beelzebub

Thursday March 19th

I didn't say he couldn't be a good player. What I said is we don't provide a logical role to suit We don't play him ( and others to their strengths ) He won't bloom at Melbourne currently. He might elsewhere...hence a value to other clubs ( Hint...we aren't that clever presently )

2020 Yes...I see this clearly

Why...they'll be bankrupt in 3 or so years. Very poor management... unable to produce cars ..being outpaced by..... Well.. Jaguar has the fastest E car presently Elon's. Well.....a bit weird.. eccentrically clever....great charisma...but ...odd.

When WILL you ? (panic) Was it that expected....the pundits thought not !! Agree...not recognising the Prelim was our foundering moment is foolhardy....but that's us get

The public are fascinated by train wrecks....

A lot of folk clasping at straws to keep their hopes alive for 2019. I get it. Failure is distasteful. I find it interesting that we were crap. Then...Jackson and Roos come to the club...it turns around. Jackson and Roos gone....... ?

The more I think about it...the more it makes sense to trade him. Why. He is a square peg in a round hole at Melbourne. (Not alone ) He has lots of faults/many attributes but in the end he's played out of position and probably told to adhere to dysfunctional team direction. Other clubs might see value.

It's surprising considering the rules have changed...that others have found us out and short on smarts. It's surprising as the game does change yet we're stuck in the mud (mire) and yet...not so surprising. We're wasting some talented players by telling them to play dumb football.

Footy is not nearly as complicated as some seem to think. It's not , or shouldn't be as hard , as we create it for ourselves. We're stubborn in our approach so situations which ought to be playable to advantage become wasted because we overcomplicate a very straightforward thing...forward 50 entries. We also have f all idea about a workable efficient forward setup. Strangely...a notion totally ignored by our current brains trust is that skill will get you scores. We try to push it through the scoring pathway as if that in itself is a real method. Melbourne...the British bulldogs of footy Constantly outsmarted by cleverer coaching. Simon...you need to learn from those you compete against...they're beating you.

Here in lays a problem of understanding. ( Not you...just overall ) Outside players DON'T need to be actually contesting the hard ball. They do need to apply pressure. We are far too one dimensional. Our Achilles heel.

Oliver is a rare bird. Not only can read the ball....can predict it ( seemingly ) He plays footy like Bobby Fischer played chess. A quality Oliver needs to employ ( better ) is tempo. He makes the impossible happen but he needs to actually make the possible happen also. About the only player on our list who can achieve something higher than A grade...I E..Stellar.

Oliver is very good.. freakish in some respects. Has a bit of a way to go yet to pass Tulip. He might You obviously never saw Flower play

Very different players playing very different roles....but equally badly Both disappointing. It begs the question though...given this year may or may not soon become a finals write off...at what point do you reset with up and comers.... cutting the deadwood aside to either step up...or out .

Fixed

That's it OD.. All we need are some decent draft picks.... Those kids will save us.... They'll be our way back to glory.... .... ?Oh wait !!! ?

So as I read it...the forward line is dysfunctional. The backline undermanned and either ill directed...or clueless. Then there's the midfield...just the one side of a coin there . And the fabric that binds it all together...a distinctly one dimension black and white instructional sheet. Yippee Ki yay fellow Demons... happy days are here again, the skies above are bleak again, let's drown ourselves in beer again, happy days...are.....here again. Normal services have resumed.

9-11 Another disastrous season the ?

I must be watching a different team. Our coaches have built a team which is all and only about about the inside contest. It's all gladiatorial stuff. We haven't an outside game. We don't really have the players for that "style's. So I'm not as convinced as your good self that this FD are particularly open-minded. In fact I'm inclined to think they're the absolute opposite and only budge from their road of thought begrudgingly.. Time will tell. We might have a bit if talent but I don't see a game plan that's going to win a GF...not now. We're one way flat track bullies in a way. We've lost the ability to cover our backsides...and we can't kick a sausage to save ourselves. Quite frankly we're an embarassing mess at the moment.....and cherry ripe for picking over by any team with aspirations and better coherency. I concede I often have a very different view from many here.I don't shy from it I'm so reminded of Icarus.

Why will it change...if our style doesn't. We will only be competitive against teams with poor defence. Any team with a good one will create the same headache we've started the year with. Our current plan A not only won't win finals now...it won't get us near them And remember...we have NO B !!

From me

I fear it's not panic that stirs...just a possibility of increasing disinterest. This club burns people.

And it's always different when the guys are playing someone who doesn't give a flying fig about YOUR methods. Tis like dancing with your sister etc. It's not the real thing. There's talent....being wasted.

Those who are entrusted to oversee ...need to investigate change. Not necessarily wholesale ...but certainly incremental. What we're doing together with whom we're doing it with ... well....it just ain't working.