Shifter endorses the saints!

[ace]

Melbourne are the clear winners of the draft, scoring five players rated by many to be top-25 talents.

We did pretty well all things considered.

They may have done well Everton, but their record of ruining young talent is exceptional. Watts, Gysberts, Tapscott, Trengove and Scully are all gone or unfulfilled. Maybe we can swoop on one of Petracca or Brayshaw in two years time, when they are dissatisfied or underdeveloped. Never underestimate the Demons ability to bugger it up!

You forgot Toumpas. Well on the way to being ruined.

And Blease already gone.

[andrewg]

Melbourne Draft picks

Picks 1 - Travis Johnstone (1997), Jack Watts (2008), Tom Scully (2009) (Disasters)
Picks 2 - Jack Trengove (2009), Petracca (2014) (at least 1 disaster)
Picks 3 - Steven Febey (1986), Darren Kowal (1991), Colin Sylvia (2003), Brayshaw (2014) (Bigger disaster)
Picks 4 - Cale Morton (2007), Jimmy Toumpas (2012)
Picks 5 - Jason Norrish (1991), Brock McLean (2003)
Picks 6 - Allen Jakovich (1990)
Picks 8 - Martin Pike (1992), Luke Molan (2001), Christian Salem (2013)
Picks 10 - Andrew Lamprill (1991), Trent Ormond-Allen (1993)

And on and on........Petracca and Brayshaw working out at the Dees seems slim.

[Sobraz]

Reckon Toumpas will make it. Has loads of talent just needs time.
Was hoping we'd snag a trade for him for an average pick.

[Megamaguire]

Glad to hear Kevin 'shifter' endorse the 2 big guys the club drafted to be our bookends going fwd.
It reminded me of way back when Lockett & 'Spud' Frawley arrived from Ballarat.
The Ballarat Bookends (I think both represented Victoria) were fantastic for the Saints i thought so if we can repeat that fine drafting effort it will be sweet indeed. I don't think Paddy should feel under pressure to kick a 1000 goals. If he can play with as much heart as Roo (or close to it) we and he will have done very well.
I'm not in a rush to see these 2 (Paddy & Hugh) thrown into the fray too soon and anyway couldn't imagine AR entertaining such an idea.

I think Melb has been fortunate to get that compo pick now and under Roos will improve with their picks 2 & 3 as well as the Roos gm-plan.
'If' McKenzie can succeed in pressing himself into contention sooner rather than later it could well be a hugh bonus for this emerging team given that he has speed to go along with his other skills.
Looking fwd. to seeing more of Acers and Eli (injury - free) nxt year and some compatibility developing with the other young uns.

SAINTS!

[stinger]

Melbourne are the clear winners of the draft, scoring five players rated by many to be top-25 talents.

We did pretty well all things considered.

They may have done well Everton, but their record of ruining young talent is exceptional. Watts, Gysberts, Tapscott, Trengove and Scully are all gone or unfulfilled. Maybe we can swoop on one of Petracca or Brayshaw in two years time, when they are dissatisfied or underdeveloped. Never underestimate the Demons ability to bugger it up!

You forgot Toumpas. Well on the way to being ruined.

Ridiculous comment. I know the kid and his family and he is tracking quite well thank you very much. You really need to grow up.

why the need for personal insults ffs....

[SaintPav]

Hilarious......I LURVE it......

[citywest]

Melbourne are the clear winners of the draft, scoring five players rated by many to be top-25 talents.

We did pretty well all things considered.

They may have done well Everton, but their record of ruining young talent is exceptional. Watts, Gysberts, Tapscott, Trengove and Scully are all gone or unfulfilled. Maybe we can swoop on one of Petracca or Brayshaw in two years time, when they are dissatisfied or underdeveloped. Never underestimate the Demons ability to bugger it up!

You forgot Toumpas. Well on the way to being ruined.

Ridiculous comment. I know the kid and his family and he is tracking quite well thank you very much. You really need to grow up.

Toumpas is a spud. More outside than Yze. If you know him, he must be a total cabbage.

How did Petracca work out for us?

The only spud around here is you Bunk. All you ever do is criticize people. You don't add anything of value to this site and I can not understand why you are not banned. Maybe I should post some of the PM's you have been sending me for al to see!!!!????

Come on do it. Lay it all out for us too see...

Tompas is an outside piece of crap who should be delisted especially if you have anything to do with him. Gutless piece of filth

now would you like to go to the mods about you stalking me with infantile PM's after i asked you to stop sending me PM's.

Oh for anyone who is interested I used the same PM citywest sent me over and over to abuse him. Everything I said about him was true.

BTW you dont have permission to publish the PM's. That is a bannable offence.

All everyone needs to know is that you initialised sending PM's and I stopped you by abusing you, which you fully deserve you trolling fool.

How many times do I have to say that citywest is a trolling melbourne supporter! Anyone else remember when citywest posted that we should have drafted someone with class and skills like Jay kennedy-Harris instead of jack billings?

I have an idea LTN16, how about you find the post where I have said to draft Jay kennedy-Harris instead of jack billings. If you can do this and post it on here for everybody to see then I will agree to delete my profile for good and also agree to be IP banned for good. Go on then smarty pants.......do it.

[skeptic]

Don't forget Colin Sylvia... the best player that never was
Brock McLean too

McLean destoyed us in a final when playing for Melbourne. He has had a reasonable career. Sylvia = Potato.

Don't disagree but one does feel that Brock never became the player he should have been

[White Winmar]

Don't forget Sam Blease as well. Very quick, skilful and good endurance. Off to Geelong, where they have a habit of turning "rejects" into good players. I hope Rhys succeeds, but part of me doesn't want him to.