bing181
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No we're not. There are 4 teams below us, 3 quite a bit below us (North, GWS and Richmond). We're averaging 58 per game, compared with Collingwood (58.2) and Geelong 58.4) and are in a group of around 8 teams on very similar tackle counts. We had one disastrous game (Essendon, 35 tackles), but apart from that, have been at or better than league averages. We have any number of issues, but our tackle count isn't one of them.
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Easy to spare you, because that's not what he said ... or anything like it. Go listen to the interview and the question he was asked.
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I rarely agree with you Stuie, but I agree with that - as I imagine, would pretty well everyone on here as well as those connected with the club. We definitely need to see some improvement in the not-too-distant future, though I'd probably go for Round 19 as the cut-off: GWS in Sydney. On the other hand, I would say that the "suck this badly" part is difficult to quantify, because in spite of everything, it's still early days and we've seem some wildly variable performances. It's very difficult to get a real handle either on where we are, or where other teams are. Who would have ever imagined Port and Essendon lossless, and Adelaide, WCE and even Brisbane struggling. Even with us, there has been some wrist-slashing here about being beaten by a team with some kids in it last weekend, but the headlines prior to that weren't about Melbourne and Neeld, they were all about Brisbane and Voss, whose season after their NAB cup win has been in its own way, more of a fail than ours. That was a must-win game for them - not to excuse our deficiencies in any way either. We now have an interesting run of 3 games, Carlton, GC and Richmond at the MCG, where we need to start to be competitive (at least) for the majority of the game (at least). Wins I'm not sure about, as our big problem is in the mids, and those 3 teams have amongst the best midfields in the comp. Hard to see that we'll be getting (m)any coach-saving victories until after the Bye, but at least we'll have a bit better idea of where we're at. So if we look at Round 18/19 as some kind of cut-off for Neeld and the FD, it's probably going to come down to that post-bye run of St Kilda, Bulldogs and Lions, perhaps North. We'd really need to start seeing some results there to have the real evidence of progress and improvement that we all need. But ... going to be a rough ride in the short term I suspect.
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Perhaps Neeld wouldn't let them sell raffle tickets at half time?
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Morton doesn't have a LTI at all. He has been playing all year for East Perth in the WAFL, and unless he improves, that's where he'll stay - though that's no doubt Neeld's fault.
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You keep going on about Roos. We don't have a Roos waiting in the wings. The nearest we might have got would have been if Junior had stayed on and become an assistant, and the closest we have now would be Leigh Brown. Roos played for years at the Swans, and knew the team and the club inside out. He'd then been assistant for 2+ years under Eade. Roos is the exception that proves the rule: interim coaches invariably never make (good) senior coaches. For every Roos there's a Bickley, a Paul Williams, or a Primus. Go and ask Richmond fans for their thoughts about Rawlings as interim coach. Clutching at straws. There are no easy solutions.
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Good enough for Collingwood to sign him up, and Geelong to chase him as an assistant in 2011.
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Injury List - Round 6 (Mitch Clark 6-8 weeks)
bing181 replied to Bergly Sanders's topic in Melbourne Demons
Because no-one ever plays or rests ruckmen in the forward line. Leuenberger getting 3 goals against us last week was obviously an aberration. As was Giles' goal the week before, Cox's 3 the week before that, and no point even mentioning Bellchambers' 4 and Ryder's 1 the week prior. -
No they haven't.
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It's getting to be like some kind of competition, where posters try to outdo each other with the ridiculousness of their claims. You don't kick 14 goals in a match without some semblance of discipline, structure and competitive effort. Our 14.10 is a higher score than Collingwood, St Kilda, Sydney, Fremantle, Richmond, Adelaide, The Bulldogs, Port, and West Coast could manage last round, and only a goal less than North and Hawthorn. Guess all those teams will have to sack their coaches as well.
