8 hours ago, bing181 said:

It's a myth that this is a weak draft. My understanding is that the issues with it are a) there's perhaps not the real standout talent compared to previous years and b) it's compromised by academy and father/son picks. But there are still plenty of good draftees in the first couple of rounds.

Let's not forget that this year's Rising Star was taken at Pick 17.

Yeah everyone is wrong. Reid would be a top 3 pick this year.

With the likely 💔Trac and Oliver trade departures (and with May likely now to stay) here’s the list segmented into likely positional structures. Of course, players are flexible and can shift like Rivers to running mid or Laurie to small forward.

I’ve add Mihocek. Hopefully we can get Max Heath onboard too

For me, the need for skilled running midfielders will be the primary draft priority

MFC TEAM update

key defenders: May, Tmcd, Adams

tall defenders: Lever, D.Turner, Howes

med/sml/running defenders: Rivers, Bowey, Salem, Lindsay, AMW

inside Mids: Viney, Langford , Laurie

outside Mids: Langdon, Windsor, Woey jnr

Mid/fwd: Kozzzy, Kolt, Sparrow, Culley

key forwards: Mihocek , JVR, Petty, Jefferson , Kentfield, Johnson

med-tall forwards: Fritsch, Melksham, Mcadam

small forwards: Chandler, Sharp, Henderson, Mentha

Rucks: Gawn,  Campbell 

19 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

With the likely 💔Trac and Oliver trade departures (and with May likely now to stay) here’s the list segmented into likely positional structures. Of course, players are flexible and can shift like Rivers to running mid or Laurie to small forward.

I’ve add Mihocek. Hopefully we can get Max Heath onboard too

For me, the need for skilled running midfielders will be the primary draft priority

MFC TEAM update

key defenders: May, Tmcd, Adams

tall defenders: Lever, D.Turner, Howes

med/sml/running defenders: Rivers, Bowey, Salem, Lindsay, AMW

inside Mids: Viney, Langford , Laurie

outside Mids: Langdon, Windsor, Woey jnr

Mid/fwd: Kozzzy, Kolt, Sparrow, Culley

key forwards: Mihocek , JVR, Petty, Jefferson , Kentfield, Johnson

med-tall forwards: Fritsch, Melksham, Mcadam

small forwards: Chandler, Sharp, Henderson, Mentha

Rucks: Gawn,  Campbell 

Why is there a likelyhood of Trac leaving? They won't give us Humphrey we won't give them Trac.

1 hour ago, WERRIDEE said:

Why is there a likelyhood of Trac leaving? They won't give us Humphrey we won't give them Trac.

Yes I agree. Trac has 4 years to run. He’s a star player and we need to receive appropriate high quality compensation. Unfortunately once a player nominates they are leaving, it get done. If the Dees tough talk, they have to stand by it.

i think what seperates good sides and average ones is when you can draft ahead of your needs, lions already had morris and even henry smith on board when daniher left and already had gallop when hipwood went down, or already had fletcher when kiddy did a knee and had the ashcrofts when berry does a shoulder and neale does a calf.

geelong did it with shannon neale into hawks spot, he was already 3 years in and ready to go.

so i look at our list next year and we have mcadam, sparrow, melksham, fritsch, chandler, mentha, johnson and hederson out of contract, so we should be adding small forwards this year like dovaston or latrelle pickett so they are second years when we move on a bunch of those names (obviously some stay)

we didnt do this well with ben brown handing over to JVR and El Jefe and we aren't doing it well in the rucks either. We may get away with it for our key backs because petty did his apprenticeship and was right to go when tommo went down initially but also finding turner was a saving grace otherwise we would have been in some form of all sorts there too. the most important part of a rebuild is the spine, the roos did this wrong in the last 5 years and until they picked whitlock last year they were relying on stop gaps and NQRs in key spots, coleman-jones, teakle, pink, corr, dawson all busts. they took one tall in the first round shotgun dawson and he's struggled to come on after a good first game.

dons got unfortunate with injuries to reid and hayes and i suppose to cox (hes just not very good too) they still paid up for caddy but need him to be two years more advanced than hobbs/perkins/tsatas rather than vice versa so probably need to reassess there so that when the talls are peaking they have what the blues had with weitering tdk curnow mckay and then build around that with walsh cerra and co, thats obviously burnt to the ground now however i think they followed the process correctly