And your years of AFL experience tell you that. We haven't developed anyone and until the club, the supporters and the mindless here realise this we have got years of pain ahead.

I wish him good luck,

Sure does.

Anywhoo....

Radio interview with the Run Home today.

https://soundcloud.com/sen1116/the-run-home-sam-blease

Obviously takes a small wack at Melbourne failed development.. Better off to shut your mouth Bleasey..

Edited November 3, 201411 yr by dazzledavey36

Sure does.

Radio interview with the Run Home today.

https://soundcloud.com/sen1116/the-run-home-sam-blease

Obviously takes a small wack at Melbourne failed development.. Better off to shut your mouth Bleasey..

i now think this guy is a rat trying to blame everyone else. Nathan jones says hi Sam

I heard the interview live while cooking a bar b que. I was actually surprised at how articulate and reasonable Blease was. I also thought he was quite fair and realistic, and even though he did comment on the matter of so many high draft picks failing at Melbourne, it was far less caustic than the vitriol on this site.

Well done Sam. Good luck at the Cats!!

Good luck to him. No need to have a crack at him on the way out the door.

Sure does.

Radio interview with the Run Home today.

https://soundcloud.com/sen1116/the-run-home-sam-blease

Obviously takes a small wack at Melbourne failed development.. Better off to shut your mouth Bleasey..

Well I take that back. Whack away everyone.

I hope you rot along side Clark in the VFL you hack.

Only took him 5 years to realise you need to be able to play defence and he says that's the coaches fault? Players like that are the biggest thing wrong with this club. Expects everything done for him. Get ya head of your arse Blease

Rivers Clark Blease...

It just don't add up....!

next McKenzie & Garland? lookout for strauss?

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-11-03/cats-pleased-with-blease

Always someone else's fault hey Sammy.

Sam's in for a rude shock. HE says he wasn't suited to the defensive gameplan at Melbourne, what he means is he didn't want to do the work. Now he's off to one of the best sides in the competition and he thinks they'll let him train at his own pace and gift him games when he shows no defensive intensity? Good luck with that mate. This is another ex-demon who's going to spend the next year twiddling his thumbs in the seconds and wondering what's gone wrong.

I guess Geelong, a recently very successful club, may have had just a little bit of a think about all this, and decided that it was worth a gamble. Nobody can know just how it will all turn out, but he clearly hasn't displayed any work ethic at the Demons. Can a leopard change his spots?

Anyone still fond of him?

MELBOURNE’S instability has stifled the development of its first-round draft picks, new Cat Sam Blease says.

Blease, 23, was signed by Geelong on Monday as a delisted free agent after playing just 33 games in six years at Melbourne.

He was taken at No.17 in the 2008 AFL Draft, and along with a host of other high selections, has been unable to help lift the Demons from the doldrums during his tenure.

While admitting the players had to take responsibility for their performances, Blease told SEN the club also had a bit to answer for.

When asked whether they were developed adequately, the speedy midfielder was emphatic:
"I've had five coaches in six years. You can only imagine if your boss changes every year almost, it's hard to keep consistency," Blease said.

"I find it hard to believe that people write that (former Melbourne recruiting chief) Barry Prendergast stuffed up all the draft picks and picked the wrong players, I find that really hard to believe that 15 (or) 16 first-round draft picks could be no good.

"People forget how unstable the Melbourne Football Club has been at times and that's reflective of five or six coaches we've had.

"It's a shame it's that way, players have to take responsibility, but AFL footy's challenging at the best of times and when there's other obstacles in front of you, it makes it even more difficult.

“A lot of the players would be more mentally exhausted from their time (at Melbourne) than physically.”

Blease said the defensive side of his game had been under the most scrutiny, and believed it was something he could address at Geelong.

"Most of the time Roosy's game plan was based more around defence and I guess I lean more on the side of offence … and defence is something that hasn’t come natural to me," he said.

"It's certainly something I've been trying to work on over the journey of my AFL career.

"I just felt like anything I did I probably wasn't going to get an opportunity, I just wasn't in the plans at Melbourne.”

I heard the interview live while cooking a bar b que. I was actually surprised at how articulate and reasonable Blease was. I also thought he was quite fair and realistic, and even though he did comment on the matter of so many high draft picks failing at Melbourne, it was far less caustic than the vitriol on this site.

Well done Sam. Good luck at the Cats!!

Are you on drugs or what? Would it not be better for him to have shut his mouth until he had some runs on the board at the Cats before he made any comment? However reasonable you consider it, he still had a whack at his old club as he left. Bad form IMO. He might speak well, but he's gone way too early on the "Melbourne couldn't develop me" line. It irks me that he works on his major deficiencies only when he knows he has to find a home elsewhere. When he is a flop at Geelong, this interview will look mighty stupid.

I will start by saying I have never been a fan always thought he was a one trick pony.

However it is hardly his fault he was drafted by the MFC.

Was not good enough IMO however he is not the devil incarnate as a few on here are suggesting.

We did not want him and he has picked up a spot at the cats.

I wish him well but I think he will struggle at the cats he just ain't that good.

