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MFC or MFCSS ?? ( or whatever it bloody is..lol )

Yeah... I didn't want to say it, because it's a bit like a red rag to a bull for some on here :-)

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I interpreted it as him saying that we need to get better quickly so he can play finals before he is too old to keep playing.

Ah yes I get it now, my mind is too clouded with negativity to have seen that first

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I think he is probably worried about the up and coming stars in our backline (quite seriously).

He is having a cracking season, and has responded brilliantly to Neeld in my view. He obviously realised early on that this was the only way...

I mean, Frawley is set, and if Tom Mac, Davis, Watts and Garland all keep progressing as they are, it starts to look awfully crowded down there.

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"The playing group has sat down to make a focus of these last 11 games."

Maybe the leadership group is starting to build up some steam.

Bad teams have meetings, good teams train.

That is all.

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"Jared says no one is safe at Melbourne"...............and, not before time one could add.

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I still can't believe Bailey shelved Junior (a genuine leader and one of our very best MFC clubmen in decades), and yet seemingly protected our 'talented' youngsters for so long.

More than anything from that period, this annoys me the most.

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It annoys me that players are playing for their futures. The Geelong players play to win a premiership, as do all the better teams.

Playing for your personal future leads to selfishness and bitterness - it's the quickest thing (behind sleeping with your teammates Mrs) to create divisions within a Club.

This will be Neeld's biggest challenge, as our team has had a history of players playing well in their "out of contract year", getting re-signed, then playing poor to average the next 2 years.

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Bad teams have meetings, good teams train.

That is all.

Meetings that attain 100% buy-in can be pivotal eg. Geelong.

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Playing for your personal future leads to selfishness and bitterness

Huh? If you are a selfish footballer, then you are not playing for your personal future. It's the quickest way out the door. Your personal future can still involve team things, in fact it must.

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I still can't believe Bailey shelved Junior (a genuine leader and one of our very best MFC clubmen in decades), and yet seemingly protected our 'talented' youngsters for so long.

More than anything from that period, this annoys me the most.

Could not agree more RB

It stuck in my gut at the end of 2010

And on Sunday it will annoy me even More.

This may go down as the MFC BOO BOO of the 21st Century and we are only 12 years in!

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Scientists continue to ponder the question of how to dissect an atom. The shavings & slicings of this JR's response to a question with out notice may be just give Science a clue to the quandary.

Accountability ALWAYS goes to the top/leaders. We have struggled with leadership - Coach, Captain, CEO & President for many years. No disrespected intended, but the end result is we have had no dynamic leaders since - maybe all the way back to Norm Smith.

John Northey, Jimmy & a few others contributed admirably, but we are getting close to 50 years of arid history.

You can only shuffle for a limited period. The clock is ticking for our club.

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Scientists continue to ponder the question of how to dissect an atom. The shavings & slicings of this JR's response to a question with out notice may be just give Science a clue to the quandary.

Accountability ALWAYS goes to the top/leaders. We have struggled with leadership - Coach, Captain, CEO & President for many years. No disrespected intended, but the end result is we have had no dynamic leaders since - maybe all the way back to Norm Smith.

John Northey, Jimmy & a few others contributed admirably, but we are getting close to 50 years of arid history.

You can only shuffle for a limited period. The clock is ticking for our club.

No it isn't.

I know we all want to believe in our own self importance and see the 'end of days' for our world and our club but you're not that special.

The club will be around long after you're dead.

Not me though. I will be kept alive through head in a jar technology or robot body and live for 1000 years...

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Not me though. I will be kept alive through head in a jar technology or robot body and live for 1000 years...

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Will you also go into peoples' houses at night and wreck up the joint?

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It annoys me that players are playing for their futures. The Geelong players play to win a premiership, as do all the better teams.

Playing for your personal future leads to selfishness and bitterness - it's the quickest thing (behind sleeping with your teammates Mrs) to create divisions within a Club.

This will be Neeld's biggest challenge, as our team has had a history of players playing well in their "out of contract year", getting re-signed, then playing poor to average the next 2 years.

I think that the ultimatum 'playing for your future' can be a good thing. I can remember Garry Lyon describing Swooper Northey, around 1986, putting the hard word on a lot of senior players that if they didn't tow the line, he would move them on. While not creating a premiership dynasty, I guess a lot of them pulled their thumbs out of their butt because the team made the finals for the next five years.

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Will you also go into peoples' houses at night and wreck up the joint?

This thread has a very 70's political/constitutional crisis feel now!

'I remember my body. Flabby, pasty skinned, riddled with phlebitis. A good Republican body. God, I miss it.'

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Huh? If you are a selfish footballer, then you are not playing for your personal future. It's the quickest way out the door. Your personal future can still involve team things, in fact it must.

Brent Harvey has made a career out of it ?

KB too .


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Brent Harvey has made a career out of it ?

KB too .

Some would say that Gary Ablett Jnr and Buddy might also get lumped into the "selfish footballer" category.

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Some would say that Gary Ablett Jnr and Buddy might also get lumped into the "selfish footballer" category.

One of them plays for a team that hasn't won a game all year, and the other almost always kicks more behinds than goals. Just because they're great players, doesn't mean their selfishness is a positive.

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One of them plays for a team that hasn't won a game all year, and the other almost always kicks more behinds than goals. Just because they're great players, doesn't mean their selfishness is a positive.

My response was supporting Biffen's response to the "quickest way out the door" comment that related to where selfish players end up.

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My response was supporting Biffen's response to the "quickest way out the door" comment that related to where selfish players end up.

And to support the theory, you used two of the best players in the competition? Why not use countless other selfish guys like Daniel Motlop, Nick Davis, Colin Sylvia, and so on.

Franklin and Ablett are successful despite their selfishness, not because of it. And I don't even know if Ablett is even that selfish.

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And to support the theory, ...

What theory? I hadn't realised I was putting forward a theory.

The first poster had said that selfish players would be shown the door... I cited Ablett and Franklin as two players who could be considered selfish (in Ablett's case, that is precisely what he has been accused of in recent times), yet it is highly unlikely that either would ever be shown the door.

No theory, just a simple observation. Is it getting to the point where we shouldn't comment for fear of being jumped on?

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I still can't believe Bailey shelved Junior (a genuine leader and one of our very best MFC clubmen in decades), and yet seemingly protected our 'talented' youngsters for so long.

More than anything from that period, this annoys me the most.

Bailey??? Did he???

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It annoys me that players are playing for their futures. The Geelong players play to win a premiership, as do all the better teams.

Playing for your personal future leads to selfishness and bitterness - it's the quickest thing (behind sleeping with your teammates Mrs) to create divisions within a Club.

This will be Neeld's biggest challenge, as our team has had a history of players playing well in their "out of contract year", getting re-signed, then playing poor to average the next 2 years.

I like it, for this year only.

After that when things get sorted & the dust settles through the summer sweat, 'A' culture wil emerge as we've needed for a long long time.

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