Dante

It's my understanding that pick 97 will come in to about pick 70 after all the academy picks and passes.

Do you think the club has looked at more than the highlights reel you've seen? There are other highlights reels that show a lot more than what's available on you tube. Don't you think the club have watched him play multiple times, like they have with all the prospective draftees? I've seen more footage of him play and he is very good. As are Young and Robertson and Kickett and Kemp, the club has to pick the best of them and I think they will.

Have you seen much of him playing at all? If you haven't, then perhaps if you do, you may change your opinion.

Who's to say Jackson won't play 200 games plus? He is a very good player.

Might be a few double ups but still worth watching.

I had a look at some of his highlight videos yesterday, he was such a good player. It's a shame that he had issues and injuries, but here's hoping he can recover some of his past brilliance, it would make him one of our three best players if he can

Wow, way to derail a thread. Give it a rest, or go to the General board

That depends on how badly we want first pick after GCS. If we have a player in mind for our first pick and we really want him and know he won't be there after pick 3, then no way would you trade. If the club aren't sure that there is a clear third choice, then they may consider it. Free probably have 3 Players in their sights and having two picks almost guarantee at least 2 and maybe all three of their choices.

Irrespective of all the above provisos, well done to both parties and I'm glad the Dee's have taken the punt on him. If it doesn't work out then so be it but at least it shows that Melbourne have lost that conservatism that's been stopping us from picking up players that may have a bit of a reputation. Welcome Harley and let's hope that we have some good years ahead, for both our sakes.

I watched the game too, and can't disagree too much with your summary. Really liked the look of Robertson and Sharp, he will be a player and so will Jackson. I wouldn't write Young off just on that game, he's better than that. Some of the other ones you mentioned were indeed underwhelming and I wonder if it was because it was the end go the finals and they were all knackered. If we picked up any of Robertson, Young, Kemp, Sharp or Jackson I'd be happy.

Yes, but would we accept 7, 10 and 15, which was proposed by LH? We will not get 7&10 for 3, unless Bell owes us one and after reading that Hogan has had more "extensive surgery", I doubt he will feel he does.

We can get the players we want with 3 & 8, not the leftovers after the other clubs have had their pick of the crop. If they offered Taylor that and he accepted, I'd expect they'd buy him a new house and a car.

Am I reading this right? You want to swap 3 and 8 for 7, 10 and 15? We drop 4 spots, 2 spots and pick up 15. Why?

Some more from the article "Bennell would add outside pace to the group if he could regain fitness, with the Demons having added Fremantle's Ed Langdon and the Giants' Adam Tomlinson during the trade period and losing Sam Frost to Hawthorn. Melbourne were also keen to catch up with stranded former Sun Jack Martin ahead of the pre-season draft but were unlikely to pick him unless he showed he was open to joining them. All indications so far are that he has his heart set on joining the Blues."

Demons hope for flying start as coaches jet off to the US Bit about Harley and Martin in here, not a lot, but the Harley part was interesting.

Howe and Frawley were best mates.

You seem too, conveniently, forget how ordinary Howe was at Melbourne.. He was lazy and unaccountable as a forward, loose and unaccountable as a back and seemed to spend most of his time on the field trying to take mark of the match. He wanted to play with Collingwood and we facilitated that for him, he would have never been anything but ordinary if he stayed with us.It was probably our fault that we didn't get the best out of him but that happens, he had a poor team around him.

I pointed out in another post that we haven't had a great deal of success with SA players from the SANFL, I notice that Dom Barry was mentioned in that clip as being, perhaps, best on ground. If I was going for an interstate player, I'd pick one from WA before SA, Jackson looks a gem, as does Robertson, I'd be stoked if we picked either of them with Young.

Are you serious? Any player selected by Collingwood is labelled a star, even if he's never played a game. Players at Melbourne that have been selected AA and played 200 games are referred to as Melbourne Player.

I see your favourite player is Max, good thing we didn't adopt that short term strategy when we drafted him. If Kemp is the player they want, they will take him.

My initial reaction was Flanders and Young but I'm more than happy to substitute Kemp for one of those two, preferably Young. I'd love to have a quick 192cm, 82kg player who can play in a number of positions. This reminds me of the 2009 draft where there were two standouts, Scully and Trengove (?), with a host of others that looked pretty good too. Third was Martin and he turned out ok, we also took a player with wonky knees who just won our B&F. Think Kemp. There were a couple of busts, but it was a pretty good draft, Fyfe taken at 20 and another couple taken at later stages of the draft who have been pretty good. This could be another draft like that. If we play our cards correctly we could walk away with a couple of really good players. https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_drafts?year=2009&t=N&s=P

I would imagine/hope the club would have a longer term view than the next 12 Months, if they are that unsure of their jobs they shouldn't be there.

I agree with Trenners, but it says something if he can win the B&F but not be good enough to play in the main team. I was talking to my son the other day about Tracc and DeGoey and raised the question, how good would Tracc be if he played with Collingwood and how would DeGoey be if he was selected by Melbourne. Which one would be the star?

Trenners won the B&F in the SANFL this year, we have had some pretty ordinary results picking players from that comp.

That's changed now, this is an update https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/27802450/afl-draft-power-rankings-rowell-back-top-afl-draft-nears There are a lot of changes but Weightman is still outside the top 20. Flanders at 4 with a good bio.