Melbourne's potential priority pick

[Harvey To Hayes]

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere but will everyone else be dirty if Melbourne get their mooted extra top 3 pick under the equalisation policy? In the first in compromised draft in ages? Should they be gifted yet another high pick (at our expense) for tanking and ineptitude?

[samuraisaint]

No.

[magnifisaint]

of course. what was the point of penalising them?

[Enrico_Misso]

What they need is to forget chasing Paul Roos and go for Blighty.

He must be missing those sandbelt courses.

[Munga]

They were penalised for tanking for which they received priority picks for. They got the picks back then when they shouldn't have. So they shouldn't get them now when they should.

[Buckets]

The priority pick doesn't work like that anymore. Any priority pick is given at the end of the 1st round.

AFL at this stage doesn't seem too keen to actually hand Melbourne a PP at the moment.

[ShanghaiSaint]

it's total crap they can get this... they don't bloody deserve it.

[plugger66]

No point is having the chance of a priorty pick if they dont get it. They will get one and it will be the start of round one, not the end. We may need one in 3 years.

[Life Long Saint]

Melbourne's woes are not it's playing list.

It's the administration that needs sorting out. By all evidence they are doing that. Give them some money for a good coach but no more priority picks.
Remember they got two first rounders for losing Scully to GWS (same compo as Geelong got for losing Ablett to GC).

No more priority picks for them.

[Eastern]

The priority pick doesn't work like that anymore. Any priority pick is given at the end of the 1st round.

AFL at this stage doesn't seem too keen to actually hand Melbourne a PP at the moment.

I thought I heard that too. I suppose we will just have to wait and see !!

[Johnny Member]

Priority Pick is silly. Especially in this scenario.

What is it going to do? What is it going to achieve?

[bergholt]

Melbourne's woes are not it's playing list.

Did you watch the game on Saturday? Not a lot of class on show.

[jonesy]

Let them stay down. How much reward for patheticness does one Club deserve?

Really don't feel sorry for them, probably have more w@nker supporters per capita than any other club. It's just fortunate there is only 2700 of them. An abundance of smarter$se losers make up there supporter base,who throw vitriol at the opposition,or want to turn around and argue with an 8 year old kid from the opposition.

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[Life Long Saint]

Melbourne's woes are not it's playing list.

Did you watch the game on Saturday? Not a lot of class on show.

We made just as many errors.

Don't forget they have Clarke, Frawley and Jamar out...and a fair amount of good youth there.
Properly managed, they have the makings of a pretty decent list.

Toumpas, Viney, Howe, Trengrove, Blease, Garland and McDonald will be good players.
Even Watts will be a more than handy player.

Get the right management in there and they'll be contending soon enough.

[ausfatcat]

I hope they get a extra pick before us

it would mean they remove a highly rated player who will turn into a dud, and therefore increase our chances of not picking up a dud

[Johnny Member]

Melbourne's woes are not it's playing list.

Did you watch the game on Saturday? Not a lot of class on show.

But some high picks - including a No. 1.


So whether they're high picks or not, it doesn't necessarily matter.


I don't like the concept of compromising the draft. I really don't.

[Richter]

Whilst at the game I was listening to the MMM call. They were discussing the Saints list and who we have coming through... were reasonably impressed with the likes of Newnes, Murdoch, Ross but commented that there are no real out and out guns to propel us up the ladder in a few years time.

On the other hand, whilst Melbourne are currently crap, they do have some young potential elite players on their list already... Viney, Toumpas, Hogan and a top 2 player this year... their problems have been getting rid of McDonald, Moloney etc. and some of their previous top picks - Watts, Trengove - only being GOPs instead of potential elites.

IMO they don't need another top priority pick but I would not be against them having an extra 'end-of-first-round' pick which would improve their options with regards to both the draft and potential trades...

[st_Trav_ofWA]

What they need is to forget chasing Paul Roos and go for Blighty.

He must be missing those sandbelt courses.

honestly if they get Roo's i think it will be almost Blighty like ... he wont really want the job but the carrot dangled in front of him will be soo massive he will struggle to say no ... he will come in take the money and prob show more interest coaching his sons und 14 team then the actual dees ...

[Old Mate]

I like the idea of the priority pick being a mini draft pick / nominated 17 year old. Then they can choose whether to trade it for a player, pick or combined trade, but cannot keep it (the same as the expansion teams). It would mean they don't simply get a selection after their first pick which in Melbourne's case would be pick 2 or 3 making it a little fairer for the rest of the competition.

[gringo]

They would only pick up some spud who they would on trade to GWS for another 10 first round picks that they could waste again anyway. We could offer them Jason Blake and Kosi for picks one and two in the draft and it would still be better than the Dawes and Byrnes trade.