On 18/07/2020 at 03:09, one_demon said:

Yep.  They'll be no premiership this year and May will be twenty nine years old at the start of next season. 

So 3 or 4 more good years left?

  On 18/07/2020 at 04:07, Fifty-5 said:

So 3 or 4 more good years left?

Yep, That's about it.   Ben King is twenty years old. 

  On 18/07/2020 at 04:32, one_demon said:

Yep, That's about it.   Ben King is twenty years old. 

Well, Gawn is ten days older than May, so really the best thing would have been to trade Gawn and that way we could have had both Kings.

May probably needs to play for another five to six years to make the trade worthwhile.

Full backs have traditionally had great longevity. Fingers crossed.

 

  On 18/07/2020 at 05:13, Diamond_Jim said:

May probably needs to play for another five to six years to make the trade worthwhile.

Full backs have traditionally had great longevity. Fingers crossed.

 

May needs to play in an MFC premiership team - that was the plan with the trade.

  On 18/07/2020 at 07:55, Fifty-5 said:

May needs to play in an MFC premiership team - that was the plan with the trade.

on that basis....I think you know the answer

 

  On 18/07/2020 at 07:55, Fifty-5 said:

May needs to play in an MFC premiership team - that was the plan with the trade.

Correct

  On 18/07/2020 at 08:32, Diamond_Jim said:

on that basis....I think you know the answer

Yes Steven May will be an MFC Premiership player.

  On 18/07/2020 at 09:21, Fifty-5 said:

Yes Steven May will be an MFC Premiership player.

 

You should do stand up comedy Fifty, that was brilliant.

  On 18/07/2020 at 09:27, GoGetRossLyon said:

 

You should do stand up comedy Fifty, that was brilliant.

To bring it back on topic - Kosi Pickett will too ... oh and you'll have a new user name and will have always been on board.

Apologies if this has been mentioned....

How long did we actually hold pick 6 for? Was it all of 5 mins? 

I see it as it was - we traded Hogan for May.

Freo traded pick 6 (Ben King) for Hogan. Write that one up Kane Cornes! 

  On 17/07/2020 at 06:32, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Change "these academies" for "father-son selections" and hopefully you'll appreciate why the academies were created. It's still quite some time before GWS and the Gold Coast will have access to father-son prospects.

Succession planning. By the time Jackson is old enough to be a reliable first ruck option (should he get there), Max will be close to or perhaps even be retired. Preuss is just a backup should we need a strong first ruck option in the meantime.

In all of this most people querying Jacko are vastly under estimating his ability to be a utility.

That is a mobile ruck, utility,  handy versatile, forward or around the ground plus a fantastic X factor.

Indeed Jacko has the potential to be a once in a generation player viz Barassi or Jesaulenko or Matthews or Buddy or Brereton or Hudson or any major player of the AFL/VFL in the last 56 years of our history.

Also examine the record  of teams With above 80/120 goals or Coleman Medallist's and very few have saluted in GRand Final day.

3 or 4 years out of Stephen May could be enough to win a flag ( or two) with say Petty his successor.

Look at GWS today and they are struggling at present and we could join them on 3 wins by tomorrow night and who would say our list is the potential of their AFL gifted amalgamation if talent!

Please keep some faith and sensibility about trading and its irregularities. 
 

PS Seem to recall a guy called Lockett and he hasn't ever hung an AFL medal around  his neck. Also another quirk is that Brian Lake win a  "Normie" who would have thought that plus Chip Frawley kept Josh Kennedy to a handful of kicks in 2015.

One trade decision does not prevent a premiership !!

I don't think Melbourne played the percentages in the most recent draft. The Pickett selection is a good one, he was the top rated small forward in the draft and perfectly fit a need for the team. But I don't think it made sense to draft a high-risk high-reward ruckman at pick 3, when we already have an elite ruckman for the next 5 or so years.

If you look at the other options we had at the trade table, Jackson was a huge gamble. Melbourne had the option of trading pick 3 for pick 6, GWS 2020 first rounder, and a 3rd rounder. We could then trade pick 6 back to 10 to grab Pickett, 28, and something else (a mid second rounder). The opportunity cost of selecting Jackson was effectively our 2020 first, a GWS 2020 first, pick 26, a mid second rounder, a GWS third rounder, and pick 50. Hopefully Jackson becomes a star player and is worth it, but only time will tell.

Ridiculous time to be analysing this. I love what we've done at the draft and trade table over the past 6-7 years. We just need a game plan that clicks with these players and none of that will matter. People are so quick to judge.

Why the worry about giving the #1 pick to North. (We'd have more to worry about than that if we do).  It's been said the 2020 draft was compromised before Covid.  Now recruiters will have to a  lot more guessing than usual.  Pick quality will be more random than ever.

