Nasher

This is being a bit silly. Nobody will be concerned about any such thing. Why would Dean do that? He'd be outing himself as the chief architect of a massive rort. He could forget about any jobs in the footy industry for the rest of his life.

That's because very few coaches have had such a humiliatingly large loss. In fact, Carl Ditterich is the only other one

+1.

Laidley? WTF. Actually, WTF to all three of those.

You'd noticed too, huh? Thanks for pointing it out. (We don't need more threads like this - use the other ones please)

There's been whispers and uncertainty over Schwab's position for several months now. If it's true that he's being given the flick it won't be because of the result; it will be because they'd already all but decided to chop him anyway and this has spurred them in to action. It's not a good time to be in the bad books of those making the decisions. I'd also add that as a CEO he's apparently involved himself very heavily in footy matters - this is evident in his Whiteboard Wednesday presentations. In that regard he has chosen to live by the sword somewhat.

Not that much different to what we've already got, really.

Interesting idea. Play the last five matches with no captain and no leadership group. The natural leaders will come to the front anyway, hopefully.

Bwahahahaha. P.S. Real men would just take a photo of their membership actually sitting on a dog poo.

I've always been in the "some really poor defeats are inevitable, just grit teeth and bear it" camp, but if a 31 goal defeat is seriously the best we can muster up then something is seriously broken. I think anyone who doesn't acknowledge hasn't really stopped to consider the gravity of this defeat.

Reading it on BigFooty doesn't count as mutterings.

We're all hurting right now and each of us cope with that differently. For some, humour helps. If you don't like that, you're welcome not to participate. And let's be honest, this thread isn't side splittingly hilarious, it's just a few chuckles to lighten up a very dark day.

No no - you've missed the funny bit. The funny bit wasn't the OP. The funny bit was your reaction because you thought it was real!. Geddit?

Absolutely spot on t_u.

Yep

Yep. Not much more can be said really. Can't imagine the players and the coach could ever look each other in the eye again after that.

Now this is a post I couldn't agree more with. I don't reckon I've ever been as bored with Demonland or visited less frequently than I have in the last few months. The Saga has literally sucked the life out of this forum and it's sucked the life out of me. I once had strong views on this topic but my energy levels have dropped such that I can't feel anything other than apathy. And I don't think I've written any posts longer than one or two lines for ages.

Agreed. We'd have to prise him out of their cold, dead hands I think.

I'm not sure if I should be +1ing or -1ing based on scoring conventions used in this thread, so I'll just say I agree with you! Wouldn't touch this guy with a barge pole.

Thanks for the rant. Here's the Tom Scully thread next time you'd like to have another one.

Under the circumstances I'd have expected the MFC to do the same. It's all very easy to say they "left him out to dry" now that he's been found not guilty - 20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Cringe.

It's hilarious that I can not catch a single minute of the game, see the scoreboard and predict exactly what the response on Demonland will be.

To be fair, we're pretty close to the bottom of the barrel. Given that Bartram and Evans withdrew from the squad for injury, everyone left at Casey is either nowhere near ready, or plays in a role that would upset the team balance. Not sure who else is really missing out, per se.

I'd describe it more like turning around and running off like the ball was coming in his direction.