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Have a look at who does what at the Dees and Casey. The MFC-listed forwards, backs etc. at Casey are supervised by the respective development coaches from the MFC, who are also the active assistants for their areas on VFL game day. These players only train for one session a week with Welsh, but train 5 days a week with the MFC coaches. If you're commenting favourably on the progress of Fitzy and Strauss, then it's down to the MFC coaches, and in particular the development coaches: Greaves, Satterly and Nichol
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Not sure why this keeps coming up, as above, we had it with Gawn's LTI earlier in the year. It's a MINIMUM of 8 weeks. If Mitch is on the LTI and makes a miraculous recovery in 4 weeks, tough, he would have to sit out the final 4 weeks, and couldn't even play at Casey. 31.4.1 Minimum 8 Weeks An injured Player transferred to a Club’s Long Term Injury List is ineligible to play in the AFL Competition or a State Body competition for a minimum period of 8 weeks, commencing from the day on which the General Manager – Football Operations gives his approval for the injured Player to transfer to the Club’s Long Term Injury List.
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"I can only see what I can see on the field' He doesn't know anything, he hasn't heard anything, he hasn't spoken to any players. He's just guessing, based on what's going on on the field. Same as everyone around here. Happy to stick with Dawes' version for the moment.
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That's THE big if, or at least A big if. The best summary of our current position, and from inside the playing group, was the Chris Dawes' article. You would be really stretching it to see in that that Neeld had lost the playing group.
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For every interim coach who goes onto success, there's the majority of them who don't. Sure, it worked with Roos, but look at, for example, Primus at Port. Also, Eade had been there, what 7 or 8 years, and they were going backwards from being finalists, which isn't exactly the case at Melbourne. But then, who do we have in the wings, the closest to your Roos example would be Leigh Brown. The only advantage of getting in an interim coach, is that it enables you to start looking for a permanent coach a little earlier. But you even lose that advantage if the coaches that are being considered are already working and contracted till the end of the season (or finals).
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In the longer term, of course, but in the short term, mid-season? We tried that 2 years ago with Viney, didn't really change anything on-field.
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They're assumptions, but you're overlooking the one given: 1. The team is really really crap. (for the moment ....)
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People have either short or selective memories, because by any measure, kicking 14 goals on the road (without Clark etc.) is clearly an improvement on last year. We could only muster 8 goals against Brisbane in 2012. Though even that was better than the 5 we managed against both Freeo and Sydney - and about equal to what we managed against WCE ... and Port. All losses, and most, huge losses. Our crowning achievement on the road last year was 11 goals against GWS in Canberra.
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We don't play a zone. Neeld and Craig have both said so in the past, and Neeld repeated it in the Press Conference (that everyone was so keen to dissect word by word) on the weekend. Yet another anti-Neeld misconception based on a fallacy.
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McKenzie got 30 possessions in the VFL last week, Pedersen had 20+ possessions and 11 marks the week before - even Rodan looks like a star at Casey. There's a HUGE jump in level up to the AFL, let's not kid ourselves Magner is some kind of messiah.
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Injury List - Round 6 (Mitch Clark 6-8 weeks)
bing181 replied to Bergly Sanders's topic in Melbourne Demons
8 weeks I believe. They may not want to chance it, in the hope that Misson and co. can work wonders and have him back in 6 weeks. -
The hundreds of existing threads on this and similar subjects not enough for you to put forward your "ideas"?
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Really? You think that's all it takes - a handful of trades, grab a couple of older guys through FA, bring in a few kids and BAM! instant finals contenders? If it was like that, how come GWS and GC aren't sweeping all before them ... they've had priority picks galore, open slather on trades with favourable conditions, extra room in the cap etc. etc. Or how come WCE or Adelaide are down around us on the ladder, after all, they're powerful clubs with plenty of resources, why can't they just make themselves instant-top-4? Or ... why don't the really big clubs, say Collingwood and Carlton, simply raffle the premiership each year, because with what they have to offer, they should be able to turn over who they want, and bring in who they like, no? Years. It takes years and years. And if along the way, you get a handful of choices/picks/trades wrong, you go back to the bottom and start all over again.
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Ken Hinkely went old school Mark Neeld goes back to school
bing181 replied to ashdemons22's topic in Melbourne Demons
Where did he say that? Come on .... -
So, what was useful or beneficial in what you posted?
