we will beat Freo this week

Beating a team thats playing for a spot in the top 2 will make this season far from the worst and give us great hope going into 2014

we will beat Freo this week

Beating a team thats playing for a spot in the top 2 will make this season far from the worst and give us great hope going into 2014

Love it!

Unfortunately now back to the real world of Pain and Disappointment as a MFC Supporter.

I wonder if Freo will come in to the game with a mindset to keep us scoreless. They could probably achieve it. A 0 to 30 loss is only a 30 point loss

A lot of what MN said in regards to the players' fitness and attitudes, while containing a kernel of truth, were mostly said for political purposes. I get the feeling that Neeld was a Matthew Knights in 2007 style applicant. The story goes that in 2007, Essendon had narrowed their search down to two blokes: Knights and Damian Hardwick. Besides the bollocks reasoning that Dimma missed out cos he couldn't bring Hawthorn's laptop, the word is that he missed out cos he told the panel things they didn't want to hear i.e. it will take a few years to get the club winning consistently. Matty Knights told them what they wanted to hear, or so the story goes, and got the job.

Cameron Schwab wanted the anti Bailey and someone who would validate all his criticisms of the old regime. Rocket Eade, while being realistic about our weaknesses yet seeing some strengths, didn't say what CS wanted to hear.

Exactly, all of Neeld's radical "political" movements had to be backed up by better football and a decent game plan to be valid. But no, upon finding out how bad we were he backtracked and went with "rebuilding" and "patience". An odd prose to use when you've replaced several young high draft pick players for mature age recruits who give little. Just doesn't cut it after a decent 4-year chunk of building by Bailey, which unfortunately spawned a debilitating loss that exposed all the faults in how the club was run. (Mind you, if we could see where the next 2 years would've taken us I'd have left Bailey alone).This season has been so much worse than that 186 point loss and I'm really upset with the path the club's gone down. On field and off. Still means that they're the Dees and I'll follow them every week, but I feel less attachment and faith in the club, seeing us play has become so much less enjoyable that it's hard to even identify with the players. Many whom I don't want to be there, many who may not want to be there themselves. Our two wins this year weren't great either, and haven't fixed or inspired much good footy