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I am not a great fan of Laidley the human being,though as an AFL coach i am impressed.

1.He was part of premiership sides as a player with two different clubs and had playing attributes of many successful coaches

2HE possesses the never say die,us versus them type attitude with which Melbourne itself is absent though not foreign.

It is an attitude I remember reviving our club,one that makes the force and passion our supporters and players showed in the late eighties seem like a fake renaissance.John Northey was the man and Laidley has similarities.Put a uniform on him and he will die for it.

3.He is a strategist and a realist,a rare double.Last year The Kangaroos played finals,the year before it finished top four.No one rated them for one reason,they were ordinary.Laidley pumped blood into that team.Opinions were universal though i do argue the relevance of the shin boner spirit.That spirit was a bare ether from the years of Carey.

The spirit was fallacious.Carey had screwed his centremans missus ,Pagen jumped .Laidley,in my opinion was the Father,Son,and Shin boner spirit.He had to be.I rate Simpson and Harvey,one a hard worker ,the other the best dwarf ever to play,but come on.

He gets a club to fourth,then seventh,the next year he is gone.

There is no job offer to cushion the fall.

None of the strategies used to so much benefit in the box were used to constantly give himself CPR.He thought he couldn't do the job.

Honesty,loyalty and pragmatism.ARE there many more things a coach with undoubted strategic acumen needs.

No psyche test for this bloke.We could be the next port of call in the resume' of a great coach.He reminds me of Malthouse.He is a work in progress,looking to develop,a word i hate.

He will not sit and wait for players to arrive,he knows they may never arrive.He will have a profile if we give him the job.

We will create that profile.

He has experience,successful experience with a club that when put in his arms was a basket case,he had to cradle it,something that must have ABRADED THE #*%# out of him .

Here he does not have to cradle the baby,a team ripe with high draft picks awaits ,he can merge that with a precocious defense.

Here is a blank canvas untouched by a current coach who,with hindsight got the job through bent perceptions.That selection committee must now believe it should have tried to find a pulse,rather than muse at its absence under perceived pressure of a power point interview.

laidley will see a spirit at Melbourne.One being stymied at the moment,he will understand the fact they can get up for matches.He will go about addressing this spirits absence without dire conditions and EXPECT it under all conditions.

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I am not a great fan of Laidley the human being,though as an AFL coach i am impressed.

1.He was part of premiership sides as a player with two different clubs and had playing attributes of many successful coaches

2HE possesses the never say die,us versus them type attitude with which Melbourne itself is absent though not foreign.

It is an attitude I remember reviving our club,one that makes the force and passion our supporters and players showed in the late eighties seem like a fake renaissance.John Northey was the man and Laidley has similarities.Put a uniform on him and he will die for it.

3.He is a strategist and a realist,a rare double.Last year The Kangaroos played finals,the year before it finished top four.No one rated them for one reason,they were ordinary.Laidley pumped blood into that team.Opinions were universal though i do argue the relevance of the shin boner spirit.That spirit was a bare ether from the years of Carey.

The spirit was fallacious.Carey had screwed his centremans missus ,Pagen jumped .Laidley,in my opinion was the Father,Son,and Shin boner spirit.He had to be.I rate Simpson and Harvey,one a hard worker ,the other the best dwarf ever to play,but come on.

He gets a club to fourth,then seventh,the next year he is gone.

There is no job offer to cushion the fall.

None of the strategies used to so much benefit in the box were used to constantly give himself CPR.He thought he couldn't do the job.

Honesty,loyalty and pragmatism.ARE there many more things a coach with undoubted strategic acumen needs.

No psyche test for this bloke.We could be the next port of call in the resume' of a great coach.He reminds me of Malthouse.He is a work in progress,looking to develop,a word i hate.

He will not sit and wait for players to arrive,he knows they may never arrive.He will have a profile if we give him the job.

We will create that profile.

He has experience,successful experience with a club that when put in his arms was a basket case,he had to cradle it,something that must have ABRADED THE #*%# out of him .

Here he does not have to cradle the baby,a team ripe with high draft picks awaits ,he can merge that with a precocious defense.

