I know it's early, but.....

[pantaloons 2,019]

All current players, coaches, board members and club presidents in the AFL to go into a draft at the end of the season. And for our selections to not be chosen by Barry Prendergast.

[Rhino Richards 1,467]

All current players, coaches, board members and club presidents in the AFL to go into a draft at the end of the season. And for our selections to not be chosen by Barry Prendergast.

And our coach not to be chosen by G Lyon.

[Guest rednblue4life]

I reckon we could start a positive debate on what we, as a fan base, would like to see happen at the end of the year.

I know its still in the early stages of the season. But, I have been looking around at what things could be done to help Melbourne on field (instead of just ripping into every player that makes a mistake). I think, we should target players that have been in the system for 2-3 years or there abouts, that aren't breaking into their respective teams. Fringe players for example. A player that caught my attention, was Jake Melksham, from Essendon. His contract is up at the end of the year, he was from the same draft as Trengove. I reckon he could be worth a look at.

I also think there could be a few diamonds in the rough, in....

Jared Patrenko- Could really flourish if given a lot of games, has an injury history. Only 23 and I think he is a very good player.

Jared Polec- A player that was a high draft pick, very good signs early in his career, but has started to slow off. I think he could become a very very good player if he were to land at Melbourne. Only 20 years old.

Jayden Pitt- Another one like Polec, hasn't been given alot of chances over his first 3 years. Change of seen could help. Turns 21 in October.

Maverick Weller- Another one of the youngsters from Gold Coast, Could be time a few of them start looking for greener pastures.

This is just a few I think are worth a look

I say we have enough kids, problem with Melbourne is we dont protect our young players we throw them in the deep end thinking there ganna be 18yr old stars, these players you metioned from other clubs are slowly introduced to afl (set up to sucseed)

Joe Daniher has been tearing up the vfl but is being protected not brought into the side in the early rounds if we were so smart!!!

We should target development coaches and one gun onballer

[Ted Lasso 17,315]

Mid coach would have to be brett Kirk, cameron ling or simon black, culture changers.

We have plenty of kids, so i'd be dangling our top pick, which should be top 3 to see what sort of mid clubs would be willing to offer,

I'd back watts, he is still young and far more talented than anything we will get in return ( unless we get an offer we can't refuse)

No more pickups like Pederson, rodan and gillies for gods sake, dawes was fine but the others have if anything set our side back

[Akum 2,660]

To trade big, you have to give big to get big.

Our best chance of getting an A-grade mid is via trading for the likes of Watts & Frawley.

Watts for Gibbs or Griffen? Frawley for Sewell or Deledio or Stephen? All potential win-wins.

There may be better choices, but there are a number of clubs with excess quality mids who badly need quality KPPs.

Edited May 3, 2013 by Akum

[deanox 8,979]

Bring in two walk up start senior mids. 25 or older with at least 120 games experience.

One comes via FA (daisy?). Throw cash.

One comes via trade - our first pick plus a player (watts or jamar are both surplus to our needs, would consider trading others inc blease as well.)

[demonchris 162]

Okay, so i dug a little deeper. Any thoughts on players such as

Savage from the hawks?

Ellis from the Hawks?

Nahas from the Tiges?

Dal santo from the Saints?

Montagna from the saints?

Gary Rohan from the swans?

Mitch Brown from the Eagles?

Jake Bachelor from the Tigers?

Harry Taylor from the Cats?

Duscher from the Essendon VFL?

Bonnadio from Port Melbourne?

Josh Drummond as a development coach (currently at NM)

Scott Burns as a mid coach (currently at the Eagles)

Adam Yze as a forward coach (currently at the Hawks) could a return with a few other past players reignite this club?

[rpfc 27,692]

Also I'd like to see the back of Peter Jackson.... IMO he is apart of AFL infiltration into our club..... Which is only going to end in relocation....

Don't be ridiculous.

The AFL would like us to be half-decent and that is it. They have two expensive clubs to manage and do not want to worry about any other relocation and they want to keep the money generated from the 9th game every week.

We are not going anywhere.

...in more ways than one.