WERRIDEE

I can’t believe the little faith that demon land have with the dees they will make the 8 for sure securing us Butters. Gold Coast Brisbane Sydney Adelaide Hawthorn Geelong St.Kilda Melbourne Fremantle Bulldogs GWS Collingwood Port Carlton North West Coast Richmond Essendon

He can take a mark and is strong unlike Jefferson you can say Grjl has the shades of Blease

I’ll have another go at the best 44 B: Lever, May, Jiath HB: Lindsay, Turner, Bowey C: Culley, Langford, Windsor HF: Chandler, Petty, Salem F: Fritsch, Mihocek, Melksham FOLL: Gawn, Rivers, Pickett IC: Steele, Viney, Langdon, Tholstrup, McDonald EMERG: Sparrow, Dovastan, Schubert Casey B: Berry, Adams, White HB: Howes, van Rooyen, Moniz-Wakefield C: Sinnema, Laurie, Sharp HF: Dovastan, Johnson, Mentha F: Kentfield, Schubert, Sumner-Pickett FOLL: Heath, Sparrow, Henderson IC: McAdam, Jefferson, Campbell, Bonner, Yze

Goldrick is still a week away, O’Hehir is a test and Colvin and Beasley are available. I say no change B:S.Taylor, Gillard HB: Chaplin, Lampard, Mackin C: McNamara, Hore, Paxman HF: Fitzsimon, Harris, Wotherspoon F: Bannan, Zanker FOLL: Pearce, Hanks, Heath IC: Ebert, D.Taylor, Mahony, Campbell, Gall

I think I’m on the money with my picks can’t see him going past Richmond

I'm sold on Schubert.

There are always mids in the draft but not so many key talls. I'd have Schubert for one other reason he's tough, Grlj isn't. Why do you think we have no chance with Butters? I think your all wrong. Port aren't in a premiership window like Gold Coast it would be harder to get Humphrey and\or King than it would be to get Butters over.

I'm gonna be unpopular but I'm not sold on Grlj a player that finds it hard to find the ball at under 18 level will find it even harder at AFL level.

I've picked Sumner-Pickett ahead of Swadling in my phantom draft.

21 - Barker 22 - Thredgold 23 - Oudshoorn- Bennier 24 - Sweid 25 - Hetherton 26 - Emmett 27 - King 28 - Wright 29 - Ludowyke 30 - Dalton 31 - Sumner-Pickett

They have pretty well gone with my picks. They also went with Cumming but I think he'll be gone by then. I'll try and piece together picks 21 to 31. Messy is my middle name.

I've counted the list vacancies for every club and the draft will go to 57. Some clubs will pass as Adelaide will pass on there last pick to pick up Ah Chee in the pre season draft. Adelaide 3 picks 18, Brisbane 3 picks - 5 (b), they used picks 68, 59, 51, 44,23 and 17 Carlton 4 picks - 10 (b) (they used picks 72, 67, 54, 43 and 11), 13 Collingwood 4 picks Essendon 5 picks - 8,9, 21, 24, 25 (b) they used pick 30. Fremantle 4 picks -20 Geelong 1 pick - 19 Gold Coast 5 picks - 3 (b)they used picks 52, 36, 29, 28 and 24, 4(b)They used pick 15 and 18 GWS 1 pick - 15 Hawthorn 3 picks - 14, 22 Melbourne 3 picks - 11,12, 31 North 1 pick - 23 Port 4 picks Richmond 3 picks - 6,7 St.Kilda 0 picks Sydney 3 picks - 26, 27, 28 (b) they used pick 63 and 42 West Coast 4 picks - 1,2, 16, 30 Dogs 3 picks - 17, 29 I only went to pick 31 because that's all for us.

I’ll try to do the Casey side and see how close I get. B: Smith, May, Adams HB: Bergman, McDonald, Bonner C: Stanley, Laurie, Howes HF: Hardie, Johnson, Henderson F: Cross, Kentfield, Jefferson FOLL: Campbell, ?, ? IC: Heath, Sharp, Mentha, Berry, Yze

WERRIDEE’s Top 20 Duursma Duff-Tytler Uwland Patterson Annable Robey X.Taylor Sharp Cumming Dean Schubert Dovastan Grlj Lindsay Farrow Marsh Phillipou Hibbins-Hargreaves O.Taylor Greeves

What do you think about Swadling?

Seniors B: Lever, Petty, Jiath HB: Salem, Turner, Bowey C: Culley (a), Langford, Lindsay HF: Chandler, van Rooyen, Pickett F: Fritsch, Mihocek, Melksham FOLL: Gawn, Rivers, Steele IC: Windsor, Sparrow, Tholstrup, Viney, Langdon Casey B: Adams, May, Berry (b) HB: Howes, McDonald, Moniz-Wakefield (a) C: Sinnema (a), Laurie, Sharp HF: Henderson (a), Johnson, Mentha (b) F: McAdam, Schubert, Kentfield (a) FOLL: Campbell, Swadling, Dovastan IC: Heath, White (a), Jefferson I've decided on Schubert and Dovastan as our first 2 picks and Swadling as our third pick. Does anybody else have any ideas on our pick 37?

I hate to tell you but we need a key forward

I don't know if Schubert would hinder any of our key forwards, that's a bit harsh. I think we will move up the ladder I think we can finish anywhere between 7th and 12th. If we don't we can always try and pick up a midfielder in that draft. It's easier finding midfielders than key forwards in the draft.

I don't know Roo hasn't come on, Jefferson is a bust IMO and Kentfield is from the rookie list he could go either way. With Butters out of contract in 27 I'm not sure picking a midfielder would be the right move like others think.

Fair enough. What's the knock on Schubert?

I have to admit I didn't know that I thought it was a minimum of 6 rookies. All good then

Grlj isn't a big baller winner that's his problem.

I think we will be putting our eggs in the Butters basket before King. I think we could get him if we improve enough. That's why it makes more sense to go for a key forward in this draft.

Trac is a down and out star. He won't be replaced easily. Anyone who thinks otherwise are plain wrong. Langford is the interesting one the sky is the limit for him. If he improves about 10% from his great year this year he could be the replacement for Trac, but it is hard to expect too much off him considering it's only his second year.

I wonder what people's thought are on going both needs based in Dovastan and Schubert. We have a lot of tall forwards but they don't say pick me. That's why I've been thinking of Schubert more and more. We have Mihocek but he only has 2 years left and the rest have struggled to get a game. Schubert is supposed to be a contested marking beast we really don't have that. We need a small forward now that Pickett plays more midfield. We have Chandler who is good but great. Dovastan has kicked 53 goals this year we need someone like that. I think with 3 to 15 being so even we may go needs instead of best available. I think we only have one more year to get the small forward and key forward spots right or we are stuffed for years. Duursma Duff-Tytler (West Coast need a ruckman) Robey (the best of an even bunch) This where it gets interesting. Do they go for the flashier player in Grlj, or do they go for the more proven player in X.Taylor? I think if I was Richmond I'd go with the more proven player in X.Taylor. Essendon don't have a midfield so they will need to boost it by picking Sharp at 5 and Cumming at 6 This is where we have both of our picks and I think we will go needs Schubert at 7 and Dovastan at 8 Grlj slides to 9 J.Lindsay rounds out the top 10 not including bids. I see that Norm Smith has White being bidded on in the 60's we would be pretty stiff for that to happen. I don't think the draft will last 60 picks. We havn't delisted a player to make way for White so I think it's safe to say that White will be a rookie.