What's your confidence level of the current side

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

I always look at the 22 and count how many uncomfortable smirks I give - meaning how many players do I read their name and think 'gee, dunno about that guy just yet.. think he's a bit of NQR' this includes young players who may well develop into something but right now, in a match tomorrow, they are not particularly valuable.

We have Clark, Dawes, Jetta and Viney unavailable

How many of the 22 give you that uneasy feeling? No need to name them.. but go right ahead if you want

Backs Jack Watts James Frawley Dean Terlich
Half backs Jack Grimes Tom McDonald Colin Garland
Centreline Jack Trengove Colin Sylvia Sam Blease
Half forwards Rohan Bail Cameron Pedersen Jeremy Howe
Forwards David Rodan Max Gawn Shannon Byrnes
Followers Mark Jamar Michael Evans Nathan Jones
Interchange Aaron Davey Matt Jones Jordie McKenzie Luke Tapscott

[What 18,810]

Watts is the only player there that c0omncerns me cos he never comes with anything close to 100% intensity.

Im sure you will be feeling much better after we roll the Lions,

[Yourenextdipper 19]

It's a very poor list, I would swap it for every other list in the AFL. As bad as Fitroy in their final years. A lot of people are talking things up after last weekend, but remember they were three goals down and looking terrible until GWS came to a stand still.

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

Ask me again in 5 to 6 weeks once Dawes debuts and Clark returns and they both have a chance to settle.....

[QueensBirthday 186]

It's a very poor list, I would swap it for every other list in the AFL. As bad as Fitroy in their final years. A lot of people are talking things up after last weekend, but remember they were three goals down and looking terrible until GWS came to a stand still.

I'm sorry, but it's not a poor list. There are a lot of un-mined gems in our list. Poor development of our talent has been the down-fall. It's far from irreversible though.

I use to run my eye's over the Collingwood list during the 2009 season and enjoy how average they looked. However, brilliant coaching, and the best player development in the league changed that. I guarantee Dayne Beams would be currently absolutely average under Melbourne's previous tutelage.

We are capable of a sharp rise up the ladder. Poor fitness from the Bailey era, shocking training facilities (which has been addressed) from the Junction Oval era, a couple of spud draft picks. However, there is obvious talent on our list, just undeveloped.

If a couple of our players had a good voice in their ear, good training, clever strategy, we could prove a lot of doubters wrong. Especially, f#$%in' Purple and Durr Durr Darcy. Oops, anger boiling over.

[CHAMP 347]

It's a very poor list, I would swap it for every other list in the AFL. As bad as Fitroy in their final years. A lot of people are talking things up after last weekend, but remember they were three goals down and looking terrible until GWS came to a stand still.

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[Yourenextdipper 19]

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[stuie 7,374]

Really weird poll/thread....

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

Really weird poll/thread....

maybe it's you that's weird, ever think of that?

[jazza 1,323]

maybe it's you that's weird, ever think of that?

yep thought about it and the boss said its not me thats weird.

i keep saying the judgement of this list should be held AFTER 2014.

more games , another preseason and we will see where this list stands

[Ted Lasso 19,549]

Most of what used to be the next AFL superpower is still there only add clark, dawes, viney and toumpas to it,

all of this years draft picks look really good which is a very welcome change

and then HOGAN!

personally i think we have as much upside as gold coast, just not sure how we will go developing it.

[praha 11,240]

It's a good team of schoolboy superstars with no confidence nor the capacity to take it up to flying AFL sides.

They'll get their eventually but confidence is low for this team to play well when it truly matters.

Until they start showing up against teams that are more than 2 years old, I'll lack confidence.

Sunday's win was fun but I quickly came back to reality and realised that if it were 2010, we'd have won only 1 game out of the past 26 and Neeld would most certainly be out of a job.

IMO GC and GWS have saved his job.

[71 Molloy 266]

IMO GC and GWS have saved his job.

Bit simplistic Cudi. Without GC & GWS landscape would be totally different.

[titan_uranus 25,045]

Sunday's win was fun but I quickly came back to reality and realised that if it were 2010, we'd have won only 1 game out of the past 26 and Neeld would most certainly be out of a job.

But it's not 2010, so that's a pointless thing to say.

We can only play who we play, we can only beat who we beat, and Neeld can't go back or forward in time, he's stuck with the present.

Let's wait and see what happens from here. It will only take one or two wins against better clubs to make people believe that the path is there and we're on it (I'm not saying we are, nor that this will happen, I'm saying that this wil be the view people take if we happen to beat a better club than us).