Welcome to Collingwood, Derek Hine

[sq3]

We are on the same page Joffa - Dawes will be the best and the comparisons to JBrown are very accurate - except Dawes is bigger than JB at this age.

In this years draft we will recruit ruckmen and midfielders to go along with what we have now.

Pies will be a force in 2008 and beyond - this year will get the youngsters more games (Cox, Toovey, Daisy, Scott, Brown, Reid, Dick etc.,) and then throw in Dawes in about the last 4 games and you will see a real CHF in the making.

Bryan will be a good ruckman as well - we just need to get a couple of young rucks to come through - as I think Stretch may be gone at the end of the year.

Very bright times ahead for the Black & White.

[Johnson#26]

All kids again played their part today. We're on the right track, and there is a bright light in the not too distant future!

[xtcc]

thank the kids again . Turn it over 3 times as a player in our top 22 & go back to willie 2nds. no more turnovers

[dalyc]

After this great win against Sydney, we can add Martin Clarke, Tyson Goldsack, and Danny Stanley to the list of great finds by our recruiters.

With Derek in charge of recruiting, our future is NEON!

And we still have Dawes, Reid, Brown and Wellingham to come through!

[Zakal]

After this great win against Sydney, we can add Martin Clarke, Tyson Goldsack, and Danny Stanley to the list of great finds by our recruiters.

With Derek in charge of recruiting, our future is NEON!

And we still have Dawes, Reid, Brown and Wellingham to come through!

Hard to believe that the AFL world rated Goldsack behind 67 other draftees last year...most of whom will probably never even play a game.

In fact, so unknown was moneybags at Draft time, they didnt even have a Draftee Profile up for him come draft day, and noone could tell us anything about him until some bright spark found his myspace page. Took a few days for them to gather the info on him and put it up on AFL.com.au.


Obviously wasnt even expected to be drafted....thats what we pay Hine for...picking guys like Murphy, Deledio and Cooney at #1 is simple...finding a potential 150 gamer late in the draft is pure brilliance.

[innocent_criminal]

The other clubs are pissed off about our spending in the football & recruiting depts, like the of Sydney, West coast & Hawthorn to a lesser extent.. but I have no doubt that by us investing part of that $1.85 million last year alone in recruiting.. we have shown that the way to 'play' the draft game is to identify quality at every pick right up to 67 if thats possible. Scouts, scouts and more scouts, and good ones in every state and at different leves.. its no accident.. and the other clubs know it. Roll on 2009.

[fraser25]

I was just thinking don't ya have to take 4/5 new players in the draft each year, how we gonna find four to ditch.

[innocent_criminal]

yes i think 3 per year... but what a situation to be in... I cant remember having to decide who to de-list... too early to think of that as this stage though..

[Colin G Wood]

One experienced player is a standout

And I ain't suggesting Bucks

[xtcc]

Easy. Drop players that turn over the ball.

[Seth]

I actually work with one of our recruiters, won't name him. Must admit for the last 2 years when I pestered him about who we were after he never let on at all. He has said though that all our recruits were players they truly had in their sights for various reasons. they didn't go for the obvious ones that other experts thought we would take, they went for players with abilities and potential to be long term Collingwood players. My mate had strong influence with Reid, Brown and Dawes and they rate these three extremely high and we haven't even seen them yet at AFL level. Yes the future is bright.

[jimbeam]

Building the best collingwood team in history doesnt happen over night, it happens and starts this year right into the next decade.

[The General]

It raises the question as to what Derek Hine is worth dollar wise to the club.

It is rumoured that Malthouse is on about $800k p/a. Bucks about $500k p/a. (although these could be well off).

With the future of the club in Derek's hands, surely he must be right up there. Look at the difference the kids he has drafted, have made to the team this year. Let alone for the coming years.

Personaly, I would have him as one of the highest paid staff at the club. Now that we have all seen how important drafting is to the team and how much improvement we have had in the last couple of years.

So Eddie, make sure he is getting his $500k+ p/a, he is worth it.

[spoljar]

The best thing we did was remove Dudkins from the head of recruiting and install Hine in his place.

What I am noticing is that Hines recruiting has given us an enormous amount to work with and there is a lot of upside in the players he is recruiting. While we know that not all are going to work out, there are a number of them that are showing an enourmous amount of promise and more importantly, some results.

Think about the Dudkins era of recruiting such fantantic players such as Morrison, Shackleton, Nixon and Hall and you can see he would have destroyed our list to Richmond type proportions if he continued on his merry way. At the end of the day, only one player from the 2001-2003 draft remains being Shaw and that was not necessarily from his doing.

[jackcass]

With such a great crop of young talent I hope the club trades some early draft picks this year in exchange for a big strong established ruckman. I don't want to draft a 17 yr old potential ruckman. Our need for strength in this department is growing more urgent week by week.

How obvious! Given that's worked so well in the past with Stunning Steve let's do it again.... NOT!!!!

I personally don't think we need to miss out on another Pavlich. Once is enough.