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[old dee 23,928]

I have been following the Dees since 1961.

I was there in 1964 and still hope to be there when we hold the cup up sometime in the next 3-5 years.

However, today's game shows that unless we are prepared to do the hard things now, that will not happen.

Dean Bailey should also see this and resign immediately.

It is not that it's "all his fault"- but it would seem he has 1. run out of ideas and 2. lost the ability to motivate the team.

Old Dee said in an earlier post our players are not as good as we are made to believe.

I am not sure that is correct.But they are not being we led (what happened to Moloney today...Green has played another shocker)and they are being coached by someone who has come to the end of his effectiveness.

Mate we must be close to the same age etc. My statts are the same 64 seems a light year ago.

My wife keeps asking me why i put myself through this year after year.

I have no answer, tomorrow is another day

but right now My gut tells me i should have supported a club with Guts and determinatiom.

Not the lilly livers I have endured for the best part of a life time.

The biggest problem is we except average.

[Hip & Shoulder 64]

Question. Who would really want to coach us.

I reckon I could do a better job than the current coaching panel. For a start, when it's not going our way, every player would have to 'man up' to force the opposition to kick to a contest. It's not rocket science, is it! And any player who stood flat-footed waiting for the ball to come to them instead of attacking the ball would be getting splinters in their bums from spending time on the pine.

[maximum bob 462]

They need to score 20 more points to record the highest EVER score in the AFL/VFL history.

PS: Where did my poll go?

Where it deserved to go.

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

They have equaled goals record with 2:25 to go.

[QueenC 74]

This is ROCK BOTTOM.

......Again !!!

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

185 points now...No coach can survive this....

[titan_uranus 25,058]

Where it deserved to go.

Care to elaborate?

I felt my question was legitimate: wanted to know what people thought as to wether or not one game could be enough to make the club make a call, a la Adelaide with Neil Craig (yes, he resigned, but surely that was pressured).

I don't see why that is not a legitimate question, given most (not all, but most) people before today felt that we would wait until the end of the year, or at least until after the West Coast game, to see where we were at.

[P-man 13,366]

Bailey's address at 3/4 time said it all. Every head was down bar a couple. He would look up from the whiteboard and scan around the playing group for a set of eyes to focus on but found none. If that team is playing for Bailey then I'm a monkey's uncle.

[Sir Why You Little 37,242]

You are probably right and we could not afford his asking price. However he would be a great head coach as we are desperate for leadership and passion.

Garry Lyon would be better on the Board if anywhere....he is already "inside" Garry knows what is going on, but he doesn't want to coach.

[beelzebub 23,388]

......Again !!!

why does a certain Status Quo song ring in my head ???

[Face Your Demons 175]

there was a lot of talk last week about St Kilda scoring more in each quarter than the crows did for the match. Sorry but it happened again today. 51 73 52 57 to out total of 47.

[QueenC 74]

Care to elaborate?

I felt my question was legitimate: wanted to know what people thought as to wether or not one game could be enough to make the club make a call, a la Adelaide with Neil Craig (yes, he resigned, but surely that was pressured).

I don't see why that is not a legitimate question, given most (not all, but most) people before today felt that we would wait until the end of the year, or at least until after the West Coast game, to see where we were at.

It's a legit question Titan, and yes, in my opinion there can always be a catalyst to a sacking.....

There's probably a few precursors but this could well be the silver bullet because questions were being asked long before this tragic farce.

[Jaded No More 68,974]

186 points of utter humiliation.

This loss is either going to break this club, or it will make it. Time for somebody to stand up and do something.

Bailey, coaching staff, leadership group and football department need to go away.

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

We are hanging onto the ball so they cant get the record ha ha ...at least something to barrack for today....and then the lights go out?? Vlad?

[Forest Demon 4,681]

Glad Jared Rivers found it funny

[titan_uranus 25,058]

It's a legit question Titan, and yes, in my opinion there can always be a catalyst to a sacking.....

There's probably a few precursors but this could well be the silver bullet because questions were being asked long before this tragic farce.

Thanks QueenC, that's exactly what I was getting at. Nice to know someone else out there can see that!

And I agree too, even though I don't think the club will act tonight (or this week), I think a performance like this could be sufficient grounds to terminate his contract.

186 points of utter humiliation.

This loss is either going to break this club, or it will make it. Time for somebody to stand up and do something.

Bailey, coaching staff, leadership group and football department need to go away.

Maybe today will be the day we look back on in a couple of years. Maybe today will be the day we actually turned this club around.

Or maybe today shows that the gap between our actual and our potential is a lot bigger than many of us are giving it credit. Maybe today shows that we have been lulled into thinking we are going to make it with this list.

What remains to be seen is how we deal with this disaster. We've done well so far this year in turning bad performances into good ones, but previously our bad performances were 10 goals, not 30.

[beelzebub 23,388]

I feel strangely disappointed for the Cats !!!!

[Hip & Shoulder 64]

Glad Jared Rivers found it funny

When I saw him smiling I said: "Get the smile off your face, Jared Rivers; you don't deserve to wear that number." Disgraceful.

[Face Your Demons 175]

Gee that would be a long drive back up the highway.

[timD 994]

Our leaders finally played the way we've all dreaded that they could. It would not have mattered if Bailey was god's own coach, today. That said, that performance is so bad it almost beyond thinking that he could keep his job. I've been a Bailey fan, and I don't think that he has got a lot to work with but he cannot survive that sort of loss.

In many ways he wil be a fall guys for a leadership group that cannot and will not put-up-and-shut-up. What chance to we have at keeping players or attracting players? Statements need to be made. The club needs to make them. If indecision remained, surely this will force their hand. Unfortauntely, the cleanup & cleanout must continue. We are in a desparate search for a heart, mind and soul atm.

[beelzebub 23,388]

Gee that would be a long drive back up the highway.

make teh bastards walk

[Captain Jack Jordan 32]

Train Wreck .

We have hit the bottom now , surely?

[Face Your Demons 175]

I was talking about the supporters, the players can stay down there for all i care right now.

[Sir Why You Little 37,242]

The 1965 Norm Smith "curse" is still alive today....make no mistake of that.

[censored], how would Jimmy be feeling now????

[The Big Ticket 94]

Glad Jared Rivers found it funny

Don't want to see him in a Melbourne jumper again.