‘I’m going to be the one to watch in 2016’

Young Demon Christian Petracca could be the Melbourne player to watch next year according to many of his teammates.

However, former Pie Heritier Lumumba believes it is another player who will be the star performer for the Dees in 2016.

“I’m going to say that I’m going to be the one to watch in 2016,” Lumumba told the club website.

“There’s many great players – don’t get me wrong – but I’m going to back myself because I had a very slow start to 2015. It took me a while to adjust, but I know exactly what my role is going to be.

“I’m very confident in my ability to make an impact and lead this football club with the leadership group in the direction that we need to go. I think Melbourne supporters can be very confident that my output will be to a satisfactory level next season.”