Chook

When I read the thread title, I thought he might have said that Richmond would be fielding a less experienced team than us.

From the headline I thought it would be a calming reminder that regardless of our administrative or cultural problems, we simply don't have the talent to compete. That would be a useful article. Instead we get paragraph after paragraph or unreadable dross whose sole purpose is to tell us something we already know - the absolute antithesis of what "news" should be about. Shocking. Wait, no . . . the other thing. Predictable. Yeah, that's it. Utterly predictable.

Provided Neeld is given until the end of the year, what result would be good enough for him to keep his job?

After reading that article, does anyone really need convincing that Dawes was a good choice anymore? The guy has what we need.

We're going for the record.

I hope they make Colin Sylvia do the same.

Of course! It's so obvious! Give that kid a job now!

I've deliberately refrained from even mentioning Jesse Hogan for this exact reason, and the fact that Don McLardy pointed to this young kid as an example of our great forward-thinking mindset made me sick. It was on that day that I soured on McLardy forever.

It's no worse than Jettas which got 2 weeks. So...2 weeks is my prediction.

I have heard that after he was sacked by Adelaide, he went back and really worked on some of the things that failed him the last time. I'm not totally against it, although a tiny bit of me just wants to stick with Neeld regardless. I'm so confused right now.

We need to remove as much as possible all at once, so that whatever crazy problem has existed this past 50 years is ripped out through sheer brute force.

Yep. I'm off the Neeld bandwagon for good. His so-called "reality bus" was all a big sham.

Either we back Neeld to the hilt and go through the draft again or we sack him right now and bring in someone else. If we think the players are to blame, then we keep Neeld and get new players. If we think Neeld is to blame, then we sack Neeld and back the players. Either way we need to make our choice now.

Campbell Brown, ladies and gentlemen. The AFL's pre-eminant hard man.

If we don't win this game, my support for Mark Neeld will be completely gone.

No love from any of the commentators today, but that's okay; they're all hacks anyway. PS Max Gawn's had a shave, so I think we're officially fuzz-free across the board. The closest thing to a beard on any of our players is Jeremy Howe's customary 5 o'clock shadow.

While some of our NQRs are certainly not Pennski material, many of them are hard tacklers and hard runners (which is exactly what we need at this stage of our development).

Gooey? Gubernatorial? Goopy?

I'm expecting a big win today. 30-60 points would be great, although anything north of 1 point would be acceptable.

See, we respect Jones for his work ethic and he's thriving under Neeld. What does that tell you about the guys who are failing under Neeld?

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You're not a fan of Mitch Clark then, I take it?

Duh. Neeld supporters are saying we need to keep him because he hasn't had time yet. We can't point to anything much because there isn't yet anything much to point to.

We can't do that because we don't know he's the one for us. Let's just wait out the season.

That entitles him to a call up and a couple of weeks in the big leagues, but nothing more.