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Thanks for trying Mark.

I think the ratio of premierships between Tim and Lord may be 4:0 :-) Thanks for the detailed report. My favourite thing about Demonland is when we able to use it to keep each other connected and informed.

And I thought there was only one man who could conclude we were too crap for a PP.

I have the answer, but I'm not telling you. I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW DOO DAAAAA. Spare us, please.

My thoughts: Robbo talks too much and this time is no exception. Nonetheless it's better that he's with the club than against it.

Maybe I'm just being thick rpfc, but I still can't see how this equates to Viney or Craig stepping in as senior coach being a problem. Surely having a caretaker coach and designing the proper structure of the footy department are two things that can happen at the same time.

If the OP can't be bothered looking for other threads on the first page to post his crud, I can't be bothered merging his thread. Closed.

Nicholson needs to be replaced eventually, but right now he is easily best 22 and a long way ahead of Jetta. He might be a poor user of the ball and a smidge soft, but he competes, runs, and gets the ball. Sadly that's about where the bar is for this side at the moment.

As for Nev Jetta, I think it is time we faced facts that the kid just isn't any good. I desperately want him to be, because he is tenacious and aggressive and willing, but he doesn't get involved enough and doesn't hurt enough when he does.

I thought Gawn going was a fairly obvious move - he has struggled for the last few weeks and Fitzy has been white hot in the VFL. Not sure what to make of the Magner change though.

Then Viney gets a redundancy package. I don't see the problem other than PR, which I don't think is a massive deal - or at least is outweighed by the need for urgent change. Edit: The obvious answer is to not make a man with a doubtful future the caretaker. If you're really that worried, make Rawlings the caretaker coach. Not much chance that an assistant coaching position will be made redundant.

So what if his previous position no longer exists? That is going to happen independently of whether he fills in as the caretaker coach or not.

Found the issue, it's network related (a piece of infrastructure between us and the server - seems only Telstra customers are on that particular path). Will follow up tomorrow - have a couple of solutions in mind, but this issue will probably linger a few days. Hang tight all - thanks for your patience.

tonatopia and Hardnut are shoo-ins, surely. Also needs more WYL and dee-luded.

A month's ban for anyone who I see in the "users reading this topic" list who doesn't respond to the above request.

I expect it will help. It's absolutely fine for me on my Internode account (which uses the iiNet network), but on my Telstra 3G (tethered to laptop, so identical device basically) it is, as you put it earlier, SADB. As maurie said before, the server is hosted in Japan, and each ISP takes a different route to get there, so there's lots of things that can die in between. I suspect (hope) that this is confined to Telstra customers. Edit: I'm interested in hearing from *anyone* at the moment on what you're seeing. Let us know who your internet provider is (e.g. Telstra, Optus, Internode, iiNet etc) and how responsive the site is being for you at present.

For those having problems, how was it going on Sunday night? Looking at the data, that was when "stress" on the server peaked in the last 7 days. That was match day, so I'm assuming you were all online with torches and pitchforks armed as I was Right now, it isn't under much stress at all (with ~600 users online).

Heh, I was actually thinking upon reading this thread: "I hope Neeld doesn't get the flick between now and this evening..."

Thanks. The server is indeed in Japan.I might jump on to the server over the busy period and see if I can learn anything. I'm due for a server upgrade which increases server memory and network bandwidth anyway, which should mean an overall performance increase. Means a 15 minute site outage, this is probably the opportunity to do that while I'm there.

What's it like "normally" for you during peak times maurie? I ask because most of the time I have no issues at all, even when the site is busy. Is it usually slow for people or is this only a recent thing?

Hmm. Is it still slow now? I had issues last night but put it down to my crappy phone as that is usually the problem for me. Seems okay to me now on my tablet...?

I can fully understand people not attending because they are bored. Footy is ultimately entertainment, so if you're not enjoying yourself, you have the right not to attend. I don't understand not attending out of principle though. You achieve nothing but hurting the club by doing that.

A figure head coach... Has the crazy reached an all time high on this forum or what? How about a coach who actually can and will coach? How about David Schwarz as the figure head coach? He could juggle it with being the figure head president.

So how do you fix this problem? If you delist all 15 of your NQR players at once, you go so deep in to the draft that you're finding 8 more Nicholsons, Couches and Bails, only now they have zero games experience rather than 30 to 50. If you are lucky you might find a Matt Jones or two, but while he is handy, that hardly seems like the path out of oblivion.No, the replacement of NQRs has to be piecemeal, otherwise the very real possibility is the side getting even worse. Don't think that is possible? Neither did I until this year. Delisting players currently in our best 22 is not going to help us at all, because they have to be replaced with someone.

DeeZee, I think a boot camp is totally unnecessary. I think they're already being punished enough on the field.