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ABC news reporting that Mark Neeld has been sacked.

Mark Neeld sacked abc news

I can't believe that it's being put out to supporters that getting three hundred disposals establishes some kind of benchmark. players could be jjust flicking the ball to each other without coherence and without a plan just to tick-off a coach's benchmark: heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-coach-mark-neeld-says-his-job-is-safe/story-fni5f91a-1226655470508

What I meant to add that this is clearly a basketball skill which is being transferred across to a different code. Could become effective if we can keep this guy at our club. He knows how to convert. A new coach may go left field with him and say forget about football, just play it like basketball. players like blicavs, natanui and daw thrive on their unorthodoxy whilst our coaching people are trying to hammer watts into being a conventional footballer. it isn't, and being made to conform is restricting is value. barassi was a failure until smith threw away the coaching manual and let him just play to his natural abilities as a tall rover.

Very interesting the way that Watts flies for contested marks. He has a very clever 'steal' action where he twists and snatches the ball away from defenders. if that could be developed he could still be an unorthodox but effective marking forward. A very accurate shot on goal, the best we have had since early-Brad Green. Very much a confidence issue, that 's why i support the guys who high five efforts which still miss, such as Rodan's.

Kevin Sheedy not denying that he would be interested in Melbourne gig if approached.

Neil Craig to take over as coach after tomorrow, according to Damian Barrett on Channel 9.

Just watching Campbell Brown wearing the red and blue on telly, could be an MFC training top. With the AFL being so particular on jumper colours my conspiracy theory is that mfc eventually goes to gold coast.

Does that mean Jack Watts jokes are off the list too? So what, you might say.

Since we reap what we so, why not.....

If we are going to bring back Northey might as well go the whole hog and bring back a cadaverous Checker-Hughes. He did briefly take over from Norm Smith in '65. I see dead people.

Guys like Malthouse would never come to Melbourne and risk losing their coaching 'profile'. They seek out clubs with good lists and stacks of money and then bask in the reflection of their elite coaching skills. Think Ross Lyon.

A year from now = 21 Losses and a narrow after the siren win v GWS.

We imported Checker-Hughes from Richmond in 1934 and it was the start of ten premierships. Carlton imported Barassi and he was the saviour of that club as well as North.

They are already running our club via financing.

Agree, it's not Neeld's fault. Who shot the Kennedy's? After all, it was you and me, or words to that effect. The club's file? Well, it was stamped by City Hall a few years back when AD put the question what does Melbourne stand for? Post-TV rights deals he may well have regretted that solo instrumental but it is clear that the administration do not regard the minnow victorian clubs, they are a hindrance to the new global game. Is it the players fault? of course it is, but they are just playing for wages after all, and they know they get the same wages as the premiership aspirants regardless of their level of input. they also know they can 'trade' themselves to another club if they get jack of season-on-season losses. is it neeld's fault? of course it is. he came to the club full of elite mindset spin and spun us a new one. he got onto the payroll saying what we needed to hear. sheedy attempted the same heist but got picked up by the scanners. is it the players fault? no, it's not the players' fault etc etc Having dumped on the Dees, the AFL now has to decide whether they are going to save us. and then footscray, and then stkilda. of course they won't. but they will say they will. by that stage there will be a manageable 14 or so teams in the competition. will the supporters care? no they won't.

"Highly aroused, he immediately scanned the kitchen for a knife. There were none but Tom saw a pair of scissors resting upon the mantelpiece...." P269, Tom Wills, His Spectacular Rise and Fall

I don't get the constant bagging and lampooning of Dennis Jones around this place. From memory, he took over a club which had ruptured towards the end of Bobby Skilton's tenure and only got to coach the club for a year with the familiar epithet of 'elite standards' helping to sink him. And from Demonwiki: http://demonwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Dennis+Jones As a player he was a champion of the club, playing in a premiership side and enjoying - as a player - a win/loss ratio with the club of 76%. Injuries brought an end to a solid career as a servant of his club.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/fremantle-heads-pack-of-eight-clubs-chasing-the-signature-of-melbourne-defender-jack-watts/story-e6frf9jf-1226648706348

The meagre exception to this trend was when we lost Alves, Wells and Healey in a shortish time frame to teams at the other end of the ladder, and still bobbed up a few years later with the influx of Stretch, Earl of Spalding, Viney, Warren Dean and a few others in the mid-80's. those acquisitions gave what ron give-me-some-possessions barassi couldn't manage in the interim.

Jeff Farmer

Scott Thompson. In the best every week.

Have you worked out the win loss ratio? Don't forget to add 8 zip at start of 1965.

Sorry but I disagree Benson. Essendon made an art out of the whatever it takes bibles of Sheedy and Hird. In 1990 consisted of unwarranted acts of thuggery against Collingwood players with playmaker Gavian brown being knocked unconscious.Similarly in 2000 Our teenaged Brad Green was pinioned then bashed in the throat causing him to be rushed to hospital. Snake was bashed with a low dangerous hit in that game as well. Scroll forward to the current era of whatever it takes with drug allegations and Andrew D's defence of 'scurrilous' claims against Essendon somehow trying to mediate the ASADA inquiry. Compare that with our half million dollar not guilty finding. I have no time for these born to rule clubs who abuse these codes of conduct just do they can rule over clubs like ours who are being held down by a biased system. At least we flew the flag against this club last year, and I salute the Melbournepkayers who took to the field that night against Essendon. Sorry for the iPhone typos but you get the message and I hope essendon get theirs.

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