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Whats Our Future?

dees64
in Melbourne Demons

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The club needs to desperately chase free agency players that will inject class & match winners or supporters will stop coming to games & membership will drop off affecting the bottom line. Our supporter base will not put up with another 2-3 yrs of winning 2-5 games a year. Serious questions need to be asked as to how our so called leaders who were winning ball just last year are now sitting in Casey, how we have gone from an attacking team who couldnt defend to a team that cant do either!

The members have paid over 5 mill to pay our debt off, more money on the footty dept, training facilities. I only hope that the tide will turn for Neeld........but I look at Adelaide who have gone from below us to top 4 with a new coach.

How long can members put up with this?

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    The club needs to desperately chase free agency players that will inject class & match winners or supporters will stop coming to games & membership will drop off affecting the bottom line. Our supporter base will not put up with another 2-3 yrs of winning 2-5 games a year. Serious questions need to be asked as to how our so called leaders who were winning ball just last year are now sitting in Casey, how we have gone from an attacking team who couldnt defend to a team that cant do either!

    The members have paid over 5 mill to pay our debt off, more money on the footty dept, training facilities. I only hope that the tide will turn for Neeld........but I look at Adelaide who have gone from below us to top 4 with a new coach.

    How long can members put up with this?

    TBH, I loved going this year when big Mitch was strutting his stuff - he made other players stand tall, go harder and really perform.

    Now, I just go to watch practice matches.

    I'm sure the club is targetting - they'll need to be very active at trade time.

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    Our future will be fine.

    We should - and yes I say should - have improvement in Strauss, Cook, Gysberts in 2013,

    they have always been developing type players, athletic, slight on - need time to bulk up, mature

    and all smart players who use the ball well. I expect big improvement from these 3.

    They will be like new recuits, ready to go in 2013.

    Luke Tapscotts had limited pre-seasons and limited time on the field since he was drafted,

    I expect he will thrive with a full pre-season, add a much bigger body to our line up,

    he is still maturing and will be greatly benefit from Neelds hard training.

    Jack Watts will be bigger, faster and stronger in 2013.

    Jack is a natural - athletically and by skills.

    Watts will be starting to really come into his own in 2013.

    Nathan Jones has shown massive improvement in 2012 and that will continue in 2013,

    his work ethic is phenomenal and he leaves nothing behind in terms of preparation.

    Jones will break into the elite status in 2013.

    Jack Grimes is starting to show glimpses of bordering on elite, yes only small glimpses atm,

    but dont forget he has had injuries this year, last and the year before and his tank is only just allowing

    him now to break into the midfield - where he will be very effective going forward.

    Now, on top of all this, we have Viney and another top 3 pick coming early in the upcoming draft,

    aswell as a mid range pick, which sets us up very well going forward.

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    I've had more enjoyment going to practice sessions than games this year

    Maybe if we selected a few witches hats for next week we may see an improvement

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    Amazing that our best player Clark has come from another club!

    shows how shizen our leadership has been.......and makes me wonder how anyone can bring up the young captains as an issue anymore.... anyone who is still calling for one of the older players to be captain needs to have their head read.

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    Our future will be fine.

    We should - and yes I say should - have improvement in Strauss, Cook, Gysberts in 2013,

    they have always been developing type players, athletic, slight on - need time to bulk up, mature

    and all smart players who use the ball well. I expect big improvement from these 3.

    They will be like new recuits, ready to go in 2013.

    Luke Tapscotts had limited pre-seasons and limited time on the field since he was drafted,

    I expect he will thrive with a full pre-season, add a much bigger body to our line up,

    he is still maturing and will be greatly benefit from Neelds hard training.

    Jack Watts will be bigger, faster and stronger in 2013.

    Jack is a natural - athletically and by skills.

    Watts will be starting to really come into his own in 2013.

    Nathan Jones has shown massive improvement in 2012 and that will continue in 2013,

    his work ethic is phenomenal and he leaves nothing behind in terms of preparation.

    Jones will break into the elite status in 2013.

    Jack Grimes is starting to show glimpses of bordering on elite, yes only small glimpses atm,

    but dont forget he has had injuries this year, last and the year before and his tank is only just allowing

    him now to break into the midfield - where he will be very effective going forward.

    Now, on top of all this, we have Viney and another top 3 pick coming early in the upcoming draft,

    aswell as a mid range pick, which sets us up very well going forward.

    Our future will be fine.

    We should - and yes I say should - have improvement in Strauss, Cook, Gysberts in 2013,

    they have always been developing type players, athletic, slight on - need time to bulk up, mature

    and all smart players who use the ball well. I expect big improvement from these 3.

    They will be like new recuits, ready to go in 2013.

    Luke Tapscotts had limited pre-seasons and limited time on the field since he was drafted,

    I expect he will thrive with a full pre-season, add a much bigger body to our line up,

    he is still maturing and will be greatly benefit from Neelds hard training.

    Jack Watts will be bigger, faster and stronger in 2013.

    Jack is a natural - athletically and by skills.

    Watts will be starting to really come into his own in 2013.

    Nathan Jones has shown massive improvement in 2012 and that will continue in 2013,

    his work ethic is phenomenal and he leaves nothing behind in terms of preparation.

    Jones will break into the elite status in 2013.

    Jack Grimes is starting to show glimpses of bordering on elite, yes only small glimpses atm,

    but dont forget he has had injuries this year, last and the year before and his tank is only just allowing

    him now to break into the midfield - where he will be very effective going forward.

    Now, on top of all this, we have Viney and another top 3 pick coming early in the upcoming draft,

    aswell as a mid range pick, which sets us up very well going forward.

    Lets hope so.....bottom line we need more A graders in particular midfielders who can win the footy & kick to targets!

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    I've had more enjoyment going to practice sessions than games this year

    Maybe if we selected a few witches hats for next week we may see an improvement

    I look forward to a time when the on season is better than the off season DC

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    Amazing that our best player Clark has come from another club!

    I think this says a lot about the development program of the MFC and/or our drafting.

    Maybe we should just trade off all of our picks for players and forget about the draft all together!

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