spirit of norm smith

Pass on Conca ... just an average onballer. Not worth throwing the kitchen sink at.

"Help" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David Swallow for MFC pick 2 ... I would take that in a heartbeat. The kid is good. Very good. Mature body. But IMO the Suns will politely decline.

Coach = Mark Williams Football Manager = Geoff Walsh Michael Voss = new Midfield coach Neil Craig = senior development coach Mini-Draft pick (17yo) - traded to Suns for pick 5 Trades- pick 2 to Collingwood for Steele Sidebottom and pick 12 Trades- Daniel Nicholson to Crows for Jarryd Lyons Trades- 55 to Cats for Jordie Schroder Draft - pick 5 (PP) Matt Crouch Draft- pick 12: Nathan Freeman pick 20 Patrick Cripps pick 36: Zac Jones PSD#2 ... Patrick Karnezis (Clisby & Stark remain as rookies) delisted Demons (-8): Macdonald (ret), Sellar, Gillies, Rodan, Davey(ret), Jetta, Bail (trade), Nicho (trade) 2014 lineup B: Zac Jones James Frawley Colin Garland Hb: Jack Grimes Tom Mcdonald Dean Terlich/Mitch Clisby® C: Jarryd Lyons Jack Viney Jack Trengove Hf: Jack Watts Jesse Hogan Jeremy Howe F: Chris Dawes Mitch Clark Colin Sylvia FOL: Max Gawn Steele Sidebottom Nathan Jones int Nathan Freeman, Matt Crouch, Jordie Schroder sub: Jimmy Toumpas emerg: Patrick Karnezis, Jordie Mckenzie, Dean Kent, Patrick Cripps, Jack Fitzpatrick, This is a midfield supercharge...

Yes Jake Best has pace. Real pace. Loves to tackle... hard. Huge upside. He has concentrated on cricket and was considered for state squad 2 years ago but not quite there. If 100% to AFL, he WILL make it.

Offer Levi Greenwood - 3 yrs at $300,000 per year. North could not match that. They would only see him as a fringe player worth a 1-2 year contract. He is behind Ziebell, Cunnington, Adams as that inside mid type at North. We can attract these fringe players that given regular games will excel. We need hard, tough players.

Patrick Cripps is like Ollie Wines rebadged. We passed on Wines ... don't make another mistake and pass Cripps if he is available.

Win/win trade for me ...

Hmm ...

MFC... getting a seat is no worries !!!

Aish is all class... we need class and more inside grunt. The extra 1st rd pick from a PP would be a blessing.

IMO ... 1 GWS Tom Boyd 2 Melbourne James Aish 3 Western Bulldogs Matt Crouch 4 St. Kilda Dominic Sheed 5 GCS Matt Scharenberg 6 Brisbane Josh Kelly 7 North Melbourne Luke McDonald [father/son] 8 WCE Marco Bontempelli 9 Carlton Jack Billings 10 GWS Kade Kolodjashnij 11 Port Adelaide Nathan Freeman 12 Essendon Luke Dunstan 13 Richmond Christian Salem 14 Collingwood Ben Lennon 15 Fremantle Darcy Gardiner 16 Geelong Lewis Taylor 17 Sydney Billy Hartung 18 Hawthorn Isaiah Miller 19 GCS Blake Acres 20 GWS Jonathan Marsh 21 Melbourne Patrick Cripps 22 Western Bulldogs Darcy Hourigan 23 St. Kilda Trent Dumont 24 GCS Dwayne Wilson 25 Brisbane Issac Conway 26 North Melbourne Alex Spina 27 WCE Mitchell Honeychurch 28 Carlton Luke Reynolds 29 Port Adelaide Cameron McCarthy 30 Essendon Nick Bourke 31 Richmond Zac Merrett 32 Collingwood Jay Kennedy-Harris 33 Fremantle Cameron Conlon 34 Geelong Tom Cutler 35 Sydney Lloyd Perris (zone) 36 Hawthorn James Tsitas 37 GWS Will Maginess 38 Melbourne Zak Jones 39 Western Bulldogs Clayton McCartney 40 St. Kilda Nick Robertson 41 GCS Errin Wasley-Black 42 Brisbane Fraser Fort 43 Adelaide Jarman Impey 44 North Melbourne Cameron Giles 45 WCE Max Hayes 46 Carlton Nick Holman 47 Port Adelaide Cain Tickner 48 Essendon Aaron Heppell 49 Richmond Eli Templeton 50 Collingwood Mitch Harvey 51 Fremantle Dayle Garlett 52 Geelong Jason Cooke 53 Sydney James Battersby 54 Hawthorn Ben Cavarra 55 GWS Josh Scott 56 Melbourne Nathan Drummond 57 Western Bulldogs Louis Herbert 58 St. Kilda Aiden Franetic 59 GCS Tom Langdon 60 Brisbane Dallas Willsmore 61 Adelaide Nick Favretto 62 North Melbourne Billy Hogan

2-yr deal ... PSD #2 only. Get in front of his manager now. He is what MFC needs. Experienced hard-bodied midfielder. Will struggle in 2014 for a game at the Suns. Not a trade of draft picks IMO ... maybe trade out Rohan Bail back to Qld in exchange if anything !!!

