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Caro's article today says nothing. Read it. Then stop and think, what have I learnt? You've learnt nothing. Nothing at all.

Viney came to us as a highly respected football person. Being part of the "old boys club" ...hasnt stopped hird and Thompson being a success at Essendon. We cant condemn him because he was a past star! Neelds trading period was controversial and, as it stands now, a flop. Maybe Viney knew a thing or two and wasnt AFRAID to speak up. Looks to me that most of the levers Neelds been pulling have only been hidden trap doors to the cellar.

To Demonlanders, I have been a long time and now a first time. I always thought I'd never be a member to write to the club but after the events of today I felt compelled to. I have attached below my email to the Dees today. I awat a response. I apologise for the long windedness of this letter for those who are reading it.I also apologise for it not being half as entertaining as some of the comments and threads on this site. To whom it may concern, I know you have probably been inundated with emails and most likely a lot of complaints regarding the teams position at this current stage. I too am a mad demon supporter, member and was one of the 13,000 people there on Sunday watching the Dees play. I agree with the calls that it was unacceptable but that’s not why I am emailing. Today, we had a visit from 3 Richmond players (Cotchin, Conca and Elton) who came to our school (I'm a year 6 teacher at Greythorn Primary School in North Balwyn) to give a talk on leadership and answer a few questions. A great school visit and something I too was impressed by. I will admit that I too was a little star struck as well. It didn't matter what team the kids followed there was a buzz about AFL players visiting the school. When it came to question time, the players answered really well, giving their perspective on what its like on to be an AFL player, Leadership and the positives and negatives of being a AFL footballer. They were then asked "Who is the easiest team to play?" The response........ Melbourne. Now I copped my right whack from the kids who really enjoyed hearing that response and then they were ribbing me about it. It was probably pay back, as at the start of the year I was quite bullish about the Dees and everyone knows I follow the Dees. I'm also well aware it is always great fun to give a teacher some lip and I accept that, I can cop it. What was really noticeable and what upset me was how the kids who follow the Dees felt and responded. They were genuinely upset. For an area that was traditionally a Melbourne heartland for Melbourne supporters, it was disappointing to see the whole year 5 and 6 group laugh pretty nastily at those young Dee supporters sitting there. You really could see the hurt. A student even came up and said to me "How can they say Melbourne are the easiest". He was bewildered. Now I wouldn't ordinarily email or write in but I felt compelled to. I know there are so many other issues going on at the moment and this may not necessarily be a priority with all the accusations flying around around the Dees and the coaching staff and also the work that is being done, but the Club needs to look at its junior fans as I am really worried that the club runs the risk of losing a couple of generations of fans. My 22 month year old daughter is a member but is at an age where she doesn't have a choice, but many kids I have talked to are losing real interest in "our" club. I know many players were calling junior members which is fantastic but there are a lot of kids out there who aren't members and are feeling very low. Winning games is obviously the answer and I will be there this week willing us on, ironically against the team who were represented today. I don't have any answers regarding what you can do but I felt compelled to let you know that there are some really upset students (and one teacher) who left school today knowing that at least one other team in the AFL sees us as the easy beats of the competition.

The Viney's have Jack, Jimmy T & Jessie H living under their roof. Todd's position at the club is close to being untouchable in my opinion

I'll tell you what, I am loving the sudden trend towards graphs and charts here. If I had any nous with a computer I'd put up a five-columned bar graph with a raised middle bar indicating my current sentiments towards the club.

Unfotunatley, i am a first day buyer whenever the MFC sells hope. I was in for the Bailey rebuild, I was is for Neeld coming on, and no doubt i will be sucked in by however the club packages the next coaching appointment. We dont need another person who can sell hope, we need somone who can teach us to win.

Their wasn't a recruiter in the land that would have taken Wines over Toumpus. We made the correct call then and now.

Been our best player this year easily IMO. Considering it's his first season and he's playing in the AFL's worst midfield, I think he's pretty much a superhero.

