Jaded No More

7 females! When did this happen?

Meh, get Mickrocks to do it... I'm too lazy to be adding up numbers! And what exactly was said on SEN?? Are we famous?!

Argh... All my repressed memories are flooding back. Thanks for that! <_<

Anyone thinking he might call it quits? I know he has another year left on his contract, but if he's out for the rest of the season, he might think twice about continuing. Would be terribly sad for someone who nearly broke the consecutive-matches record to be forced out of the game with injury. Sad and ironic. For anyone who is interested: A hernia is a protrusion of a tissue, structure, or part of an organ through the muscular tissue or the membrane by which it is normally contained. A hernia may be likened to a failure in the sidewall of a tire. The tire's inner tube behaves like the organ and the sidewall like the body cavity wall providing the restraint. A weakness in the sidewall allows a bulge to develop, which can become a split, allowing the inner tube to protrude, and leading to the eventual failure of the tire. *ouch*

I'll take a guess.... Bartram, Moloney or Rivers?

But he won't be available in two years time. We need to take him now, or we'll miss the boat (yet again). Look, there are definite negatives with Voss, as with any other candidate. He lacks coaching experience, true, but he can learn on the job. I'm happy for him to make mistakes along the way if his path ultimately leads to success. I don't think there is an issue with him playing alongside most of our players, if anything, he'll be very aware of their style, what they do and don't do on the field etc... He won't have any sort of emotional attachment to them, or to the club. He'll coach purely with his head, not his heart. He'll demand respect because, as you've said, he's fresh out of the game, and nearly everyone on our list has played against him and/or admired him while growing up. He won't let anyone take a backwards step, he'll recognise who can and can't lead the team, and nobody would look him in the eye if we get smashed. I don't want a nice, cuddly coach if the only thing they bring to the table is experience. Experience hasn't helped Daniher, it hasn't helped Pagan either. There is a lot to be said for innovation, for taking a risk, for doing things your own way. Voss wants to coach and feels he's ready. He doesn't strike me as the sort of guy who would pump himself up for no reason. Unlike the MFC, he walks the walk, not just talks the talk. Take a chance, bring him on. What's the worse thing that could happen? We finish 15th? Oh hang on...

Not sure that Carlton can afford to pay out Dennis, especially when, considering how crap they are actually are, they haven't performed too badly this year.

If I was one of those people who threatened to not renew their membership if things are not done to my liking, I would threaten that Chris Connolly at Melbourne means I won't be buying a membership. Unfortunately, we're not in a position to hold the club to financial ultimatums, but we're not in a position to get Connolly either. I'd rather keep Daniher, if that's the option we have.

Fashion merchandising/ product development. My god we get off topic easily... Sorry to hijack Newton's cause!

Not yet... mine start on Friday! I've got a couple more exams to go too, but as can you see, I'm studying real hard at the moment Michael Newton intrigues me far more than the Australian Standards of fire hazard labelling for children's nightwear and such.

It's refering to your age now. We've done this sort of poll before, but the results will be very different now. For one, there is already 2 females posting here. That's one more than last time! <_<

I'm busy at uni (don't let the fact that I'm posting instead of listening in class fool you )... you do it! <_< In all seriousness, I can't access emails on uni computers. I'll formulate the letter if someone else is happy to send it.

Mail it to Sam's Mailbag and they may pick it up from there?

Selection of Newton might come down to Neita's fitness. I'd love to see them both play alongside Robbo, Bate and Sylvia, but I don't think we'll go that way.

I hope they give Moloney, Rivers and Bartram the rest of the year off. What's the point in rushing them back, given their injury problems, when the year is already gone? None of them are fighting to stay at the club, as when fit, they are quite clearly in our best 22.

I voted: Another footy site, but it's a two-fold story. I used to read Bigfooty, and the place disgusted me. I then heard about Demonland through a friend who posted both on Bigfooty and here (old forum), and the rest is history. I've been reading/posting/moderating this site for what feels like a lifetime. Thank god we lost our post count when we moved to the new setup, or I would probably be up to about 20,000 posts by now!

True, but I wish they identified that it wasn't working early enough... who knows, it might have changed the direction of our season. Also, some accountability from Daniher regarding the failure of this plan would have been nice. I think they put all their eggs in the one basket, and the eggs cracked. We never should have run with a different style onto the MCG, where we dominated last year.

I was thinking last night that I hope he doesn't kick more than 3 because I'm very poor at the moment... Oh, the conflict of interest!

If we beat Essendon it proves further that we're under-performing, that we're mentally weak, that we only fight when our backs are against the wall, that we get too far ahead of ourselves and that Daniher has to go. This week has nothing to do with anyone's future. Gary was right, just as you don't sack a coach based on one loss, you don't reappoint them based on one win.

Spot on (and I too am a Caro fan). Melbourne supporters WANT to hear that things are being done, defeats are taken seriously, the board is working towards a better future. I don't care if it doesn't help our on-field performance, because at the moment we're playing for nothing but pride. Daniher is under pressure, he would have known that way before Gardner went on SEN.

If they drop Petterd, I will make an impassioned plea to try and talk myself out of torching the place. And no doubt we'll win, it's typical of Melbourne. We'll win, the papers will say Daniher should say, the club will probably buy it, and in 2017 we'll all still be here wondering what happened...

Maybe we need to start a "Pay so he may coach" thread? I would absolutely love to get him to Melbourne, so much so that it is my new bandwagon to drive. If it fails, big deal, we've been failing for 43 years!

Correct. This is purely a way to get people to donate money to the club, and it is all a bit of fun. If the Michael Newton hysteria helps raise a few hundred dollars, than that's great. I doubt he'll find out about it, and even if he does, I'm sure he'll feel a little chuffed and move on. The real pressure on the kid will come when he runs out with the team for the first time, regardless of how the supporters might feel. I think you'll find that most people just want to see him get a chance, not many are expecting him to come out and dominate. If they are, they need a reality check.

And that's before he even kicked a goal! Good job everyone, that's money the club could really use.

No he isn't. Very very raw, but should be promoted to the senior list at the end of the season, especially if we trade Jamar. He needs at least one or two more years to even be competitive on an AFL field, but he has potential.