don't give a rats [censored] what we get after that.....

:D

Everyone seems to think that we are going to pick up butcher. I dont know much about cunnington but im sure that essendon will take Butcher with 10 they lost there two key forwards and would need a another KPF asap

Butcher by name.....

Butcher by foot....

1. Melbourne - Scully

2. Melbourne - Trengove

3. Richmond - Martin

4. Fremantle - Morabito

5. North Melbourne - Cunnington

6. Sydney - Rohan

7. West Coast - Lucas

8. Port Adelaide - Tapscott

9. Port Adelaide - Panos

10. Essendon - Talia

11. Melbourne - Butcher

at pick 9 onwards it really gets interesting how it will play out.. there is a group of 5 or so you would expect to go around then

I would be happy with that cooko.....

<--------- so would he

if Cunnington was to some how drop to 11 (wishful thinking) that would be awesome! he will be a gun!!

1. Melbourne: T. Scully

Best available mid.

2. Melbourne: J. Trengove

Arguable the 2nd best available mid. Very tidy

3. Richmond: D. Martin

Foot skills galore.

4. Fremantle: A. Morabito

speedy 190cm midfielder with questionable kicking but has x-factor

5. North Melbourne: G. Rohan

Lanky wingman that can be played up forward.

6. Sydney: J.Butcher.

Will snap up Butcher here with no real key forwards. No way they will let him go. North the only risk of them not getting him.

7. West Coast: Kane lucas

2nd best Western Australian in the draft. A dominic cassisi clone.

8. Port Adelaide: L. Tapscott

9. Port Adelaide: Ben Cunnington. (Burgoyne deal)

Purely best available mid. COuld also go higher to North at 5.

10. Essendon: K.Stevens

Best available mid that has been somewhat forgotten about. Goes hard at the footy.

How many Butchers are in this draft Freak?????

  Krazy_4_JT said:

I would be happy with that cooko.....

<--------- so would he

jumping on him early!!

cant wait to see the trengove running around in Dees colours next year.. i feel sorry for my girlfriend though.. she is probably sick of me talking about him and scully every hour of the day

i havnt had time to do research on the draft, people rate butcher ahead of J Darling (AA CHF) and M Panos (AA FF), people`s phantoms draft have the three of them sliding to pick 11. Is Butcher the next Richo?, if so take 1 of the other two

  cooko said:

jumping on him early!!

cant wait to see the trengove running around in Dees colours next year.. i feel sorry for my girlfriend though.. she is probably sick of me talking about him and scully every hour of the day

Yeah.... My fiancee is starting to wonder if I want to marry her or Jack..... I just tell her that there are going to be so many Jacks to choose from at Melbourne....

  Al`s DEMONS said:

i havnt had time to do research on the draft, people rate butcher ahead of J Darling (AA CHF) and M Panos (AA FF), people`s phantoms draft have the three of them sliding to pick 11. Is Butcher the next Richo?, if so take 1 of the other two

If he is, then we are better to grab him and try and fast track him into the Richo of the last few years....

  Krazy_4_JT said:

If he is, then we are better to grab him and try and fast track him into the Richo of the last few years....

apparantly Panos can kick straight, something Richo has never been able to do

  Krazy_4_JT said:

Yeah.... My fiancee is starting to wonder if I want to marry her or Jack..... I just tell her that there are going to be so many Jacks to choose from at Melbourne....

:lol:

i'll have a crack at it

1. Melbourne: T. Scully

2. Melbourne: J. Trengove

3. Richmond: D. Martin

4. Fremantle: A. Morabito

5. North Melbourne: B. Cunnington

6. Sydney: G. Rohan.

7. West Coast: Kane lucas

8. Port Adelaide: L. Tapscott

9. Melbourne: L. Jetta. (Burgoyne deal/Jamar deal)

10. Essendon: J.Butcher

11. Melbourne: A. Black

  Al`s DEMONS said:

i havnt had time to do research on the draft, people rate butcher ahead of J Darling (AA CHF) and M Panos (AA FF), people`s phantoms draft have the three of them sliding to pick 11. Is Butcher the next Richo?, if so take 1 of the other two

I don't talk much about the kids because I have little idea outside of the top 3 or 4 but isn't Darling too young and headed for the GC17 (and the courts, apparently getting [censored] and groping girls on a camp is illegal).

  Krazy_4_JT said:

Yeah.... My fiancee is starting to wonder if I want to marry her or Jack..... I just tell her that there are going to be so many Jacks to choose from at Melbourne....

Pretty sure your taking the Man Crush to another level lol.

1 Scully

2 Trengove

3 Martin

4 Morabito

5 Cunnington

6 Rohan

7 Jetta

8 Tapscott

9 Melksham

10 Lucas

11 Butcher

this would be a perfect scenario for the dees, everything seems to be falling into place nicely for a change

  rpfc said:

I don't talk much about the kids because I have little idea outside of the top 3 or 4 but isn't Darling too young and headed for the GC17 (and the courts, apparently getting [censored] and groping girls on a camp is illegal).

Most likely a GC17 recruit. Some speculation that he was the gropee not the groper (maybe the girl involved was a groupie?). Geez the football louts start young these days...

It seems to me that the top 4 of Scully, Trengove, Martin, Morabito seems to be a favourite of these phantom drafts. After that it's all guesswork.

  melbourneboy said:

hmmm that would be a great outcome but thats very unlikely, if Butcher will not go to 11 even if he slips that low essendon will pick him up. Melbournes chance of getting Butcher not using 1&2 would be very unlikely

Even if he didn't get to eleven that'd be a big win in a way, as by that list, Cunnington would be available. He's a player we could use. A rich man's Brock.

I had concerns about the Brock trade. I had a bad feeling the draft dropped off around the 8-9 mark, and that we'd juuust miss getting a hot prospect, and have to look at a more speculative pick, say a gun player with injury concerns, or a slower player with a strong kick... something like that.

As it turns out, no matter which way the pundits above read the situation, the following players are the only names that just about everyone thinks will be gone.

Scully, Trengove, Martin, Morabito, Rohan, Lucas.

Then there's a bunch that look like they could be in the first ten, but may slip to us.

Cunnington, Tapscott, Talia, Butcher.

That leaves Panos, Stevens, Jetta. Some good names in there, which has me pumped.

Now. If we can just change pick 18 and a player for something in the top 12.