Jaded No More

Just when you think it can't get worse, they put on their party hats and yell "surprise". Mark Neeld needs to take himself out of this job. He has killed our players' natural instincts, made us look dumb and slow, plays an untenable game plan and has made me ashamed of this team. Something. Has. To. Give.

That we stuffed up letting our doctor of many years go, and instead hired a dodgy individual? Who is accountable for that?

Ok so you're suggesting it's acceptable for a club doctor to take medical advice from an outsiders then administer supplements, legal or otherwise, without informing so much as Mission? Craig? hell, our coach?Surely someone other than Bate knew about the talks with Dank, in which case, our CEO and our board should have also known. If people in our club are holding information from our board, it shows me that our board isn't strong enough and isn't demanding enough transparency. Either that, or they consistently hire unsuitable individuals who screw them.

Yeah, a kid sneaking out to smoke pot is totes the same as a doctor hiding medical practices from the club. Have you ever worked for a big multi million dollar corporation? The president is ultimately accountable for everything.

Are you friggin serious? It is an utter disgrace that shoddy crap goes on at this club which our president and our board are unaware of. It's almost worse than them knowing and trying to hide it. FFS it's unacceptable. What sort of company lets its employees do what they please without being accountable to management at all times??? I can't even... You are an idiot. No offense. But seriously.

Just. Don't. Even. Know. What. To. Say. Anymore.

Well that's creepy.

I love this club and always will, but right now I don't like it. It's like watching your best friend take heroine and [censored] around and you are helpless to stop them.

I hate everyone.

McLardy has been in the gun long before this latest saga. He leads the board, and yet here we are at another "please explain" moment from the AFL. Like we don't have enough to deal with. The way he fumbled through CS sacking, was enough to tell me that he isn't strong enough to take us anywhere worth going. He may have good intentions, but he isn't right for the job. And please, if anybody at our club even came close to commanding the respect of the players and supporters the way Hird does at Essendon, we'd be a lot better off. Why don't our players rally behind our coach, hey Stuie?

Really, we consistently turn on our own? Like when we raised millions to cover our debts? like when we stuck by the club through 7 years of 'list development' that has netted us nothing but wasted draft picks? like we got through 186 and 148 and tanking allegations and sponsorship dramas and racism allegations and Jurrah and Scully and the death of our beloved president? Like how we all fail to truly support a club that has failed miserably on so many fronts for so long? Because I don't see anybody here demanding anything unreasonable, nobody is microwaving their membership, dumping chicken [censored] at AAMI Park. We want to be successful, we want to stop being so poorly handled, dragged through the mud every week, and then perform pathetically on the field. If you don't want something better for our club than what is happening right now, in front of you, than you are weak. Because seeing something wrong and doing nothing, is worse of all.

Screw you Stuie I've been a paid up member for 13 years in a row, and I go every week without fail. You wanna call me weak? well I wanna call you a moron. Fair? If it's weak to demand our club not be so miserably represented on and off the field, than fine, I'm weak.

It's not whether they are responsible for all of our problems, but how they've handled them. And our board has done a [censored] job in recent times. We are rolling in a pile of dog poo and hoping not to catch flies.

I'm not supporting the club in this at all, just to make it clear. But I also don't think that legally we did anything wrong, which is good because we can't afford a legal case. All this does, for now, is highlight what an incompetent bunch of morons run this club. Which is sad and totally ruins whatever shred of credibility we had left. This club is dying from self inflicted wounds.

The above statement is not wrong and we never denied that we used supplements. Technically there are no lies above. Still, I'm not sure wtf this club is doing.

Yep, that part makes no sense. I suppose we are legally right in saying he was not employed by the club and everything has been overseen by our club doctor. I dunno, I'm sick of us being so incredibly incompetent and pathetic, so trying to defend the club?

Until I hear evidence that we gave players banned substances, lets not jump to conclusions. We have done nothing wrong if the substances aren't illegal. I've had some of these treatments done on my knee. They are common place and totally non invasive.

Well that report was crap. Nothing illegal and clearly nothing performance enhancing, as evident by us being the shittest team ever. Nothing to see here. Move on.

I don't even know where to start with the Watts situation. But great news for Gawn!

For the love of all that is red and blue, please just [censored] kill us now. What more could go wrong for this club? We take supplements and get accused of tanking simultaneously. What did they inject us with? Radioactive poison???!

Ridiculous article, written by a ridiculous man, to feed the ridiculous masses of morons who have given up on a young KPF. Harden up people!

Stuie, we are struggling to win a quarter, let alone a game. You'll excuse us if we aren't jumping for joy that a repeat offender, a perennial under performer, and an all round known idiot, has been seen [censored] out of his mind after a match* Should we sack him? No. Should we punish him? Yes. Would our club be annoyed at this? Yes Should you? Probably, but too busy searching for gifs online I suppose. *still no confirmation, so lets hope it is not true or has been blown out of proportion on the internet

It's his job, and he wants to work in a successful environment. Hard to keep motivated when you're constantly getting flogged. Hard to take pride in your trade when your club is useless at its trade. Of course I hope he wants to stay, stick at it while the going is tough and enjoy success at the one club. However if he doesn't see any hope of success, why would he stay? He is a person in a highly demanding, very short term industry. Like any one of us, he'd be looking to make the most of it. Do you think Jared Rivers feels anything other than extreme joy that he left?

I'm sorry but if I was great at my chosen profession and worked for a completely terrible company that was sinking faster than the Titanic, I'd be looking to get the hell out as well (which reminds me, it's time to look for a new job!) If this club has any brains, they will move heaven and earth to retain Frawley, motivate him, and try to get him out of the obvious funk he's in.

If this is true and not some story made up by some idiot trying to big note themselves, then all I can say is, typical Sylvia. Plays one good game in 4 years, where his team gets smashed, and goes out on the [censored] to celebrate. Colin, you are 27, FFS grow up and stop behaving like a complete tossbag. As for Frawley, I'm going to assume he was trying to diffuse the situation, otherwise, he has totally lost the plot on and off the field. Again, I hope this entire story is not true. We really can't afford anymore spectacularly bad media coverage, or players behaving badly.