Who cares anymore - Anger subsided

[DemonFrog 1,347]

Come listen to NM after game press conference on the MFC web site.

That will surely reunite some passion, anger etc.

Personally I think the 2013 is either a bad dream or a great comedy act. I not work out which one yet.

[Northern Summer 292]

The AFL will take the QB game away from us next year, no doubt about it. There's too much revenue at stake and they'll want teams that can draw 80,000+

[Crompton's the man 659]

The pity is worse

Can anyone name the seven stages of grief?

[DemonOX 8,696]

just emailed the club to tell them i am officially done until Neeld is sacked

I dont give a [censored] if hes the 2nd coach we have sacked in less than 2 years, that doesnt mean we shouldn't do it ASAP

His appointment has been a disaster to say the least and the guy is a pathetic coach

Hang in there HH change is a coming

They have just mentioned OTC that PJ is going to the AFL on Friday with his plan and then changes will be made. He will get his plan ticked off by the AFL along with some $$$$$$

Changes may include a new coach, head of footy department, reporting structures and board changes etc

Unfortunately this means Neeld will stay a bit longer.

[jane02 3,676]

I still care. My son who follows North gave me a huge hug at half time - he gets it. My Collingwood supporter husband didn't dare say anything - he has learnt to keep his mouth shut. I have come home for a sulk but will feel better in the morning as long as I don't read the papers. I will then start thinking about our next match. Its a testing time but I will always hang in there and care.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Can anyone name the seven stages of grief?

1. Turnovers

2. Lack of spread

3. Missed tackles

4. Hand passing to stationary teammates

5. Lack of fitness

6. Tom Gillies

7. Mark Neeld

[deeflog 679]

Played golf today.

as did I, and it felt a whole lot better than being at the 'g. which hurts me to say but that's how it is right now

[Gorgoroth 12,701]

I think u have gone to far with this one G

I'm here Sunday to Saturday.

[DemonFrog 1,347]

So have I got this right, you marriage a Collingwood supporter?

I still care. My son who follows North gave me a huge hug at half time - he gets it. My Collingwood supporter husband didn't dare say anything - he has learnt to keep his mouth shut. I have come home for a sulk but will feel better in the morning as long as I don't read the papers. I will then start thinking about our next match. Its a testing time but I will always hang in there and care.

[DemonOX 8,696]

So have I got this right, you marriage a Collingwood supporter?

Was probably "the only guy left on the island" type scenario TBF!!!!

[P-man 13,366]

Alcohol helps.

Normally a shellacking on QB would have me seething, but I find I'm becoming more numb to this. What's another approx 100 point loss with 100 less possessions between friends? It's the Neeld way.

It's actually staggering when you sit back and think about where this club sits now. It's just...sad.

[Return to Glory 8,213]

My 5 yr. old asked me if" the Demons won?".

I said yes. I say yes every week. So, lying helps.

.

[Mongrel Dee 56]

Many were against Swarta's comments. I agreed with him for its the only way out of this mess. Someone else has to have a better approach to coaching to lift the team. The young Collingwood players who come in and do well are not necessasrily better than ours. Put Toumpas, Tapscott in Collingwood and they would be considerably better because the way their team plays helps lift the young. The quality of players is important, but being able to lift the team to performance which is greater than the sum of the parts is what coach is about. Our lack of effective game plan holds our collective effort back. Swarta had the courage to say the unsayable but what I know numerous others wanted to say.

Mclardy had a crack at the Ox at Presidents lunch. I think Donny is a decent bloke but totally out of his depth at the minute, and he should not have slapped a former club champion at at lunch like today. Poor form Don.

[Supermercado 2,784]

I get the feeling about not being angry anymore, I just sit there laughing for most of the games. I'll keep going until they bury us but I shudder to think what crowds are going to look like by the end of the year.

[CHAMP 347]

We really can't expect to see anymore wins this year with this terrible list Neeld has assembled. I've accepted this

So it seems has Mark with his admission that "The playing list is the playing list".

It's as close as he goes to calling a spade a spade.

[Mongrel Dee 56]

I get the feeling about not being angry anymore, I just sit there laughing for most of the games. I'll keep going until they bury us but I shudder to think what crowds are going to look like by the end of the year.

I was in the members today and that's exactly what was happening. Most of the suits were just laughing at how bad we are.

[Biffen 12,818]

Mclardy had a crack at the Ox at Presidents lunch. I think Donny is a decent bloke but totally out of his depth at the minute, and he should not have slapped a former club champion at at lunch like today. Poor form Don.

Ox slapped the club-Don slapped Ox , to go with his death threat.