Healy is absolutely spot on with this comment 'they need someone who can sell hope'. A club that has near 6-7 years of being crap needs to give its players and supporters some hope, it needs to sell hope. In some ways the appointment of Neeld sold some hope that if the if the fundamentals could be changed we would improve. The promise was of incremental improvement, which is ok and acceptable for most fans. There is still a message of hope in incremental improvement. But if anything we are going backward and at an alarming rate. No hope there. Neeld has, from the start been very circumspect about improvement, which again is ok as long as it happening. He has deliberately not promised too much before last season or this season. Ironic then that the two things he has said have proved so laughably and spectacularly unfulfilled. Before last season there was : simply we want to be the hardest team to play against. Tragic and the blackest of black humor. This year was his comments at the AGM (and i think repeated in an interview?) that people might be surprised at how we go this year and that success may not be as far away as people think. Well at least those comments might be partially true. Few believed we would/could be this bad. Compare his promises with Hinkleys at Port. He has said the only thing they will promise is that they will never give up. They have come back and won 2 games this season after falling more than 7 goals behind and pushed North after being well down. I'll take that promise. And Hinkley obviously gets that supporters need hope which having a side that refuses to give up will provide.

That doesn't mean he won't be better than Wines. This kind of myopic, MFCSS view doesn't help anyone.

This is a concern if true obviously, but some of the ins don't strike me as wholly unsuccessful. It's the recruiting prior to 2011 that still irks me. 2012 - off the top of my head: Draft Toumpas was very highly regarded - I recall hearing somewhere that both Vineys were excited about his arrival - and both know Wines, even though this must've be a difficult decision. Hogan - absolute no brainer. Barry - perhaps paid too much in pick 13, but seemed to be part of the Jack Viney deal. Jack Viney - again, absolute no brainer, but at pick 27 - a great deal. Dean Kent - early days, but looks to be a good pick up. Matt Jones - consistently in our best. Already. Dean Terlich - same as Matt Jones. Rodan - questionable, left field selection - but he was pick 287 or something similar. Trades Dawes - we now have a very sound forward line, on paper at least. (And backline too IMO - we all know where the issues on the ground are.) Pedersen - Gysberts - was always nervous about this one - not in recruiting Pedersen as such, but that we paid 'overs' to get him. We need ball magnets in the midfield - and, as everyone here knows, Gysberts showed a lot early on in his career in this regard. Byrnes - Rivers - Gillies - Moloney - can see the rationale for recruiting Byrnes - already in the leadership group, but losing Rivers for Gillies was a disaster, and losing Moloney for essentially nothing at all was plainly stupid. IMO the bad stuff is really down to losing Rivers and Moloney for no adequate compensation (yep, I get the free agent stuff), but that's what clever negotiation and managing contracts is all about - they weren't replaced "like for like" - we just lost out, seemingly because of factors that occurred at the end of 2011. Gillies is the one that I really don't get. Pity we missed out on Hannath too - but I'm not sure this is anyone's fault though. iPad typo

Not so sure about that. She agreed to marry me - even my parents think that was probably a reckless decision.

Sigh ... history gets revised every minute around here these days.

Did he mention the game against the Gold C...., er Gold Suns by any chance?

On Hannath, any one of those picks given for Gillies and/or Pedersen would have got us Hannath, before the PSD where he was taken by Freo. So I think it is someone's fault if we wanted Hannath.

