Will Neeld be our 'spade work' coach?

[beelzebub 22,330]

No pitmaster...you just jumped to your own conclusions...and assumed.. Suck it up

[PaulRB 6,041]

Imagine Neeld and the FD have been asked to bake a premiership cake. They arrive and look in the pantry, some good fresh ingredients, some old, some low quality ingredients, some high quality. They test out the ingredients, cakes are not up to standard, certainly not premiership cake standard.

So they work out what they can disgard or sell and what they need to buy or draft.

They then repeat and resume the cake testing in 2013.

Neeld is one horrible year into this process, his first shopping trip (last year) delivered Clark, arguably our best player prior to injury, so he knows his ingredients. His cake baking plan is based on cooking a "premiership cake" so he's not cooked us up some sweet boston buns while we wait for a premiership cake, he's tried to make a premiership cake, and with the ingredients he has these cakes have sucked.

Neeld has a full wallet and a handfull of draft coupons and he's about to go shopping again...

If he pulls our list, game plan and culture into shape over the next two years, he earns the right to have a tilt at baking the premiership cake.

Edited September 3, 2012 by PaulRB

[Guest]

Ok Col....if you say 99% or perhaps 95-99% I'll go with it..I've actually seen Melbourne play quite a bit this year. Proof of the putting is in the eating and to give him 100% Mate...I wish you could of been my Maths teacher!!

To be a bit more specific, I support him 100% in trying to revamp the culture of the MFC. I am a little iffy about the game plan.

[pitmaster 3,110]

No pitmaster...you just jumped to your own conclusions...and assumed.. Suck it up

Hmmm...well English is my first language...and, er, you did say failure was the fault of "successions" of FDs and coaches. Get it...plural of successive?

That sounds like more than two run together, that sounds like a pattern over generations. So go back, read what you really wrote rather than what you think you wrote.

Like I said earlier: you shifted the goalposts so lose the 'tude, dude.

[beelzebub 22,330]

Pitmaster youre probably the only one here who interpreted it that way and since it carried no water you take issue. Fine.

How anyone prior to Daniher could inflict any influence upon the current list is beyond me but seemingly known to yourself.

im not your dude idiot.

Actually Successions is the plural of succession. .. You'd know that given its your first language though. Successive is an adjective, Succession was used as a noun.

Daniher taking over from Balme..is a succession. Baily from Daniher, is a succession.

count with me.... 1....2... 2 can make a plural.

Now do you want to keep it up. Probably got all of the off season.

Edited September 3, 2012 by belzebub59

[The Demon 2565 28]

the very idea of a 'spade work' coach is flawed to me, somewhat along the same lines as BBs initial response

fact is, if Neeld gets 3 or 4 years into redefining the list, the culture, etc and then gets the boot, his efforts will be for nothing. his replacement will bring his own people with him, and they will want to put their own mark on exactly the same areas that Neeld had worked on, which will put us back if not all the way to square one, certainly within a shout of it

Exhibit A: Cartlon. They have turfed a good coach who has spent the last five (?) years bringing them back from their darkest days (ah, the fond memories...) only to get the boot for a year no coach could have salvaged anything, except perhaps an extra win against an expansion club, from. Exhibit B: Richmond for the last 30 years. Sacked their coach every time their mentally unstable fan base had a collective hissy fit and have 2 finals appearances in the last 30 years to show for it

Compare and contrast with Geelong who by all reports were on the brink of sacking Thompson but decided to stay strong, and while it may have taken 7 or 8 years to get the first one they now have 3 flags in 5 years and are by no means out of it this year. The hawks also had to endure years of pain when Clarko first came on board, now the flag is theirs to lose

The club absolutely must stay the course, or it'll be 10 more years in the wilderness for us

[pitmaster 3,110]

Pitmaster youre probably the only one here who interpreted it that way and since it carried no water you take issue. Fine.

How anyone prior to Daniher could inflict any influence upon the current list is beyond me but seemingly known to yourself.

im not your dude idiot.

Actually Successions is the plural of succession. .. You'd know that given its your first language though. Successive is an adjective, Succession was used as a noun.

Daniher taking over from Balme..is a succession. Baily from Daniher, is a succession.

count with me.... 1....2... 2 can make a plural.

Now do you want to keep it up. Probably got all of the off season.

But if you meant Daniher into Bailey why would you say successions? Why not successive? Wacky.

Well yeah, I am about done with you since you're reverting to abuse but when you say there is no one at the club with influence over the present group who goes beyond the Danners and Bails years you are omitting the ceo who goes back to the strong recruiting of the 80s. But there you go. Suck on that.

Edited September 3, 2012 by pitmaster