Agree. I played VAFA footy and loved playing in the finals. Even played reserves finals in the last year and the finals win at any level is great. MFC cannot help Hogan, Blease & Strauss injuries. J Macdonald early season retirement is odd. Strange also that MFC didn't consider playing Toumpas, Kent, Tapscott at Casey this week to qualify. Who is eligible (x14)- Tynan, Gillies, Sellar, Jetta, Davis, Clisby (wk2), Taggert, Rodan, Gawn, Spencer, Bail (presume he plays Casey this week), Nicholson, Magner, Barry

Yes would rather see taggert debut and toumpas qualify for vfl finals

We need 4 players at a minimum from this list ...

Both will go 1st round GUARANTEED. I rate Freeman very highly.. around pick 8-10. He will be a star. Salem around pick 13-14. A real 200 game player.

There is plenty of AFL stars that did not excel in u/18 champs. Patrick Dangerfield was so /so in his year. Crouch was coming back after injury. HE WILL BE A STAR. DO NOT DISMISS. Crouch is top 5-6 in my draft estimates the equal of Sheed.

Yes Matt Crouch is a top 10 pick IMO. Great ballwinner. Cripps is likely at 18-30 so highly likely for our 2nd round choice at 21-22. Ready to go & EXACTLY what MFC needs as an inside mid

I would love to see Col win B&F...has been very good and stepped up under serious pressure

Get this kid ... From BOUND FOR GLORY site Patrick Cripps (East Fremantle) Height: 188 cm Weight: 88 kg Position: Inside midfielder Player comparison: Ollie Wines Strengths: Clearance machine, size, vision Weaknesses: Lack of speed, athleticism In a draft littered with tall forwards and speedy outside players, quality inside midfielders are few and far between. However Patrick Cripps one of the premier inside players in the draft, second only to North Ballarat’s chief extractor Matt Crouch in most people’s eyes. At 188 cm he is one of the taller midfielders in the draft and after growing almost 20 cm in two years he is still growing into his body so you can expect a large amount of improvement from Cripps as he gets used to his extra size and builds upon his already imposing 88 kg frame. Cripps was an All-Australian this year after his performances in the Under 18s Championships and its easy to see why. During the champs he averaged 19 disposals with a majority of them being contested possessions, six clearances and three tackles a game. That is in addition to the 25 disposals, 4.5 marks and three tackles for his club East Fremantle. Cripps used his huge body to crash through packs and win clearance after clearance for his team, also benefiting from the sublime tap work of his ruckman Darcy Cameron. Cripps is an above average ball user for an inside player. He is not the typical inside mid who wins a hard ball and throws it straight onto the boot, not caring where it goes and often bringing rain down from the sky. Cripps takes a couple of steadying steps and delivers to his teammates more often than not or realises his limitations and handpasses to a teammate with better skills. He also has excellent vision which gives him that extra split second to concentrate on hitting his target rather than spending valuable time trying to find someone to give it off to. Cripps isn’t the type of player to hurt you with his disposal, but there are very few inside midfielders who do. Think of him more as an Ollie Wines who you often don’t notice but find out that he has accumulated 20 possessions in a game and has set up many attacking raids with a sneaky handball out of a pack. The most glaring weakness in Pat Cripps’ game is his lack of athleticism. Cripps is not slow but he isn’t very fast either. What he has to compensate for this is a very quick first three steps, and when you take into account his size, he is about as easy to tackle as a small truck when he gets going. Fortunately for opponents Cripps isn’t one to go out and run, preferring to make others look good by doing the hard work for them and giving it to them in space. Cripps is not only an inside player. He has shown an ability to accumulate on the outside as well. He is a smart footballer and knows where the ball is going to go next so he can get some cheap kicks out in the open. Cripps is quite a consistent player and rarely has a poor game. His worst performance this year is a 16-possession and five-tackle game, and he has only had fewer than 20 disposals twice all year. Cripps is also a willing tackler and chips in with at least one tackle each week. One thing that can be counted on is that Cripps makes his tackles stick and his opponent will be spitting out dirt and teeth for the next week or so. For teams needing an inside extractor, but don’t have a pick high enough to take Matt Crouch, then Cripps is their man. He will do all of the little things to help his team and is the kind of glue guy that all teams need.

agree fanciful mock draft Boyd at #4 ... joke Zac Jones at 46 ... joke (MFC would snap up at 38 or I will tear up my membership) Patrick Cripps at 25 ... joke ... he is ready to go and will be taken top 15 Trent Dumont at 31 ... joke - this kid will go top 20 but if he falls to #21 I will do cartwheels

We need CASH and sponsorship. We get sponsors in April and May !! Its embarrassing. I will judge his appointment when we get major sponsors !!!

This is a positive. He showed real signs as a post up key forward. Again will get better once Hogan and Clark/Dawes are back on board.

Thank you Todd Viney ... all 4 players have shown they will be very good (+ Mitch Clisby) SORRY Jack Viney WILL BE a star