Norm Smith's Curse

Or in denial

Rumour is that Melbourne Football Club is actually an elaborate reality television series designed to measure football supporter's breaking points. All other supporters are actually paid actors as are clearly the players, coaching panel and board...

tanking dies hard?

We have to start showing something to attract players or attract interest in the club. At the moment there is a smell of total incompetence and weakness about the club at every level.

You are right

Way too kind

Indeed - and Ross Lyon might just be our coach...

Actually each player comes out alone and all the members have their own loudspeakers and we see whose hair goes back the furtherest from the hot air...

Rawlings has done it before after Plough's five year plan was terminated.

My mate - a Richmond supporter so has some of his own history - thinks that the dees should hand around a loud speaker at the next home game allowing every supporter to let one player know how they think.

Peter Jackson's first decision is to change our name back from the Demons to the Fuscias

In desperation neeld subbed on a few corpses at half time that showed a bit more heart.

'it is what it is.'

None of our players had any impact other than Jeremy Howe. At least under Bailey on our day you might see a bit of life. We are passed defibrillation now. Even if our list is terrible and that is the problem, the coach's job is to get the best out of his players. A season and a half and effort being our biggest factor clearly tells me that the coach is at least partially at fault. And ofcourse this is Neeld's side.

'It is what it is' - 'Im not into fairytales'

exactly

It sad when for many of our games 'junk time' starts before half time...

Jeremy Howe in the ruck. Trying to do everything.

Dwayne Russell recently said that he thought that there would be legal action by young draftees attempting to avoid coming to Melbourne!

Good point.

I hope that a new coach - a respected and experienced coach - can come in and inspire this list. Otherwise we are probably looking at a total rebuild. Other than some of the youngsters that we picked up last year Im not sure I even agree that we have a 'good core group of young players'. You watch the doggies and you see Dahlhous and you can see the future. Can we say the same?

My only comment would be that twice now his best footy seems to have been right before the contract offer...

LOL no but perhaps I need to be...

If I was mark Neeld Id bring out our 2002 list as it is now - even with years away from footy they would show something at least.

I think part of the problem is an overestimation of some on our list. Clearly.