beelzebub

Imwith you....Everyone seems to want their cake and eat and eat and eat.Reality is we get a very good player. Aplayer we will know intimately bythe time he hits the paddock in red and blue. How often does a club get this ? Normally still a bit of a raffle. AAND we still get to pick up someone else ( or two )...ffs..its ALL good

Hmmm..let me crystal ball gaze for a moment... ahh...the mysts clear...Melbourne takes Jack Viney with pick 3.. All has been revealed !!

The AFL only ceded to FA in any shape or form at the peril of the AFLPA causing no end of trouble. Which only goes to prove...get your act together and you can nobble these fwits at teh AFL into some sense. The clubs ought to be standing up together...but of course never will.

it all comes down to the definition ( or oterwise rubbery intepretation) of the word...BINDING .

thats also how i read it.. Will be rather interesting to see how it pans out. I always suspected wed have to use 3 on Viney anyway and so be it. But Im not sure this wil actually stymmie us in the manner the AFL seems to be hoping ( conspiring ) to do so.The way I also read it is we DONT have to play a trump...if it isnt required....could be wrong but.

sorry....anyone is surprised because ?????????? Honestly theyre just a pack of ( insert fitting description) They make it all up on the run........stuff everyone around......tinker , tinker until its completely stuffed, and take a very handsome quid for their efforts ( sic) If the clubs had any balls theyd get rid of these idiots.

Makes it more like the AFL D_aft !!

always hilarious whenever the AFL comes the heavy in respect to Draft fixing..etc.. Pot ...Kettle....

For this game as little change as necessary . Martin for Clark. Maybe Bail...if fit.

Just as a cat amongst pidgeon input. Buckley. Hardly able to beak into and maintain a possie in a very lacklustre side a Melbourne is now happily ensconced at the filth. Point being. The various FD's often perceive things very differently to us mortals lol

Hey..im just a messenger ..Neeld is the one spruiking the mb ideology !!!

What i sense Neeld will be endeavouring to do is go get some "good" players to augment our good players. He wont spend for the very best as that isnt the Moneyball way. If we upgrade our so so or mediocre types for 'good' and develop our good into very good we could well end up with a pretty bloody good side......as they say a champion team not a team with a champion !!

What i do like about Boak and its not really in any stats column is he tends to have excellent vision and uses the ball to effect. We do need ppl in the guts making good decisions as this invariably reults in an effective movement forward .

The thing with all these picks seems many want their cake and eat it too. We WILL need to use picks to get good players/prospects. We cant do that and still have a handful of top picks left. JV will probably end up costing a higher pick than wed prefer.So be it...its for Viney ffs. We could ztill bid for a Boak or similar and theres two marvelous additions to the midfield. We'll still have another mid 1st round and early 2nd rounder to play with. This isnt a bad result. If Viney drops rounder our second round pick we're laughing. And every other club will be trying for their bdst outcome too. We cant all best each othrr !!! Quality costs and we need to identify our priorities and spend accordingly. If some of our players were that bloody good to ommand the trades some imagine then we'd probably want to keep them lol. Boak should be worth our mid 1st pick. What he ends up costing a club might well be something different !!

Maybe a coach from Geelong ?

Well put there Ben.

Have geelong activated their compo picks?

Keep in mind our 2nd compo pick. Still better than most anything anyone is likely to put on table

Keep in mind deals often include a swap of picks etc. i.e we might get change also.

Keep in mind the notion of a pick 4 is NOT presently coming from MFC...but purely speculation form the media. MFC has obviously been talking to Port about deals. I think we would just have to wait and see what the REAL worth is

I think Boak fits the mould of the new moneyball Melbourne. Neeld certainly seems to have projected an idea of what he needs to form a successful team and the FD is picking up the ball on this.

thankyou...lol

well...lets qualify it all. Not in the forseeable future.

He doesnt

The whole point of practice is to build a memory of an action thereby negating the necessity to invent something at the occasion of needing it. I.e you DO it... You dont overthink it. I wouldn't dare put myself in anyones class but i spent hours at parks ... Throwing balls along the ground practising picking it up and kicking from the dead pocket....or drpping itonto the square from a flank etc. It does pay off. You just KNOW you can do it. So even under pressure you can back yourself in. This is especially true in home surroundings but it pays off overall for anywhere. You get comfortable with your own actions. Id be far from the only one to have done this. Im sure many of you reading will have also . As to kicking aids we had good ol garbage bins and sometimes a cpl holding a hoola hoop on the goal line ( kid you not ) It all works