If you're judging an eleven win season as a fail this year then you can't see the wood for the trees. Despite the impatient urgings of vocal supporters, this year is about improvement in the players that will become the core of our side from 2013-2018.

Whether we win 8, 11 or 15 is hardly the point. This season will be a suceess if

- Jack Watts continues to improve

- Frawley, Morton and Grimes can regain some form

- We continue to get regular games into Tapscott, Gysberts

- We can get a decent contribution from Scully and McKenzie in the second half of the year

- We can get some more senior games into Strauss, Maric, Petterd, even Blease

It will be an easier season to watch if senior guys like Green, Davey and Sylvia pull the finger out and we start winning games, but to me that won't define a successful season.

i disagree ...we were nudging the 8.last season..anything else other than engaging finals from here on in is simpky accepting second rate results. 8 wins is fail... 11 is only a pass should you have the bar very low.. 15 is pretty good

at some point you have to start actually taking responsibility for winning..cant keep running behind the ;development; excuse.. All teams are developing..all the tiime... some just dont playing in the interim... theyre the ones we call successful.

Im fully aware of where trees and woods exists.Im even aware of what sapplings and deadwood look like... all the while you need to take a Stand !!

Sack him.96 points not enough

Footy is a team game, and as much as we can blame a coach for poor tactics, lack of moves and team selection, it is not his job to go out there and attack the ball, tackle and win contested possessions. Our players have been asleep at the wheel this year, and utterly lacking any physicality. It took a heap of external (and no doubt internal) pressure to wake them up, which is a shame but not really a reflection on the coach.

The result should mean nothing to Bailey's future. The decision to keep him or cut him will depend entirely on whether we think he is tactically capable of taking us to the next level. Glimpses this year and last year suggest that he can, but likewise many games since he started coaching suggest that he can't. Time will tell.

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem. Remember that always.

I voted even though I thought the options should have included suspending pea brain supporters who jump on and off the bandwagon like a teabag in a cuppa.. My only other thought is that it the filth trolling to be so negative about a development coach, reminds me of all the crap thompson had before the cats came good

Sick of hearing Dean's not angry enough, personality of a mouse, etc, these people seem to want Barrassi from the 1970s. It's not the modern style of coaching.

Sick of hearing Dean's not angry enough, personality of a mouse, etc, these people seem to want Barrassi from the 1970s. It's not the modern style of coaching.

MM says hi B)

MM says hi B)

Honestly does anyone believe Mick Malthouse could take this side to a flag in 2011?

Would he have us higher than 7th?