SaberFang

Not happy with that deal at all. Pick 23 got us Frost, O-Mac and ANB last year and this year we want to settle for [censored] Melksham? A kid who may be ineligible to play for two years?? Abhorrent list management if true considering the huge risk he brings. Don't forget that players like Nat Fyfe have been taken in the 20's.

I like that he replies but sheesh, he must be wishing he had a pseudonym account right now. Something like [email protected] would do the trick.

I'm guessing we're just trying to improve our depth players, but it's one hell of a depth player contract. He's an improvement on the players we delisted today, that I'm certain of.

When we can get him via the PSD, why would we offer more than a third rounder? That's still a decent pick at about 42. Pick 24 is far, far too high for Melksham. In other news, our counter-offer to their trade request should be Howe for Melksham and THEIR first rounder.

They've kept Butcher??

At least Dean Terlich, Matt Jones and Ro Bail are available for selection in the 2016 and 2017 seasons.

Could be an $800k/year player once WADA gets their way.

I wonder if the club would build any clauses into the contract in the scenario he gets banned?

I'd back Taylor to find another Nibbler around pick 40 than take Melksham.

$400k for Melksham is insanity in a way that makes $500k for Dawes look sensible. Surely there is no way our footy department could be so moronic?

The other consideration is he hasn't been wallowing at some poor development club; say what you will about the club but Essendon's development program is one of the most lavish in the league. They're not exactly short of a quid. So if he hasn't exactly "blossomed" after 6 years in this system, when exactly will it happen?

So we're offering a contract he might not be able to fulfil half of? Maybe worth a punt for $250-$300k, but nearly $400k? No way.

The only universe where we should give up our second rounder involves Melksham and Essendon's 3rd rounder coming back, ala the Frost deal last year. But a second round pick in a shallow draft has much, much more currency than a third rounder. So unless Goodwin knows something we don't, this seems like a big mistake.

He'd be an improvement on our worst players but... [censored]. I wouldn't touch an Essendon player until WADA's situation is resolved. Essendon are bad news at the trade table, period. If Carlton are dumb enough to give up a first rounder for Carlisle, only to have him banned for 2 years, it would be the funniest situation to unravel in the modern game. Do we really want to play a part in that by sacrificing something as high as our third rounder? Essendon will demand our second rounder, for starters.

This thread is still going? Please. Our recruitment team is no longer infested by morons.

We chased Lynch for a while and obviously were left red-faced less than a week ago. I imagine we scrambled pretty quickly to find a suitable alternative.

Always seems to be a gun who slips, incomprehensibly, to somewhere between pick 10 and 20. Would love to see us get that player if we slide to around pick 9.

Isn't this the guy we were all crushed got dropped for our match versus Essendon?

Jesus, no.

That's frightening if true. Imagine if Hogan was getting the kind of delivery Roughead gets at the Hawks, Pavlich at Freo or Cloke at the Pies. Granted all three players sat a few games out, but the point stands.

You don't exactly gain a year of playing experience when you spend the entire year sidelined though. I hate hearing this argument from foaming Carlton fans. And 2015 is Cripps' second playing year, ironically.

Think this is what Roosy was referring to on 360 tonight. No other player has achieved what Jesse Hogan has in their first year.

I wish they'd break the annoying record of losing whenever I tip them and winning whenever I tip against them. They cost me $200 today because the pricks underneath me had nothing to lose and went the Dees.

The more Melbourne supporters we draft, the better. Certainly becoming an endangered species, but all of us want the same thing.