Melbourne president Jim Stynes has urged the Demons faithful to be patient, to keep their expectations in perspective, and not to regard boom recruits Tom Scully and Jack Trengove as the panacea for all of the club's ills.

Speaking before taking Scully and Trengove on a tour of the MCG on Friday after the pair had earlier met their new team-mates for the first time at Casey Fields, Stynes predicted the Demons would be more competitive in 2010 and start to achieve breakthrough victories to build confidence.

"But you've got to be careful not to get ahead of yourselves with these things, it takes time," said Stynes.

"At the moment it's about building resources, building a team around these guys so that they have the best chance of fulfilling some of their dreams."

"They want to play in a premiership but it takes time and you can't do it overnight."

Stynes said the Demons' handling of Scully and Trengove in their debut seasons would be very different from the management of last year's national No.1 Jack Watts who had a year of his schooling to complete.

An underprepared Watts was thrown to the wolves against Collingwood in a Queen's Birthday debut at the MCG that had more to do with promotion than whether the 18-year-old was genuinely ready.

"Obviously sometime next year, they'll be playing (at AFL level)," said Stynes of Trengove and Scully.

"Whether it's Round 1 or not, you can't put that sort of pressure on them, but they're a lot older than our first picks last year."

"There's no reason why they won't be playing early in the season if their bodies are right and the coach feels that they'll be able to play."

Trengove said he's ready to throw himself head-first into pre-season though Scully still needs the all-clear from surgeons that he's fully recovered from a fractured kneecap.

"All the new draftees, we were told today we're on modified programs early on," said Scully.

"We've got assessments next week with the doctors and physios and I'll get a program made up and we'll go from there."

Asked about the club's massaging of supporter expectations that former St Kilda captain Luke Ball would become a Demon in the period leading up to the draft Stynes said: "Obviously we considered every factor going into it - the price tag, what we're trying to build, his age, where he's going to fit in."

"In the end our recruiting guys have been doing a really good job and you've got to trust them."

Stynes, who wasn't able to attend the draft because of his latest round of treatment for cancer, said he's feeling well and, if anything, needs to rein himself in.

"I went down to the gym this morning and did a little bit of cycling," he said.

"It's really hard not to do anything when you're used to being in professional sport as I found out when I last pushed it too far and was in an ambulance for two hours."

"You learn the hard way, but that's probably my pig-headedness."