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Terrific post Adam. I notice in your Bio that you list some of the players you have left out as your favourites so I admire you for your un-biased view. Lovely boy Trengove but wouldn't have got a game in the top 12 sides on 2012 form. Lovely boy Jordie MacKenzie and a great trier but a very limited player. A team could probably carry him as a purely shut-down midfielder if it had a bunch of A Grade clearance players. The point I take from your Post is that if we are going to be a serious Top 4 contender, we have lots of question marks.

This is a really good post as I know one of the full time Collingwood Recruiting staff who lives down the road and whilst he is always careful not to reveal too much, he did say a few weeks ago when he realised that it was extremely unlikely they would have a Pick in the first half dozen that it was Collingwood's view that Plowman is nearly the best long term Prospect in this Draft. He stated that Collingwood believe he will eventually be a midfielder and stated that Plowman is the next Pendlebury. he said that the Dees should grab him with one of our 2 picks, 3 & 4.

Jarred Moore is well and truly cooked. Can't cover the ground. The Swans will not get a single enquiry and they know it.

I don't underestimate the enormity of Melbourne's recruiting disasters. In my previous names of juddcomehometomfc & turnthemover on Demonology I was Neale Daniher's Craig Cameron's & Barry Prendergasts greatest critics. I actually wrote to the MFC telling them in advance what a disaster it would be to recruit Byron Pickett etc etc. I regularly cast criticism at all the Craig Cameron sycophants on Demonology and they know who they are. However, please don't underestimate the enormity of the extra $1 million dollars the Swans have in their Salary Cap. Very easy to bring prise a Josh Kennedy out of Hawthorn and speculate on a talented but risky Mitch Morton etc etc etc when you have an extra $1 million.

Rolly, if you don't think Dangerfield and Beams are inside mids and you don't appreciate that when the game was in the balance Hawthorn sent Burgoyne into the centre square for the all important clearance late in the game well I think you are best to keep BUYING THE HOPE that Cameron Schwab, Craig Cameron, Barry Prendergast & Chris Connoly have been selling you for years. Anyway, the point I was making is that Magner & Couch have absolutely no chance of making it in a Top 4 side and Mackenzie beside being a GREAT BLOKE, well let's just say I am not a Mackenzie fan because i just don't give a stuff about how great a bloke they are. I want my midfielders to win some footy and kick better than 40 metre floaters. The fact is we have the worst list by a long way and we are acknowledged as having the worst midfield by an even greater margin. But anyway, you keep hanging on to Magner, Couch, Gysberts & Mackenzie.

Rolly, development might be a reasonable hope if Magner & Couch were 17 or perhaps even 19. You need to realise that if you want us to be where we need to be and that is seriously challenging for Top 4, then the inside mids from those teams are, Mitchell, Sewell, Burgoyne, Josh Kennedy, Hannaberry, Macveigh, Pendelbury, Beams, Swan, Thompson, Dangerfield & VanBerlo. Now mate, if you think Magner, Couch and MacKenzie (jury out on Gysberts & Taggart) are going to be what we need in the future as A Grade inside mids, then one of us is seriously demented. Let's hope it is Nathan Jones, Jack Viney plus maybe Oliver Wines & Jonathon O'Rourke at Picks 3 & 4.

I have been informed from my super reliable source that Neeld will accept any reasonable offer for Martin and Gysberts. Martin for either Wellingham or Goldsack is a distinct possibility particularly if Cloke re-signs with Pies. . This would make the recruitment of Grundy more feasible but I still think we need to find a stack of A & B Grade midfielders to add to our one & only in Nathan Jones. For me it is midfielders & more midfielders until our noses bleed. TAC Phantom Draft had Nathan Hroevat at 13. Now, I love Nathan, but at 174 cm and Viney at 178 cm and Jones at 178 cm we would be the midfield midgets. I found it very interesting that they didn't have Ben kennedy from SA in their top 21. I love Kennedy but once again he's also vertically challenged.

I want to add my support to this Post. I actually think JuniorMac also got it right when he said that both these guys have the Great Bloke attribute. This will be a very interesting post to look at again in 2015. I'm betting 3 years will definitley be 1 too many for Jamar and McKenzie will be on the fringes which will possible be acceptable because he's a Great Bloke???