Jaded No More

Except if Gillies is in the team next week I am not going. Not even joking. I actually have something on which I am going to miss to go watch us get smashed, yet again, like an idiot, but if Gillies makes it through his disturbingly bad performance, I am out.

Only if he brings Scully back with him, and Scully senior. In other words, hell no.

If we don't at least inquire about his services and ask what it would take to get him on board, then our administration should give themselves an uppercut. It costs nothing to ask, and you just never know your luck. If all it takes is money, or getting rid of certain people around the club, then bloody hell get it done. I would also hope we chat to Williams, Eade and anyone else who we might think is worth while. And FFS, stop listening to Gary Lyon!!!!!!!!

And what did you learn that you didn't already know? Schwab is a smooth talker, he can spin dog sh*t and make it seem like gold. We know that, but it explains nothing about why we are playing the way we are, or what we plan to do about it, or indeed why he has anything to do with the footy department. He has zero footy coaching credentials, so he should not be involved. Period. One interview, by our president, would have been sufficient. Multiple interviews by multiple people talking the same old boring cliches is a waste of time. I'd like to hear from this club when something substantial happens, or heaven forbids, we win a goddamn game. This club has given us nothing for two years now. Our coach is lost for answers, while the others are spinning the company line, as you would expect, and doing nothing to ease our minds in the process. Talk less, and get on with stopping this club from dying a slow and painful death. Prove to us that you made the right choice and you can manage this club successfully.

Words are cheap, and so is our brand right now. Could they just stop talking in every media outlet, and get on with trying to fix this horrible car-crash of a mess we find ourselves in? All this media chatter does is appease the simple minded, and makes the rest of us more annoyed at the lack of answers and direction.

This one cracks me up, because it's so damn accurate http://beingademonsfan.tumblr.com/post/47323143717/a-melbourne-player-chasing-after-a-loose-ball

Nobody can argue that some of our players aren't great and some are downright pitiful, but we also have some unquestionable quality on the list and we aren't as bad as the results over the last two years would suggest. Two years ago we won 7 games with largely a crappier list. We have since regressed to the depth of crapness and it is unacceptable.

Maybe he shouldn't have wasted time, money and energy getting crap like Gillies and focused on getting some C grade midfielders to help our F grade midfield then? And no, Rodan on half a kneecap doesn't count. Seriously, the folk on Demonland have been complaining about our midfield for years now. Still, no change. Besides, there is always Mitch Clark. Poor man on one foot is trying to play everybody's position on the ground simultaneously. He actually got one more clearance than some of our midfielders did tonight. Oh the shame!

Another moment of mismanagement from the senior coach. He moved him to the wing, then up forward, then he subbed him off after he got the ball, looked up, saw an empty forward line, so fluffed around with the ball and turned it over. HE HAD NOBODY IN THE FORWARDLINE. I swear I scream this every week. Our players are so devoid of confidence and this stuff just kills them further. I know Watts is as soft as a pink marshmallow and be needs to get his [censored] together, but this incident does nothing to help.

I'm in. I'm in hell, and should be in therapy, and every week I resent this club more, but FML here we are.

When they announced the sub on the big screen was being activated, there was a big cheer. It was about as low as cheering when a player goes off injured. Woeful and really sad for Watts, not to mention his family.

Plenty of morons in red and blue around me doing it.

As always, we have good intentions but we go about them the wrong way. Bailey needed to go, but they should have given him the rest of the year, not ambush him like a dog, when he was following board instructions to tank. I don't think we need to sack Neeld in round 2, but the responsible thing would be to start scouting for quality, experienced coaches now, to look for a replacement CEO. Not to throw our the bath water, the baby and then fill up the bath with dirty water again and throw another baby in there. If someone at this club would be so brave as to learn from our many previous mistakes, maybe this time we won't epically [censored] ourselves again. Maybe, just maybe, we can fix this club.

Last week was different because it felt instinctive as you say, but listening to people cheer Watts being subbed off was pathetic. It does nothing for this club and nothing for his confidence. Imagine what you'd feel like if people booed you at work. It made my heart drop and I agreed with his substitution. I'm all for expressing anger and not being a "she'll be right" supporter, and booing the group off is fine but abusing them is just dumb, it's rude, and it makes you a [censored]. I hope anyone who made persona and abusive remarks to our players goes to work on Monday and gets told by their boss that they are crap.

It's just a sad situation for everyone. His career is shot to [censored], and so is our club it seems. Nobody wins here, nobody. I wouldn't want to be a coach, and I appreciate everything he is doing because I know it comes for a good place of wanting to see this club succeed, but as the senior coach, you can't be lost for explanations, you need to know what is wrong and how to fix it, and he seems lost and spent. I feel for him on a personal level just like I feel for a lot of our players. They must feel so utterly hopeless and humiliated most of the time. But at the end of the day, this club can't afford to keep going down this path of destruction and this is what it comes down to. There are many many stakeholders who deserve better.

Garland was the least of our problems. He was ok defensively and he tried to provide some run. Someone needs to physical remove Gillies from this team forever. Worst defender I've seen at Melbourne, and I've sat through a lot of Alistair Nicholson. Totally and utterly hopeless. And lost his cool as well to give away dumb frees. Just epically terrible.

Doing nothing is worse than doing something. I'm a cautious person and I'm never one for rash decisions, but tonight was worse for me than 186. On our home ground, against Essendon with all due respect. We can't afford to continue on this road. We just can't. If we don't keep trying to fix this club, then all that's left to do is sit and wait for it to die and I refuse to see that happen. If we go down, let's at least go down fighting.

We also can't afford to carry on like this. I'd rather be in debt and be winning than be debt free and win free.

We are stuck in this losing culture, a cycle of poverty if you will. The more we lose the worse the confidence is within the team, so the worse they play and the worse we get. And so on and so forth. Players, quality players, dropping sitters, fumbling, making stupid errors, looking up at an empty forward line, it's all in their head. Mark Neeld can train them to run around unopposed and do well, but he can't instil any sort of confidence in them to do it under pressure. He himself admitted as much last week. I actually feel sorry for Frawley and Jones and Clark and Grimes and Howe. Hell I feel for Watts when he hears people cheering his substitution. Imagine what that must do for his confidence. But that's Neeld's job. He needs to get them ready for games and instead after every break we come out and concede an immediate goal. I mean WTF is that? He has to take responsibility for this terrible game plan, but most of all, he has to be accountable for the players' mindset, because that is the biggest problem right now.

Gillies. Seriously, what sick joke is that? He needs to go away. Quickly. Embarrassment. I was hoping Ben Holland would come on.

Well he can join the rest of us.

The only thing worse than this mess is supporters telling other supporters to stop being angry at this mess.

Our players are not this bad. Our list is not this bad. There is being poor, unskilled, unfit and then there is not knowing what to do and not wanting to do it. Something is very very wrong, with everyone, but the reality is we can't ditch the whole list but we can move on the coaching panel and hope it helps.

Dean Bailey had no Clark. Dean Bailey was a terrible coach. Dean Bailey was coaching to lose. WE WERE BETTER UNDER [censored] DEAN BAILEY. Make this stop. Please somebody make this never ending torturous ride to hell just stop.

Well I'm out. I am speechless, and devoid of ideas and this feels like the lowest of the lows, the bottom of the bottomless pit. It feels like this is the end.