Mark Neeld (Melbourne)

Result: Lost to Brisbane by 41 points

The good: The Demons won more than 50 per cent of their possessions in contested situations. If Neeld wanted his players to be stronger in the contest, they will get plenty of opportunities playing like that. James Magner looks a find in the midfield and the forward press worked for long stretches in the first half.

The bad: Melbourne were absolutely slaughtered at the clearances all day by the Lions. Neeld had already declared he wanted his side to be dominant at the stoppages but they failed miserably in that regard. When they did get the ball forward, it was in such a haphazard fashion and into such a congested attacking 50 that talls Mitch Clark, Jeremy Howe and Stefan Martin were rendered ineffective.

Rating: 4/10

Its a work in progress but Neeld really needs to get into the mid field stuff and sort it out quickly he mentioned when he was interviewed yesterday on the couch that he was really concerned by the clearance work as he was the mid field coach at Collingwood don't be surprised if he has a much more say in this area after the weekend result .

Too predictable with kickouts, too slow to bring on Bate, why no tag on Black??

There's always next week

The Good

The physical effort by Jones, Tynan, Watts, Bail, Trengove, Magner. They all had a dip

We won the contested ball

The Bad

Defence at stoppages. The Lions spread away from stoppages with horrible ease.

Long bombs to the forward line

Footskills coming out of defence

The Ugly

The pysical intent of our senior players

Melbourne fans booing their own players

The rate

5 / 10

Edited April 3, 201213 yr by Maldonboy38

The Good

Winning the contested ball

The Bad

Too predictable in defence and attack

The Ugly

Neeld's facial expressions

The Good

Neeld's on board. As is Craig and Misson and a few others.

The bad

We're a lot further off the pace than I had thought.

The ugly

The realisation that the last few years of rebuild have not been what they should have been.

The Ugly

Melbourne fans booing their own players

The rate

5 / 10

You forgot the coach also booed the players, pretty much.

rate: 2.5/10.

Strange timing for this.

Need more Neeld threads

Too predictable with kickouts, too slow to bring on Bate, why no tag on Black??

"When I was at Coll ingwood we didn't worry about tagging midfielders" - Mark Neeld.

Wow.

"When I was at Coll ingwood we didn't worry about tagging midfielders" - Mark Neeld.

Wow.

I think you are taking that out of context.

I understood him to mean their players were so good and they had so many the other teams worried about tagging them.

Edited April 3, 201213 yr by old dee

Mark Neeld (Melbourne)

Result: Lost to Brisbane by 41 points

The good: The Demons won more than 50 per cent of their possessions in contested situations. If Neeld wanted his players to be stronger in the contest, they will get plenty of opportunities playing like that. James Magner looks a find in the midfield and the forward press worked for long stretches in the first half.

The bad: Melbourne were absolutely slaughtered at the clearances all day by the Lions. Neeld had already declared he wanted his side to be dominant at the stoppages but they failed miserably in that regard. When they did get the ball forward, it was in such a haphazard fashion and into such a congested attacking 50 that talls Mitch Clark, Jeremy Howe and Stefan Martin were rendered ineffective.

Rating: 4/10

To the OP: If you're going to lift stuff directly from a story on another website, it's usually the done thing to add a link to the original story, at the very least.