Undeeterred

Go back and look at Clarkson's, Hardwick's and Ratten's results in their first couple of years. Sacking the coach now would be utterly ridiculous. Where would that get us??

Jamar has never been able to run with mobile ruckmen like Jolly and Cox and they routinely rip us a new one. At least Spencer and Gawn can run with them.

I was only listening on the radio, so didn't get the live view. I'm wavering between being happy that we were competitive but not able to go with the big WCE bodies down forward and the rampaging midfield, and asking why the hell we didn't stick with competitive one on one footy. That third quarter, when we let Priddis run free, might be when Neeld finally lost me. That's coaching 101, surely, to lock down one on one on the players who are tearing you up. It isn't fair to blame the defenders. They just aren't big enough and good enough to stem the flow. No defence can withstand the ball coming in that quickly, frequently and easily. It sounded like we went to sh!t when they put a man behind the ball and we didn't man up. Why would we do that, when manning up and having 7 forwards worked so well for a half. It beggars belief that we'd put Clark behind the ball, rather than giving ourselves one on one match ups going forward. Sounded like a few blokes had a go, and we've found a few in Evans, Terlich and Matt Jones. Also sounds like Jamar is the same useless lump as always, and that Tom McDonald will be a star. Give it time folks, although I really think I am ready to admit for the first time that Neeld just has to be a better game day tactician.

Too many cooks, methinks.

Disagree. The media will get off his back when we stop running him under a bus and giving them something to write about.

Nothing to do with BP, it is our idiot selection policy to blame this time...

Hate to honk the horn from the driver's seat of the reality bus, but we are going to get absolutely belted.

I've also noticed that Col is almost universally in any photo the club posts of sick kids in hospitals etc. Think it is a bit rough to label him as someone who doesn't care about people. Go nuts about his compete lack of care on the field, but he doesn't seem to be a bad bloke off it.

Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

You mean the bloke who prosecuted the tanking investigation? No thanks.

I had a lazy day at work the other day and didn't get anyything done. I feel really bad about it. Does that mean I should stay home this weekend and stare at the walls?

Won't post the link, but AD was quoted in The Age today offering support to the MFC. He's only a phone call away, apparently. What blatant, outrageous hypocrisy. The AFL tormented us mercilessly for most of last season and the entire offseason, fined us for something that we didn't do, and clearly caused more lasting damage to the club than is immediately obvious. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of the current problems could be attributed to Chris Connolly falling on his sword just before the season commenced.

Stuie's not a kid, he's 36. Going on 14.

Did someone tell that bloke he's playing CHB next week?

We forget sometimes that the players are people too... When you're going to boo them, remember that a lot of them are 20odd year old kids having a crack. It is humiliating enough getting smashed every week, without being booed on national TV into the bargain. What on earth does that acheive except making them feel worse about it all?

Excellent point... I'm really just being melodramatic, but wow that was horrible.

I just don't care enough about football to bother any more. Time to get on with the other things in my life...

You mean some aren't feeling very chipper?

Good job, Captain Hindsight.

Sat next to him a cafe this morning and, because I've not seen him up close before, I was actually surprised at how slight he is. For someone that young and, really, that small, to be playing like that in a debut match puts most of the rest of the list to shame. In answer to the question, it is a positive that he is having a crack.

Not sure if serious.

Why would we risk Clark in a rebuilding season with nothing realistically on the line when a serious setback could finish his career? Madness.

And you're defining irony by other people's posts... I'd look closer to home mate.

Yeah, cos all of that is exactly what we got....Puh-lease.

That fine was ridiculous - resting those players was pure list management. The Spurs are one of the oldest teams in the league, and they had 4 games in 5 days. The bigger problem was that they rested their stars against Miami, which would be kind of like Collingwood resting Thomas, Swan, Pendlebury and Cloke on Anzac Day. It destroyed the TV revenue stream for that game. I'm not sure that was really tanking in its pure form.