Time to go

[The Yarra 83]

Dunn, Spencer, Byrnes, Gillies, Watts, Davey, Jetta, Bail, Rodan, Tapscott, Sylvia, Couch, Thurin, Spargo, Howcroft, Trotter, Misson, Rawlings, Craig, Royal, Greaves.

Neeld wasn't the problem. How can one coach in such a cancerous environment. We need fresh blood, a complete turn over of staff and personnel.

If the current fucias can become demons, we may have a chance in hell.

[jackaub 1,402]

SACK THE CLUB THEN

[Sir Why You Little 36,611]

You may well be right Yarra.

[Generation dee 1,336]

SACK THE CLUB THEN

Brilliant. No point getting too upset. Over the past 5 years we've been at rock bottom so many times. I don't think we keep plumbing to new depths, I think we just invent new ways to make everyone laugh at us.

[ThreeOneSix 954]

Neeld wasn't the problem because the whole club is a rabble, from the board on down, that is why PJ is fixing it.

If the club was in order when Neeld arrived, he'd of probably been a decent coach.

Neeld did have to go in the end so we could get the board and the rest of the club right.

It wasn't fair on Neeld from the time he came in, but Neeld would have no regrets, he got a taste of it and he'll succeed elsewhere.

[Biffen 12,814]

Brian Royal.

Every ball up we lose the ball.

C'mon mate.

Ciao.

[waynewussell 4,866]

ThreeOneSix I think you are closer to the truth than the sports journalists are on the Essendon case!

[Hannibal 5,814]

Dunn, Spencer, Byrnes, Gillies, Watts, Davey, Jetta, Bail, Rodan, Tapscott, Sylvia, Couch, Thurin, Spargo, Howcroft, Trotter, Misson, Rawlings, Craig, Royal, Greaves.

Neeld wasn't the problem.

I think you'll find that the disaster that was Mark Neeld won't be washed away overnight.

[angrydee 842]

I think you'll find that the disaster that was Mark Neeld won't be washed away overnight.

Unfortunately too true.

It will take a preseason

[pitmaster 3,446]

Neeld wasn't the problem because the whole club is a rabble, from the board on down, that is why PJ is fixing it.

If the club was in order when Neeld arrived, he'd of probably been a decent coach.

Neeld did have to go in the end so we could get the board and the rest of the club right.

It wasn't fair on Neeld from the time he came in, but Neeld would have no regrets, he got a taste of it and he'll succeed elsewhere.

Man is that a load.

Neeld did much damage to this group.

He was a lousy people manager. In the words of a player I spoke to last week, arrogant know all who neither commanded nor gave respect.

[angrydee 842]

Royal is what you get when your CEO stops the paying out of a contract

[junk 342]

Agree with you totally,don't foget Greg Healy( useless as t.ts on a bull). I copped plenty of criticisms in the past for making those suggestions,once again WELL DONE. Craig can also take a flying leap.

[Rhino Richards 1,467]

I think you'll find that the disaster that was Mark Neeld won't be washed away overnight.

Exactly.

The scars that he with the administration that supported have really damaged this club badly.

[EmineNce- 26]

I happen to enjoy watching Tappy play.. He has a bright future. The rest can go..

except maybe byrnes..

I dont mind him either

[rjay 24,579]

I think you'll find that the disaster that was Mark Neeld won't be washed away overnight.

The mess in the whole club won't be cleaned up over night. The mess that has been caused by previous administrations just beggars belief but it's there for all to see.

Unfortunately everything is on hold now at the club, there will be a new head of football, a new president and a new coach and still some of the board to go for mine. That is a lot of people sitting in interim positions who know they won't be there next year and the players know this.

Craig really gave the game up if it wasn't already up by saying he didn't blame Watts for waiting and seeing what happens. They're all waiting now except for the few who have a real pride in their performance.

[T-34 409]

I think you'll find that the disaster that was Mark Neeld won't be washed away overnight.

To lay what we are being dished up at the feet of one man is bordering on delusional.

Neeld was only one of a cavalcade of disasters dished up by this club.

Anyone who honestly thinks this is all his fault is in urgent need of therapy.

This group of players are abysmal at the things that don't need coaching, like chasing, tackling and generally showing some form of desire for a contest.

The administration is clearly in over their heads as this train wreck has been occurring for far too long with no one showing the balls to make the hard decisions to stop it.

The coaches employed by this club for the best part of the last decade are all abject failures, we are still making the same mistakes now that we were back then and no one seems to care.

The recruiters don't need me to point out their failures, they are there for all to see, every time this club runs out to play.

This club currently has a snowballs chance in hell to pull themselves out of this hole that has been dug long before Neeld was even here, but if it makes you feel better laying it all on one man then good for you.

[Whispering_Jack 29,178]

I think it's disingenuous to blame Neeld alone for out current situation. The train wreck that we are today left the station a decade ago and was caused by a combination of poor coaching, poor recruiting, list management and player development. It started in Neale Daniher's latter years and was compounded during Bailey's term. Needless to say, things didn't get any better under Mark Neeld's short tenure but the mess was already there when he arrived.

[RalphiusMaximus 6,012]

I think I may be the only one left laughing.

[Guest]

Neeld by no means was the only cause of this debacle but his hiring was the cherry on top of the shite sundae. It was like someone who had been knocked out in a street fight who then gets gutter stomped. If the KO wasn't bad enough, the coup de gras was even worse..

[Strapping Young Lad 227]

Ha my post got pulled! What I said was the truth "Brain" Royal was my Specialist Coach for my School in Ballarat in 1999! another fine year for the demons... My brother got Chris Grant.... I feel I was Jilted!

[Machsy 2,858]

Agree with you totally,don't foget Greg Healy( useless as t.ts on a bull). I copped plenty of criticisms in the past for making those suggestions,once again WELL DONE. Craig can also take a flying leap.

So you should have.

It's just as poorly thought-out when someone else writes it.

[deewag 22]

"Dunn, Spencer, Byrnes, Gillies, Watts, Davey, Jetta, Bail, Rodan, Tapscott, Sylvia, Couch",

We must trade Watts. Sylvia (FA) will probably go. Give (may have to pay) Jamar to GWS. Persevere with Spencer, Tappscott. The rest can go for nothing!

[Adam The God 29,334]

Gotta keep Watts unless Carlton offered us Marc Murphy. It's not gonna happen. He will be a damaging player with confidence and good players around him. Pretty much agree on the rest though, minus perhaps Rawlings and Spencer.

[Ted Lasso 18,775]

Gotta keep Watts unless Carlton offered us Marc Murphy. It's not gonna happen. He will be a damaging player with confidence and good players around him. Pretty much agree on the rest though, minus perhaps Rawlings and Spencer.

My issue is that he doesn't look like he wants to be out there half the time, huge sense of entitlement in these blokes, no honor in the fact they're playing for the oldest AFL club.

[Moonshadow 17,478]

Watts in a trade for GWS Adams