I do feel for Mark Neeld. I don't know that any first time coach would have done any better with the list he had at Melbourne, regardless of their coaching style. We should have appointed an experienced coach there and then, and that is not his fault.
I have often wondered that if Neeld replaced Thompson at Geelong instead of Scott, he may very well be a premiership coach now.
He was simply appointed by the wrong club at the worst possible time to bring in a coach of his style, and his career was forever doomed once he received the congratulatory phone call from Garry Lyon.
I wish him the best of luck in the future