I'm not sure if it's been referred to here but Russell Howcroft introduced Peter Jackson to a group of members yesterday in the Ryder (?) room. I never expected to attend a MFC meeting where the depth of feeling from the membership base was as ugly, aggressive and in a sense disrespectful to our appointed officers as at the Dallas Brooks Hall in 1996, but in its own way it was even worse. This was not a meeting that was organized with well drawn battle lines but a regular event where a Board member informally addresses the members. Jackson said nothing different in this meeting to what he'd said all day in his media blitz and while the members welcomed his honesty and common sense they turned on an inept Howcroft. It started with Jackson telling us of a dysfunctional Football Department with no clear lines of responsibility or reporting and an administration which was similar. These comments, while not mentioning Schwab or the Board, were scathing as he outlined that the clear principles of Governance and operations had been ignored, misunderstood and abused. A member of the audience turned to Howcroft and asked how this Board had allowed all this to happen in the 4 or 5 years of their watch. Howcroft dodged the question saying as a member based organization we could all stand for election. He has an unfortunate manner and his smugness and lack of empathy with the mood of the audience led to interjection and abuse being hurled at him and the rest of the Board. Jackson clearly understands footy. He immediately engaged the members. He knows what a good footy club looks like. He understands Boards, Administration and corporate structure. He knows this Board is a failure. In 2008 Jim Stynes and Don McLardy approached the Gardner Board and told them they were out of ideas and needed to move on for the betterment of the MFC. To the Gardner Board's eternal credit they recognized a better Board, read the tea leaves and saved the Club from a battle that would achieve nothing. It's time for Don and his merry men to look in the mirror, remember history and now identify a better Board and stand aside. They have reduced this club to its lowest ebb in history and made it the most unattractive of propositions. They can do one good thing - find a better alternative and move on. What makes this absolutely painful is that some of us have recognized the clear failings of Don, Schwabby and his merry men for ages. Anyone with any training or experience in how business work could see this. And yet this Board who have so much individual talent couldn't. I'll never understand that. There is no doubt their hearts were in the right place but the damage they've done is incalculable.

I don't hate anyone enough to feel the need; yourself? You seem to have an issue with most of the posters on here so perhaps a column might help you to relieve the stress.

Right. 'Yet'. That's like a player going down with an ACL in their first game and then saying 'I haven't seen anything good from him yet'. Of course you haven't. Toumpas has played four games. Any negative comment about him after four games is nothing short of ridiculous.

Viney and Neeld sitting next to each in the grandstand at Port Melbourne chatting away with the other coaches, don't get on, rubbish as per the norm for a Wilson article Of course there are going to be disagreements about recruiting, I would be disappointed if there wasn't This is a complete no story, think the only problem is as we were trying to get a 'new' footy dept up and running we didn't quite get it right, Peter Jackson will fix it

I attended Sunday with my 17 year old son. We had some big issues to discuss while watching. I spent a bit of energy screaming at McBurney (Strauss running too far - NOT, his refusal to pay over the shoulders & neck to MFC players, pulling out the free before the start of the third quarter... I could go on and on), but had to acknowledge how bad we were. Things got a bit tense between me and the boy at half time. By ten minutes into the third I suggested we leave and try to resolve our dispute. We sat in the car park and talked, then pulled out of the ground just before the final siren. I have never left a game that early before. As we drove home I was thinking I wouldn't be back until we showed drastic improvement. I was very depressed about how far the MFC had fallen. I felt it was only a matter of time before the coach got the flick. That was Sunday night. Before I went to bed I came to another understanding about the football... It was a special thing that I shared with my son! It wasn't all about winning and losing, it was our chance to be together, to share a tradition. I got up Monday morning and checked the fixture. My son's 18th Birthday is next month and I realised that the Bulldogs game is the first opportunity I will get to take him into the Long Room and shout him a beer. I woke him up this morning to tell him to get his collar and tie sorted because we have a very important date coming up, he was rapt. So, we will be there next weekend and whenever the Dees play in town. Coaches will come and go but families, and their traditions, last forever.

"Coaching is not an option at the moment." "Look, if the scenario happened and the club came to me, I don't think I could say yes." James Hird, August 2010

One of the highlights of the game for me was Dawes kick to Gawn in the 2nd quarter. He put it over the defender to Gawn's advantage, close to perfect delivery. It was a sight for sore eyes. I think Dawes will be good for us long term, I just wish we had more quality in the midfield to give our forward line better delivery more often.

