Ted Lasso

The old saying " the best way to train is as you would play."

I don't think there are too many concerns about GWS not playing for Sheedy though, my concern isn't the results as much as it's the way we are losing, the players don't seem to believe or understand Neelds plan, maybe he would be better off with another club and we'd be better off with someone else, no shame in the job being too much for him, pretty sure it would be for 99% of inexperienced coaches.

We need to put it to the AFL that we are in danger of reaching a situation we can't come back from, they might help us get a good coach and deal with that situation, bit either way we can't sit on our hands when we are losing to teams like gold coast by 10 goals.

I've heard much worse ideas! in the long term i think we need someone who has been there and done that though, tough decisions on Frawley, sylvia, watts coming up as well as potentially another priority pick that we absolutely must get right

I agree 100% surely the board is going to meet today to at least talk about Mark Neeld, the longer this goes on the more we are destroying the players and allowing the club to slowly bleed to death.

that's 17 games though, who's to say a new coach won't come in and we start winning games? I see your point though, personally i'd consider giving Trengove an extended recovery time as well, get these boys 100% right.

I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

See that's the point i can't understand, we should be better than this, Sylvia, jones, grimes, trengove, matt jones, viney, although young should still be able to match any of the bottom six teams, injuries aside our list itself isn't bad, just young which makes it Vital that we have the right people in place, if it's not Neeld, we should bite the bullet and make a change.

Good chance we won't improve, but could we get any worse? Lets say Todd viney got the gig and got our boys playing one on one, that'd be better than his mess right now, plus we get the whole year with jackson at the helm to make sure we get the next decision right.

the fact we can't stick tackles is the problem, they're the coaches.. we certainly shouldn't have been out muscled by Gold Coast.

depending on GWS it could potentially be #2 and #3 or something like that, either way Couch and Billings, pencil them in! Couch is a clearance machine and ball magnet, billings personifies elite disposal and hard running, both ready to go at AFL level already.

I can't see what Neeld has done to put his hand up and say i should be coaching, all the reasons not to sack him are about us, we are losing money because no body will watch us play, we're losing money because membership numbers are declining, we're losing faith because we have lost to Essendon by 148 points and Gold coast by ten goals are we're told to be patient. if we sack Neeld now, we can get craig or viney in as caretaker ( no way they could do worse than Neeld is ) and we have the whole year to make sure we get the right senior coach for 2014

So you have to consider that potential 3 million against the loss of gate money, loss of members and potential walkout of players if we continue on a path that is clearly not working, for me we should bite the bullet now.

Out gary and Neeld, in Neitz and shwartz?

It's not a bad prediction mate, if the board is happy to accept getting flogged by ten goals by gold coast we have bigger problems than the coach.

He could be honest, "The performance wasn't good enough, i the coach and the players take full responsibility and apologise to the supporters and members for a poor display today and promise a better showing against the tigers."

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More importantly the potential of the AFL contributing towards a huge pay packet.

Absolutely no doubt he should be on the hit list.

I'm pretty confident the AFL would be more than willing to help us if it means we aren't hurting their overall brand as a result, we shouldn't settle for another untried coach though.

That has improved my mood ten fold! thankyou hahaha

Looking at the AFL website it would seem Jackson is at the very least weighing up sacking Neeld.

Lets just hope that's 10-12 guys we choose to axe, not guys like Frawley, watts and sylvia who would rightly be sick of what's going on.

They were good today, not taking anything away from them, but we should be at least on par with them, and it was at the MCG, 10 goals is abit crazy, i could have handled a loss if our effort was better and we were abit closer.

Even still, it makes you question if this is really the job for Neeld, maybe we need someone who has seen it all before.