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Bailey or the Board

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I was at Geelong today.

Dean Bailey should have the sense of responsibility to resign immediately with dignity (as Neil Craig did).

If he doesn't, the Board should immediately sack him, or have the sense of responsibility to resign with dignity themselves.

The whole club must be placed under pressure to perform for the remaining rounds before we appoint a new coach!

I will not blame players until I feel they have had enough good coaching to have no more excuses for poor performances.

Geelong showed us how to play football - we can play like that - but not unless the whole club accepts nothing less than perfection.

No more excuses!

 

Not sure about the board. I'm no footy expert but we were beaten before the bounce today. Our structure on the ground is woeful. Bailey has to go and you are right if he respects this club he will resign.

I was at Geelong today.

Dean Bailey should have the sense of responsibility to resign immediately with dignity (as Neil Craig did).

If he doesn't, the Board should immediately sack him, or have the sense of responsibility to resign with dignity themselves.

The whole club must be placed under pressure to perform for the remaining rounds before we appoint a new coach!

I will not blame players until I feel they have had enough good coaching to have no more excuses for poor performances.

Geelong showed us how to play football - we can play like that - but not unless the whole club accepts nothing less than perfection.

No more excuses!

The players have to take a good slice of responsibility for this, as does every level of the club. Otherwise it will never be sorted out.

 
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One of the points of my thread was that it would be a change to see at least someone taking responsibility and consequently actions for what is happening at MFC.

Regardless of whether they are the ones at fault, or not..?

*sigh*


I have been an advid reader of demonland for a good few years now and this is the worst effort I have seen by this club that I have supported all my 34 years.

Ok, lets look at the facts here the club has a very young but very talented list with numerous draft picks.

We have had a clean out of older players and ones on the list that couldnt cut it along with appointing a new coach with no AFL success but at that stage he was the best for the job.

After all this time, this year has been a major dissappointed, culminating with today..... Words really cannot describe today but absolute shite....

In my view we have gone backgrounds in terms of on field success, and don't look at the win/loss ratio look at how inspid we are when we play decent teams.

Our coach has done his job nuturing and teaching the young players but if this club wants to have real success with this list after all this time we need to

take a stance. Just like in business...

We need to remove the coaching staff (all of them) and go after the best available (using the quote of how we recruited over the past few years)

Leadership begins from the top and in my view thats the coaching staff and the head coach.... Mickie, Paul, Alistair or Rodney can you hear me.....

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Taking responsibility and appropriate action is the approach of someone who wants to fix the problem - it does not imply they are to blame for the problem.

I have been an advid reader of demonland for a good few years now and this is the worst effort I have seen by this club that I have supported all my 34 years.

Ok, lets look at the facts here the club has a very young but very talented list with numerous draft picks.

We have had a clean out of older players and ones on the list that couldnt cut it along with appointing a new coach with no AFL success but at that stage he was the best for the job.

After all this time, this year has been a major dissappointed, culminating with today..... Words really cannot describe today but absolute shite....

In my view we have gone backgrounds in terms of on field success, and don't look at the win/loss ratio look at how inspid we are when we play decent teams.

Our coach has done his job nuturing and teaching the young players but if this club wants to have real success with this list after all this time we need to

take a stance. Just like in business...

We need to remove the coaching staff (all of them) and go after the best available (using the quote of how we recruited over the past few years)

Leadership begins from the top and in my view thats the coaching staff and the head coach.... Mickie, Paul, Alistair or Rodney can you hear me.....

Mate why do you say we have a talented list.

You are swallowing that line.

The results tis season do not bare that out.

It is not just today.

We have been beaten badly by ever half decent side.

We plainly do not have talented list.

 

It's hard to say there is not a talented list there given all the top draft picks that now have 30-40+ games experience. That talent is the reason we win games against the lesser sides like Richmond or Adelaide, Fremantle and Brisbane when we play them in Melbourne.

Clearly the fact that we cannot be competitive against the other 3/4 of the league and the gap between our best and worst is so big suggests there is a real problem with the message that the coaching staff are delivering or trying to deliver. We should have seen considerable improvement over the last four years, but we haven't. If the Board have been watching closely enough then they'll see it the same way.

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