After signing Neville, Mrs Jetta said 'there is a better one' and she was referring to Lewis.

If we thought Nev was the pea why didn't we go after the bro?

I always think this too. But at the end of the day, you can't draft a bloke nobody had seen before and wasn't playing at a recognised level, just because some kid's mum says he is a good player.

He is playing some seriously good football this year, and is a walk up start for the AA team unless they pick the same old incumbents they always pick, and make the young players put 2 or 3 good years together.

  On 30/06/2012 at 16:58, skills32 said:

After signing Neville, Mrs Jetta said 'there is a better one' and she was referring to Lewis.

If we thought Nev was the pea why didn't we go after the bro?

For starters, Lewis Jetta is Neville's cousin and, at the time, Lewis had been playing in one of the local competitions. The season was over and there was no opportunity for any recruiting people to see what he's like in action.

Recruiting people get hundreds of tips like the one Mrs. Jetta gave and she's a wise woman but we were simply out of luck on this one.

  On 30/06/2012 at 21:20, Whispering_Jack said:

For starters, Lewis Jetta is Neville's cousin and, at the time, Lewis had been playing in one of the local competitions. The season was over and there was no opportunity for any recruiting people to see what he's like in action.

Recruiting people get hundreds of tips like the one Mrs. Jetta gave and she's a wise woman but we were simply out of luck on this one.

Exactly! If we recruited every player who had a recommendation by a relative, we'd have 930 very ordinary players on our list.

  On 30/06/2012 at 22:00, Nasher said:

Exactly! If we recruited every player who had a recommendation by a relative, we'd have 930 very ordinary players on our list.

So you're saying that the number of ordinary players would change....

  On 30/06/2012 at 22:16, Choko said:

So you're saying that the number of ordinary players would change....

No, the number of very ordinary players would change.

  On 30/06/2012 at 22:00, Nasher said:

Exactly! If we recruited every player who had a recommendation by a relative, we'd have 930 very ordinary players on our list.

Don't have to recruit them, just follow the tip and do some investigating. Not doing any was derelict. We could have had a very good player as a rookie and we have had plenty of ordinary ones. We may not have taken him but it needed to be looked into and it wasn't.

Had we picked him he would not be the player he is today, after his two cousins were picked, that inspirined him to work harder on his game. Also we did not have the ablity to develop him, like the Swans can, they know how to develop players, that was Dean's biggest problem, he was a huge mistake, it's not the recouter who picked the wrong players but the development of all our player was crap, hopefully this is improving under neeld.

  On 30/06/2012 at 16:58, skills32 said:

why didn't we go after the bro?

especially as MFC has a tradition of listing the dud bro?

  On 30/06/2012 at 22:49, Redleg said:

Don't have to recruit them, just follow the tip and do some investigating. Not doing any was derelict. We could have had a very good player as a rookie and we have had plenty of ordinary ones. We may not have taken him but it needed to be looked into and it wasn't.

I believe the tip from Nev's mum was given when the recruiters met her which would of been after or at the end of the season, so we wouldn't have had time to scout him that season, and we are obviously not going to put someone on our rookie list just off a random tip by an 18 year old footballer's mother. By the time the next draft came along, he had played a season in the WAFL and impressed, and every club was aware of him, and we would of had to take him with our first rounder. Just a case of bad luck unfortunately.

  On 30/06/2012 at 22:49, Redleg said:

Don't have to recruit them, just follow the tip and do some investigating. Not doing any was derelict. We could have had a very good player as a rookie and we have had plenty of ordinary ones. We may not have taken him but it needed to be looked into and it wasn't.

Doesn't the report go that he interviewed the Jettas post season? If that's true there was no investigation to be done.

Even if that's not the case, I still think it's impractical for the chief recruiter to follow every lead every relative gives him. Why would he listen to Neville Jetta's mum any more than the mum or aunt of other budding young footballers? How is this different to the dozens of other such suggestions the chief recruiter gets from family members?

