Everything posted by Redleg
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
TBH, again only from limited highlights and comments, I could live with Young and Jackson, if Kemp is gone, as Young just looks super impressive and Jackson appears to have enough skill to play a key forward role, while he learns the trade from Max. That would give us the 3rd key forward and adding Joel Smith to the mid size forwards we cover that area. Also, if Bradtke kicks on, he could become another key forward option in time. That means rookies and last pick or two, look for a small forward or two. I wonder if that is where you could use a Bennell, with great hands, obvious talent and afl experience, playing forward, he would have less running to do and could be a viable cheap option as a small forward.
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Brodie Kemp (drafted by Carlton)
The thing that might help us is clubs might be reluctant to use their first pick on a boy who can't play for a year. Club fans may be more impatient and want to see their boys playing at some level right away. For us, he would be our 2nd pick after 3, which allows a bit more understanding from the fans. Then again, a strong club wouldn't worry about what the fans think and the Swans are a strong club. Interesting times. If there are no pick swaps in the top 8 it could go something like 3 Young 4 Serong 5 Flanders 6 Green 7 Jackson 8 Kemp On the above Ash is still there to help Kemp get to our pick. As I said Interesting times.
- Stinga
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - HARLEY BENNELL
Isn't he linked to the Cats?
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Stinga
Does anyone else think the bloke in the Ladbrokes ad is Stinga ( Stephen Tingay )?
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Hayden Young (Drafted by Fremantle)
The point I was making is that these blokes are good footballers who play mainly off a hbf and contribute to their team's success. To say you wouldn't use pick 3 to pick up a top hbf, who can set up play for you, seems misguided. It doesn't have to be used on a FF or midfielder. Pick 3 should be used to get a player who hopefully can play 200 games of good footy with us and this bloke looks a good chance of that. In other words you pick the best player available at our pick.
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Preseason Draft
No worries, there should be plenty of them everywhere.
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Hayden Young (Drafted by Fremantle)
Not saying you are wrong, but I am not sure we have decided 100% yet, nor told anyone. To be widely known among other clubs seems very strange, unless, they all agree Young is the next best player in the draft and they are assuming because they would take him, we will too. Whatever, thanks for posting your info and I hope you are right. Now we need to nail pick 8.
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Hayden Young (Drafted by Fremantle)
Houli, Tom Stewart, Tom Langdon, Callum Mills, Jarryn Geary, Sicily, Hurn, Andrew McGrath, Zac Williams etc all say hello.
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Jack Martin
I think this bird has flown and we need to look elsewhere.
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Hayden Young (Drafted by Fremantle)
The more I hear about this kid, the more I want to keep 3, take him and hopefully have a good player for the next 10 years. Splitting picks is great except the chances of getting a really good player decrease. If we nail it with 3 and 8, that is 2 players who should be added, very soon to our best 22. With Langdon and Tomlinson that is 4. 4 best 22 in one year is a fantastic haul and well over the odds. We need to get it right with these 2 picks. With 2nd year players in Sparrow, Jordon and Nieta also chances to make it, we are in a good position. We can then cherry pick another draftee and maybe a DFA or 2 plus some rookies.
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Brodie Kemp (drafted by Carlton)
That’s if he is there at 8 and if he is the one we want.
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Compensation for Loss of NT Academy Zone
Hello!
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Dr Peter Brukner
He was our club Doctor for a few years and is one of the highest credentialled and most experienced Sports Docs around. A great get.
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Jacob Townsend
And a far bigger NO from me.
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Hayden Young (Drafted by Fremantle)
Only based on video highlights and reading what others, including the so called young talent experts have said, that would be the ideal result for me.
- Farewell to Jay Kennedy-Harris & Billy Stretch
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
But it would probably mean missing the 2 boys many of us want in Young and Kemp. Memories of the Kelly deal start flooding back.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- Farewell to Jay Kennedy-Harris & Billy Stretch
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Compensation for Loss of NT Academy Zone
Good questions. Do we still have rights over the players we have developed? Next, what compensation do we get for losing the zone? Wonder if we could tell Jack Martin that we want to bring in several indigenous boys and that he and Nev would be great mentors for them.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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Recruiting a 3rd tall forward to find another 50 goals?
Though he is a beautiful mark I wouldn't class him as a tall. He is smaller than Hannan and we wouldn't call him a tall. He is marginally taller than Jake and Tracc and they are not talls. IMO we still need another key tall 193 cms plus. PS. I hope Fritter is a permanent forward from now on, as with Tom and Weid playing ok, he is a 40 goal forward.
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Jack Martin
Interestingly he was happy to go to the Bombers in 2018, so he has had interest in other clubs.