I was in country nsw on the weekend and saw the country news. There was a report about a game at  Ungarie in honour of the Danihers . Neale  was interviewed and sadly seemed to have regressed in his battle with MND. The speech seemed more slurred and the face more contorted.

Come May when the push for QB MND freeze takes place dont be surprised by his appearance. I know I was shocked seeing him in Yr 2 after Yr 1 and how he had changed. 

It only really gets worse. I don’t think it regresses. Your body slowly shuts down.

2 minutes ago, Cassiew said:

It only really gets worse. I don’t think it regresses. Your body slowly shuts down.

Sadly I have seen it and how the patient deteriorates . The brain is often the one of the last organs to shut down so the patient is fully aware of what’s happening but cant communicate.

How good would it be to win the flag while Neale is still with us. 

Make it happen Demons.

Stephen Hawking had a similar ailment, there is no cure yet

2018 is the year of the Demon

”Do it for Danners”

14 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Stephen Hawking had a similar ailment, there is no cure yet

2018 is the year of the Demon

”Do it for Danners”

Absolutely agree. Great post

46 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Stephen Hawking had a similar ailment, there is no cure yet

2018 is the year of the Demon

”Do it for Danners”

Great cause. Do it for Danners. That is a great tribute.

1 hour ago, Satan said:

I was in country nsw on the weekend and saw the country news. There was a report about a game at  Ungarie in honour of the Danihers . Neale  was interviewed and sadly seemed to have regressed in his battle with MND. The speech seemed more slurred and the face more contorted.

Come May when the push for QB MND freeze takes place dont be surprised by his appearance. I know I was shocked seeing him in Yr 2 after Yr 1 and how he had changed. 

It's a shocking disease. My grandson's other grandmother died from it 22 months after diagnosis.

Ran into Neale at Kooyong a few weeks back. thought he was doing far better than at last years QBD game. He was very positive about the Dees for this coming year. 

3 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Stephen Hawking had a similar ailment, there is no cure yet

I heard that.  Quite remarkable that he survived something like 55 years from the time he was first diagnosed...!

Do it for Danners

i love it

Hawking had ALS which is a different disease and I have a friend who has MND and he says Neale is doing ok because he has lasted over 5 years.

40 minutes ago, Vagg said:

I heard that.  Quite remarkable that he survived something like 55 years from the time he was first diagnosed...!

Incredible things happen occasionally 

Stephen was one of them

22 minutes ago, durango said:

Hawking had ALS which is a different disease and I have a friend who has MND and he says Neale is doing ok because he has lasted over 5 years.

Actually, ALS is a subtype of MND.

https://www.alsmndalliance.org/what-is-alsmnd/

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14 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Stephen Hawking had a similar ailment, there is no cure yet

2018 is the year of the Demon

”Do it for Danners”

I believe he is the longest survivor with MND.....

24 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

I believe he is the longest survivor with MND.....

54 years with a muscle wastage ailment is incredible. 

The strength of his mind must have given him years

I'd love us, Essendon and West Coast (and any other club he had an official association with...was he at Fremantle?) play for the Neale Daniher Cup each year. Simple format - a mini-ladder of the games played against each other in the normal home and away series each year. It should only be the first game played (ie, ignore the second game, should there be one). Winner of the Neale Daniher Cup would be the team at the top of that mini-ladder. Perhaps even be creative and call it the Magnificent Neale Daniher (MND) Cup.

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I'd love us, Essendon and West Coast (and any other club he had an official association with...was he at Fremantle?) play for the Neale Daniher Cup each year. Simple format - a mini-ladder of the games played against each other in the normal home and away series each year. It should only be the first game played (ie, ignore the second game, should there be one). Winner of the Neale Daniher Cup would be the team at the top of that mini-ladder. Perhaps even be creative and call it the Magnificent Neale Daniher (MND) Cup.

Always saddened by the club's sacking of Neale. 

He had great strengths as a coach but like everyone else he had weaknesses. 

I also could not help but feel that by the end of his reign as coach he had become a true Melbourne person.  More so than others before and after. 

His battle over recent years show the true worth and strength of the man. A remarkable individual and much loved by all. 

The easy way to honour Daniher whilst also contributing to the MND cause would be to have Melb V Essendon at the G the weekend following Anzac Day. It works for scheduling as both clubs are coming off short weeks, both clubs obviously have the Neal Daniher connection and we get the benefit of another financial windfall blockbuster whilst also doing a good thing for society. 

Saw him at training one time when he was our coach, he came and said hello to both my self and my son, i thought wow that was so nice of him to take the time in his busy day to come over and speak to the both of us

 

59 minutes ago, deebug said:

Saw him at training one time when he was our coach, he came and said hello to both my self and my son, i thought wow that was so nice of him to take the time in his busy day to come over and speak to the both of us

 

 he was probably checking out if  you were a spy or not, but being a country lad he is down to earth.

On 2018/3/14 at 4:57 PM, Sir Why You Little said:

Stephen Hawking had a similar ailment, there is no cure yet

2018 is the year of the Demon

”Do it for Danners”

If one bloke deserves a premiership, it's Neale. It would be trite to say it was because he has MND. 

Neale, had he chosen another club, may well have been a premiership coach. The amount of cobblers he had to put up with at Melbourne (board challenges, salary cap investigations, becoming the club spruiker, training out of the Junction oval with dead possums in the air conditioners, a flaky playing group) was unbelievable. Yet he never swayed and absorbed all the pressure manfully. 

The only coach I don't believe who shouldn't have been moved on when they were in my eyes was Bails (and that's in retrospect). Neale's time in 2007 was up but it wasn't because he couldn't coach. It was just time.

He marginally shades Swooper as the best coach I have seen at the club. 

17 hours ago, don't make me angry said:

 he was probably checking out if  you were a spy or not, but being a country lad he is down to earth.

Anybody  interested in doing a bit more, you can always rattle a can before the QB game

http://fightmnd.org.au

23 hours ago, deebug said:

Saw him at training one time when he was our coach, he came and said hello to both my self and my son, i thought wow that was so nice of him to take the time in his busy day to come over and speak to the both of us

 

I was riding my treadlie past the Junction Oval one day in the late 90s and the Rev was in the carpark getting something out of the boot of his car. "Go Dees" I bellowed and he turned around and gave a smile and a wave...either that or he flipped me the bird, I was riding pretty fast and it was hard to tell.

Lovely fella and a terrible thing that's happened to him.