Redleg

He sounds like a great kid.

You are probably correct.

Annual General Meeting and I am going.

Aussie is apparently 177-178 cms.

So much love !!!!!!!!

Thanks for your efforts for the MFC and for coming on Demonland. Godd luck for your future endeavours and hopefully our players success in the future will give you much satisfaction.

Doubt it as one game is their home game and the other is ours. Also we would not want to lose a crowd puller like us v blues.

Believe so.

My two got up. Suggested these two very early in the season. I am somewhat surprized Martin was taken as our PSD. Given that we didn't take Sampi, we must have not wanted Gourdis, as we could have had him with our last draft pick and still taken Martin as a Rookie. Seems a good mix of types picked. Anyway I am not in recruiting just an observer, so I wish all of the boys taken good luck with their careers.

I heard Judd had it in the bag.

Looks like Warnock.

It will also make my annual gripe about AFL club support membership and membership in general more valid. More interstate teams means more interstate trips for Melbourne and less games you can actually use your membership to see your team play.

No we didn't, I forgot about it in all of the excitement surrounding the draft. Hopefully Demonland can work out a winner and let us know. Then details can be obtained for the winner and the prize sent.

So might Richmond and Carlton.

In money terms it is not a big risk, it is the opportunity cost that we would be worried about. Do we take him and pass on a kid who could be a 10 year player for us. That is what they would be assessing, whether his value would be more than the kid we could take instead.

Go "u's" or "youse" doesn't have the ring to it of "go Dees".

Oh well. As it is official, thanks again Craig and all the best for the future.

To bring some sense to it Ash, you are as much a chance to play finals as anyone else. Your chances will depend like most others on injury and the season that your senior players in Lloyd, Lucas, Fletcher and McPhee have, as well as your ageing midfielders in Peverill, Johnson etc. If your key forwards and Fletcher are out or have bad years the season is over in my humble opinion. Not really much different to everybody else.

Either can I. The speed at which some people drop off our players is frightening. We all know Yze's negative points, do we forget his positives. He is able to kick goals. Not many can. He is not the type to attack every contest with the aim of knocking out his opponent. He doesn't play that way. That doesn't mean he couldn't win us a final with a few smart kicks. It is [censored] to say every player in a premiership is a star and is ruthless. Bad time to use him as an example but look at the Cats full forward in the GF. 3 of the softest goals I have ever seen, given to him by team mates. Not every player is a Todd Viney. Oh thats right he couldn't kick. Anyone want him out of their side? There is room for the Yze type of player in every team, as long as they contribute. I think the term is a "finisher". How many of them do we have?

I think we have to look at Adem now as the "icing on the cake." He no longer is the sweeping half back flanker, but rather another talented player who will play off the bench, who has the ability to kick a couple of quick goals including the odd miracle team lifter. I see that as his future role and could imagine him doing just that in a final. If he can play a fair season or two he will add to a great career with the Dees. Incidentally he was taken after Camporeale in his year and we wanted Camporeale. I am glad the Blues chose who they did. We got the better player.

Nor does his arrival give them a backline.

That is not the price, that is what they spent "their" money on. The price is what "we" would have paid. Given that it probably would have been picks 4, 14 and 21, then it it would have been too much for me, way too much.

Fair post.

Think a lot of people have forgotten that Adem was a great player for us for a long time. Yes he has had a couple of poor seasons by his standards, but if fit and committed, he could be great value in a forward pocket changing with Flash, Robbo, Green and maybe Sampi. All are capable of kicking a couple of quick goals and are different to match up on. Could create a bit of a nightmare for other sides.

Me too. I must say personally I am very disappointed to hear the news. Craig has been a very good recruiter for the MFC and a nice bloke as well. He will be sorely missed. I would like to know some time in the future what were the reasons he chose to go. If it it was primarily to be at Richmond, given his connection to the Tigers, it would be understandable. This was obviously the opportunity. Craig, I wish you all the best, especially with the PSD/Rookie drafts and for your future. Hopefully you can look back at the careers of some of your Melbourne recruits and feel a part of the success they had with the Dees.