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Fantastic post, Ron. Yes, it's a difficult and irksome situation. I think your final point regarding the track record and competence of this administration is the most important point I have taken from any post on Demonland in the last few days. This administration has helped dig us out of a hole. Therefore, I'm inclined to side with them before an outside journalist.

I certainly haven't seen him play four quarters this year.

I don't want either to leave and I don't believe either will. That said, there is no way Sylvia is in our top 5. He plays one great 10 minute burst every 6 to 7 games. He's been on the list since '04 and still cannot garner consistency. If he could play the level of that Hawthorn game two years ago, he'd be an A-grader for sure, but I don't think it's in his psychological make up. Perhaps a hardarse coach will make him? Who knows?

This seems to match what I've been hearing coming out of the club. The things I've heard from one or two of the younger players is that the supposed tensions between the playing group and the FD are a load of [censored]. It certainly seems conceivable that Green, Rivers and Jones see their time as limited on the list, and thus have taken issue with the "premiership model" devised by Schwab and co. Like so many, however we are only speculating, but I'm not convinced there is a groundswell of angst towards the FD (excluding a few senior players that are worried about their positions on the list going forward).

Mick's only put Neeld's name forward for Adelaide, so he can snatch the Melbourne job himself.

I don't think he necessarily will leave, but I'd still go at him, hammer and tongs.

Take out Eade and replace him with Clarkson at 2.

Still not convinced. If you look at both his teams (Sydney and then the Bulldogs), there is a distinctly Neale Daniher feel to them. Quite a few front runners and when the going gets tough they go missing. We have to aim high otherwise we're merely settling for second best.

He won a premiership, but he also disablised Port. Not confident on him. I don't think we'd get Clarkson, but I still think we should throw everything at him now. He's hard and a modern footy thinker. With our list he'd take us to success.

Thomas regarding Eade is exactly my line of thinking.

What a load of [censored].

Very well spoken, Dean. Say what you like about his coaching ability, but has shown himself to be a man of the utmost integrity.

Yeah, it comes across as pretty unprofessional to me. Rivers and Jones are meant to be leaders too. Do you really need to be in a bar to get a drink? I think not. As a footballer your life is in the public sphere. They might be human, but the way they should conduct themselves in public is different to you or I.

I take it your username is ironic, otherwise you're part of the "culture".

Why would anyone want Eade? His teams have continually failed to get the job done when it comes to the crunch.

Yeah, they also mentioned on SEN pre match that we'd trained on the ground.

Yeah, me too usually. Yesterday was so surreal that I was almost too stunned and embarrassed to say anything but "pathetic".

I went mad at that point too. Less ironically than yourself perhaps.

I've watched a couple of Eagles games this year and if I was going out there to throw money at an elite player, with leadership, it wouldn't be Priddis.

My sister and I ventured down and stayed 'til the very end. Embarrassing, embarrassing day. I cannot remember being more embarrassed watching a Melbourne game before.

That was certainly my impression whilst at the ground.

Priddis? Really? My god. Pendles is the only one of those I'd go after.

I'd only go Clarkson or Malthouse. Malthouse isn't going anywhere at season's end, while suggestions for a rookie coach are dense. The thing is we'll beat Richmond, Gold Coast and Port. That'll be 10.5 wins for the season and an improvement on last season. We're tracking in a similar fashion to Carlton two years ago. The only difference being they were never being belted to the extent that we have been. I would have put money on Bailey being re-signed before yesterday. Now obviously our performance yesterday muddies this theory. You'd probably have to throw a mill at Clarkson at season's end otherwise extend Bailey's contract for the extra year and jump at Malthouse next year.

Haha, that's I guess all I need to know.

Wow, I haven't been on the board this week and only just caught up on the news regarding third-party deals. The last page I read was 27. Feck, I'm not going to read all that, so just thought I'd add my two cents, which I'm sure has increased the page numbers - what a [censored] joke! Carlton can pay Chris Judd outside of the cap (VISY) and we can't? One set of rules for the Collingwood's, Carlton's and Essendon's and a different set for the rest of the competition.