sutti

Thanks for the info, Sutti.

Does anybody know what Peter Kopke's coteries is called? Cheers.

It was a good read .... never realised he was so interested in coaching next year, what a message he has sent to the Dons and Freo 'ey.

Do the Dee's have any coteries? I had a look around the website and there is nothing .... except the Chairmans Club. Do they have anything like the Diamond Dons or The Vice Presidents (Roos)?

It dies all the time when lots of people want to get on it ... props because off the Sheedy thing on the footy show.

Bazza I agree with everyone else on here that a EGM is not the way to go, but seriously if you have any problems/issues that you want to talk about with Gardner chuck him an email, grap it of the Grey Global Website. I did and I got a reply and had a decent *email chat* with him. Cheers.

I would properly say Voss might be able to convince him - only because he would have only been out of the game for a year or two and might know how to *talk* him into it. I highly doubt he will come over to Melbourne though, I think he will stay at West Coast. I'm not sure yet what a new coach would do. To me there would be two options ... A) Aim to get a flag within the next 2 years with the existing squard - minior trading, delisting. I would trade TJ and delist a few guys as well. B) "Rebuild". Try and take 5 years to inject youth into the club. Then go for a flag. All the "oldies" would have gone by then. The only reason I say this is because of the age of some of our players. A telling stat from the Richmond game - Melbourne had 10 players playing over 25 (maybe it was 28?) compared to Richmond's 2. Who do you think will have a better future? If we want to win a flag with the exisiting list because we think there good enough they must try and get it in a year or two before some of our key players retire cause of their age. Cheers.

Neale is a great man - his time was up at the club and he knew it to. I saw the quick interview last night with him, it was great. I think, as you said everyone who follows the Melbourne footy club should be proud about the way Neale has went about this week. Every single time he was interviewed he always said he supports and backs the club in anything they do. Thanks Neale for 10 years of fun ... mostly.