Here is a blank canvas untouched by a current coach who,with hindsight got the job through bent perceptions.That selection committee must now believe it should have tried to find a pulse,rather than muse at its absence under perceived pressure of a power point interview.

laidley will see a spirit at Melbourne.One being stymied at the moment,he will understand the fact they can get up for matches.He will go about addressing this spirits absence without dire conditions and EXPECT it under all conditions.

Wow 1 post and this detailed. Welcome to Demonland Dean Laidley (Or Ricky Nixon). Desparation. Laidley is an angry man who really didnt do that much.

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Wow 1 post and this detailed. Welcome to Demonland Dean Laidley (Or Ricky Nixon). Desparation. Laidley is an angry man who really didnt do that much.

yeah losing the license sucks,my machiavallian web weaved from my p.c

regards

Pricky Prixon

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Nice username, [censored].


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If you assume for a minute that bailey IS gone, then I reckon you could do a lot worse than Laidley. MOSTLY because you saw what he did with a nothing list and 1 player. Actually, half of one player. In terms of match-day coaches, there are a LOT worse going around.

But that's really not the question. Even if Bailey were to go it wouldn't be for at least a year or two, at which time, a whole other set of names will arise... not only that but our list may look a whole lot more attractive to an incoming coach who's given 3 years to get them into finals... Just think of Jack Watts + 3 years in a gym.

Bailey will be again exempt from any real attention this year... but next year the microscope will be on. We'd want to threaten in more than half our games, and win probably 8 or so to get the wolves off his back... Because lord knows if we play next year like we did the last month, the focus will be fair and square on DB. And rightly so. Personally I'm not yet completely convinced.

That said, he has my 100% support regardless. For now.

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If you assume for a minute that bailey IS gone, then I reckon you could do a lot worse than Laidley. MOSTLY because you saw what he did with a nothing list and 1 player. Actually, half of one player. In terms of match-day coaches, there are a LOT worse going around.

But that's really not the question. Even if Bailey were to go it wouldn't be for at least a year or two, at which time, a whole other set of names will arise... not only that but our list may look a whole lot more attractive to an incoming coach who's given 3 years to get them into finals... Just think of Jack Watts + 3 years in a gym.

Bailey will be again exempt from any real attention this year... but next year the microscope will be on. We'd want to threaten in more than half our games, and win probably 8 or so to get the wolves off his back... Because lord knows if we play next year like we did the last month, the focus will be fair and square on DB. And rightly so. Personally I'm not yet completely convinced.

That said, he has my 100% support regardless. For now.

thanks dappa,i was bored ,weather bad,had a couple of beers found demonland and wrote something.now im a [censored] and lead a pathetic existence,but i dont call people flogs.dont know what a [censored] is .pathetic existence ,that s debatable.

thanks dappa dan(good movie,love coen bros)you answered a [censored] written opinion with a succinct and rightly contentious reply.i hope that doesnt make you a [censored]

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dappa dan(good movie,love coen bros)

I tell you what, you're the first to correctly get where that's from. Respect you for your opinions or not, I have to give you a tip of the hat for that.

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Wow 1 post and this detailed. Welcome to Demonland Dean Laidley (Or Ricky Nixon). Desparation. Laidley is an angry man who really didnt do that much.

Yeah I agree I wouldn't want him as coach his nickname The Junk House Dog? and he looks and acts like one....

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Laidley is an obvious choice.

For the list of people who will never coach the Melbourne Football Club.

Good call!!!!!!!!!!

LaidleyByeBye!!!!!

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... not a great fan of Laidley ...

Nor apparently are you a great fan of Bailey.

I think however, that if Dean Bailey was to go then the MFC would follow a process in selecting his successor and I suspect there might be other applicants including people like Nathan Buckley, Damien Hardwick and others in the younger breed of possible coaches. Maybe even a Jimmy Hird?

Edited by Luck Lucy

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I tell you what, you're the first to correctly get where that's from. Respect you for your opinions or not, I have to give you a tip of the hat for that.

[/ getting laidley we could stop being a club of constant sorrow

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getting laidley we could stop being a club of constant sorrow

And that's two. Respect.

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