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But not a bad idea. 'We think you can make it and will give you a go but you need to improve quickly'. Beats guys like Danny Hughes hanging around for 6 or 7 yrs for less than a handful of games.....

Every team that gets beaten by Melbourne is "IN CRISIS"!!!!!

Anyone see a bit of Stephen Tingay in that Parish video? Like the farmer work ethic. Very Nat Fyffe as well...

Maybe he's been told to go easy as he's a lock for a few clubs.....

Snap

I was just about to write a complimentary post about D'Landers discussing a player in an adult way and then along comes Olisik...

Not long it would seem.

Matt Jones might be OK if he didn't turn the ball over AND give away pointless dumb free kicks in our defensive 50m zone. Never seen a bloke who can career into a bloke's back with such regularity. Dump, for mine.

Cale Morton and Jimmy Toumpas beg to differ ...

Is that a racist thing?

I get it, you don't actually want the 3rd and 7th best kid in this draft , you want the kids in this draft that will turn out to be the 3rd and 7th best in 4 years time? Righto then, that should be easy.....

From the HS: The Demons were one of the big winners, converting a package of four draft picks for Nos.3, 7 and GWS defender Tom Bugg. Football boss Josh Mahoney told the Herald Sun the Dees identified the loophole about a month ago and planned to exploit it to rise up the draft order. “That was one of the things we spoke about and we’re really happy the plan has come through,” Mahoney said. “The key thing is you’ve got to learn how the system works and how the points work and I think as the trade period has gone on the influence of points is certainly coming through.” Good to see the club actually was ahead of the curve in recognising the opportunities that the academy points system provided as well as the trading future picks. We have to improve immediately. Its been 10 yrs seasons we played finals. This year should have seen us improve more but we were held back by players that either didn't have the talent or didn't have the competitiveness required. To lose four first quarters/first halves we did from rds 19-22 in the manner we did was simply unacceptable and we needed players that would stand up when the chips were down. Hence the drafting strategy this year. We also needed talent and are in the position where the Dangerfields of this world dont want to come to us (hopefully prestia will). Our talent simply has to come from within and with 6 top 10 picks from the past 3 drafts we will hopefully have filled that home-grown talent requirement. ONly after real improvement and a genuine sustained chance at finals can we see external talent pick Melbourne as a club to want to come to. I think this draft sets us up if we nail the top 2 picks. We can win 10-11 games if we eliminate the pathetic quarters from our game and create belief within the group. The Dogs have shown how momentum is so important for belief. We have shown in patches how the opposite is true. Trading a future pick was a necessary strategy for us. In essence we have used the pick for this year to target someone that we clearly want. If we can get trengove on the park and petracca shows us what he is capable of we will be a much harder side to play in 2016 than we were in 2015.

Yep I do. Everyone is different,. If you are a 45kg female you will have a totally different absorption rate to 100kg male. Nothing is ever black and white. They can't even agree on what the limit should be, When it was first brought in the ads claimed 5 standard drinks in the first hour and one every hour after that kept you under the limit. Now its two stubbies. As for speeding I drive through a stretch of road where there are 8 changes of speed limit within 6kms. Its farcical. More people are probably killed because they are looking at their speedos and hot a pedestrian that is walking accross the road against the lights and listening to their ipod. Its particularly ridiculous given that the Australian standards for speedometers in cars sets a 10% margin for error. We need rules and limits. I get that. But the [censored] revenue raising nazi-ism when it comes to this stuff and the ridiculous zealotry is just insane.

Yep that's the ticket. 3mins of video footage to decide our whole drafting strategy. The footy dept has done nothing all year but has since watched youtube and is now ready for the draft. Its probably fair to say that the footy dept worked hard to get pick 3 becuase it knows exactly who it wants.

What utter tripe. You'd be the same kind of muppet that says you are doing 1km over the spped limit you deserve a $380 fine

And what about that maggot McConville. Allegedly knew in the days before that the video was around (when CA rang for comment) but kept schtum. He completely farked his career as no club in their right mind will trust him again....

Delicious........... He's very good apparently

Another Scotch scholarship kid....

Love this bit from his dad Shaun "He can definitely jump higher than me" Wow! I can see why we were happy to turf Howe!!!

We did....twice (Melk and Goodwin)

A little harder but he is out of contract and there is goodwill with GC. We might have to trade out our 1st rounder in 2017 for example. Or we might trade out a Kent etc Next year is next year. We need immediate improvement and the club seems to have identified those it considers expendable and/or not competetive enough or without the required skills. etc. It also knows we need talent and we have 6 top 10 talents in the past 3 years which makes us more able to attract good players in future.. With players holding such a whip hand now, if Prestia wants to come here we will get him.

Carlisle is a sook and a k nob. Ess and St Kilda deserve each other.

Like Jack Darling red flags??

Still think this??

I think they are also happy to trade with us rather than a club that is vying for a flag next year. Ithink they are wrong in that though