The club that beat us today had the first five picks in the 2011 National Draft and 9 of the first 14 and yet today was its first win of its second season.

I think it's time for the AFL to get serious with the sort of draft assistance it's prepared to hand out to this club to help get it back on its feet.

Draft assistance alone isn't going to do the trick but without 2 to 4 mini draft or priority picks I can't see us breaking through for a long time.

Agree absolutely. The AFL has a big problem with the inequalities in the weekly draws. The MFC is an impediment to the competition as PJ has stated. How do we make the competition more equal? It's more than the odd priority pick in my opinion. Yet all the other clubs are adamant that we don't deserve help. It's not about deserving, it's about equalisation, the AFL has been or have given a leg up to all the clubs outside Victoria t some stage to set them up. We can do everything we can to get the off field stuff right and that will be great but it still boils down to the on field cattle to make us competitive and we are still miles off the mark in my opinion. How we got here is history, our uncanny ability to work our way through, what 7 drafts, picking out the duds in the first round. You couldn't do that if you tried but we managed

Unfortunately give us a priority pick and I am sure we will stuff that up as well.

There is talk of AFL support for someone like Buddy Franklin going to GWS, I wonder if there could be similar support to get players to Melbourne?

It is quite obvious we need 2 or 3 mids to support Jones and the young mids coming through. This is the only thing that will make us competitive next year.

Well, that and competent coaching staff.

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