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Rumoured to have sniffed at Frawley and Watts. Maybe we could trade Sellar for Juddy. I hear he supported the Dees as a kid...

It pops up because the Blues need a big backman, so would be sniffing around for one...

I like the possibility of Fitzy, Gawn and Jamar resting forward as the third tall forward. Like Cox and NicNat. Clark, Hogan and Gawn/Fitzy/Jamar should cover us for tall forwards.

We did well out of the last player we pinched from under Freo noses... Gumby!

Hey Canplay, have you ever actually met and spoken with Mark Neeld? Because, if you had, you'd not be making those comments.

No info, just infantile appeal of the name. sorry.

I just like saying "Gumby!", makes me laugh, could come good if his body holds up... Speak to the fitness gurus I guess.

GUMBY! Yay

Dom da Bomb

I like Sellar and feel that Neeld would prefer more big bodies than less.

Travis was either an exceptional or disastrous kick. Never average.

So the club should fight to maintain a players "value", despite the same player doing his unbeknown best to diminish the same "value"? Not in my book.

He'd prefer the doggies as he'd be more likely to be in their team for longer than at Melb given the Hogan recruitment.Dawes is 24 looking to play for 6+ years at his next club and we've just recruited the "next" big gun forward to join Clark...

Our current midfield* stocks Trengove, Grimes, McKenzie, Howe, Jones, Viney, Tapscott, Blease, Sylvia, Jetta, Bail, Nicholson ®, Evans ®, Couch, Magner, Barry Watts, Gysberts, Morton, Taggert, Tynan, Bennell, Sheahan, Williams * broadest definition of midfielder possible.

Good points, and a good argument for us getting Dawes as well (if possible).

A dark horse for pick 4. Big bodied midfielder in the mould of Swans Kennedy?

I think Jamie is safe given the doubt/issues with Barty's knee. Bennell will make a fine small backman.

We'll have to wait for history to reveal itself. Given Hogan was in the MN he was never going to be available next year. Happy with this deal, real quality power forwards are rare and valuable, and as such I'm happy for the MFC to secure one of the best available. And btw we will finish higher than 16th next year.

Like the way we have "won big" in the first 2 days of the draft period. It puts the message out there to prospective players considering Melb that the good ship MFC is on the rise. Additions of Viney, Hogan and Pick 4 are just what the doctor ordered. Well done.

He'll be 19 when he first plays for the MFC. Happy daze.

To quote Harrington: "We rate him extremely highly. We think he's going to be someone you can really develop a team around and with. That's a big statement about a 17-year-old, but he's impressed us no end."

Hogan turns 18 in Dec so would be 19 when he hits the ground in 2014, and by all accounts should be cherry ripe by then, after 2 pre-seasons and a year at Casey...

If the Doggies offered pick 5 & 6 for Hogan and pick 10 (say) they'd trump our pick 3...

Lets just trade 13 for Tippett or Reid...