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I liked Neale, sorry to see him go. But should a coach really be so liked by the players. There,s a big gap between being liked and respect. Great coaches are respected almost feared by the players. Thats something i havn't seen from a Melbourne coach in a long long time.

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    disagree. I don't think all players respond positively for a coach that they fear. Some do..but many(if not most) don't.

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    disagree. I don't think all players respond positively for a coach that they fear. Some do..but many(if not most) don't.

    It's not about fear of the coach, it's about fear of failure.

    I think Neale, being the nice guy that he is, lets the players get away with failure too easy.

    He lets them off the hook with little consequences, as evident by the fact that many underperforming senior players continue to get a game each and every week.

    Our new coach should be tough and demand success. Failure should be punished, not brushed aside with a 'oh well, we'll bounce back'.

    Basically, I want a bastard of a coach. I'm not fussed if players don't cry for him when he quits, as long as they get to hold a premiership cup with him.

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    I don't see why liking a coach and respecting him have to be mutually exclusive.

    I think Neale, being the nice guy that he is, lets the players get away with failure too easy.

    He lets them off the hook with little consequences, as evident by the fact that many underperforming senior players continue to get a game each and every week.

    Personally, I think that's been the #1 biggest misconception in Neale's coaching career -- that he's too "nice" to the players. He's an affable character on the exterior but I'll wager my house on the fact that behind closed doors, he is capable of being as ferocious as any coach is.

    #2 is the idea that he doesn't "blood" the kids soon enough.

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    i think nasher, that number 1 often stems from observations that players who stuff up don't get dragged and yelled at. that players who perform poorly play again next week.

    last night however, i saw brock stuff up royally and a runner went to him straight away and dragged him...

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    ND was a tough unit. Don't forget he finished the careers of blokes who probably didn't believe their time was up, such as Stynes and Schwarz. He moved Woewodin on, which caused much angst at the time but was proven to be the correct decision. As a consequence we got Bell who will be a very good player for this club. He made the hard decision on Yze (although it took a while longer than it should have!). I just don't buy into the line that he wasn't hard enough. You only drop players if you have somebody better to replace them, and for a lot of reasons, we haven't had the "better" option running around at Sandringham.

    That he has made hard decisions and is still so "loved" by the players speaks volumes for his leadership capabilities. This was the bloke who was appointed captain of Essendon at 20 - he was absolutely the right man at the right time for the Demons and the club owes him an enormous debt.

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    There has been 1 think i have not liked about ND and that is his excuses for TJ. He is my fav player but he has needed to be threatend. He is not worthy a #1 pick and the $ he is being paid. Someone like Leigh Mathews may have been able to threaten him enough to choose to leave or stay, leaving a better option in my opinion

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