  On 30/06/2012 at 16:58, skills32 said:

After signing Neville, Mrs Jetta said 'there is a better one' and she was referring to Lewis.

If we thought Nev was the pea why didn't we go after the bro?

Because we had Aaron & Jamie no doubt.

But we didn't/don't have they're team culture either.

Cockatoo.

Collins.

x 2

Dylan Grimes?

Alwyn Davey?

I remember reading that from Mrs Jetta and thinking it wouldn't hurt to rookie him .

I feel the same about the kid from the WA team that played SA the other day-Garlett-who is thicker in the body than his (bro ,cuz?)at Carlscum.

Clean ,Silky ,hits ,pack ,hard and runs hard .

Chase them now before we have to chase them on the ground .

I know Melbourne are reluctant to get players from WA due to homesickness /support factors .

This was a reason behind the Nic Nat/Watts decision(basically NN didn't want toleave WA).

We can see with Bennell and Morton that WA players often get lost here in the big smoke .

Edit :they have a Yarran there too who is a gun-if GWS dont get them this year then they are on the market for next .

At least it's Sydney that got him, I can enjoy watching him. Most other teams and I'd probably hate him.

geez he's good.

Would've been sensational to have picked him up as a rookie. Timing seemed to be against us though - quite simply, we found out about him far too late in the process.

Rockliff seems to be another that we would've snagged with a late ND or rookie pick. Again, a bit of bad luck.

I hear we were an inch away from drafting Luke Shuey too, but then elected not to. West Coast picked him up with the next pick.

All of these players would be in our best 15 if they were on our list.

Got lucky with Jurrah though (but for the unfortunate events earlier this year).

because we don't let random women make recruiting decisions for us.

  On 01/07/2012 at 04:02, Curry & Beer said:

because we don't let random women make recruiting decisions for us.

Unless its Pia Miranda urging us to keep Brad Miller running around .

Didn't Rockliff train with us prior to the draft that year? Or am I thinking of someone else.

  On 01/07/2012 at 04:02, Curry & Beer said:

because we don't let random women make recruiting decisions for us.

I wonder if she would have recruited Morton, Watts, Scully and Trengove?

  On 01/07/2012 at 02:29, Left Field said:

Dylan Grimes?

Alwyn Davey?

I hope you're not implying that Aaron or Jack are inferior to their brothers. I don't see Dylan Grimes captaining his club, and I must have missed Alwyn Davey's B&F.

  On 01/07/2012 at 04:15, Clint Bizkit said:

I wonder if she would have recruited Morton, Watts, Scully and Trengove?

yeah she would have, as would have every other person in the country would have with those picks, a few would have taken Watts at #2. I suppose Mrs.Jetta somehow knew that Morton was going to be a bust when the thousands of professional experts had no idea

and i guess every recruiter in the land is a dud because Jeremy Howe was passed over 32 times

seriously some people on here....

  On 01/07/2012 at 03:11, Ron Burgundy said:

Would've been sensational to have picked him up as a rookie. Timing seemed to be against us though - quite simply, we found out about him far too late in the process.

Rockliff seems to be another that we would've snagged with a late ND or rookie pick. Again, a bit of bad luck.

I hear we were an inch away from drafting Luke Shuey too, but then elected not to. West Coast picked him up with the next pick.

All of these players would be in our best 15 if they were on our list.

Got lucky with Jurrah though (but for the unfortunate events earlier this year).

Yes, there's been the Jetta story, Rockliff trained with us preseason and we elected not to draft him (surely we saw his talent over those weeks), Shuey loved the MFC, Grimes trained with his Brother during a preseason, but we didn't bother. How would our team look with Jetta, Shuey, Rockliff and Grimes ?

It just shows you that with the right drafting clubs can turn their fortune around quite quickly. For varying reasons our 3 top 20 picks from 2008 have been terribly disappointing.

We must get this up-coming draft right.

Lewis jetta will be Cyril roili rev 2