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Brad, and more impotantly Pia Miller are returning to Melbourne!

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2013-09-23/miller-returns-to-demons

Hopefully we'll see her around the club as much as possible! Oh and it's great Brad's back also, hopefully with no hard feelings?

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Were you expecting Leigh Matthews or something? I was surprised too, but these development coach positions all seem to be filled by low profile/inexperienced coaches. What say we give the bloke a chan

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I too am bemused at some of the comments. Miller reeks of leadership, which is why he was mooted as a potential captain and showed his class when he led the way with Trisha Broadbridge rebuilding the

Bedraggled Dee
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Cant believe the carping and sniping on this forum has started already. Surely you must give PJ and Roos some credit that they know what they are doing. You dont have to be a gun player to be a good

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OMG...really?!?..I hope he turns out a better coach than player.

Surely there was better available or poachable....Great that he was a Demons man and all but...Guess we will find out..

Roos must see something.

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Former Best on Red Carpet WAG.

Is back where she belongs.

Now we have someone to show the young fillies what Glam is all about

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I don't know how to react to this to be honest.

I'm happy that blokes who were burnt in years past are making peace with the club. (Though I didn't mind Millsy being moved on. He had been at the club for 8-9 years and wasn't going to get any better. People did say though he had leadership ability. It was just when Junior was given his marching orders that our clean out of club leaders was complete).

I'm nervous about former club employees coming back as we all saw how that ended up last time.

I will trust that Roos has done this for the best of reasons (i.e. he is the best man for the job).

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Is this the same Brad Miller that everyone usesd to love to payout?

Is this good news?

An inexperienced coach? And was no star

Sorry to be negative but it is strange.

He must have good characteristics and I guess coaches have to start somewhere.

Do we really need four threads for this?

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I think that Miller was a player that got the most out of himself......A good honest player...not a great player.....I think he might be good to show our young blokes how to get the best out of themselves

Just a thought....

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omg tell me this is isn't happening

Were you expecting Leigh Matthews or something? I was surprised too, but these development coach positions all seem to be filled by low profile/inexperienced coaches. What say we give the bloke a chance before we pan him, given that being the best player has never been a prerequisite for being a good coach.
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Cant believe the carping and sniping on this forum has started already. Surely you must give PJ and Roos some credit that they know what they are doing. You dont have to be a gun player to be a good coach you need to be smart, a good comunicator and a motivational leader. For what its worth Miller was and is a quality person who obviously, in Roos eyes has those qualities and I thought the team always looked better with him in it even if it didn't show in his stats. It wasn't just the loss of Jnr that left the club bereft of leaders. You can include, Miller, Green, Bartram and Bruce in that list as well.

Great to see Brad back at the club and I thnk he has the potential under Roos to become a very good coach.

PS looking forward to seeing Pia at the B&F

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Given that he was a mediocre to average footballer, maybe he's there for relatability with most of our list. :)

Maybe he's also the succession recipient!!!! :) :)

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Having inexperienced coaches isn't an issue per se. It's just when they have to carry loads they aren't able to do so. There is an example recently at our club of this and I'm not going to get into a p***ing match about that individual so I will leave it there.

I like the idea of Brett Allison and Roos at the club as they clearly have a lot of experience and will be able to pick up some of the slack if the newbies struggle (especially in the case of Roos). The problem before was that Craigy was the only experienced bloke amongst them and he wasn't even senior coach. When he was made senior coach, the horse had bolted and all he could do was try to resort to damage control.

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