Dr. Mubutu

I think someone needs to send that video to the club. If I hear that the players are "killing it on the training track" one more time, I will personally burn the AAMI centre to the ground on the off chance that they actually kill it during a game.

I really want to know who the hand-wringers are that are so adamant that we get rid of Neeld! It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that the fault rests squarely at the feet of the players. After all, Neeld is telling them to tackle, it's the players that aren't doing it. Short of running onto the ground and tackling an opposition player, in the process getting himself banned from any and all future AFL matches, what more can he do? It's truly baffling to me that the club has had to defend him, yet the players, once again, seem to get off scot free.

I will admit that I also responded to the email sent by the President, but mainly to emphasise that the problem is with the players, and that I would be 100% behind any submission to the AFLPA if the club challenged the assertion that 92.5% of the salary cap be paid to this playing list.

If I can explain my "other", it's realising this list has an average footy IQ of a rutabaga.

Nope. I'll be lobbying for players who have a footy IQ in the 'animate object' range.

Line of the year. Award the trophy now.

Yes, but this is 10,000 hours to be able to perform it at an elite level. I've heard the same thing about professional musicians, so I'll continue by using this as an example: one requires 10,000 hours to be able to perform at this level, but not ON EACH PIECE. If we're using your 10,000 hours as an example, each professional musician would only be able to play one (possibly to a maximum of 4) piece of music. The 10,000 hours generally refers to acquiring and honing the required skills to perform at an elite level. One would assume once they HAVE those skills, they'd be able to adapt their use to differing situations, or, indeed, gameplans.

Please note in advance: This is not meant to be an indictment on Neeld, but rather the players. Neeld has had eight months with these players, assuming the usual 4 weeks annual leave, that is still 7 months. Therefore, at a conservative estimate, they've had 30 weeks with Neeld to work on the gameplan. I'm going to again make an assumption (again on the conservative side) that the team have spent 20% of their time on the gameplan. This gives a figure of 240 HOURS spent on the gameplan. Surely whatever Neeld is trying to implement is nowhere near this complicated? Especially given that we've had reassurances that this is only the FIRST STAGE. If this is the case, given the learning aptitude of the current group, we may have something RESEMBLING what Neeld wants to bring in sometime during season 2023.

The club may lack positive self belief, but it is obvious that certain senior players don't. Theirs would probably be best served to be brought down a few pegs.

What's the disposal efficiency of their kicks, though?

Gotta love Demonland's revisionism. McDonald took 6 weeks to recover from a 2 week injury, and the club was looking to put Bruce on the veteran's list. The only mistake the club made, IMO, was not signing him up as tackling coach or something similar. At the time, it was the right call, made the wrong way.

I think it's because he didn't realise that he was inheriting the dumbest AFL list in history. 8 months to get used to a new way of doing things? In any other workplace they would've been fired months ago.

Dear god, no. That would have been one of the worst reactions available. To extend a 3 year contract within the first 12 months? Only if he'd won us a premiership.

To be fair, they've had 8 rounds to do so, and have proven sweet [censored] all.

Jesus, if it actually inspired them to play a decent game, I'd consider just giving them a freebie.

I don't see how it could.

I'm glad there was no Naitanui in your list though, Nascent. Horrendously overrated pineapple.

The difference is that they had decent senior players.

Like Brian Royal? O_o

If I hear one more MFC player or coach refer to "training going really well", I will legitimately lose my [censored]. Walls will be smashed.

Maybe not. After all, Heath Scotland has played every game this year.......

Just had to drop Josh Hill from my team, sure to suffer the Herald Sun curse. Oh wait, he doesn't play for Melbourne. Please disregard.

Yep, glad we got the one with the right attitude who flogged all of Len's ideas!

At least he came. *cough* Jarman *cough*

No way. Wouldn't trade Jako's quick burn career for the other Jakovich ever. Surely Allen Jakovich is a legend of MFC?