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I don't know about Davey, but list management decisions are being made as early as two weeks ago. You can't leave these sort of things until October - players are humans that need to treated with dignity and respect and the club has to plan for the off-season - with or without a coach, a FD head, assistant coaches, et al.
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I loved Robbo. My point was though that Howe's ceiling is higher than that if he wants to get there. But, and some of you will disagree, he has to get out of the way of Clark, Dawes, and Hogan and go through the middle and be a damaging high half forward that hits the man, the scoreboard, and the three previously mentioned players in a forward line that doesn't need a 190cm FF.
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Inside Football: Watts & pick 2 for David Swallow - prelim discussions
rpfc replied to Machsy's topic in Melbourne Demons
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I misread the bit at the end about the Greenwood 'mids' - I assumed you meant all fringe mids would be more average mids.
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I would love to see what a good coach could do with Howe. But in the end it's Howe who has to get there. I still want Ryan O'Keefe. I have no desire for another Robertson, as fun as he could be at times.
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Viney is "the new list chief?" Didn't see that appointment on the website...
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Yeah, we think about it. The reason clubs have a pro-scout looking at other clubs is to find the player on the fringes that might be able to be obtained and developed into something useful. Much like your desire to develop something useful from the mids we already have. I agree that our improvement will largely come from what we have, but there is little harm in looking at fringe young players at other clubs to fill roles with late picks, free agency or the rookie draft. We got Terlich, Matt Jones, and Clisby from a tier below and they look to have cemented certain roles within the team.
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Great minds forget alike.
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Double?
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I wish it were as easy as removing Royal... The funny thing about scapegoats is that rarely does their dismissal result in a change of fortune, just a change of target for the blame.
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http://demonland.com/forums/index.php?/topic/33432-melbourne-football-club-should-take-a-leaf-out-of-richmonds-book/page-2?hl=richmond No offence, dd36 but you lost people with the title ("Melbourne should take a leaf out of Richmonds book") and then your OP finished on a tangent that many couldn't get past - the idea that we could have got something decent for the chaff we have recruited and discarded. I really think if you had a more precise title and stuck to your point - it would be well appreciated.
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You need to stop saying 'simples'...
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I won't be divulging that. But I trust it is correct.
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Young Dee - you can't expect to have a coach installed before September. Especially if we do not get Roos. As for the list - those decisions are already being made and they are not that hard really. Couch has been told, as has MacDonald. The coach will be installed before trade week an that's when he can have input into decisions on recruitment from other clubs.
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I'm glad we have graduated to the point where shooting for goal is THE issue that we have battled which shows our ineptitude... Our issue as a club is that we throw up a decent showing against a good midfield like last night and come away with an attitude of self-satisfaction. The players should take some inputs from that display - confidence, belief, trust in their teammates to do a job (looking in your direction Jordie) but no output - you didn't win. 'Plenty to take to next week but nothing gained' is where their heads should be.
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I wonder if 'The Poach' rumour is as strong as the 'Roos' rumour...
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Yeah, our problems aren't "set shot" related...
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She didn't like CS as people are entitled to, even I - who you sometimes lambast as a CS sympathizer - said before his last, disastrous extension that I could see the club going in a different direction.But Wilson's crusade to destroy Schwab was not some targeted laser guided mission. She accused the club of some pretty diabolical things that were not true. And we can sit here in smug satisfaction at the removal of people at the club as if their removal will instantly inflate us, but I will not permit journalists to get away with mistruths and then have them waved away as 'she had the jist' and her uncorrected mistruths concerned minor issues. She said the club organised a secret meeting where a strategy to lose games was devised and that the CEO and the Head of Footy Ops were so conspiratorial that they had a code name for the meeting -The Vault. Well, as we now know it was a regular meeting of staff in a building nicknamed the Vault in which CC told a dark joke about a looming loss of a priority pick. Wilson is no hero in the nonsense of last summer.
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It's personal when people intimate a CEO I has designs to move the team.
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Players pick their captain one way or the other.
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Well, you are going to disappointed jumbo. We will go for an experienced head coach. Oh, and just a big bag o crazy to think that the AFL wants another market at the moment. They are pumping money into two places at the moment. They just want us to get our act together. I really don't know where this crazy is coming from?
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I still believe this. Re-select every year and if people get their noses out of joint because others have moved past them in others perceptions - then train them to take that the right way and work hard and continue leading. Maybe its Jones or maybe its Jones-Grimes or Trengove-Jones-Grimes but get the leader from the group for that year. The siutaion is fluid. In more ways than one...
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And you are kidding if you think that Jackson would give the reigns to Brown, Ling or Kirk and that fans would be excited over them. Fans would be wary of them, anxious even. And Craig is contracted for next year. And he is a proven head coach. Now you are becoming boorish. What agenda or you paranoid about? And why do you think a MFC employee - which Jackson is and will remain for the life of his tenure - will do what you are so nervous about?