  On 19/07/2020 at 02:34, sue said:

Why the worry about giving the #1 pick to North. (We'd have more to worry about than that if we do).  It's been said the 2020 draft was compromised before Covid.  Now recruiters will have to a  lot more guessing than usual.  Pick quality will be more random than ever.

Not if you have the first few picks sue. But you are correct if we give north pick 1 the MFC will be up to its eyes in crap and be looking for several FD positions to fill and potentially a new board.

North on brink of massive trade disaster

Giving up their chance to draft the magician Kysaiah Pickett to trade into the next years heavily compromised draft

More news at 11

  On 18/07/2020 at 12:29, Pulp Fritschon said:

Apologies if this has been mentioned....

How long did we actually hold pick 6 for? Was it all of 5 mins? 

I see it as it was - we traded Hogan for May.

Freo traded pick 6 (Ben King) for Hogan. Write that one up Kane Cornes! 

Agree with this.

I reckon there's a fair chance we only released Hogan for pick 6 once we knew that GC would trade us May (+ KK) for 6.

In other words, we really traded Hogan for May + KK.

And even if we did trade May (+ KK) for 6, it was a justified call at the time, and isn't even in the top 10 reasons for our poor early-2020 form.

  On 19/07/2020 at 03:08, old dee said:

Not if you have the first few picks sue. But you are correct if we give north pick 1 the MFC will be up to its eyes in crap and be looking for several FD positions to fill and potentially a new board.

The further we go up the ladder, the less North's pick is worth.

  On 19/07/2020 at 02:18, Greendale said:

I don't think Melbourne played the percentages in the most recent draft. The Pickett selection is a good one, he was the top rated small forward in the draft and perfectly fit a need for the team. But I don't think it made sense to draft a high-risk high-reward ruckman at pick 3, when we already have an elite ruckman for the next 5 or so years.

If you look at the other options we had at the trade table, Jackson was a huge gamble. Melbourne had the option of trading pick 3 for pick 6, GWS 2020 first rounder, and a 3rd rounder. We could then trade pick 6 back to 10 to grab Pickett, 28, and something else (a mid second rounder). The opportunity cost of selecting Jackson was effectively our 2020 first, a GWS 2020 first, pick 26, a mid second rounder, a GWS third rounder, and pick 50. Hopefully Jackson becomes a star player and is worth it, but only time will tell.

Pickett was never going to last till 28 dogs would have taken him with pick 15 if he even lasted till then. Agree Jackson is high risk high reward so we have to wait and see there.  None of the other players that were in the pick 3 range have done anything yet anyway.

Edited July 19, 20204 yr by Garbo

Let's make that pick as crappy as it can be.

  On 19/07/2020 at 09:57, Garbo said:

Pickett was never going to last till 28 dogs would have taken him with pick 15 if he even lasted till then. Agree Jackson his high risk high reward so we have to wait and see there.  None of the other players that were in the pick 3 range have done anything yet anyway.

In that scenario we would maintain picks 10 and 28. The only difference would be Jackson and the picks I listed.

  On 19/07/2020 at 08:57, mauriesy said:

The further we go up the ladder, the less North's pick is worth.

This was the point I made earlier, the trade for the pick wasn’t a trade disaster because we gambled on us having a good year. It’s up to the team to make the trade get it’s best return. 

Kozzie hasn’t been prolific but he’s doing plenty of important things and is clearly getting more confidence in himself. 

  On 19/07/2020 at 02:18, Greendale said:

I don't think Melbourne played the percentages in the most recent draft. The Pickett selection is a good one, he was the top rated small forward in the draft and perfectly fit a need for the team. But I don't think it made sense to draft a high-risk high-reward ruckman at pick 3, when we already have an elite ruckman for the next 5 or so years.

If you look at the other options we had at the trade table, Jackson was a huge gamble. Melbourne had the option of trading pick 3 for pick 6, GWS 2020 first rounder, and a 3rd rounder. We could then trade pick 6 back to 10 to grab Pickett, 28, and something else (a mid second rounder). The opportunity cost of selecting Jackson was effectively our 2020 first, a GWS 2020 first, pick 26, a mid second rounder, a GWS third rounder, and pick 50. Hopefully Jackson becomes a star player and is worth it, but only time will tell.

Do you still think so Greendale, after today?

jackson  could  win a Brownlow . Never seen an 18yo very tall, so promising

  On 07/07/2020 at 08:24, Half forward flank said:

And another. Should have taken Tom Greene last year, understanding it was a bit complicated with the Academy situation.

So we would now have two AFL ready players, Green and King.

 

Ok. We picked up Kozie ( likely 200 games) Jackson , ditto, Rivers, possibly ditto plus Bennell,  Langdon, Tomlinson 

seems ok to me. I think we are a live chance this year, and a terrific chance next year