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Geelong v Casey Scorpions Qualifying Final
bing181 replied to KC from Casey's topic in Melbourne Demons
Injured presumably. Why would he not be playing otherwise? -
Tudor makes sense, he's been at the Swans for 2 years now, Roos would know him well. Though he's also been linked to the Lions as Senior Coach. Feel a bit for Neil Craig in this, could be a few announcements over the next week.
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How could we announce anyone else now? If that happened it would always look like we were knocked back by Roos and had to settle for second best. And who else have we spoken with multiple times, as is the case with Roos? Not Craig, and not Williams if reports are correct. Roos might as well have said "I'm going to do it" - except that he would lose leverage in ongoing negotiations if he did.
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Geelong v Casey Scorpions Qualifying Final
bing181 replied to KC from Casey's topic in Melbourne Demons
FFS, ridiculous hyperbole. Have a look at the injury list for starters. Who the hell should be playing tonight who isn't??? Sellar? Casey were never going to have much of a chance down at Geelong in any case, and next week everyone who is available will be available. -
Makes it hard now for any other candidate, Roos is obviously the one we're after.
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Depends how you define untried. Leigh Tudor is not lacking in experience at AFL level. Up to the coaching panel. Wouldn't be ruling out anyone myself, including Worsfold - or Craig. It's not going to turn around in a season or two though, no matter who we pick.
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And with an "informed" comment like that, glad you're not deciding either.
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Unfortunate way to end his career, and will be missed around the club.
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Dean Bailey putting in a good word for Jack?
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Are the MFC doing that stupid Darwin camp again?
bing181 replied to What's topic in Melbourne Demons
Lots of specialists in Sports Science out and about today. No point working on skills if you don't have the fitness to execute them under pressure, over four quarters and for a whole season. -
Or the coaching selection panel?
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This list can take the club forward. Just not in the short term, and that's the difference. Well, that's how I read it!
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Not disagreeing, but not forgetting either that both Dawes and Clark not only missed significant slabs of the season, but effectively missed most/all of the last pre-season as well. If they'd been knocked from pillar to post in 20+ games of footy, with a full, hard pre-season before that, suspect that they'd be looking to sit on a beach somewhere for a while rather than start in early with extra training.
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Rodan needs development? And if Bail still needs to play in the VFL for his development, after being drafted in 2008, then we're in worse trouble than I thought.
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Even if Craig did coach the club next year, he said the talent on Adelaide's list when he took over was lacking at the Demons. "The quality of players that were in that squad, (Mark) Ricciuto, (Simon) Goodwin, (Andrew) McLeod, (Tyson) Edwards, Benny Hart – there was a lot of quality in that squad," he said. "We are a long way away as a total footy club."
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There are no messiahs. Fixing a broken team takes years - even if it is possible. For me, there's no way of judging Craig, one way or another on current results. You only have to see Tom McDonald's game today to see how frustrated and down on confidence the players are. I would say they're pretty well all completely shot. If it's been a year from hell for supporters, I can only imagine what it must be like at ground zero, and even a walk-on-water coach wouldn't be able to do much about that in the short term. I also think much of the current discussion undersells just how much work and time it takes to teach a whole team a way of playing, and of getting them to execute it day in day out in the heat of battle. The idea that Craig was going to come in and in a week or two undo two-odd years of trying to master Plan A is also, it seems to me, completely unrealistic.
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Which is why he deserved the call up.
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Excellent first quarter. In hindsight.
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Hawks/Roos looking interesting.
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We could have saved ourselves sacking our coach, our CEO, and moving on half the board if only we'd realised earlier. All Dave Misson's fault.
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You obviously have no idea of his background. You don't work across the board at the very highest level the way he has without knowing what you're doing.
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Don't know that Jack Viney would agree. But the list of players that was cited above who "should have been played" in the VFL to strengthen Casey in the finals, only includes two "kids", Kent (doing OK in the firsts) and Toumpas (another easy 30 possessions last week).
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Pedersen, McKenzie, Tapscott and Bail need development in the VFL? Fitzpatrick is injured, but would know the change rooms at Casey like the back of his hand. As for Kent and Toumpas, see above. One AFL game is worth more than any number of VFL finals. Development isn't dropping players back to the VFL once they've shown they can play at AFL level.
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Craig for a year or two then, with Burns or Simpson in the wings ready to take over. At least with Craig we hit the ground running.
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You missed one: Paul Roo's has alway's been one of my favourite coach's
