Elwood 3184

Come on Demon fans. This is your chance to do something positive for the club.

Daniher's playing list during that period was far different in terms of maturity and experience than the one Neeld inherited and the game is substantially different. Neeld will get improvement out of the team but you won't get a grand final appearance by 2014.

Hasn't lost a game this year. Why shouldn't he be happy and confident?

Why in heaven's name would they need to read the report. Wilson and Niall have already pronounced their guilt. That's all that's needed.

The one person who put the game into disrepute is the bloke who runs the competition, the man who said nobody tanks and the man who, under his watch, allowed a selective investigation into one club that followed his dictums and ignored half a dozen others. There is a word for this but whichever way you look at it, this man is guilty. Now let someone investigate him.

I reckon 5AA might do the Renmark game. I'll be off to Casey Fields for the St. Kilda game and then off to watch us in the NAB Cup grannie.

Caroline Wilson = double standards which must be exposed. Hopefully, Garry or someone else in the media will have the necessaries to confront her on the Terry Wallace admission.

Anything happening today?

Fair dinkum. The training session was yesterday morning and it's 1½ days after the event. If you were that interested you would know by now that there are only a few brief reports and some great photos on 'Land and that's about all you're going to get until Monday when the next session will presumably take place somewhere. Be patient.

Moloney as captain - incredible! The legendary Blind Freddie could have told you that Beamer wasn't fit to captain the side. Not after the nightclub incident that saw him dropped from the leadership group in 2011. I reckon if Bailey and the rest of the leadership had the nuts to do the right thing by the club and by themselves, he should have received a 2 - 4 week suspension from the team. You're right about the mentally weak part.

Only one Carlton player in Eddie Betts. Malthouse not a fan of this game?

It's been a while since Essendon won a game against Melbourne and they were so pathetic last year that, even with all of our problems, we actually outperformed them from Round 10 onwards. Yet somehow, the majority of those who have posted on this BomberBlitz thread reckon we're the ones that have the dud list and are in for another horrific season - 2013 Season Preview - Melbourne Demons. After reading the optimism in the training report threads, I wonder whether if it's us who are losing touch with reality or is it them?

Years and years ago the most popular question at the AGM was the one about when the party pies and sausage rolls were going to be served. The free feed at the end was a highlight!

I suspect WJ is doing all of the legwork and hard slogging while RL is browbeating witnesses and getting information out of them with menacing threats. Good luck you two. The future of our club could well depend on what you find out.

3184 the place to be.

After reading this thread (and could the commentariat please note the heading refers to four consecutive profit announcements and not one), I can only hope and dream that we were like Port Adelaide

Sad but probably much better for him to retire on full pay from the club and earn it with an assistant coaching role at the club. That would be preferable to watching him struggle at Casey. Win/win for everyone.

I wouldn't call it "panic": the word "contempt" springs to mind.

Methinks, it's not a case of incompetence in the execution of AFL approved methodology at all but rather, a case of people involved with our club, past and/or present who put other agendas and issues ahead of the club's interests. I await the day when a former Carlton or Collingwood chairman comments on a live issue such as this one in the way one of ours did and quite frankly I'm disgusted at the campaign against some of our personnel that's been raging for a long time and has not helped our cause one iota. Instead, it's hindered it and damaged the club and its brand enormously. There's been talk here of democracy. On the issue of determining whether certain people at the club should go, there is an AGM and you can nominate yourself for election rather than go underground and dob on the club to the media. It's that sort of thing we need to wipe out before anything else.

It's starting to look like the delisted free agency situation is a bit of a fizzer with very few training with AFL clubs and only one signed up to date. Perhaps clubs are going to be more interested in taking young players through the draft and therefore we could use our full quota (or close to it) in the ND?

Smashed it in for a touchdown. Congratulations.

Perhaps you could ask Caroline Wilson's husband that last question?

So we have a meeting at which there was discussion about the consequences of winning or losing a game or games but not direct instructions for the players to lose and suddenly we're guilty of tanking and must be sanctioned? That's not necessarily the case at all. A couple of years ago, the Fremantle selectors met to select their team for the final round of the season against Hawthorn. They decided to rest half their team and would have also discussed the consequences of picking a team that wasn't going to win in a pink fit. Does that mean that the players they put out onto the field weren't going to play the game on its merits? Having meetings and discussing the consequences of a particular selection process is not the same as actually ordering your players to lie down and lose and the players themselves have indicated that when they ran out onto the field they were doing their beat to win. In the case of the Richmond game, the fact they were in front when the siren went is more proof of that than some people's versions of what transpired at a meeting held more than three years ago. I am shocked that people are talking about sanctions when we as a club haven't even had our chance to put our side of the story. Some of you people are truly shameful and disgusting specimens, hardly worthy of calling yourselves supporters.

Oracle, if only you ran the show at the MFC. Getting Jacobs in the PSD would be a magnificent coup and would go a long way to offsetting the loss of high draft picks like Morton and Gysberts for peanuts. Do you think the FD could pull something like that off?