drdrake

It's time to reignite Team Melbourne. The concept was good the timing wasn't. I read in The AGE AFL clubs are looking at NBL basketball clubs, this is on the back off Netball doing this successfully this year. It is really turning the clock back to local sporting clubs where you could go and find a sport you like and have a real social environment, much higher level but really sets the platform for community clubs. Melbourne Demons Men and Women, Storm, Victory men and women, Vixons, Rebels, United(not sure if there is a Melbourne named team in WNBL). All teams home grounds are within a stones throw MCG/AMMI or Tennis Centre. Maybe start with something like mega clinics, a combine membership would love this I have Demons/United/Vixon memberships at the moment, then look at back office and wouldn't it be great to have the Melbourne Centre that is the state of the art training centre that housed all clubs staff playing and off field and for us supports a function area we can call ours. Never going to happen but it is a good concept

He stuffed our recruiting moved to Richmond and stuffed theirs, GWS should be celebrating that he has gone.

Our first all red jumpers were the best, I still can't understand why we can't have the all red instead of white

Don't agree with this, if you can't kick the ball no point getting it. The pressure part for sure you need to balance but if you don't have the ability to hit targets you will struggle at AFL level

There will be a lot of members that would have opted out of dedicated Demon program, that will explain the difference between this time last year to now. Will be a few that will be wait and see how preseason unfolds and you can't blame them, all we have heard from the club over the past 11 years it the hype of youth and potential, you know what a lot of members aren't buying in on that anymore, we are a laughing stock of the AFL, even the AFL treats us like that. I have lost my kids to other clubs so really for me no point renewing as I won't go to the matches with out them.

The Bulldogs get us after both Darwin and Alice springs trips

Trust me it is all about the clash jumper and Essendon is the main reason why we had to change from the red clash jumper to the white.

There is a reason why we always play as the away side v Essendon and it all has to do with clash jumpers and the failure of the afl to make essendon have a real clash jumper

Wouldn't like to see this kid in the West Coast Forward line he would dominate playing with Kennedy and Darling

We can judge this at the end of the 2018 season, we completely stuffed up our list from 2000-2013 so lets see how good our players can be now with 2-4 years under there belts, to me we have to many NQR players getting games

Sorry we have been addressing our list issues since 2006 with no real progress and by giving up 2 first round picks the likelihood of us addressing what we need is not good.

We got the two players we wanted agree but I reckon what we had to spend to get them and what we got in return for Watts was a fail. I hoped to be proven wrong but unless Petracca turns into a star next year we will get more of the same

Very much so, may be this is a flow on from the last 5 games and a club that had covered winning a premiership. Just don't think we have addressed what we need

You need to look at what we lose, agree Lever will strengthen our back line, doesn't address O Mac is a mile off, Frost is hit and miss and T Mac is needed up forward. Our mids are one dimensional with no speed and we lose one of two players that I would consider elite kicks in our side. I'm sure Hogan will love T Mac kicking the ball to him he is one of the worst field kicks in the AFL, great set shot but cant hit a target. So tell me how does this trade period improve our list

Yep, when Hogan goes to the Dockers we will get back in the first round. The premiership team has got 3 picks inside our first pick, the Eagles have 5 picks in the first 2 rounds, 2016 years premiers have 2 first round picks and paid peanuts for a pick 2. We have zero midfield depth, we are banking on a key defender becoming a key forward and a young forward who can't get a kick to improve out of sight also hoping Pederson can play at the same level. Don't believe the hype we are a mile off

Well that was a waste of two weeks. Have we improved our list, not sure Lever is a good player but we lose Watts and 2 first round picks, mid second round picks are hit and miss so I'm not overly excited by having 3 this year. C- for the trade period, A+ for the girls we picked up in the draft, they are actually the type of players our mens side need, couple of forward/Ruck options and some real speed

That would turn an ok trade period to a very good one

I think Freo just wanted to get it out the way, they have at least 3 other deals they need to close in 24 hours

You might get him for a steal and he turn out a good player or you might get him and he offers up more of the same.

Bit like Port Adelaide. They will finish top 4 next year.

Pick 31, shows that no other club was interested in Jack Watts and we wanted him out. I hope the club has a plan we have 3 second round picks in what everyone that is more educated than us is saying a very weak draft year.

Depends, hopefully at 5pm today the deal is done, then we can open a new thread Good Bye Jack Watts that will be another 200 pages

Kim trying to stay relevant. This was mention this morning on SEN as a way Essendon can get a first round pick for the Bulldogs. The point was West Coast need to inject youth If West Coast trade first Round pick their List Management team should be sacked. Brisbane and Gold Coast that have academy picks are the clubs you target.

Over 5000 posts and some still can't get their head around why Jack Watts may be traded. The only reason jack Watts is up for trade is he has some trade value and is expendable. Make no mistake Jack made himself expendable by his out put in the last half of the year. I like Jack Watts and would love to see him become the player he can be, the fact is that hasn't happened so far at his time at Melbourne or what we have seen is the best he will offer which will be a real shame.

Gold Coast wants a player for Ablett, expect a player and pick 35 to Gold Coast, Watts and pick 45 to Geelong for Pick 21. Package up the pick 27 and 36(Adl Pick) to Gold Coast for Pick 22 and 4th Rd pick to be sent to Fremantle for Balic. Leaves us with Lever, picks 21, 22, Joel Smith and Balic. Out Watts and picks Plays out like that I reckon a pretty good trade week