First time Don has grown a pair.

Had to happen. That [censored] Kennett got some too.

[What 18,810]

Hang in there HH change is a coming

They have just mentioned OTC that PJ is going to the AFL on Friday with his plan and then changes will be made. He will get his plan ticked off by the AFL along with some $$$$$$

Changes may include a new coach, head of footy department, reporting structures and board changes etc

Unfortunately this means Neeld will stay a bit longer.

i love the MFC, and always will.

ANd i have faith that PJ will steer us in the right direction.

Looking forward to hearing how his meeting with the AFL goes.

[Wells 11 5,264]

Can anyone name the seven stages of grief?

Morton

Jurrah

Scully

Watts

Gysberts

Cook

Clarkes foot

[Mongrel Dee 56]

Ox slapped the club-Don slapped Ox , to go with his death threat.

First time Don has grown a pair.

Had to happen. That [censored] Kennett got some too.

Don was preaching to the converted, that's not growing a pair. The whole board led by Don have stuffed up big time and are in no position to slap others.

[DemonOX 8,696]

i love the MFC, and always will.

ANd i have faith that PJ will steer us in the right direction.

Looking forward to hearing how his meeting with the AFL goes.

Can't come quick enough.

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

I was in the members today and that's exactly what was happening. Most of the suits were just laughing at how bad we are.

yes in the MCC against gold coast it was a horror movie unfolding in front of us, but everyone around me was either completely poker faced or laughing with each other. That is not to say these people don't have passion, quite the opposite, there has been too much negative energy expended at this point there is none left to give. Very strange environment, like a funeral for someone that everyone hated

[beelzebub 23,198]

I too am in previously uncharted waters... I never thought I would be here. The last month or so I am ashamed to admit I have stopped going, and today I didn't even watch on TV. Of course I checked the score but wasn't at all surprised to see we were in it for 35 minutes and then got absolutely slaughtered. Every week you can't help thinking that maybe something will click and we will actually play 4 respectable quarters of football, but this mob just refuses to do it. After previously asking for leniency on Neeld he has lost me, we just seem to be getting worse and worse. The last 3 weeks we have lost by an average of 89 points, that is an utter disgrace. However, the worst part is that there is nobody really making a fuss of it, we are so beaten down and jaded by supporting this club that the passion, even the negative passion, is fading. This failure for me to participate would have been unthinkable even a year ago... in fact I have gone several years without a missing game in Victoria, even at the cattery. I am paid up and I am on this site just about every day.. but I have plenty enough on my plate and plenty enough stress and sadness to deal with in daily life without having to deal with how [censored] we have become. I really hope that I am in the minority here, and I am not indicative of the supporter base, but it looks like year after year of pain has finally caught up with me and the level of commitment I thought previously to be unshakable is clearly coming undone. We are in a diabolical situation.. with all the challenges we were already facing we just REALLY didn't need to go backwards on the field and go back to the worst (or close to) side in the comp and everybody's whipping boy/laughing stock. I have a terrible feeling there will be no bouncing back from this as a club... and if quality players walk out as rumored.. it's over. I can't even envisage what kind of miracle can bring us back from the dead.. we need a superstar coach and a superstar player or two.. but it's not going to happen. Nobody wants anything to do with us and understandably so. It might be possible to throw money at the issue but we don't have any so we're stuffed there too. Hard times indeed.

know exactly where you are...its crap...and still I hardly care now. Life goes on. Alot of others things are experienced and done because...I dont care a whole lot anymore. . FZooty is just footy. The Dees are nn(....)........... well everyone can fill in that gap, to each their own.

It'd be nice when they deserve to be cared about again.

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

Hang in there HH change is a coming

They have just mentioned OTC that PJ is going to the AFL on Friday with his plan and then changes will be made. He will get his plan ticked off by the AFL along with some $$$$$$

Changes may include a new coach, head of footy department, reporting structures and board changes etc

Unfortunately this means Neeld will stay a bit longer.

hey mate can you expand on this? Is it fact or speculation

[baysidedave 246]

For the first time the media are getting to me. I know we are rubbish, I tell people we are rubbish but when I hear the total disregard people have Melbourne it really annoys me, more than ever.

l was like that, now l just don't get angry with the media. l used to ring KB's show and abuse the hell out of Denham , couldn't give rats tossbag anymore because they are right, we are a rabble and deserve all the scrutiny we get. l reckon its the only way anything is going to change so bring it on and hopefully if McLardy and his board are to gutless or scared to upset anyone by giving them the arse, hopefully the AFL will flick them. Edited June 10, 2013 by baysidedave