Here's an interesting and comprehensive guide for the draft:

CONTESTED FOOTY 2012 DRAFT GUIDE

Not surprisingly, they suggest Melbourne will take Oliver Wines with pick 4 and Jack Viney with our second round pick as a father/son.

Here's an interesting and comprehensive guide for the draft:

CONTESTED FOOTY 2012 DRAFT GUIDE

Not surprisingly, they suggest Melbourne will take Oliver Wines with pick 4 and Jack Viney with our second round pick as a father/son.

The tone in the review of our club's offseason is not very complementary, I'm not sure exactly which part of our trading they dislike, but someone certainly doesn't like our strategy. Wines and Viney would be good.

The tone in the review of our club's offseason is not very complementary, I'm not sure exactly which part of our trading they dislike, but someone certainly doesn't like our strategy. Wines and Viney would be good.

I agree. There's a fair lack of understanding in the media about the strategy we've undertaken in our recruiting. I think this is because they have simply ignored where the club's playing list has stood over the past two seasons and moreover ignored what our coach has been saying since he took over 14 months ago.

We've gone for a massive sea change in the makeup of a side that was once described as "bruise-free" and then produced an atrocity of a performance now known as 186. I don't care about the politics behind that period of time at the club. I'm not interested in excuses or even in looking back at that time. Mark Neeld's brief was to erase the shame of what occurred from the memory banks. This is his way of doing that and making us the hardest team to play against. I hope he succeeds.

Interesting read, until I got to the MFC section, then I stopped.

Sounds like he has been formulating his opinions by reading the dailys, rather than having any real info.

these guys have no idea. We live and breath this stuff and hence have a much greater knowledge of the limitations of our list.

We need anyone who can play the game. What is often forgotten a couple of months after the season is that we only had six or so players that were up to scratch. In the midfield, Jones needs support both inside and outside. Wines, Toumpas et al sound great. I think Stringer potentially looks even better!

"I hope they surprise us..."

Champ, it is not our job to surprise you. Clown! Your job is to understand why we are doing what we are doing. Who the hell do you think you are? So far, you are nothing but someone who wants to get paid for generating an opinion about something you don't know that much about.

Get a job.

I agree. There's a fair lack of understanding in the media ...

Could have left it pretty much there WJ

For all their collected hyperbole I often wonder if much of the media has a clue beyong getting occasioanally lucky some weeks at the tipping or assembling a fantasy team in supercoach. Neither needs the ability to actually put together a real team , coach them and /or have any real knowledge of playing football. Just an ability to read the state of play. Its a bit like someone who says" i like that house": but questions why various rooms were designed how they were or why certain windows or doors faced this or that direction displaying no understanding of the fundamentals of building or architectural practices. Ie. they really havent a bloody clue.. Form follows function

So it is even with a football team. The shape and makeup of it need to reflect the job(s) at hand. There were simply too many of the wrong elements in the wrong place. These flaws have been addressed. The armchair experts question the legitimacy of this direction by Melbourne. You have to seriously wonder sometimes just how moronically inept and glaringly short on comprehension skills some of the 4th estate actually are.

I see a problem in that so may seem to follow each others tails that theyve grown a taste for what eminated from those regions and this in turn flavours their rhetoric.

i.e this is why they talk sh!t; because theyre trying to look relevent withiin their industry as opposed to actually providing informed and meaningful comment to the readers.

Strange that just about most every Freddy of the vison challenged kind can see what Melbourne is doing yet the "experts" are of the "jury is out " frame of mind.

Melbourne has opted not for yet another bandage job but has excised the rotten and contaminated and replaced with capability. It might not look all shiny and pretty which is how the experts see things but it'll be a goer.

And just you al lwatch them belatedly heap retropsective praise of the 'enlightened and visional" rebuild next year when even the dunces can see what it was all about...hey Alfie !!

anyone know how deep into our warchest we went?

As in, will we have a war-chest next year? Thomas could be a good pickup.