Felt a bit the same. He also went overboard in how bad things are now. The "not trying" thing is outdated, and we did finish 13th. You can't still be deplorable and have five teams finish below you.

But he conveyed the misery of being a Demons supporter pretty much spot on and it didn't alter my opinion of him. He's a top shelf football satirist with an extremely sharp mind.

I couldn't agree more.

Agree with those who say he overdid the negativity for this past season, but it's his thing and he is doing it for a non-Melbourne audience so that gives him an out, HOWEVER, the most disturbing thing for me is that he sounds like Nige From North Fitzroy. (That would at least explain the factual inaccuracies.)

You could go further than that and add that Neeld was buried as a coach because he recognised the lack of fitness and the poor culture and tried to change it. The effect was that he was a lame duck from the very beginning.

The trouble with Neeld was that instead of taking the players along with him he tried to drive them to a better culture and fitness by using the stick and the whip.

The trouble with Neeld was that instead of taking the players along with him he tried to drive them to a better culture and fitness by using the stick and the whip.

No personality whatsoever.

You cant demand respect just because you are an organised robot.

Tony Abbott found that out.

No personality whatsoever.

You cant demand respect just because you are an organised robot.

Tony Abbott found that out.

Abbott was more a Dalek than your garden variety robot. Robots technically should feel no emotion. Abbott was a sentient being like the Daleks but also like them he was reprogrammed to feel only hate, anger and fear.

No personality whatsoever.

You cant demand respect just because you are an organised robot.

Tony Abbott found that out.

Strange analogy to Tony Abbott. Even setting aside political animosity it is an odd one.

A man who was known for being disorganised and impulsive throughout his career, and who operated entirely on emotion. I'd be impressed by anyone who could find a single thing he did that was either well planned or based on careful review of evidence instead of 'feelings'.

In contrast, Neeld had a 'linear pseudo-rational empathy-deficient' plan and stuck to it no matter how many screaming tormented waifs and alienated veterans piled up in the delisting basket.

Strange analogy to Tony Abbott. Even setting aside political animosity it is an odd one.

A man who was known for being disorganised and impulsive throughout his career, and who operated entirely on emotion. I'd be impressed by anyone who could find a single thing he did that was either well planned or based on careful review of evidence instead of 'feelings'.

In contrast, Neeld had a 'linear pseudo-rational empathy-deficient' plan and stuck to it no matter how many screaming tormented waifs and alienated veterans piled up in the delisting basket.

Best simple description of Tony Abbot that exists.

The trouble with Neeld was that instead of taking the players along with him he tried to drive them to a better culture and fitness by using the stick and the whip.

Yes and possibly a different man might have succeeded with that approach by better informing a partly alienated playing group about his strategies. He didn't get them on board and he failed.

I suspect Biffen is Titus.

42 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

I suspect Biffen is Titus.

I have been thinking its Ethan T

19 hours ago, Return to Glory said:

I suspect Biffen is Titus.

 

But one has funny moments... and the other doesn't.

I wonder how much of  Neeldoleprosy and Schwabitis still permeates though the club? Improvement has been snail pace marginal at best.  Not like post McCarthyism and Maltnecrosis at the Bulldogs and Carlton with their seemingly miraculous full recovery from irrelevance and mediocrity. I hope we haven't been sold a snake oil cure.

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