GAME DAY - Round 11

[Young Dee 1,303]

Bleasy!!!!!

[Gorgoroth 12,447]

Our season was summed up right then.

Blease drops a mark on his own, then falls over, Toumpas tries to pick it up and gets tripped by Blease stretching out to pick it up.

[ThreeOneSix 953]

Mark Neeld, suck on that... Sam Blease, in your face NEELD!

[ThreeOneSix 953]

I love that 50, that is good work Garland, showing some passion for the mighty red and blue, good boy.

[Gorgoroth 12,447]

Well done Garland, should have kicked him as well.

[the fork 357]

From our mate Greggy D, apologies to those who actually knew about this.

Experienced administrator Matthew Drain could head Melbourne's football department

A NEW-LOOK Melbourne football department could be headed by experienced AFL administrator Matthew Drain.

The Australian understands Drain has been approached by new Demons chief executive Peter Jackson to head football at the struggling club, which is expected to make several key football department changes, including the replacement of senior coach Mark Neeld a year ahead of the expiration of his contract.

Drain, 44, has previously worked for Essendon, the Western Bulldogs and St Kilda at the top end, as either general manager of football operations, list manager or high-performance manager.

He worked alongside Kevin Sheedy at Windy Hill between 1999 and 2002 when Jackson was Bombers chief executive.

Jackson did not return calls from The Australian last night.

Drain, a former Victorian Sheffield Shield squad member, left Essendon to become high-performance manager of Cricket Australia, where he oversaw the development of a centre of excellence. Having played first-grade cricket for 13 years, he was also head coach of the Australian women's cricket team.

After leaving St Kilda several years ago, Drain sought a career change away from elite sport, working in law enforcement.

Should he accept the position with Melbourne, he would be ideally placed to renew his association with Rodney Eade, who is likely to be sounded out for the senior coaching role from next season.

Eade is currently a coaching strategist under Nathan Buckley at Collingwood, a position he has held since he coached the Bulldogs for seven years until the end of the 2011 season.

Drain and Eade had a close working relationship at the Whitten Oval for several years until Drain moved to St Kilda in 2008

Edited June 10, 2013 by the fork

[Sir Why You Little 35,394]

The kids are having acrack. We have no spine.

Still sad to watch though.

[BAMF 3,925]

Gee, when they mentioned all of our outs, we aren't doing too bad.

Frawley, Grimes and Clark are 3 out of our best 5..

Then throw in Dawes going down, Viney out... We have a bit to work with.

Matt Jones is playing really well.

Were getting thumped.

[Bay Riffin 1,435]

Mark Neeld, suck on that... Sam Blease, in your face NEELD!

Blease continued pathetic defensive efforts have kept blease from playing. Not neeld.

[timD 994]

is that something you heard during the telecast Tim or just your personal thoughts?

I saw them chatting at a cafe about 2 weeks ago.

[bing181 8,366]

Mark Neeld, suck on that... Sam Blease, in your face NEELD!

Pity it's taken him 3 quarters of football and any number of dropped marks and turnovers for us to see it.

[bing181 8,366]

Trengove has predictably done nothing since quarter time

Watch the match, it might be a bit clearer why that is.

[ThreeOneSix 953]

Blease continued pathetic defensive efforts have kept blease from playing. Not neeld.

Blease adds run and confidence, it's unshakable..

Neeld drops Sam Blease to the VFL and the kid just knows he can play, his confidence is unshakable.

Sam Blease is a gun and he'd canter past half out list at half speed.

[Young Dee 1,303]

Pity it's taken him 3 quarters of football and any number of dropped marks and turnovers for us to see it.

Pity you have to crash the party!

[Undeeterred 2,908]

Neeld isn't going anywhere, you people are dreaming.

And this is not his fault.

These guys are playing for him and having a crack. Our problem is not structures, gameplans or anything else.

We just have terrible, terrible decision making and technical skills.

[bing181 8,366]

Sam Blease is a gun ...

When he feels like it. Playing Blease is a bit like giving the opposition an extra man.

[Maldonboy38 6,176]

Blease continued pathetic defensive efforts have kept blease from playing. Not neeld.

That might have been the case, but most - not all - of his defensive efforts today have been pretty good. He is not a favourite of Neeld, that is clear. Other players have shown no defensive effort but continue to get picked.

[Gorgoroth 12,447]

Nah our game plan is awesome!

I heard that the top four clubs come to watch us train so they can copy it.

Cos we train "ELITE!!!!!"

[ThreeOneSix 953]

When he feels like it. Playing Blease is a bit like giving the opposition an extra man.

Sounds like Lynden Dunn, that bloke is useless.

[ThreeOneSix 953]

That might have been the case, but most - not all - of his defensive efforts today have been pretty good. He is not a favourite of Neeld, that is clear. Other players have shown no defensive effort but continue to get picked.

Spot on.

[ThreeOneSix 953]

I'd love to belt Jolly, he's soft as butter and he's a sook.

[The Song Formerly Known As 6,479]

Poor Garland.

[ThreeOneSix 953]

Frawleys got himself a nice little blondie by the looks of things.

[glimpse 7]

OK so Melbourne does not want to pay out Neeld because we’re broke.

Here’s the solution!

We are on top of the ladder in the VFL (shock, horror) so swap coaches!

Let Casey’s coach be our coach until the end of the year and Neeld can try and coach Casey!

Why not?!

[the fork 357]

Garland has been our best today. Would love to tempt Hells Gates back here, but somehow don't think that is going to happen!