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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - CHRIS DAWES

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Wonder what we paid? I'm all for getting experience but in supposedly the strongest draft in recent history we have given most of our picks away?

He has just nominated us, no deal confirmed yet, speculation at pick 20, and i would hope we get a second or third round pick back

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    Dawes was attracted to Melbourne as we put a dental plan in his contract - something his last club wouldn't!

    Edited by MrMoose

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    Just heard his manager confirm it on SEN. Dawes to Melbourne for pick 20!!

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    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

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    20 is overs.

    However that area of the draft is still pretty hit and miss. For every Fyfe and Callan Ward you get your Strauss/Swift/Blease/Notte/Weedon flotsam.

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    He was a Dees supporter as a kid.

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    Wow well done melbournefc and especially Mark Neeld and Leigh Brown!! just remember guys he is a center half forward premiership player will great leadership qualitys and will be add much needed structure and tall target for the dees!

    Well done Mark Neeld and Leeroy Brown!

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    Glad to have him big guys don't get shorter the longer the game goes.

    Walsh (Filth footy op) reckons 20 isn't enough trying to play hardball.

    Edited by Diablo Deemon

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    Wonder what we paid? I'm all for getting experience but in supposedly the strongest draft in recent history we have given most of our picks away?

    I fully understand the strategy - our biggest problem has been that we have been bereft of any leaders in the mid age range to help us nuture through our young talent. It pretty much says it all the Moloney, Davey, Green and Rivers were all left out of leadership group. Mitch comes to our club with some age and leadership and wow !

    So whilst I dont want to pick up players for the sake of it Neeld is obviously looking to bring in some levels of maturity to help ease the pressure off the 20/21 year olds.

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    Geoff Walshe has just said there are better deals unofficially on the table than pick 20.

    Tell him he's dreaming!

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    Walsh on Trade Radio trying to take back some leverage in the deal; 'he doesn't need to go, he's contracted, we would welcome him back.'

    Don't freak out people, he is just making sure we know that the Pies can nix the whole thing if we don't give them something decent.

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    Geoff Walsh just said pick #20 won't cut it.

    Doesn't matter. They will have to cave or keep him & they don't want to.

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    Geoff Walsh just said pick #20 won't cut it.

    So, they recruit Lynch because Dawes was bloody hopeless this year and then in a meeting with Buckley Dawes is encouraged to look elsewhere, but he is worth more than a first round draft pick!! Gold!!

    Edited by warren dean

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    He was a Dees supporter as a kid.

    Isn't/wasn't every draftee a Dee's supporter as a kid?

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    Geoff Walsh just said pick #20 won't cut it.

    I just heard him say that. Also said that no deal yet done with Melbourne. But surely 20 would do it. Wellingham would be considered a better player i would have thought and they accepted 17 for him (and many people said they got a good deal). Surely then 20 would do the job for Dawes. We can give them a bunch of steak knives if they want (Cook for example).

    Edited by binman

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    Geoff Walsh just said pick #20 won't cut it.

    Here we go now we will see how well the dess negotiate. pick 20 is the max would rather see us go harder in a deal inc pick 20 plus a supplementary player that collingwood see potential in (maybe petterd) and we get Dawes plus a second or max third rounder we must not overpay!

    Edited by Daz's Dee's

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    Yesterday, when Moloney went to Brisbane I said the average IQ's of both clubs went up but with Dawes, ours has soared again but Collingwood ... pffft!

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    Dawes chose us over a number of clubs......

    ......hmmmm I thought we were considered an unattractive proposition......

    hello ADC.

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