Neeld has butchered this list. It is much worse than when he took over. They are paralysed by a fear of failure. He has to go.

You are spot on Ralphius Neeld came to a new club and told anyone and everyone how utterly crap they were in the past and were currently. He made it clear the players were unprofessional and that were unfit and not AFL standard. He publicly criticized individual players and consistently compared to what he practically described a rabble to the elite club he had just come from. In short he broke almost every basic rule of sports psychology. You can see the inevitable result of his approach. Players playing without spirit, confidence, enjoyment or freedom. We are reaping what he sowed and soon he will leave the club. He is bound to be sacked mid season,of that i no longer have any doubt. Why? Because the club has to give its fans some hope and even though sacking him will likely not bring any benefit, it will allow the fans a little time to dream of a better things.

Sat, if i could paint you a picture, it would look like this:

I find this rather funny to be honest. We "need someone who can sell hope" do we? I'd rather have someone who is honest and tells us the truth. Neeld told us right from the start that the team was a shambles and it would take time to fix. He's not even halfway through his contract and people are calling for his head because it's turned out to be true. Before this season he said they weren't up to the standard he wants and there are still holes to fill in the list. He hasn't tried to sell us hope, he's sold us reality. The reality is that you don't fix a team as messed up as ours in one year. The reality is that if we sack him now we'll have another coach starting from scratch with another new message and we'll be a year and a half further back. The hope I hold onto is that Neeld is right and with time, fitness and experience these players will gel into a cohesive unit that can get the job done. I'm willing to back him for another year to see if he can make it happen.

Classic WYL logic. There is only one man on this forum who could arrive at the paradoxical conclusion that we're too crap for a priority pick.

Bob while I am as depressed as any Dees fan, I agree with Jackson that it is not a hard fix. First he gets the right people in place and clearly defines their roles and the goals. Next he ensures proper governance. Last we need to get the perfomances on field up to a proper standard. That of course will not be his task but rather the FD. As for the List, I am sure we all thought that while not great, it was reasonable at the start of the year. Clearly the performances are far below what we could have reasonably expected. Those performances can color one's impression of the list. If you analysed the list, you could say it was reasonable in the back half, ok in the forward half when you accept Hogan is to come, lacking in the midfield and ruck and lacking strong leadership and talented experienced players. IMO the club sought to remedy the last bit with Gillies, Byrnes, Rodan and Pedersen and IMO has failed dismally. Admitting the error at season's end and moving them on puts us back one year only if that. Playing younger players adds experience to the list. I can see a PP or two plus another early pick and that should allow us to improve the midfield if we get it right. A free agent or two could further add to the midfield. We have several young players to come, in Toumpas, Hogan, Barry, Tynan, Fitzpatrick, Blease, Taggert, Davis etc. On the horizon is a young Stretch and maybe a young Grinter and others. The key is getting the right people in place and especially a Coach that the players will work for and learn and develop from. The culture, that wonderful word, can be created with all of the new breed coming in. The bad press needs to stop and I accept that will only happen when performances improve. We need fairly soon to end the Coach speculation, even if a fill in takes over until a new permanent Coach can be appointed. We have significant assets and no debt at the moment. The membership will rise when we improve on the field. WE ARE NOT A BASKET CASE, WE ARE JUST PLAYING LIKE ONE.

At least he has a dip. As first year players I can handle the occasional skill error as they adapt to the speed of the game. I'd say Terlich is the same category. I don't mind mistakes when they come from players who go and get the footy and are still adjusting to the pace. Both of these blokes are good picks by the MFC (can't believe I just typed that sentence).

Viney is one who has to stay IMO. Is passionate, knows and cares about the club and knows footy.

