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[KickLongTackleHard]

Our recruiting has been 2nd rate at best. My concern is the players we could not retain in Troy Simmonds, Darren Jolly and Scott Thompson these are genuine superstars. We could not even attract one of our own, Chris Judd, an out and out diehard Melbourne fan as a kid and he chose Carlton, for money and facilities and maybe a better chance of success? We were so close to having him...sad sad. I hope our lack of money and facilities cannot influence the Pre Season Draft, we need some good youth.

 

[McLean_4_Captain]

Our recruiting has been 2nd rate at best. My concern is the players we could not retain in Troy Simmonds, Darren Jolly and Scott Thompson these are genuine superstars. We could not even attract one of our own, Chris Judd, an out and out diehard Melbourne fan as a kid and he chose Carlton, for money and facilities and maybe a better chance of success? We were so close to having him...sad sad. I hope our lack of money and facilities cannot influence the Pre Season Draft, we need some good youth.

Our recruiting has been right up there with the best, we even had our gun recruiter poached by an opposition team.

Simmonds & Jolly both were too good to be a No. 2 ruckman and thats all they were ever going to be under Jeff white who was one of the premier ruckman until recently. Thompson wanted to go home, that just happens sometimes, its a risk you take drafting interstate players.

Who players support as kid rarely has any influence on who they end up playing for. Plain and simple we just couldn't offer Judd the sort of money Carlton could, facilities were just an excuse to detract attention away from that fact that he was doing it for the money.

Youth is usually obtained in the National draft as opposed to the PSD and players have little to no choice where they go, so money is no issue.

 

[KickLongTackleHard]

My point is exactly that we couldnt attract Judd with money, nor hold onto Thompson with money. I meant national draft, my bad. But I disagree, I think Judd genuinely wanted to play for Melbourne, we just couldn't afford his price tag. Why else would he consider us amongst the Carltons, Essendons and Collingwoods. Wat did we get for Jolly and Simmonds?

 

[McLean_4_Captain]

My point is exactly that we couldnt attract Judd with money, nor hold onto Thompson with money. I meant national draft, my bad. But I disagree, I think Judd genuinely wanted to play for Melbourne, we just couldn't afford his price tag. Why else would he consider us amongst the Carltons, Essendons and Collingwoods. Wat did we get for Jolly and Simmonds?

Some players just want to go home and Thompson wasn't that valuable that we'd throw enough money at him to cure his homesickness when he left.

Judd was just money. If you are worried about us not having as much money as the bigger clubs, you better have a big box of tissues.

We got Craig Ellis & pick 26 (aaron rogers) in a 3 way deal for Simmonds and we got pick 15 (Dunn) for Jolly, which is pretty good for players who want to leave.