The team that Melbourne could've been

[EZA100]

There was an article in the Herald Sun around a week ago which i found really interesting on how many players Melbourne missed out on and the players they picked up that don't even play for the club anymore. I didn't really follow AFL to that much detail when Darling, Martin and Morton were playing in the TAC and other comps before they were drafted so i don't know whether they took players like Cale Morton and Jordan Gysberts over Darling or Hannebery because they were just that much better or were they not to you. I wanted to know your thoughts on these players that Melbourne selected and wanted to know were they really that much better then the players they missed out on or was Melbourne's way of developing these players they drafted that bad to send a lot of their top draft picks out of the Melbourne Football Club.

These were the players they missed out on and who they took over them
- Patrick Dangerfield (Cale Morton)
- Scott Selwood (Addam Maric)
- Dayne Beams, Daniel Hannebery, Rory Sloane or David Zaharakis (Jamie Bennell, James Strauss)
- Nic Naitanui (Jack Watts)
- Dustin Martin (Tom Scully)
- Nathan Fyfe (Luke Tapscott)
- Jack Darling (Lucas Cook)

[Ziplock]

you can do this for pretty much every team. Fact is though that melbourne squandered their picks :P

[CrowsFan]

Also who's to say that if they drafted the other players they wouldn't have spudded it and the Melbourne players would have done well somewhere else? All depends on how the club trains and develops the players they choose.

[specky92]

One team couldn't get that lucky with their picks, as Ziplock said every team has a few bad picks, even the best teams

[Kellogscrunchynut]

Exactly you could have a look at the pre-Hardwick picks at the Tigers and have a laugh.

[EZA100]

yeh i know well that's what i was thinking that all teams have bad picks it's just unfortunate that a lot of their top draft picks are struggling or not even at the club.

[Hawka]

Look at some of hawks early pick in the early Clarko Era, Dowler, Thorp even Ellis, clubs flower up with picks it happens