With the draft and trading over and only the rookie draft remaining we will always take an optimistic view to what we have added to our list. What I see our our biggest positive is we are starting to have options for a number of roles. This has been a result over the past 4 drafts and with to Scumdog picks we have it should see us top our list up nicely next year with three first round picks(Viney is one)

Our forward line has been a major concern over the past few years but with a couple of years we now have Watts, Clark, Howe, Jurrah, McDonald, Sellar, Cook, Fitzpatrick add to this Sylvia, Petterd, Green, Dunn plus the resting ruckman in Jamar, Gawn or Martin you start to see a very good forward set up with a nuber of players that can kick goals.

We are a little light on the small forwards this time last year we all wondered how we will fit them all in, none of the stepped up with 2 being delisted, we are left with Bennell, Davey and Lawrence

Our Rucks this time last year we had Jamar then a huge cap now we have Jamar, Martin, Clark, Gawn and Spencer

In defense we have a number of tall options Frawley, Garland, Rivers, Martin, Davis, McDonald

We added a midsize defender Tynan to hopefully fill this role with Strauss, Bartram, Bennell, Grimes, Blease, Bail, Nicholson

Then we get to the most important area, I'm confident we can kick enough goals to win matches if we can get the ball inside 50m and our back 6 are good enough to stop goals being kicked against us as long as the midfield can start to perform, these group of players are the options

Moloney, Sylvia, Jones, Trengove, Grimes, Evans, Morton, Blease, Bail, Nicholson, Gysberts, Tapscott, McKenzie, Taggert, Bate, Jetta add in Viney next year, we are missing a star midfielder but we have enough there to compete and hopefully soem can turn into stars or we unearth one with the compenation picks we have in the bank.

Well done to our recruiting team we are starting to see the a list with that looks balanced, that will create competition for spots and depth.

It is now up to Neeld & his staff to get the best out of them...I keep seeing Mark Neeld's statement on this..."As a first time coach, i only get one shot at this"...

Let's hope we are all pleasantly suprised by the "new" Team next season....Nobody in the media thinks the MFC will do much next year, in fact i have heard some late night scribes say that the MFC will be happy the draft goes back to normal nwxt year so we can once again line up for high draft picks.

So i have the fingers crossed that we will be a team to suprise in 2012