DemonWA

Dunn played well in 2010 and looked like he wasnt a spud .....

Whats an Aggi truck doing rocking up at Real Madrid's HQ??

thats my take on things. I dont think Bailey's endgame would have been to play bruise free unacountable football by any means. He just coached to the strengths of the list to instill confidence whilst the youngsters were finding their feet

Its good to hear some support for Neeld, and why he's doing what he's doing. Pretty similar to the general feeling on here too. lets hope he's right!

i'd keep Jetta too for the same reason. Everytime he gets a game you can see he tries his heart out. Plus he doesnt shirk a contest

Reds

i see where your coming from, but Bailey didnt coach to win for the first season or two. Then, when he did try to teach the team to press, the club didnt have the resources to teach effectivley - i can imagine him at Junction Oval scribbling on a big pad of butcher paper with a permanant marker

i had a read on bomberblitz. Their changes for this week ins: Percentage Outs: Bruises

Perhaps Bailey knew the limitations of the list and coached accordingly? If that meant we'd be better served putting numbers behind the ball rather than zone, well so be it (in the short term). it seems people are pretty quick to draw conclusions on how Bailey wanted us to play in the long term, based on what he delivered in a relitivley short period of time (when not playing for draft picks). he still talked about being competative and doing the 1%ers, but perhaps not at the point where it becomes the sole focus. Neeld is taking a very different approach, starting at Basics and working up from there. I'm backing him in as i hope he gets us to where we want to be. BUT, give credit where credit is due, Bailey was able to win the odd game whilst deveoping a young list. Winning breeds confidence and Morale in both players and supporters

We will win because our players are sick of loosing and this may be our first real opertunity to get a win

I dont think Bailey's philosophy was all that different to Neelds. To say Bailey was all attack and no defence is not true. How much did Bailey used to talk about competing, and winning quarters? Neeld is saying much of the same thing In the games we did win under bailey we attacked the footy hard, tackled well and maintained good intentsity for 4 quarters. I guess the only difference between both philosophies is that Bailey was teaching both attack and defence at the same time (probably to the detrement of the defence side of the scales), where as Neeld is taking a 'one step at a time' approach.

Brent moloney & Jamie bennell

I don't think he should be sacked, but I don't think he has done enough to earn genuine belief just yet either. IMO its blind faith until he proves himself with some on field results, hell, I'd even be happy with an honorable loss (if there is such a thing)

Your neeld crusade is looking to be 2012 version of rpfc's quest for people to show blind faith in scully....

What is this. Shall we look back in the history books to find every good news story that has started with a bad beginning? I hope your on the right track range rover, but not sure why people need to have blind faith in neeld based on the things he says, not on what we see on game day? Too early to tell either way

whats that quote about Bex and having a nap?! Sacking a coach 9 games into a 3 year contract would do nothing for the club. Infact all it would achieve would be changing the media's focus from Neeld and his position to the club as a whole. "basket case demons sack coach" - No thanks. Instead lets see the players put in a tough effort in wet conditions against a Blues team who have been playign soft footy. Maybe then the media will lay off Neeld for a week and some of our supporters might be able to chill out

Yeah the way their fans were waving their scaffs around after the win against west coast..... you would have thought they handed out premierships in may?!!

I reckon he must give the coaches a chubby at training - has good skills & good pace, can imagine he'd tick boxes in a drill haha

Bartel for me, tough, takes good grabs and kicks goals Also like watching Judd and Ablett Dont rate Pendles as much as most

I dont actually think King was that out of line with what he said. I agree with him on the premise that if we had picked a coach who was more alligned with Bailey's ideas then we would have won a few games by now and would be less likley to have to rework our list. Having said that, what is best long term is up for debate IMO - too easly to tell either way

overstatement of the day!! Tapscott is about the only 'in' that gets me exited. Hopefully Sylvia, Davey and Morton come back in some good form, we need them playing well come GWS/GCS games!

IMO Those who have impressed me more than i thought they would have; Rivers, Bartam, Jones, Mckenzie, Howe, Morton, Bate Those who i thought would be playing better than they have; Grimes, Trengove, Frawley, Garland, Watts, Jamar, Davey Those who are playing rubbish football compared to where they should be: Sylvia, Moloney

No offence, but this type of post is rubbing me up the wrong way lateley. You might be correct, but there are plenty of ways to skin a cat, and surely there are less drastic or less painful ways to establish the fact that AFL players need to give 100% regardless of talent. Neeld will get the right results eventually, but do we need such a painful transition period, would there have been no other way to get from A-B?!

i only saw him for the first time a week or so ago before the hawks game. The only decent aspect of his performace is that smoking jacket!!

The missing ingredient is "white line fever". i think the whole players v schwab, and now players v Neeld has ben embellished to a point where it could make it as a mid day soap opera. No matter how upset some members of the playing group could be at the way Bailey/Schwab/Neeld have handled things, i cannot believe that this can translate to on field performances where 90% of the team seem to show a lack of desire. I think blaming schwab or neeld is a cop out. its probably easier to take than accepting that our players are spoilt brats who dont have the competative streak thats required to make it in a top line AFL side