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But unlike us he has the ability to get in there and actually do something about it all. And yet he doesn't want to.

Fair weather supporters? What about fair weather footballers? Fair weather administrators? Fair weather coaches? Fair weather footy club.

We're a disgrace to the name Melbourne. Hell, I bet Satan is even [censored] off with us right now for ruining the collective reputation of his demonic horde.

How can a guy who says he has no idea what happens in preparation for next week possibly be in a position to make an informed choice as to who should be our coach every time that question comes up?

If you think Neeld is going anywhere before the end of the season (round 16 at the earliest), I think it's you who doesn't get it.

Agreed. Any change of coach would only happen in a Lyon-esque under-the-table smoke and daggers behind the windows type of deal. We would be absolutely insane to sell our house without having another already lined up. We'd be pretty likely to end up homeless if we did.

This is a perfect example of why chopping and changing coaching regimes is a bad bad idea. You end up with a mish mash of players recruited along wildly divergent strategic lines of thought.

The reason we train so well is because that's the only time we get to play against Melbourne.

Burns was alright and Rodan gave us a couple of clearances, but as far as leadership goes they were woefully inept. However we do not see what they give us at training, and I suspect this is the leadership that Neeld was looking for. Gameday leadership is very rare, and a couple of delisted hacks are never going to be aces in that regard.

Let me guess. You've never been to university, have you?

Clarkson is a better coach than Neeld, so yes. However an important consideration is the stability of the club. Sacking Neeld would be extremely instabalizing, so it would have to be a measure of last resort.

Actually yes I would. He's clear as crystal about what he wants, and he's a concise communicator. Unfortunately it seems that a lot of our guys are still incapable of translating what they know they should be doing into in-game performance.

Wattsy sounded pretty honest about halfway through there, talking about the crap we've been through. He's really speechless, and it's not the normal kind of footy cliches you usually hear. Hopefully something does change, because I and a lot of other Demon faithful are THIS close to just moving on with our lives. We don't get paid to sit through this shite, and the players need to start giving us something pretty goddamn soon.

Like Brent Moloney did against Geelong one infamous day? The basest of baseline standards is if you're unfit, you don't play. Why else were we huffing and puffing in the first quarter?

He's a [censored] footballer.

The only thing that can replace a meal is another meal.

What would be more embarrassing to us? That our rejects are actually good, or that they suck? Surely it's the latter.

"Pine for the fjords!?" What kind of talk is that?

It's barely a footy thread. If it weren't so popular, I'd say it should be put in the Off-Topic section of the forum. But if it did go there, it would die a slow and horrible death because nobody ever visits Off-Topic.

Is that because the ice sucks or because it's a crime to put any ice in beer whatsoever.

Agreed. I hold no ill-will towards Chris Judd (or Tom Scully) for pursuing the largest contracts they could. But the extracurricular payments Judd gets makes me extraordinarily skeptical of his moral outlook. Likewise, Tom Scully's willingness to lie to people he had worked closely with for two years is just totally unnecessary and (to my mind) non-sensical. In the words of the judge from Shawshank, they strike me as "particularly icy and remorseless men." It chills my blood just to look at them. I don't have any real problems with lying, per se. It's unnecessary lying that I detest.

I was defending him against people who wanted to delist him two years ago. I still reckon he has at least as much to offer us as Jordie Gysberts.Bottom line is I bags'ed him first. You can still support him, but I'm first in line!

I thought Evans was my boy.

Clearly you've picked up that habit as a means of coping with your unneccessarily long and boring biopic. At least you learned more than me from that film.

To be honest, I feel like I'd be able to do it too, but I know a lot of people who wouldn't. Not everyone has that kind of balls. To you and me, it might be easy, or you might feel that not looking at the coach will only make things worse. But not everybody is like that.