Are you on drugs or what? Would it not be better for him to have shut his mouth until he had some runs on the board at the Cats before he made any comment? However reasonable you consider it, he still had a whack at his old club as he left. Bad form IMO. He might speak well, but he's gone way too early on the "Melbourne couldn't develop me" line. It irks me that he works on his major deficiencies only when he knows he has to find a home elsewhere. When he is a flop at Geelong, this interview will look mighty stupid.

Did you listen to the interview live as I did? I stand by my earlier comments.

I heard the interview live while cooking a bar b que. I was actually surprised at how articulate and reasonable Blease was. I also thought he was quite fair and realistic, and even though he did comment on the matter of so many high draft picks failing at Melbourne, it was far less caustic than the vitriol on this site.

Well done Sam. Good luck at the Cats!!

Yeah well done Ginger.

Soo sorry we couldn't make you a fkn star.

Jees man , you have become tolerant of others lately and the happy clappy attitude is going to make me puke on my voodoo dolls.

Where's there anger and venom we have grown to expect?

Yeah well done Ginger.

Soo sorry we couldn't make you a fkn star.

Jees man , you have become tolerant of others lately and the happy clappy attitude is going to make me puke on my voodoo dolls.

Where's there anger and venom we have grown to expect?

Biffen your constant exploitation of crack whores has hardened you to the beauties of this world! I picture Sam sprinting through a field of blue and white flowers. His velocity causing petals to whirl and cascade around him! And ...finally ... a white robed Stevie J opening his arms and heart in welcome to the land called 186!!

Biffen your constant exploitation of crack whores has hardened you to the beauties of this world! I picture Sam sprinting through a field of blue and white flowers. His velocity causing petals to whirl and cascade around him! And ...finally ... a white robed Stevie J opening his arms and heart in welcome to the land called 186!!

I want whatever he's having !!!

I want whatever he's having !!!

Ha! I was just about to write the same thing but you beat me to it.

Geelong loading up on that famed Melbourne attitude.

I'm not a Blease fan but the facts are that our game plan and that of Neeld didn't suit Sam. He could make it at Geelong where they are much better placed to use his attributes and other players far better at covering his weaknesses.

If he makes it at Geelong so be it but I doubt he'd have ever made it at MFC and it has little to do with development.

What, other players cover his weaknesses at the second best two way running team in the league. I think not. I think he's in for a rude surprise if he thought defensive running didn't suit his style of play and thinks that is going to be ok at the Cats. Sylvia says hello.

Did you listen to the interview live as I did? I stand by my earlier comments.

C'mon mate. It was a massive cop out by him.

We all know he's right. Melbourne gave him the worst possible chance to become a top-flight AFL player.

But could you imagine Nathan Jones coming out and saying this?

The fact he signed with a new club and immediately started placing blame for his time here on the club and hardly on himself is reflective of his poor attitude, which is the primary reason he's not made it yet.

so he gives the club a whack on the way out. [censored] him. Hope he fails dismally and is delisted after 12 months of one way running.

Regardless of whether he was right, you just don't say things like that publicly, it's such a small industry, if he stays in it if any fashion there's going to be a pretty high chance he'll work with someone who he just offended. He's shown himself to be an arrogant and self centred little [censored], he can gagf

C'mon mate. It was a massive cop out by him.

Ken'oath it was! If he had a good season with the Cats and finished top 15 in their B&F I could take it from him. Not as a parting shot the day after signing elsewhere.

Done nothing to earn the right to comment.

Worst player to pull on the red and blue, a gun lol I would put money on he doesn't play a game and is delistedfter his 12 months is up

I bet you couldn't kick five goals in an AFL match, let alone for the MFC.

I heard the interview live while cooking a bar b que. I was actually surprised at how articulate and reasonable Blease was. I also thought he was quite fair and realistic, and even though he did comment on the matter of so many high draft picks failing at Melbourne, it was far less caustic than the vitriol on this site.

Well done Sam. Good luck at the Cats!!

BBO you have an interesting take on this. I heard the interview live as well but I was driving home from work!! I thought he was not very articulate at all, he tended to waffle on too much and I am not sure why Half and Dr Turf let him ramble on. It crossed my mind and it is only a thought bubble that the elite A graders tend to speak very well, very concisely and with authority, a sign of their confidence, leadership and focused thinking. I thought Blease knew what he wanted to say but took 20 words to say what could have been said in 10 words. Maybe that is just me. However I had some sympathy for his argument, looking at the data how could we have got a dozen or more first round picks so wrong, it has got to be something about the development versus talent. Having 5 coaches in 6 years is a good argument for failure. He has a point but then having watched him over 5 years you still wonder why he couldn't improve his game given his physical talents. I still think his problem is his decision making, not his physical gifts. He is a dumb footballer with some other great attributes. I hope he matures and makes a go of it at the cats.

this sort of talk (no matter how accurate or not) is just plain dumb and burns bridges unnecessarily

how is slagging off mfc going to help in any way possible in his future

he's at the cats now and the only thing that will help him is completely up to him alone

telling the world he is damaged goods does himself a disservice and highlights immaturity

bad move sammy

Stop being so precious.

Does anyone actually disagree with what he said?