NorwoodDemon

The Enigmas: Watts and Sylvia Peter Ryan talks a little bit about Watts and Sylvia's performance against essendon, then he goes on to discuss what opposition assistant coaches do when their players have lost confidence. I haven't watched the two games for this season so i have no idea if they are actually trying and thinking too much to play well.

i think with all the new inclusions this year it will be hard to make the finals coz its practically a new team, they need a season to play together to figure out how each other plays and their strengths/weaknesses. So i think 2014 we will cement 8th spot but probably not go any further in the finals until 2015. However i would love them to go crazy this year and make finals!!

i thought he left because he has a baby on the way and the move would be too much not because the the dee's training is too much.

So i did a quick search and couldn't find this posted. It just shows not all media is against us in the tanking saga, hopefully more will emerge in the future. Michael rogers (whoever he is) seems to have the same views as a lot of us. Enjoy Tanking Probe's innocent victims - Bigpond Sport

haha very nice tony tea. my father had a bet with my uncle when i was born in 1988 that if norwood redlegs lose to port adelaide at their next match i would be a port adelaide/collingwood supporter. but if norwood won i'd be a redlegs/demons supporter. norwood lost and he told my uncle to shove it and made me a demons supporter haha.

i still remember Gary McIntosh half the field handballs as a kid! Good friend of my dads, they always used to go and get hammered at the Bath Hotel down the parade back in the day.

I would go for whatever the first MFC jumper was back when it was formed. Heritage or whatever its called. However, i can see it clashing maybe with Essendon or Carlton so invert the colours or something.

Get "Russel Robertson Higher" its a music album done by Russel Robertson a recent former great footballer from melbourne. I haven't listened to it, nor do i want to lol. Heard him sing on the footy show and at a grand final or maybe Queens birthday clash i think and he was horrible. But maybe you should find it somewhere, download it, whatever and check it out.

3 experienced players (and good leaders) from other teams to come in and replace Green, Moloney and Jurrah.

we won't know if this rebuild is successful until the end of neelds contract. Thats how long im giving him and thats how long it should take. It took Malthouse 3 yrs to get Collingwood in the top 8 and 10 years to win 1 Premiership. Collingwood finished 15th then 9th in Mick Malthouses first 2 years then 4th in his 3rd. So im hoping for something similar with Mark Neeld. I don't know what Malthouse did in his first two years to turn it around in his 3rd, i'd assume some culling and good drafting. But everyone should just relax and see how it works out at the end of 2014.

i think he'll do wonders for the MFC but i don't think we'll win a flag with him. Probably use him to build the team then some hotshot coach might be out of a contract and we'll grab them. BUT WHO KNOWS! still very happy he is here but i would of rather'd an experienced coach after what happened with bailey.

shouldn't this be in the trading forum?

you think sylvias second half of the season will be enough to get him in the top 5? i think it would.

Bennel is horrible full stop, Tapscott and Strauss should come back next year hopefully. Jetta i dunno about him, i haven't really payed attention to him in games.

haha, i just think that we should have been around where they are at the moment with the youngsters we got (or could have gotten instead).

I don't see his first season as a total failure because at least we know we are better than Gold Coast and Greater Western City. I'm extremely happy that we beat both teams don't care if it wasn't a thrashing but we now know we are better than both those teams. Next year as long as we still beat those two teams plus Western Bulldogs, Port Adelaide and Brisbane Lions I'll be happy with how things are going. I'm still young so I have many years of supporting left in me. However I don't see him as a premiership coach only as a rebuilding coach but I would love to win a premiership under him, maybe 2016? edit: If he lasts that long, footy has been pretty brutal in recent years with coaches.

you forgot Sylvia!!!

soidee sod off we dont need weak supporters like you at the club. PATHETIC!

we should just grab a lil china man and put him up fwd and bada bing bada boom.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/146403/default.aspx A "Special" formula might be used next year to see who will play the GWS & GC (nicknamed 'Easy Beats'). WEll obviously Melbourne will play them twice im suprised we aren't in the 'easy beats' selection.

huuuh? thats a stupid list port power was bankrupt couple years back and had to ask the local port adelaide magpies to get them outta the red.

should of gotten sheedy instead of bailey i dont care if sheedy is a bit of a [censored] id rather a [censored] that can coach than a softy who cant.

Haha I love the tanking part so great. I like how he is still travelling over to Perth with the boys and will be in the coaches box, hopefully next year he'll still be at Melbourne in some kind of coaching role or similar. Love it how he said some people are suited to AFL and some aren't. If you don't wanna be there then just leave. Wonder who he is talking about? And yeah Liam Jurrah is probably gone.

ah well thanks for clarifying that. Kinda sucks i always like the bloke even now but i still think he should get 1 more year. Not everyone can improve in a year sometimes takes 2 even 3 but i would only ask for one more year with him but i doubt he'd sign a year contract.

i dont understand why Neeld doesnt try him in another position? I haven't watched many melbourne games this year because in adelaide they only show them on days port or crows arent playing. If he's only put him in the mid why not try up forward? Maybe even down back but he'd probly be too slow for a defender. We'll be missing Green next year so i think its a good opportunity to put up a 1 year contract and play him forward.