First post guys, not sure if it has been posted already, but heres an article by Mick Malthouse that is quite insightful and worth a look.

Cheers

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/opinion/post/-/blog/13845900/neeld-treatment-distasteful/

I find myself liking Malthouse more and more ever since he left the filth. When this guy talks coaching, you listen.

Can we please get him!! Would benefit our club, and he and Neeld are a good match and apparently hes helping some of our players

A good read, and on the money too.

One of the most distasteful tirades came from King last week. I hope he forced to apologise on air.

First post guys, not sure if it has been posted already, but heres an article by Mick Malthouse that is quite insightful and worth a look.

Cheers

http://au.news.yahoo...nt-distasteful/

Good first post MM. Really fascinating article, especially this bit:

"We designed the no space, no pace concept and challenged our players to absorb it. They took it on board and we lived by that code for the years that Mark was the midfield coach. It showed me that tactically he was very good and very sound. He understands why things are done in football and why players are rotated through certain roles."

No doubt Neeld is trying to implement this "code" at the dees. For our older midfield players such as Moloney this approach would take time to get your head around given they had set up much more offensively under Bailey. Might explain why we have struggled with clearances. We were noticeably better Sat night with this and now that i think about we were pretty good at stopping players like Stanton and Watson getting the easy, clean take always that can hurt so much

We had a lot more Jamar to Maloney last year, but perhaps that's in least part due how they set up because we also had heaps of times where the opposition would take the ball from the stoppage time after time with the same ease that Malthouse notes he wanted to ensure the maggies avoided (eg kerr in a straifght line and a pass to Embley).

I also liked Malthouse's point about the need to be patient. Sage words indeed. When was this article written, i couldn't find a date?

Edited June 4, 201213 yr by binman

Great article - and I loved his final philosophical quip: "The ox is slow but the earth is patient" (no apologies to Mr Schwarz :-) )

Hopefully some especially here will get of MN's back and let him whip our team into shape, and succeed.

Great article. From the sidelines, my sentiments exactly.

I also like this quote - "Put simply, their recruiting has been poor."

I know it needs no more air time on this site, but some of our recruiting decisions have not exactly been the percentage plays.

First post guys, not sure if it has been posted already, but heres an article by Mick Malthouse that is quite insightful and worth a look.

Cheers

http://au.news.yahoo...nt-distasteful/

cheers MM. I agree with watt you say.

But can't we call a spade a spade, at least while were learning to trust our administrators to do the logical footy things & cull the list the correct ways.

It's been a long time since we could trust our administration to do the right footy things.

It's been Dog eat Dog for us, or cold Pies on colder Winters.

I didn't know Neeld had brain surgery in 2010.

Not possible for David King to have brain surgery. Guess why...

Edited June 4, 201213 yr by Moonshadow

When was this article written, i couldn't find a date?

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June 2, 2012, 1:37 pm"

last saturday afternoon

This is a very thoughtful article, defending his old mate. I do agree that MFC at times seemed to stand for everything but football and I do think the Keystone Cops could have managed better than many of our past administrations.. I am somewhat more dubious about the detrimental effects on the AFL coach's families though. That lies more with the incredibly low standard of sports journalism in Australia, sometimes makes Women's Day look positively profound. My main concern with the patience approach is that I only have one lifetime, at least in this incarnation.

Always liked Malthouse. He calls it as he sees it. And has been in the heat a long time.

Yes the MFC admin have got to stand tall and back our coach long term.

He will be fine.

This is a very thoughtful article, defending his old mate. I do agree that MFC at times seemed to stand for everything but football and I do think the Keystone Cops could have managed better than many of our past administrations.. I am somewhat more dubious about the detrimental effects on the AFL coach's families though. That lies more with the incredibly low standard of sports journalism in Australia, sometimes makes Women's Day look positively profound. My main concern with the patience approach is that I only have one lifetime, at least in this incarnation.

Unfortunately Mydee I think mine maybe shorter than yours.

Hope it is not more than one decade

I find myself liking Malthouse more and more ever since he left the filth. When this guy talks coaching, you listen.

I would've thought most switched on people would have paid attention to him even when he was coaching Collingwood.

He has been making insightful commentary for years now.

Good article. I think Mick has struggled a bit with the line between opinion and sensationalism this year, a lot of it due to his new employers exploiting his obvious relevance.

Anybody that has a crack at Stephen Milne the way he did is ok with me though. ;-)

You want your first-round draft picks to be 10-year players and the likelihood of that happening with some of the players they have chosen over the last three of four seasons is slim.

Not sure about this bit.. Although I think it is a truthful read, that I mostly agree with. I also wonder how much of it is just MM looking after his mate.

Unfortunately Mydee I think mine maybe shorter than yours.

Hope it is not more than one decade

After 34 years membership so do I

Slightly off topic but it was good tonight to hear Don give Mike Sheahan a wak over the head with his comments about Sheahan's "disgusting" comment. A member of my family was sitting in front of him at the game and was giving him heaps. Said it was most satisfying.

Unfortunately Mydee I think mine maybe shorter than yours.

Hope it is not more than one decade

sorry to hear that OD

try this, it may give it a lift,

I would've thought most switched on people would have paid attention to him even when he was coaching Collingwood.

He has been making insightful commentary for years now.

I never said I didn't pay attention to him at Collingwood, Jose. I merely said I am liking him more without his Collingwood hat on and he is free to be alot more impartial. Most of his exposure he used to have was through the match pressers where his arrogance and dismissiveness became a constant theme.

Still resorting to the insults I see. I guess me being less switched on foolishly thought you'd woken up to yourself in that department.

I never said I didn't pay attention to him at Collingwood, Jose. I merely said I am liking him more without his Collingwood hat on and he is free to be alot more impartial. Most of his exposure he used to have was through the match pressers where his arrogance and dismissiveness became a constant theme.

Still resorting to the insults I see. I guess me being less switched on foolishly thought you'd woken up to yourself in that department.

I'm just saying that you obviously missed all the salient and impartial commentary he gave throughtout 2010 and 2011, of which there was a lot.

It's to you how you interpret it.

I'm just saying that you obviously missed all the salient and impartial commentary he gave throughtout 2010 and 2011, of which there was a lot.

It's to you how you interpret it.

Just reminding everyone how useful the "ingore" settings are - you can just make people "go away", if you want.

Just reminding everyone how useful the "ingore" settings are - you can just make people "go away", if you want.

Good advice Frankie.

It'll come in handy for your posts right... now.

sorry to hear that OD

try this, it may give it a lift,

Do you have shares in this company Dee-luded?

How come you know so much about it?

Viagra is much better

As long as your ticker is ok.