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I lost all respect for him as a coach after he completely ignored his team's worst performance for the year. Imagine if we had done that!

Cale Morton receives lifetime supply of spinach for Christmas. Proceeds to win the next 8 Brownlow Medals. Tom Scully abducted by aliens (little green men, no less) before playing a game for GWS. True to his name, no-one believes it.

His contract should have a significant bonus clause for finishing first in our B+F. Most of the time, money is a good enough motivator. Dangle a carrot in front of Sylvia's nose and watch him bolt like a thoroughbred.

Because he's not a choir boy? Please!

I'm excited about what this football club is trying to do for us.

As the first player younger than me to ever play for Melbourne, Cale Morton has a special place in my heart. But to be honest, Kate Moss has a better chance of being hard at the contest than him - at least she has some bloody drive!

Unfortunately that's worse than 2010, and if you're not getting better as a player, then how can you expect to lead your Club anywhere but away from a Premiership. I'd say that Aaron Davey, Brad Green, Cale Morton, Lynden Dunn and (for obvious reasons) Austin Wonaeamirri are the only players who played considerably worse this year than last year, and you can reasonably expect the heat to be put most intensely on these players. The fact that Brad Green is also our Captain only compounds his abject failure this year. If the buck stops with the Coach, the bell must surely toll for the Captain, too.

Good man, good man.

Way better than he's given credit for. I would not get rid of him. In fact, he'd be one of the first I'd select each week.

Does anyone have a link to his interview after the Best 'n' Fairest. I'd like to hear it if I could.

The only way Luke Ball gets near the top of any Top 50 is if it's alphabetical. Gary Ablett deserves his number one spot, and not just because of his surname.

If there's one job I would not give Dean Bailey, it would be as an "Innovation Coach."

He's too scared to make a quick decision with the ball. I'm okay with players being poor disposers of the ball (as long as they have other talents) if they are quick enough in the mind to give the ball up to those with better skills. Too often he hesitates, retreats to the goal-line and proceeds to have his kick smothered or put out on the full.

Nicely done. I particularly like Chris Connoly's new role. It suits him well. You should add the players at the bottom, with the title "General Managers of Making Everone Look Good."

Just counting the days to the first official "Player X Looks Like He's Buffed Up" thread.

Petition to add a poll to this thread: Should any man ever wear such an outfit?: A. Yes B. No C. Jack Watts

I think he suffers from that terrible sports journalist disease known as "presenting a statement as a question." I prefer my journalists to pose their questions as follows: "How do you feel about your Best and Fairest win?", not "Your Best and Fairest win must be a great reward for effort." The first one allows the interviewee to actually voice their opinion, as follows: "I'm really happy about my performance this year, and it was a great reward for my effort, but . . .", rather than "um . . . yeah, it was." Where can you really go from there, as an interviewee?

Now that's not fair. I won't have you denegrating the good folks at Champion Data like that.

They're just tools, as is the Twitter-machine. They all have different functions, that's all.

Norm Smith also didn't use video review, GPS and Champion Data. Should we get rid of that crap, too?

There's breaching and there's breaching, if you know what I mean.

Scully the Skeptic says it's just a coincidence. Scully the Traitor couldn't care less.

Ironic likeage.

I totally agree. I just don't think that the right time for Neeld to do that is the first time he meets his players.

"Eff off! Who do you think you are?" is what I'd say. The fact is, Mark Neeld has no idea who these players really are and how to motivate them. Until he does, I'd be careful of making such broad statements.