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It's not the tackle or the effects of it that was indicative of our malaise - it was the 'Debut as a Promotion' that didn't set Jack on the right path. They introduced the team as they ran out as "Number 1 Pick Jack Watts and the Melbourne Demons"... They gave kids games that were not ready and didn't deserve them and Jack Watts debuting on QB and getting smashed would be on the front cover of the book of "Melbourne's Malaise: The Lost Years"...

It is a bit easier with those "beasts" around though... It's all about your role for players now - if Jack can play the third tall role with desire and scoring involvement - he will play. Hard and fast judgements in November are fun to look back on but hold little water obviously.

Dawes is a suitable bridge to Weideman. He will make him earn his games and allow him time to build his fitness, frame, confidence, and game.

Oh. Hope that helps.

Yes, Dom Tyson is a very good player. Viney is the best inside midfielder at the club.

Viney sprinted past Tyson in 2015 and eclipsed Tyson's 2014 with 12 CPs to 9, 6 Clearances to 5, and the general fact that if no-one gets between Viney and the footy. Put Tyson in a room with Viney and a Sherrin and he wouldn't see it.

As crap as you may think Dawes and Pedersen to be - these kids are not ready in 2016, and probably not ready in 2017, and properly allowing these kids to develop at Casey is important haven't we agreed on? Have we forgotten bitter experience?

And if ever you don't worry about 'needs' it is at the Rookie Draft. You try and get whatever speculative talent you can and hope they take to it like Vanders.

Spencer is adequate.

If you say that three times Jack Viney appears and pulls your heart out...

Haha. Can I just say it was a pleasure to have the top 10 lined up and for once not see the smallest little fella in a Dees jumper... I am always going to be interested in what Darcy Parish might be but I am very excited by what Clayton Oliver is.

Looking forward to seeing him begin to show us what he can do in 2018!

This is getting us ready maybe for season 2021. Such maybe foresight. I just wouldn't bother. I wish him all the best but so much investment for a maybe 6 years from now?

See you in 5 years maybe Mitch... And must rate this Hulett as the best available...

How about you wait until you see what the Northern clubs get at the draft apart from their Academy kids.

Don't forget I agreed with you soon after...

Ah, see your reasoning...

I wouldn't take it to a Building Society...

The player we just 'had to pick' has been Parish and when there has been the player 'we had to pick' we have picked Watts, Morton, Scully, and Toumpas... I have developed this affliction to ask 'who is the better player taken at 15 or 20. Maybe Clayton Oliver is that better player usually taken later?

I'm notorious?

So because we don't have trading on draft day (yet) - clubs cannot target players? If ever there was a year to target a player at 3 it is this year - there have been two players seemingly set in stone at 1 and 2 since before trade week.

How many is plenty? Jones and Vince for the next few years. Medium term could be: Trengove and Vanders. Long term should be: Tyson, Viney, Brayshaw, and Petracca. Long term could be: Salem, Kent, ANB, and Harmes. We will need a midfield that bats deep to do any damage in finals and I would say about 10 players would have to run through the middle. If I am wrong about Harmes, ANB, and Salem becoming mids we are down to 9. If Tyson, Kent, Trengove, and Petracca continue to struggle with injury then we are decidedly thin. We are down on quality absolutely, but we are also down on quantity of AFL-level mids to fill out the rotation.

No, it is similar to being 6th in line with three or four Cornettos left and you get to third in line so you get a Cornetto. Because you identified the Cornetto as the best choice available and didn't want to leave it to chance that you will be stuck with a caramel Magnum.

There is a deficit of over 1700 points that the clubs can go into - and BL have enough points for Hipwood and Keays to go early. They will be fine to pick them up.

Messiah? Whether they had a player, or players, in mind at 3 - they evidently didn't think they would be available at 6. What is so wrong about wanting a particular player? I applaud the desire to pinpoint a player and try to get him.