So many posters used to bag rivers heavily on here. I always said rivers was a gun ..... Now look at all an sundry realise what an asset he was ! Garland an frawly to casey this week.

So many posters used to bag rivers heavily on here. I always said rivers was a gun ..... Now look at all an sundry realise what an asset he was ! Garland an frawly to casey this week.

So many posters used to bag rivers heavily on here. I always said rivers was a gun ..... Now look at all an sundry realise what an asset he was ! Garland an frawly to casey this week.

i always said he was the pin that we put 7 years of work into and couldnt beleive geelong lost scarlett and we gave them a surefire replacement. staggered actually?????? whats going on, wasnt he liked by teamates???? the coach????? recruiting staff?????

Chippy.

Thats my judgement mate. Back mine against yours.

i always said he was the pin that we put 7 years of work into and couldnt beleive geelong lost scarlett and we gave them a surefire replacement. staggered actually?????? whats going on, wasnt he liked by teamates???? the coach????? recruiting staff?????

He wanted success in the twilight of his career. Can you blame him?

Aside from being hopeless when the ball comes in we are uselss when it comes to having a player that can caryy the ball and pinpoint a kick out of our defensive 50.

The number of 1m handballs we did yesterday put enormous pressure on the players. This is a real issue when you don't have players being smart enough further up the ground to sense when we have the ball and to make position to receive a kick..

Dumb dumb dumb

He wanted success in the twilight of his career. Can you blame him?

terrible one on one player. Oppn clubs would drag him back to the goal square and it was all over.

He wanted success in the twilight of his career. Can you blame him?

I don't blame him at all ..... Just annoys me the complete 360 some people do now they realise "oh yeah he was good".

He held that back line together

People don't necessarily choose 'education' because of their skills as communicators. Sometimes they simply don't have the smarts to enter the professions or prefer not to get their hands dirty by becoming a tradie!

That's a reasonably generalised comment, but the fact that Neeld isn't teaching anymore could speak volumes. Don't get me wrong. Being a teacher doesn't make you a good communicator, but you would have thought it would offer you a little more foresight about how people respond to autocratic leadership. Someone described the way he came into the club as subtle as a bull in a china shop. Reasonably apt description. Surely he'd know this approach wouldn't work with everyone.

Rivers was neither terrible or unbelievably good. What he was, however, was someone we could not afford to lose given the precarious state of the list ATM.

Rivers was a fantastic reader of the play. However, McDonald demonstrated a number of times yesterday that he could play that role. What McDonald offers is pace and run and carry. Rivers never offered that. Rivers was a good servant, his experience is what we will most miss. No one in our back six has ever played in a final or a winning team. Rivers had.

It's not the backline it's the shear weight of inside 50's

Our midfield allows the opposition so much time and space that our backline has little chance. As our midfield improves so will our backlinf