It's too simplistic to say it's the players' fault. It's also too simplistic to say it's not the players' fault but the FD's/coach's/CEO's. There is absolutely no way you can apportion 0% of the blame, for want of a better word, on the playing group. There have been so many instances this year of players not doing the small things which are doable whether you're 100 points up or down. Clearly the state of the club off the field has hurt the players and has created an environment in which it is difficult/impossible to be elite. That is why our draft picks have continually floundered over the last few years, and as such, until we fix it, no new players are going to make us any better. But as we begin to attempt to fix the off-field stuff, we can, and should, still expect our players to put in more of an effort than has appeared to be the case in about 4 games so far this year.

Dawes was/will not be a blunder. Was actually not bad on the weekend considering its his first AFL game since last year! Looked lively round the CHF area and pin pointed some good passes into the 50, which could have resulted into goals if our forwards could kick. He also made a contest with almost everything kicked to him, which most times was tough as the delivery was atrocious. A lot of balls went sailing over his head too when he did all the right things leading out. Once we have Clark there with him too it will make a huge difference. So don't judge him yet.

Match Report Monday 13th May. Went into the G expecting doom & gloom. Came out with a smile on the dial. 4 to 6 volunteers were expected but NINE turned up Tx to Peter, Sarah, Liz, Geoff D. John, Mick M., Julian & Steve G. 15 new members is good for 6 games gone. Robbie Flower dropped in to give us a pre-game address (pic following) with Tx to Lynda - our club historian. Peter J. also dropped in and gave a lift to us late in the evening. Could not be more impressed with the group effort to put up such a good showing. Tx to Robbie & Pete for their supportive visits.

The board will get on board. What do they have to stand behind? As bad as Melbourne has been coping it people still don't quite understand how incompetent the board and club are. Someone mentioned the NBA taking over New Orleans. That's different because the demographic doesn't go to NBA games. Melbourne is in the HUB of AFL, is the oldest club, 12 god damn premierships, which are essentially worthless now though, and plays at the MCG for crying out loud! Clubs are knocking on the door to play their games there. What do you think will happen to Melbourne when Carlton moves in? Unless the team is actually competitive? We can't be in a position where we constantly receive the benefit of AFL assistance because people don't respect that. And you can't be competitive when you're constantly in that position. These people have a fricken PhD in how to ruin a club and a brand. People that say the AFL wants a team called "Melbourne" in the AFL are on to something: the club's affiliation to the history of the sport's foundations means the league is obliged to ensure its existence..but the sheer fact that the league is prepared to assist it suggests the club is worth more than it imagines. It's just that a consistent stream of idiots is running it. It's like putting an infant in the driver's seat in a ferrari and putting a brick on the gas and expecting them to parallel park.

I think some might be missing that we don't need a midfield player. We need a midfield, as in 3-4 players. We shouldn't buy anything but midfielders. Our defence is workable and our forwards are workable (down a crumber admittedly). We won't know what they are capable of until our midfield is functioning at AFL standard.

By all means, I'm here to help. Let's start with yours; when you were a Moderator it was to abuse anyone that disagreed with you and when they replied you'd suspend them. How's that for the first?

You demand evidence from a fellow member and forum poster who has taken his source from another baseless rumour from Wilson herself. Seriously, she knew nothing more than the majority of posters and people reading this forum already knew. The only thing that sets her apart is her vindictave nature and unfounded allegations of which she displays openly and against people like Schwab and Brayshaw.

Has been very good. He is doing everything that Gysberts should've been doing.

Why on Earth would he want to leave paradise to enter a mental institution? No player with such form and prestige will come to our club. I'm not trying to be negative but I am a realist. We are as attractive as a conversation with Brynne Edelsten.

Caro, is that you?

Does he play in the midfield.

For all the ridiculous tripe splashed at Caro over the past 12 months she has actually been pretty spot on with the issues at MFC.No one liked what she had to say but she was brave enough to put cards on the table and say where MFC problems were. And sadly she has come up trumps. And her criticism of Schwab, McLardy and others are entirely justified and spot IMO. And if she did print untruths those impacted should have taken her to Court and bring the "truth forward". I noticed no one has.

