Undeeterred

Remember when we sent the undersized Rivers to him? And how well that worked? Think Cloke had about 30 marks by half time.

Completely agree. I've really liked Watts up forward the last couple of weeks. Watts can be incredibly damaging up forward and long may it last. Our best set shot, apart from Mitch Clark.

How would you know, you're not even watching.

So bringing in an entirely new coaching staff who 'know what they are doing' is going to magically change the fact that half our list are spuds? Please.

And won't we all love it when Dawes takes 11 marks in a lead up CHF role, and when he bangs it 60 m to the top of the square, it will be Clark standing under it rather than Davey and Fitzpatrick.

I'd say today we took the game on more than in any match I've seen since the Bailey years. Quite seriously.

Hate to call you on this, but this is complete garbage.

Typical WYL crap. For someone not watching, your rate of commentary remains high.

Oh, and welcome back Chipper. Towelled Buddy today, including a vintage chase and tackle up against the boundary line. Praise the Lord.

Signs today, in parts. However, we would have to be the most frustrating side to ever play in the AFL. We do SO many stupid things, which ruin such a lot of good, hard work. Nathan Jones, you are a star.

Haha all good... I think we are all overlooking the fact that we aren't going to be choosing the next coach, regardless of who it is!

Seriously, mate, you have to stop. You're embarrassing yourself.

So I open the thread called 'Realistic Future Melbourne Coach' and the first post advocates John Northey. Then we call Bailey a tough guy and Malthouse lovable. Come on, people. Peter Jackson and the AFL are going to pay out Mark Neeld, install a serious coach and move on. Money just moves in circles in these instances, which is why the tanking fine meant nothing. The AFL will pay for it in the end. And make no mistake, the AFL requires Melbourne to exist for TV rights. There is no way on earth they aren't in charge, making sure this ship doesn't inadvertently sink.

He won't leave. We could (/will) give him, deadset, 600-700k and not even put a dint in our salary cap. He won't get that anywhere else...

Completely right, in my book. People underestimate how bad things had got. If you go further down that possession list from yesterday, you'll see Nate Jones, Howe and Sylvia, but basically the rest of the top 10 have less than 20 games (Evans eg). Of course we are behind GC - we are actually more inexperienced than them, despite that being Neeld's choice.

The very definition of kneejerk.

He barely even hit him. 2 weeks for mine. And I don't care what people say, he's in our best 3 this year.

Also, it really killed Tapscott's attack on the ball. He was best on ground for us until that point and faded badly. A real shame, he was smashing it (pardon the pun).

That was an abysmal decision. And a real shame to discourage that sort of play, because we are absolutely crying out for it!!

Nathan Jones, as a Futurama head in a jar.

Hate to break it to you, but if you're going to call someone retarded, it's best to use the word 'retarded' not a made up word that makes you sound more stupid than him. Best just not to call people retarded, perhaps.

Fair bit of revisionism going on here...

WJ - you are probably the best, most credible poster on this site, but today's game was terrible, and absolutely riddled with errors. Yes, the intensity was high, but the errors were absolutely appalling and some of the play was Melbourne-esque and we'd have been right at home today. Nevertheless, you're right. We are miles off a game like today's.

When we learn how to play 4 quarters, we really won't be as bad as we look at times...

Clark icing the bad foot, and done for the day. Uh oh