David Mackay

[What 18,810]

lol

wow

He was offered 2 mil over 4 years?

Thank god Neeld is gone he was going to be the end of the MFC

what a clown

[Generation dee 1,336]

lol

wow

He was offered 2 mil over 4 years?

Thank god Neeld is gone he was going to be the end of the MFC

what a clown

It's funny how neeld is responsible for all our downfalls and our bad recruiting, yet he doesn't get the thanks for Kent, hogan, toump, viney, jones or terlich.

Not sticking up for him, his record speaks for itself. However I still find the double standards!

[BrisbaneDemon 1,572]

lol

wow

He was offered 2 mil over 4 years?

Thank god Neeld is gone he was going to be the end of the MFC

what a clown

Haha come on HH, give the Neeld bashing a break. He's gone!

[dazzledavey36 54,301]

No different to what Dawes would be if at Collingwood. But seriously I warmed to the idea of having but didn't realize how much money we were gonna offer him! Thank god Harrington and Schwab are gone..!

Edited June 28, 2013 by dazzledavey36

[Generation dee 1,336]

No different to what Dawes would be if at Collingwood. But seriously I warmed to the idea of having but didn't realize how much money we were gonna offer him! Thank god Harrington and Schwab are gone..!

Bingo!

Worst issue with being a basket case for 8 years- attracting players from other clubs during draft/trading. Have to pump their tyres up with more money than they are worth.

[deanox 9,900]

Salary cap space is the one thing we have plenty of. We only have so many picks and players we can trade.

I'm not saying mackay is/was the right target but I couldn't care less how much we offer players to bring them to Melbourne if they are going to play 20 games for us.*

*per season

Edited June 28, 2013 by deanox

[ThreeOneSix 954]

It's funny how neeld is responsible for all our downfalls and our bad recruiting, yet he doesn't get the thanks for Kent, hogan, toump, viney, jones or terlich.

Not sticking up for him, his record speaks for itself. However I still find the double standards!

As far as rumors go, those players are all Viney picks.

Todd Viney went up and watched Kent play and scouted him from WA.

Being an SA bloke, it's fairly reasonable to assume that Viney had his eye on Clisby and Terlich.

Neeld was too busy coaching to scout ANY of those blokes.

Players we know for certain that Neeld did choose were Rodan, Pederson and Brynes.

They are all not up to standard.

Mark Neeld just simply wasn't up to it and in many facets of the game.

Edited June 28, 2013 by ThreeOneSix

[Generation dee 1,336]

As far as rumors go, those players are all Viney picks.

Todd Viney went up and watched Kent play and scouted him from WA.

Being an SA bloke, it's fairly reasonable to assume that Viney had his eye on Clisby and Terlich.

Neeld was too busy coaching to scout ANY of those blokes.

Players we know for certain that Neeld did choose were Rodan, Pederson and Brynes.

They are all not up to standard.

Mark Neeld just simply wasn't up to it and in many facets of the game.

Not disagreeing he wasn't up to it, that's been proven.

What my point is, is how people like to blame neeld for our recruits like Rodan, pederson etc, yet he isn't given any credit for giving the ok to net hogan and Dawes with the tradings, he isn't afforded any credit for delisting/trading 14 players who had been held on to for too long and make way for Kent, jones and clisby etc to come to the club.

I'm no neeld apologist, but to think he came in with the intention to destroy our club and make us so uncompetitive is a quite appalling. I hope he is remembered at assembling a squad that went on to be fiercely competitive in 2014 and beyond.