I though Garland was oustanding. Great to see him stand up and show what I consider to be great leadership in the face of the crap dished up on Sunday. I am the same as everyone probably including the players, I walked away from the ground on Sunday angry and frustrated and wanting blood. By today logic kicks in an I know the last thing we need is instability and change driven by a rabid media pack. Garland is right we need to stick together through this. Great to see Jackson come in with a clear mind and new perspective to manage any change that is needed in a considered and calm way. Change will happen but the last thing we need is another knee jerk based on media pressure. The playing group and coaches are all working overtime as attested by Col to fix the problems but it cant be done overnight and cant be done by simply sacking coaches and or players. the relatity is we do have a young list that also has older players with bugger all games due to long term injuries that need time. We also have to sort the results of poor selection and risk management over a number of years. This will take time and all genuine Melbourne supporters should see this and support the club throuigh it. Neeld and co have come in and inherited a bascket case and I the cold light of day I can see the direction. The list is being cleaned up and new blood brought in, none of the one we delisted are getting gajmes else where and I for one would rather have Terlich, M Jones, and Kent than Morton, Martin and Pettard. They had their chance and blew it. I would have liked to have kept Rivers but he wanted to leave. And lets not forget last years recruit of the year Mitch whcih was a master stroke by Neeld. I can see improvement in a number of players, Garland, Evans, N Jones and Grimes. Neeld has turned Mitch from a bit part player at the Lions to a potential superstar. Great to see the leadership by people like Garland within the paying list developing.

I would have thought by now people learnt to disregard Caro's articles. She speaks absolute garbage and that article is a regurgitation of what has already been written in the last two days by most footy journos, only with a couple of fabricated stories in there to sensationalise it a bit.

What a great thread - really interesting reading. I learned to hate Collingwood before I barracked for Melbourne - my grandfather would be in a rage if they lost - nobody dared speak until about Tuesday, and I hated Collingwood for how they made people behave and how blind and ugly their supporters were. Still do. I started supporting Melbourne in 62 or 63, probably 62. Melbourne were very much the toffs, and we were fairly poor, and I guess I saw the MFC and MCC as having everything you could ever want. I eventually got the RDB boots, and I remember him on TV explaining how to tie your boots with the laces at the side. As the club's fortunes faded, you are sort of committed - changing clubs is like changing religions - almost impossible. But there was still some pride in being a Melbourne supporter. MCC membership wasn't going to happen, I'd be a fish out of water, but the club still stood for something. It had a stable administration, didn't change coaches every season, didn't have players getting into strife - it was a club you were proud to be a member of, even if it wasn't winning. Melbourne had doctors and lawyers playing as well as plumbers. I think RDB insisted everyone had a job or was studying. The club inspired loyalty. I had a mate who was a Collingwood supporter - he used to go to Melbourne games with me to watch Robert Flower play. I used to admire Melbourne players at the Brownlow count - set up each time to be beaten by a vote or two on the last call. Never anything but sportsmanship shown. I remeber the Galahs tour. One strange aspect of Gaelic football is that instead of bouncing, you are allowed to kick the ball to yourself as you run. Easy when you grow up with it. But to see Robert Flower run flat out down what passes for the wing there, toe-tapping the ball like he'd been born to Gaelic football, was just awesome. I saw David Schwattz, in a hard-fought Melbourne-Hawthorn game, pick a flattened Shane Crawford up by the jumper (in one hand mind you) and set him on his feet, grinning with the fun of playing football. He seemed then to be the spirit of sportsmanship, and of how Melbourne played the game. I think of the characters who've come and gone - Stan Alves, Stretch, Glen Swan with his 8 goal game, spalding. Parke, Dillon, Diamond Jim, Darren Bennett, Alan Johnson., Tassie Johnson (we could use him now - geez he could do a drop kick) David Schwartz Big Jim RIP, Big Max - only 6'2" I think but rucked his heart out. they are almost like family. A good friend of mine fell off the perch a couple of years ago - as they wheeled him out of the church they played the "Grand Old Flag" and the whole church clapped in time - the Melbourne supporters sang. .What a send-off. It bothers me now that those club traditions are rocky - the administration is shaky, the coaching is unstable, the players' loyalty is wavering. I know its a business now, but for me, if Melbourne fold or merge, I'm gone. I'd rather see Melbourne playing in the SE Suburban League than in Darwin or Tassie.

