This years draft smokey!

[ashdemons22 235]

After a few weeks of listening to late night SEN, reading Inside Footy Mag and what recuriters are saying.

There could be a very real chance if we keep our pick 4, that Melbourne Football Club will call out a young indigenous player named Josh Simpson.

I know we have been linked with Oliver Wines, but the wraps on this kid are huge. Liken him to Jack Martin minus the possession count Martin has got during the under 18s, they are very similar. He has that star factor/ ability to turn a game.

He is ranked from about 12-20 in this years draft and the Pies are very keen I hear. I would love it if we took a risk and got him with pick 4. Would be like the Stephen Hill type situation in 08 I think. Will the Dees call him out if Wines goes number #3 to GWS.

Would you be happy if we did?

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/150406/default.aspx

[Tony Tea 2,792]

I say we pick the player who is rumoured to have attitude problems.

[Tony Tea 2,792]

Posted Today, 11:19 AM

After a few weeks of listening to late night SEN, reading Inside Footy Mag and what recuriters are saying.

There could be a very real chance if we keep our pick 4, that Melbourne Football Club will call out a young indigenous player named Josh Simpson.

I know we have been linked with Oliver Wines, but the wraps on this kid are huge. Liken him to Jack Martin minus the possession count Martin has got during the under 18s, they are very similar. He has that star factor/ ability to turn a game.

He is ranked from about 12-20 in this years draft and the Pies are very keen I hear. I would love it if we took a risk and got him with pick 4. Would be like the Stephen Hill type situation in 08 I think. Will the Dees call him out if Wines goes number #3 to GWS.

Would you be happy if we did?

http://www.afl.com.a...06/default.aspx

PS: Why the hell did you call us the "Melbourne Football Club" when Demons, Dees, Melbourne or us would have been perfectly fine?

[Clark_Kent 315]

Could be Gysberts all over again. No thanks

[Lord Travis 10,184]

Talented player, but not worth pick 4. Too much of a risk at such a high pick. He'll go at pick 20 to Adelaide IMO. He'll wind up like Petrenko, in that he won't be a pure midfielder, more a flanker, and will flash in and out of games.

[Alcho Dee 269]

Don't like the sound of it. Pick the most obvious for number 4, either going to be Wines, Grundy, Toumpas or Mayes.

[Pennant St Dee 11,351]

No sorry Wines or O'Rourke will be the player we take. From the highlight reels I have seen both look good but I am biased towards hard nuts so Wines is my pick.

I want people to hate coming up against the Dees and know they have been in a game when they play us

[brey9186 102]

if we still had pick 3 you could take a risk, but not going to happen!

Watch the video though, some of his traffic work, and sidesteps and beautiful! If by some stroke of luck he ever fell to pick 45500 or whatever we'll have, he would be pretty nice slotting in as a forward pocket to begin his AFL career!

[ashdemons22 235]

Its a big call if we do go for him, with huge consequences if he does not perform, but is he the Cyril Rioli/Lewis Jetta of this years draft,

Lets wait and see!!

[The Big Ticket 94]

The safest possible bet this year, thanks. Wines.

[Scipio 5,868]

Neeld is not the kind of man to take risks like that IMO. With him at the helm its Wines all the way, if he's available of course.

[Little Goffy 12,709]

I'm completely convinced that early in the draft you go for the player that gives you most confidence of their enduring AFL presence.

The kind of unfaltering 200 gamers that keep you forever competitive, or sometimes become fundamental to a team - anything from Nathan Jones to Lenny Hayes for me.

Late in that draft I think is the place to go for 'super-talented but uncertain if translatable to AFL' player. If then talented kid doesn't make it, you can know fairly quickly. Let's say three years... so by the time the reliable 200-gamer is finished, you'll have had four chances at giving a 'special kid' a run with a late pick.

The other factor is, the more 'complete' your team is, the more risk you can accept with earlier draft picks. While this trade period brought us a few big strides closer to being a functional list, we are still a fair way off being complete.

[Deecisive 1,658]

Please Dees no more smokies for early picks, save that for late picks if we have any left...

[Tatu 416]

I'd like to think we got a 200 gamer at pick 27.....

If we get to keep pick 4...... I don't care who we pick..... I'll just be happy we got to keep it.....

[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,636]

I heard there's a player we would love to get, he's ranked in the 30s but someone likes him before our second pick.

I think we should use pick 4 on him.

Seriously....

What do you think?

[tonatopia 278]

Wines or bust!

[Demon Forever 219]

Guys, people are comparing wines to Jobe Watson, yet we are raising the possibility of going for a long shot.

If wines becomes like Jobe no one will be unhappy here

[Tony Tea 2,792]

Guys, people are comparing wines to Jobe Watson, yet we are raising the possibility of going for a long shot.

If wines becomes like Jobe no one will be unhappy here

As a teetotaller, I hope we do not pick up wines.

[Norm Smith's Curse 2,078]

As a teetotaller, I hope we do not pick up wines.

Scully was a teatotaller...

[Norm Smith's Curse 2,078]

Wines or bust!

totally agree - no more skinny kids with potential talent given our track record and luck.

[Nasher 33,131]

I love the logic in the idea of using our golden pick 4 on a player ranked in the teens just so someone else doesn't take him.

[Tony Tea 2,792]

I love the logic in the idea of using our golden pick 4 on a player ranked in the teens just so someone else doesn't take him.

Don't knock it. That's the strategy that has seen me regularly come last in my dream team competition. Oh, wait. We are supposed to win, right?

[QueensBirthday 186]

Oliver Wines is going to be a great player at AFL level. I fear that Jake Stringer will be the player that we'll look back on as the player we let slip.

Oliver Wines is a true rover. Front and center, good disposal. Jake Stringer looks forward to someone trying to tackle him and so he can't hurt them and leave one of their arms dangling. Stringer would complement Jack Viney a lot better, despite the relationship between Viney and Wines, because Stringer's the type of player that cuts a path.

[Norm Smith's Curse 2,078]

im thinking of the winery sponsorships of having both Wines and Viney in the same side.

[binman 38,754]

No sorry Wines or O'Rourke will be the player we take. From the highlight reels I have seen both look good but I am biased towards hard nuts so Wines is my pick.

I want people to hate coming up against the Dees and know they have been in a game when they play us

Yep Wines for me. Neelds 'hardest team to play against' fits nicely with a tough, tackling machine like Wines apparently is. Also i reckon the fact that he is a long time great mate of Viney should not be underestimated and is real positive in favour of getting hiom. Adds to the chemistry and means that there would be two players in the square who are tight and will instictively look out for each other. They will also push each other intraining i'd reckon given they are both super competive.

A tangent but i reckon this tanking palaver could actually be a positive in that it might help the boys gel together - the us against the world vibe.