MELBOURNE president Jim Stynes says top draftee pair Tom Scully and Jack Trengove could appear for the Demons early next season but is urging the club's supporters to keep their expectations of the pair in check.

The duo officially became Demons on Thursday night when the club used picks one and two in the NAB AFL Draft to recruit them.

Stynes, who met the pair on Friday morning, said Demons fans needed to be patient with their latest acquisitions.

"You've got to be very careful not to get ahead of yourself with these things. It takes time," he said.

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

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

Stynes pointed out that Trengove and Scully - just like last year's No.1 pick Jack Watts - needed time to develop physically.

"When I played, you didn't have to put on all this weight and get our core strength like they do now.

"One or two of these guys might not get there because of their bodies. We see it all the time, and so they've just got to take it easy."

The president spoke of the young talent to have joined the club recently, and harkened back to the last powerful Melbourne team that had been built from the ground up.

"It reminds me a fair bit of back in'86, '87, '88. When I arrived at the club, we had kids like Garry Lyon and Todd Viney and Sean Wight and Steve O'Dwyer and Greg Healy. All these guys came in at the same time.

"As a result, we had a long career together. Unfortunately we didn't win a flag but we got pretty close at one point.

"It just shows you what happens when kids get to know each other and these two boys are going to join another great group of kids."

Stynes, who missed Thursday night's draft due to his ongoing cancer treatment, hoped the club's new recruits could draw on his recent experiences with the illness, albeit in a vastly different manner.  

"A lot of it is intuition," he said when asked about how he was coping with radiation therapy. But he was quick to channel discussion of "the elephant in the room" into a more football-oriented direction.

"You've got to get to know your own body -- particularly these boys as they start their pre-season into professional footy.

"They've come out of an environment that is very different ... big fish, small sea, and now they come into being small fish in a big sea.

"They've got to listen to themselves and actually realise, 'Is this right for me, am I pushing too hard? What's my body telling me, what's my mind telling me?'."