Cameron Schwab put on twitter that now our coach is on it. Its been awhile since Cameron tweeted. Anyway interesting because twitter can be brutal somethimes and I think he & Mick are the only coaches on twitter.

ANyway I just hope next year if we lose he doesnt cop personal abuse on it. Imagine if Dean Bailey had been on twitter. But I guess its a good way to communicate with the coach.

A brave, brave man Mr Neeld

the poor bastard...got him doing it too now. .

pointless exercize - lose/lose

As if it's not being run by the marketing department.

Pointless attempt to ingratiate staff with the supporter base. Doesn't mean I'm not going to follow the account, though.

pointless exercize - lose/lose

pointless comment... at least wait to see how he uses it before passing judgement. He has already passed on info about the newest additions to the coaching department, so it's already proved to be of some use.

Personally, I like the idea of an "open door" policy - sure he may cop criticism via tweets, but I'm sure they keep across these forums as well, so it wouldn't be so different; at least a tweet is limited in the number of characters it can contain :-)

Maybe he has joined up so that he can monitor what the players are saying on it and subsiquently tell them to pull their heads in!

For those wanting to find him his twitter name is: @NeeldMFC

For those not on twitter you can see his comments here: http://twitter.com/#!/NeeldMFC

So far he has said the following:

Thanks for welcoming me to the Demons – hard work has started. Plenty more to come.

Thanks for the tweets – just been out to visit the City of Casey, very impressive training facility. Club is doing good things in the area

Also like to welcome Jade Rawlings and Paul Satterley – strong appointments. Jade will work with backs and Paul on development with forwards

pointless comment... at least wait to see how he uses it before passing judgement. He has already passed on info about the newest additions to the coaching department, so it's already proved to be of some use.

Personally, I like the idea of an "open door" policy - sure he may cop criticism via tweets, but I'm sure they keep across these forums as well, so it wouldn't be so different; at least a tweet is limited in the number of characters it can contain :-)

Pleeez, spare me hardtack. You'll learn nothing - unless you like receiving spin and he'll only open himself to attack from every disaffected nuff-nuff supporter

a most injudicious decision - I'd be surprised if it doesn't fade away

Pleeez, spare me hardtack. You'll learn nothing - unless you like receiving spin and he'll only open himself to attack from every disaffected nuff-nuff supporter

a most injudicious decision - I'd be surprised if it doesn't fade away

Agree.

I don't want him to ingratiate.

I'd be happy as a fan if he was a humourless hard-arse to every single person he met if it meant he was that to the players.

I'm slightly frustrated.

But put simply - I want to come on here and read a JCB post that details the awful things that Neeld has said to the players on the training track while running them into the ground in early November.

Agree.

I don't want him to ingratiate.

I'd be happy as a fan if he was a humourless hard-arse to every single person he met if it meant he was that to the players.

I'm slightly frustrated.

But put simply - I want to come on here and read a JCB post that details the awful things that Neeld has said to the players on the training track while running them into the ground in early November.

I'd prefer Bhima, much more readable.

Pleeez, spare me hardtack. You'll learn nothing - unless you like receiving spin and he'll only open himself to attack from every disaffected nuff-nuff supporter

a most injudicious decision - I'd be surprised if it doesn't fade away

Fair enough DC... but it doesn't matter what we think anyway. He's on Twitter and it's entirely up to him what he does there.

I can't see how making himself more accessible to the riff-raff and morons on Twitter will be of any benefit in the whatsoever.

And yes, I have been a big Twitter user. Not so much anymore.

he'll only open himself to attack from every disaffected nuff-nuff supporter

No reason to go hide IMO. It's not as though he doesn't realise nuff nuff supporters exist. A read of some threads on this forum and such will confirm it.

Interesting that on One Week at a Time last week, they rated Melbourne, along with Collingwood and the Kangaroos, as the three most approachable clubs in the AFL from a media perspective. (They rated St Kilda worst as a 'nearly-closed' shop, and Essendon, Hawthorn and Carlton as being very hard to get information from.)

Sure much of it might be 'spin' but there's nothing injudicious about it, including the use of social media. There's nothing wrong with being approachable if you want positive press and to build favourable media relations.

Interesting that on One Week at a Time last week, they rated Melbourne, along with Collingwood and the Kangaroos, as the three most approachable clubs in the AFL from a media perspective. (They rated St Kilda worst as a 'nearly-closed' shop, and Essendon, Hawthorn and Carlton as being very hard to get information from.)

Sure much of it might be 'spin' but there's nothing injudicious about it, including the use of social media. There's nothing wrong with being approachable if you want positive press and to build favourable media relations.

last time I looked the MFC had a media department and a marketing department

let the football department get on with winning a premiership

last time I looked the MFC had a media department and a marketing department

let the football department get on with winning a premiership

I don't understand your comment. The media want to know about the football, like all of us. They want to talk to players and coaches.

I presume all the Melbourne departments talk to each other.

I don't understand your comment. The media want to know about the football, like all of us. They want to talk to players and coaches.

I presume all the Melbourne departments talk to each other.

The topic was about a coach having a twitter account

and just as an aside, when has lack of club access ever stopped the media. As we have clearly seen lately they will just make it up anyway, and if they do get info from clubs they will more than likely misrepresent it or quote it out of context. Sometimes making yourself too 'open' to the media can also leave yourself open to media-bashing and vendettas (Caro anyone?)

Agree.

I don't want him to ingratiate.

I'd be happy as a fan if he was a humourless hard-arse to every single person he met if it meant he was that to the players.

I'm slightly frustrated.

But put simply - I want to come on here and read a JCB post that details the awful things that Neeld has said to the players on the training track while running them into the ground in early November.

My offer still stands-- fly down and I will pick you up ,take you to training and bring you back to the airport..Love to do it and like to meet you..Are you prepared to do this?

Was there an uproar or any negativity towards Malthouse having a Twitter account ?

Or is he just fortunate enough there weren't any negative attacks from 71,000 members thanks to a 20-2 record on the back of a Premiership year ?

last time I looked the MFC had a media department and a marketing department

let the football department get on with winning a premiership

I dare say that's exactly what's happening here.......

I mean, he hasn't yet tweeted about 'owning it at FIFA', so obviously not following the lead of the players.

My offer still stands-- fly down and I will pick you up ,take you to training and bring you back to the airport..Love to do it and like to meet you..Are you prepared to do this?

Not really.

I appreciate the offer but rpfc needs no help getting from the airport.

I also don't think our personalities would mesh to make the trek from Tulla to Casey a comfortable one...

We are all Dees, but we are all different. Different Dees.

Was there an uproar or any negativity towards Malthouse having a Twitter account ?

Or is he just fortunate enough there weren't any negative attacks from 71,000 members thanks to a 20-2 record on the back of a Premiership year ?

H_T I don't think there is an "uproar" here. Maybe a little negativity, but its not really that big a deal, just a good talking point

Pleeez, spare me hardtack. You'll learn nothing - unless you like receiving spin and he'll only open himself to attack from every disaffected nuff-nuff supporter

a most injudicious decision - I'd be surprised if it doesn't fade away

I think you're possibly missing the point.

The purpose wouldn't really be to inform supporters.

It's just another avenue through which to promote the club and it's message.

And some people and media outlets will give more credence to a tweet supposedly by our coach, as opposed to our media manager.

My offer still stands-- fly down and I will pick you up ,take you to training and bring you back to the airport..Love to do it and like to meet you..Are you prepared to do this?

I would pay to silently sit in the backseat and be a fly on the wall.