I don't understand how players that showed such potential in 2010 now look like shadows of their former selves. It all seems to stem from the forced retirement of junior. Everything has gone wrong from there. Is that the point? He was the only leader at the club who could rally the troops?

We are going to get smashed by Richmond next week.

Perhaps the players just didnt or dont respect Bailey or Neeld - maybe we did need a coach that had been a hard-arse player.

Edited April 7, 201213 yr by Norm Smith's Curse

Highest score by WC against us was back in the 90s 106pts.......at 107 now.

What's the most inside-50's ever recorded? Weagles are up to 70. Meanwhile we're at 29.

It is 80 inside-50's by Geelong against Gold Coast last year.

Bring back Angry Phil Read!

Are we witnessing the death of our club?

I'm guessing this will put us on the bottom of the ladder as long as GWS can dot with 10 goals of North.

Perhaps the players just didnt or dont respect Bailey or Neeld - maybe we did need a coach that had been a hard-arse player.

Malthouse anyone?

why do fox keep showing natanui interiew during the game? So annoying.The i/s game commentators are pathetic..

Always have an opposition ex-player such as Jakovich, and they seem to barrack for that team

Magner, Clark and Matthew Bate BOG for us. Everyone else needs a long hard look in a mirror.

1st gamer, pick-up from another club, and someone clearly so fed up with the Melbourne culture that he was screaming to get out last year. Everyone else is indoctrinated into the zombie-like fluff and chocolate (thanks WYL) outlook endemic to the MFC.

Too much talk about history and not enough about tomorrow is one of the MFC's biggest problems.

The press conferences will i hope be a highlight.

Thanks Brad Green i think you have played your last.

As a Melbourne supporter I've not often "expected" to win, but I've always hung on to hope, even on days like today. However, today's effort (and to a lesser extent the result) has killed off that last little part of my soul that would hope against hope for my beloved team to show something.

Perhaps the players just didnt or dont respect Bailey or Neeld - maybe we did need a coach that had been a hard-arse player.

Or a coach that has been a coach... that might help

Another goal setup by Matty Bate - and yet he started as the sub today. Why?

Well done Clark & Howe. The rest???

Magner

Malthouse anyone?

He'll find out that he won't get the same treatment (by all and sundry) as he did at Collingwood.

Honestly I think there is something wrong with the team. Too many players have gone light years backwards. Im starting to think we have a mutiny on our hands.

Another goal setup by Matty Bate - and yet he started as the sub today. Why?

I don't know, I can't think of a logical explanation. Why did Neeld want to retain him if he was only going to use him as sub?

Bate should be [censored] and I don't blame him- he wanted to leave for more game time yet we deny him that chance to give him a little more than a quarter of a game. Cruel!

Gees I wonder what Neale Daniher would say.

Honestly I think there is something wrong with the team. Too many players have gone light years backwards. Im starting to think we have a mutiny on our hands.

Cop-out.

Try we're just inept and you'll be closer to the mark!

Green's making Neeld's decision pretty damn easy...

Says a lot about your team when your best player and highest possession winner has played his whole career in the VFL.

He has HUNGER - it looks as if most of the others have had it too easy

Honestly I think there is something wrong with the team. Too many players have gone light years backwards. Im starting to think we have a mutiny on our hands.

Players getting well paid for an average effort for too long, i think has something to do with it.

Weagles [censored] supporters not happy with umpiring

Another goal setup by Matty Bate - and yet he started as the sub today. Why?

Because our coach doesnt have a clue.

Bate was one of our best preseason performers along with Nicholson and Couch, yet none are starting...why??

players definitely sub-par but you have to worry that Neeld isn't the right guy for the job, surely a good coach can work with what he's got. The talk about losing the playing group might not be that far from the mark, how else do you explain this?