MEDIA EXPLOITATION OF MFC

[Deestar3 167]

Spud is paid to speak for coaches. James Frawley is a highly paid footballer, and is paid to play AFL football to the best of his ability. If his coach cannot do his job to the satisfaction of the club, then he gets the sack. As for Frawley, his job is earn his packet on the field, no matter who is the coach.

Soidee, that is an extremely blinkered opinion. Frawley like all footballers share the same dreams & ambitions of supporters, to win a premiership. Unlike a lot of other careers, the window of opportunity is small. Why would frawley who has already been at the club 7 years & seen two coaches want to hang around & possibly watch another coach go through his plans for a rebuild. I think not. Also it is your opinion ( which you are entitled to ) that neeld is not doing the job he was paid to do, I for one think he is.

[Whispering_Jack 30,730]

I don't have a problem with King making those comments if he is well informed. I heard similar talk from one or two of the people at the Melbourne Community Breakfast on Friday but when questioned about the sources, there was embarrassed silence or that the information came second or third hand from a source like the person's taxi driver.

I am bemused by those in the media and elsewhere who criticise the FD's list management at the end of 2012.

The only player dropped/traded or FA'd off who is currently getting a regular game is Beamer who hasn't set the world on fire (except against us) and who wanted out at the end of 2011 when his management approached Essendon. Sadly, this didn't come to fruition - we might have picked up someone have decent in a trade at the time. Rivers is on his last legs and injured, most of the others are no good and we know about the tragedy of Liam Jurrah.

Most of the criticism of incoming players centres around the recycled players coming in but the only one who came at any significant cost was Chris Dawes who was recruited as a forward line foil to Mitch Clark but that has yet to eventuate. He showed against Hawthorn that he can add value to the team. Byrnes was a FA who cost us nothing. Gillies was a delisted FA (ditto) while Peterson cost us Gysberts who isn't getting a game at North. Rodan cost Morton (ditto at WCE) and who was rated a #88 pick in a whacky trade. The recycled group were the equivalent of our 9th to 12th selections ahead only of the rookie picks. Neeld did explain that the likes of Byrne and Rodan were selected partly to set examples at training because of our lack of experienced players who work hard in these areas.

[DemonFrog 1,356]

Shite clubs get shite spoken about them.

He may just be right, if I was Sylvia I'd leave if a decent club came along, Watts has not developed as well as we would have liked and seems to always in rumours of him not liking Neeld, and Frawley could walk into any top side. I'm sure if a club came after Frawley and he could make the club trade him he would leave.

We are a festering turd covered in flies at the moment.

I think you are holding back, tells us what you really think!