What are your thoughts on our trade priorities? Anyone else believe that fast spreading midfielders are by far our biggest need??

Which is why I hope this statement from another facebook page turns out to be true:

Take from this what you will, but I have heard from a pretty good source that Sharrod Wellingham is about a 90% chance to come to the Dees next year, loves Neeld and wants more $$$ / more opportunity. I would love him at the dees, he has pace and can take a grab and would easily be in our best 2 or 3 mids with only Jones being higher

Personally we shoul consider paying significant overs for Wellingham. he is young and quick. he knows neeld well. He is prettymuch what we need although some say he would only ever go to another top 4 side. Give him four years and some serious coin I say... Add Viney and perhaps a draftee like Toumpas with Jones and maybe Gysberts coming on??

Wellingham should be priority one. And once you pick up another big fish suddenly its a lot easier to negotiate on other potential deals : well wellingham chose the dees...

Not hard. Any player with skill, hardness and preferably a background of playing for a successful club.

Cumbing forwards, this last year we have kicked then ball into forward 50 heaps of times only to see it bounce back out because we did not have any forward pressure or crumbing forwards that could consistently get the ball and kick goals.

Just waiting for some who have no concept of what we need to do to come on here and start with all their "he's not an A grader" rubbish....

What are your thoughts on our trade priorities? Anyone else believe that fast spreading midfielders are by far our biggest need??

Which is why I hope this statement from another facebook page turns out to be true:

Personally we shoul consider paying significant overs for Wellingham. he is young and quick. he knows neeld well. He is prettymuch what we need although some say he would only ever go to another top 4 side. Give him four years and some serious coin I say... Add Viney and perhaps a draftee like Toumpas with Jones and maybe Gysberts coming on??

Wellingham should be priority one. And once you pick up another big fish suddenly its a lot easier to negotiate on other potential deals : well wellingham chose the dees...

I feel, as you said fast spreading midfielders are definitely a big part we are missing. Wellingham would definitely be a nice get, lets hope its true We have some good inside midfielders (jones, mckenzie) and with Viney to be added to that i think we have a good platform in that area, we just need someone for them to give it to.

We also need a KPF along side clark. Lynch, i think would fit this perfectly but he is getting too old but someone like him would be a good get. We also need to add a small, fast, crumbing forward and brynes is seemingly headed for us so that fills that hole, although he is getting on in ages too but he can add experience as to what it takes to play in premierships and he will be very handy. Will be interesting to see how we go in the FA/trade period and hopefully it lives up to all the hype

I would dearly like to see Melbourne get another key defensive tall able to take on Cloke and franklin types.

It looks like we have already lined up Byrnes from Geelong who will be our crumbling forward who may push up occasionally. If we land Wellingham that will add some grunt and aggression. Lynch or Dawes would help Clarky and if there is a gorilla back floating around I'd be happy.

What are your thoughts on our trade priorities? Anyone else believe that fast spreading midfielders are by far our biggest need??

Which is why I hope this statement from another facebook page turns out to be true:

Personally we shoul consider paying significant overs for Wellingham. he is young and quick. he knows neeld well. He is prettymuch what we need although some say he would only ever go to another top 4 side. Give him four years and some serious coin I say... Add Viney and perhaps a draftee like Toumpas with Jones and maybe Gysberts coming on??

Wellingham should be priority one. And once you pick up another big fish suddenly its a lot easier to negotiate on other potential deals : well wellingham chose the dees...

I dont think it is necessarily outside players, just payers who can win their own ball, make good decisions and play inside and out. Playing a solid inside game, tackling pressure ect is it. Good midfielders but i dont think we need an abundance of outside players, blease can do this a bit imo. But we may need 1 more i think inside, players who can just use it when its their turn. no soft players.

My personal idea of an "A" grader is a couple of things. (for a midfielder)

First thing is that the player needs to be able to use the footy in a particular way that is very often effective.

There needs to be a level of speed.

The player needs to be able to create space and time in tricky situations, (sam mitchell and scott pendlebury are amazing at that)

need to be able to win footy inside and outside the packs.

also needs some kind of a mark, someone who when one on one can create a serious contest or take the mark.

Wellingham might be that, we dont know..

i would love to see him there.

I would love to see Wellingham at Melbourne, plus a whole lot of other new players. Lets make a real team

What are your thoughts on our trade priorities? Anyone else believe that fast spreading midfielders are by far our biggest need??

Which is why I hope this statement from another facebook page turns out to be true:

Personally we shoul consider paying significant overs for Wellingham. he is young and quick. he knows neeld well. He is prettymuch what we need although some say he would only ever go to another top 4 side. Give him four years and some serious coin I say... Add Viney and perhaps a draftee like Toumpas with Jones and maybe Gysberts coming on??

Wellingham should be priority one. And once you pick up another big fish suddenly its a lot easier to negotiate on other potential deals : well wellingham chose the dees...

Would be very happy for us to chase and get Wellingham, but to pay significantly more than he is worth is not something that would fill me with confidence in our football department. Yes, pay him over his worth if it means getting him, but significantly more, I'd be passing.

Would be very happy for us to chase and get Wellingham, but to pay significantly more than he is worth is not something that would fill me with confidence in our football department. Yes, pay him over his worth if it means getting him, but significantly more, I'd be passing.

I will be honest, not going to lie here. When Mitch Clark arrived at Melbourne i thought he was overpriced and a true B grader.

Mitch proved that in Melbourne he is a true A grader and can easily go a long way to winning the Coleman Medal next year.

Wellingham can be an A grader at Melbourne. Imagine in a couple of years what our midfield could be

Trengove, wellingham, Jones, Grimes, Mckenzie, Viney... that is very solid and potentially could shape up to be a geelong midfield

While players like Byrnes, Lynch and Rodan would all add to our side next year, IMO we should really be only targeting players in the right age bracket. I would like to see us go after players who have shown something at AFL level but have struggled to get a game for whatever reason, such as Everitt, McKernan, Reimers, Mitch Brown, Banfield, Pears and Tom Young. I would even look at trying to land Majak Daw.

Caddy and Wellingham would be great if they came for free, but I don't think we should be trading away our draft picks.