What a story the Melbourne Demons have been this season.
First-year coach Steven King is firmly entrenched in Coach of the Year debates, such is the magic he's worked at Casey Fields.
Max Gawn, the ageless wonder, continues to go from strength to strength. Kysaiah Pickett has established himself as a match-winner on a more regular basis than ever before, and "moneyball" acquisitions of years gone by (Harry Sharp, for example) are really strutting their stuff for a Demons side playing a brand of attacking football as intoxicating as it is potent.
King has touched on the club's preparedness to deal its first-round picks, for the right player/s, but just who are the players that could make the jump to the red and the blue this off-season?
King ruled his club out of the Zak Butters sweepstakes, but there are plenty of other fish in the sea, as they say.
Bailey Humphrey
The mercurial Sun has long been linked with a defection to the Demons, with pictures of his meeting with Steven King last off-season sending the rumour mill into overdrive.
Humphrey has shaken the poor form that was dogging him earlier in the season, kicking 12 majors from his last six outings, while averaging 14.5 disposals across that same span.
Despite his coach's insistence that the expansion club will hold its x-factor to his contract, Humphrey appears destined to finally make the move down south this off-season, after failing to do so last year.