Yes Col was laughing at the start of the interview. (probably a nervous laugh though). Let's not forget that all football people, players included, are well schooled and prepared for such interviews. And while Col had a glum look on his face he played each question with a straight bat and gave the % answer. His body language told a different story to some of his answers though!! Personally I understand that the players have to execute the game plan and not drop marks and hit targets etc. but it IS the coaches responsibility to ensure they have the self belief and self confidence to do this once they cross the white line. Clearly at the moment they don't. Neeld is taking good players with potential and turning them into hopeless hacks. And anyone who thinks it is all the players fault alone has clearly never played the game. Confidence is the key and they clearly don't have any of it when it comes to the game plan or the person dictating it. Neeld may be the best football brain and tactician known to man but if he can't get the players playing with belief and confidence then in my opinion his time is up; and he can take his ELITE mindset and stick it where the sun don't shine when he leaves. The rest of the competition might see us as a Silver Spoon club but good old fashioned guts and determination has got this club further than old school ties have in the past and will again in the future. A change is needed. The truth is that a 'rabble' second tier team playing with belief and desire would beat our ELITE demons without too much effort at the moment....and that unfortunately is a sad fact. Go Dees

the fact that the game was never spoken about by the people in charge was a grave mistake. It was political on & off the field. The fact the coach was sacked but the CEO was reinstated makes me angry. The root cause continued to do the same job. Jackson made it public yesterday. No wonder the players do not give everything. It should have all come out. If not on the monday later that year. For Bailey to be left sitting alone with no support or MFC Logos was a disgrace to me. And many of those faceless people are still there. We are where we are. Jackson is a very important person to our club right now.

Where is Satryconhome when you need him to get us looking on the bright side?! I need him tell us that he has been to training and Jordie McKenzie will be the next Cameron Ling, Fitzpatrick will be the next Wayne Carey, Taggart will be Garry Ablett Jr, and the Kiwi lad will be a mix between Watson/Pendlebury & Cotchin, with a hint of Nic Nat.

While a guy learns how to work in the "top job", our club is dying. NEXT!

..because onfield, the Biggest issue IS Being addressed,,, just as Barassi did before. the Culture & the Professionalism... .... players had to be let go. Some experienced, who either would not be around when we would be ready to strike, & others who were not helping with the Culture cleanup & Professionalism. So we lost Moloney, Green, Bartram retired thru injury, & soon to be (29) Jared Rivers left. We had to make space for the kids to learn their trade, (Tom McDonald) who missed some preseason, & has struggled a bit being No 2 defender,,, as has Frawley, (maybe unhappy that some left, {Petterd, Rivers, Moloney, Bartram, Bate, Green})..... In short, we were a bit off in our Defence, & the Mids have struggled to contain the opposition... Trenners carrying an injury, & others being given the chance to run thru the Mids, (MJones, Viney, Evans, Toumpas, Tapscott, Nicholson, Dunn, Blease) lots of talent, but very Inexperienced... Our Offence has been injured. Clarke as we know,,,, Dawes who has just returned to a side way Down on form, confidence & no momentum... we've found something in Gawn & Howe's been good, & imo Tapscott has been promising. Evans has been exciting, & Byrnes has been very useful. So there is a Lot to be excited about, & More player development happening Now than I can remember, for more than the last 10 Yrs... all the boys at Casey have been going strongly, Fitzy, Davis, Spencer, Gawn, Hogan, Kent, Strauss, Magner, Couch, Blease, Clisby, etc... .