Jesse Hogan(mini-draft)- priority for us

[caterina]

Lock thread?

Can't we have a couple of more pages abusing Melbourne first? What a pathetic joke of an organisation

 

[yakka man]

Deals are confirmed long before they hit the AFL site. They are so slow.

 

[Nickos66]

I don't have the facilities to listen to TWR so them (afl.com) confirming it is the closure I was after.

 

[Kickett Punches Read]

I remember when we were bottoming out.... dont remember being treated nearly as well as what melbuorne have... this is a really disappointing day

 

[Lach72]

Didn't tank hard enough

 

[apuchar]

Father and son and these mini-draft picks are a godsend to eligible or low placing clubs. We have never been able to utilise either unless you count the Peake F&S.

 

[strobe00]

I remember when we were bottoming out.... dont remember being treated nearly as well as what melbuorne have... this is a really disappointing day

This is all about the Scully (over-)compo. A direct result of the expansion teams coming into the comp. Two first round picks for that kn0b. (on top of their standard pick 3 for just being sh!t)

Melbourne are now professional tankers, that have worked hard and dilligently to earn high draft picks by being sh!t. After this many years of wasting that advantage by drafting sh!t players, they've finally got their act together and appear to be picking up some decent players.

Time will tell though. They could still f*ck it all up and have this year's draftees leave screaming in a couple of years.

 

[Ktrain]

Father and son and these mini-draft picks are a godsend to eligible or low placing clubs. We have never been able to utilise either unless you count the Peake F&S.

Bootsma ruling was unlucky given he'd played over 150 when combining FFC & Souths. But I guess AFL looked at it and our financial position and said yeh nah..

 

[RickSanchez]

He will probably end up turn out being a dud now. Poor guy.
We were just generally shit in our times of being down at the bottom, Melbourne are a combination of being pretty bad and just deliberately losing games to get picks. But just did it for a much longer time. Surely they are bound to do something good with them? I don't know how I am gonna enjoy the AFL with the likes of Melbourne, GWS and GC being consistently strong teams. I'm sure the AFL will look after the teams that struggle when they begin being strong teams....




Not a chance.

 

[Dockernut]

This is all about the Scully (over-)compo. A direct result of the expansion teams coming into the comp. Two first round picks for that kn0b. (on top of their standard pick 3 for just being sh!t)

Melbourne are now professional tankers, that have worked hard and dilligently to earn high draft picks by being sh!t. After this many years of wasting that advantage by drafting sh!t players, they've finally got their act together and appear to be picking up some decent players.

Time will tell though. They could still f*ck it all up and have this year's draftees leave screaming in a couple of years.

Geez I hope this happens.

 

[The Pirate]

Damnit! It's only Tuesday so there's still plenty of water to pass under the bridge but Hogan looks like he'll be a beauty. We should pursue Gumbleton now. Bondy and Lloyd have a good strike rate with mature agers so here's hoping they got some solid contingency plans.

 

[Ghost Pig]

I'm sure the AFL will look after the teams that struggle when they begin being strong teams....

Only if they are struggling financially, which we will never be.

 

[peppy la pew]

Didn't tank hard enough

True, but what a shit culture it has produced.
Horrible stench at that club.

 

[Clay Davis]

It's all right, their fans are probably delusional with joy right now. This is their yearly time to shine.

 

[Nickos66]

He will probably end up turn out being a dud now. Poor guy.
We were just generally shit in our times of being down at the bottom, Melbourne are a combination of being pretty bad and just deliberately losing games to get picks. But just did it for a much longer time. Surely they are bound to do something good with them? I don't know how I am gonna enjoy the AFL with the likes of Melbourne, GWS and GC being consistently strong teams. I'm sure the AFL will look after the teams that struggle when they begin being strong teams....




Not a chance.

I'll believe it when I see it.

you can draft all the talent you want, but if you don't have the coach or the culture to strive for the top of the mountain it's not going to happen. These teams I believe either don't have the culture or the coach to get to a grand final, or just generally play consistent footy in the next few years.

 

[Wigarus]

Bootsma ruling was unlucky given he'd played over 150 when combining FFC & Souths. But I guess AFL looked at it and our financial position and said yeh nah..

I wish people would stop bringing up Bootsma. We had plenty of opportunity to pick him up and we didn't because we obviously didn't rate him.

 

[Kickett Punches Read]

I wish people would stop bringing up Bootsma. We had plenty of opportunity to pick him up and we didn't because we obviously didn't rate him.

carlton took him as a second rounder didnt they? with a father son selection we probably could have gotten him as a third rounder as a steal, like what melbourne did with viney... anyway, it didnt happen, so no point worrying about it

 

[Ghost Pig]

Why didn't the GCS have rights to a mini-draft also?

 

[strobe00]

carlton took him as a second rounder didnt they? with a father son selection we probably could have gotten him as a third rounder as a steal, like what melbourne did with viney... anyway, it didnt happen, so no point worrying about it

Spot on. But on the bright side, we got neale instead. Not too shabby.

 

[Kickett Punches Read]

Why didn't the GCS have rights to a mini-draft also?

was an extra present for a NSW's based side. GC is already a strong AFL area given there is a lot of victorian ex-pats...

 

[yakka man]

I wish people would stop bringing up Bootsma. We had plenty of opportunity to pick him up and we didn't because we obviously didn't rate him.

Not true. We just didn't think he was worth pick 20 or our recruiters thought Crozier was best available. A lot of the phantom drafts had us taking him at pick 29 but he was gone before then to Carlton. If the club didn't rate him then they wouldn't of lobbied the AFL to select him under the father/son rule in the first place.

But yeah, it doesn't matter anymore.

 

[Kickett Punches Read]

what drives me insane about this hogan deal. is that they have given up two first round picks before our pick 16, they pick up a gun young forward, a speedy, skilled midfielder and they still get a pick in the top 20, ony 4 positions behind us

 

[estibador]

Melbourne are now professional tankers, that have worked hard and dilligently to earn high draft picks by being sh!t. After this many years of wasting that advantage by drafting sh!t players, they've finally got their act together and appear to be picking up some decent players.

That's what we thought when they got Scully and Trengove too...

 

[Tazmania]

what drives me insane about this hogan deal. is that they have given up two first round picks before our pick 16, they pick up a gun young forward, a speedy, skilled midfielder and they still get a pick in the top 20, ony 4 positions behind us

Worse, they've still got pick 4 too

 

[Spirit Level]

I'm starting to think that no matter how many top end draft picks Melbourne get, they will be forever consigned to the bottom of the ladder.

There is too much of a culture stain over there now.