Wrecker45

He keeps his cards close to his chest but I sensed he is a lot more excited about Deakin Smith than Kobe Farmer or the young White boy.

Oliver Viney Gawn Langdon Petracca May Salem Brayshaw Jordan Melksham

As someone not quite 40 I was lucky enough to see Alan Johnson. A child of the 80’s I had his number on my back not Robbie Flower.

Agreed. I’m still angry from that time Garland smiled at training.

If you get the chance i’d be interested to know if they take into consideration the “go home factor” on a player by player basis if at all.

Premiers: Melbourne Brownlow: Oliver Collingwood to fall out of the 8. Petracca to make the All Australian squad. Demonland to have a drop Tomlinson thread at some time during the season started by someone who doesn’t understand his role. Pickett to get suspended for a late bump on debut.

Interesting you have Chandler on the bench in the seconds. Apparently he has been told if he has a good pre-season he is in the mix to play for the dees round 1. I haven't seen enough of him to have an opinion just what I have been told.

Out of interest where did Jackson play for Australia? Was he point guard?

I was hoping for a riddle

I’ve heard we rate both Pickett and Weightman but if both available would take Pickett.

3 Jackson (I don’t want but gotta back them in) live trade because we want Pickett and can get him slightly later whilst improving our next pick. Weightman

Hopefully they end up premiership mates.

No he was talking about the new doctor at that point.

Base on training reports, forward it is.

Anybody got any idea who he is?

I seem to recall reading a while ago the type of surgery Oliver had on his shoulders last year made them pretty much bomb proof and almost impossible to re-injure in same way again.

That’s faster than May ran it day 1 last year.

We don't need one. If May and Lever stand up, our backline is set. We've got our wings sorted. We win contested footy like no other. The ball will be in our forward line all day. Even Weiderman should look good.

Ooooooze to farmer goal. i like it.

I'll give you 4 to 6

i don"t care how his knee is going that he injured towards the end of the year. What about his toe? He was hopeless from the beginning of the year with a toe problem.

Petracca's ball drop height sometimes it is ridiculous. The bloke can kick he just needs to drop it closer to his knees than his shoulders. For a number 2 draft pick with skills you would think this should have already been addressed.

Every forward on our list went missing for periods this year, some for the entire season. I don’t know that is a fair criticism given the way we bombed it in all year.

His run without the ball, towards our goal, facing away from play with a backman running with him, then turn around with an explosive lead towards the ball carrier is the best I have ever seen any Melbourne player do (maybe excluding Jackovich) He did it enough this season to make me think he is a natural forward. He has the pace to put immense pressure on opposition rebounds. The way we bombed it into our forward line this year wasn’t conducive for crumbing forwards. It wasn’t a year for our forwards at all really. I’d train him with the forwards.

Will Hunt train with the forward or backline this pre-season? I prefer him as a forward.