Agree with a lot of what you say Bush, if things get worse the will step in as one sided matches ruins their brand and has dollar affects in TV rights etc. If they step in the next coach will either be Sheedy who is a great marketing man and whilst not bringing us to a Premiership he will get us competative. On the other hand Roos is well liked in AFL circles and this is also a road they could go down.

Whatever the outcome the AFL involvement will mean Schwab moves on as there is no way Sheedy or Roos would work with him.

In regard to the MCG no way I will take games at boutique stadiums against Meth Coast, Port, Brisbane etc but only 2 a year, 2 in Darwin and all other home games must be played at our home.

Hopefully we will turn it around and sort ourselves out

Yes. This is what a lot of Posters on 'land do not get.

The MFC is part of an 18 Team $1.2 Billion Broadcast deal, now if we keep playing garbage football that is over after 10 minutes The AFL will step in have no fear. If we want to stay at the 'G the AFL will make sure we are competitive.

Rounds 3-4 await.

Edited April 9, 201312 yr by why you little

2. Melbourne may be asked to play a number of their home games at a new boutique stadium such as a vamped up Princes Park. This option ticks off a number of boxes: it is a beautiful ground, is a traditional home of football is served by public transport and would create the 'full house' atmosphere the club desperately needs. Playing in the cavernous MCG is doing nothing for the Dees. Melbourne should not, however give up the G, it is still our home of football and we should play at least five games there, three of which should be reasonably drawing fixtures. If we can play twice in Darwin we can play seven games at Princes Park.

We managed to get 9k people to a Melbourne v WCE when we were good in 2002.

Craig Ellis was superb, the crowd was less so...

We will not want to play games there and our bottom line would be better served by moving those games that cannot be played at the G to Darwin.

if we are to move Neeld on either during the year or at the end then we would be mad not to go for a higly experienced coach this time. Sheedy would fit the bill nicely, despite his age. We need someone who can rev the players up, and he or williams or even matthews would be great to get this team back on track, but it shouldn't stop there with people being moved on...

Edited April 9, 201312 yr by young dee enthusiast

We managed to get 9k people to a Melbourne v WCE when we were good in 2002.

Craig Ellis was superb, the crowd was less so...

Shame so few got to see on of Craig Ellis's only games for the Dees

First thing is to get Brian Cook as CEO for 2014. Have an interim CEO appointed by the AFL and bye bye CS.

Why do people take note of someone like Damian Barrett. To paraphrase Jack Dyer Barrett is a good ordinary journalist and nothing more.

? The bloke who was asked to present to the club and was to arrogant it do so, was not selected because of his own arrogance. Not for me.

Sheedy isn't right for us.

Give me a Paul Roos or a Mark Thompson any day of the week before Sheedy.

Whilst Roos and Thompson would come with terms and $, we can offer them things that match these things (ie life membership to the Australia Club, Melbourne Club etc.)

We need a modern day coach with the following 3 prerequisites:

• Has won, and knows how to win, a Premiership
• Has gone through and come out of a successful rebuild
• Has experience as a top coach (see point 1)

Correct. At the moment we are so bad we can't even think about putting someone in place who can win us a premiership. If we can get someone who sets cultural standards and makes us a team who is a chance to win each time we take the field it will be a success. Whether Sheedy can do that I'm not sure but I'd be looking at guys like him, Williams, Eade, Clarkson or Ratten. We need an experienced coach who knows what it's like to win a flag either as a player or head coach.

What is Clarkson's contractual status? I thought he'd signed a new four year deal a year or so ago. Clarkson would be my first choice out of that lot. Inventive, hard-arsed coach. That said, I don't think we can sack Neeld unless we continue to loose by 100 points. Neeld will at least see out his contract if we start to become competitive again.