Ted Lasso

Dean baileys team had next to no defensive ability but these high draft picks like trengove and watts actually looked like high draft picks, with neeld there is no attacking flair, trengove looks more worried about his opponent than getting the ball himself.

Noone tipped us to beat the dons last year, and we are better than what we have shown on the field, somethings gotta give.

Mark Neeld i think would be a perfect person to have as a senior assistant, maybe not a head coach Sheedy at the very least would identify exactly what is wrong with us in alot of areas Demand the respect of the players, i think our on field effort would increase significantly just for having him around can't see a downside, despite that people on here don't like him.

Absolutely what we need! and to swallow our pride and ask for the AFL's help! A proven premiership coach would demand the respect of everyone at the club and could help find a solution to why the players are developing at negative million miles and hour.

[censored] Gillies, jamar and sylvia off, if we are going to be beaten might as well get some experience into young players

Give us the top 10 draft picks this year, our 500,000 back and a magical potion to make our players live up to their hype and we will forgive you for that whole investigation thing, sounds good

If i was in charge i'd have called already.. something needs to be done which it's still possible.

I was actually half expecting he would have been by now, although i don't think it would be the right decision.

Melbourne football club needs a proven coach so we can at the very least say the coach is not the problem, Mark Neeld i think would be great in neil craigs role but i'm not sure he is much of a head coach. Look at Kevin Sheedy, GWS are in a development phase and he backs them in to win every single week regardless of the opposition and they are seriously competetive against some really good teams. For me Mark Neeld preaching about how young the team is may be correct but it's not how you inspire players, they have no attacking flair and don't back themselves in nearly often enough, so the supporters don't get to see enough of the talent they have. It seems like they are just going through the motions until they have played that 80-100 games and then they can start believing they can win again. although, i'm sure the problems run much deeper than the coach.

I wonder how much of it is that he simply doesn't know how we will go? i mean i understand that he gets to see these players basically every day and should have a good idea but i mean it just takes watts taking the next step, viney and toumpas playing well clark and dawes clicking and abit of luck and with our draw we could push the 8 or we could have another year like last but with so much young talent it must be tough to predict anything.

GWS and adelaide! can't stand either!

I like that we chose Toumpas, he seems to love being part of the club as shown by him already re-signing and i have a funny feeling at some stage ollie wines might want to come back to Melbourne and play with Jack Viney, especially if we start to climb the ladder. Plus i think Toumpas will be a better player, reminds me a little bit of a scott pendelbury

Jack trengove has abit of competition for his spot now, best situation Melbourne has been in for a long while

FB: Garland - Frawley - Terlich HB: nicholson - watts - Dunn C: M.jones - N.Jones - Toumpas HF: Sylvia - sellar - Rodan FF: dawes - Clark - Byrnes R: Jamar - Grimes - Howe I: davey - Viney - Magner S: Blease

Is it really possible that this years team could be as bad as last years was for the first 9 rounds? surely there will be some decent improvement and with such and easy draw i can't see us not winning 5 or 6 at least

No smashings, a few good wins and a couple of upset wins would be fantastic this year, Jack watts looks set for a good year!

Pay him whatever he wants! a premiership all australian quality midfielder, he would be close to a perfect get!

When you match talent with work ethic more often than not the player will prosper, in my opinion that's all neeld is doing and exactly why he got rid of some high draft picks last year.

We now have recruited quality tall forawrds, it only makes sense to go direct, get it in nice and fast for them as much as possible

B. colin garland james frawley dean terlich HB, jack watts tom mcdonald lynden dunn C, jeremy howe jack grimes sam blease HF. colin sylvia james sellar jimmy toumpas F. shannon byrnes chris dawes mitch clark Fol. mark jamar nathan jones david rodan int. jack viney matt jones james magner sub dean kent My favourite things about this side are that howe and blease drifting forward would be very difficult to match up, jack trengove on last years form will have a fight just to regain his spot given how well the mature age recruits have played so far and the back line has what i consider All Australian potential in a few of those players! Bring on round 1!

James Frawley is an absolute gun, simple as that! how many times he was our only player who beat his direct opponent last year was crazy.

if cale morton plays well at west coast i am not going to be a happy camper.

Fingers crossed for jamar and sylvia playing at their best and trengove and watts having break out years, that happens with our draw and we might give that 8th spot half a scare, any sort of improvement would be nice though

the thing i like about the dawes clark combo is they are very different, dawes will use his body more, clark can run and jump and take the ball at the highest possible point, add sellar maybe and howe to that and win lose or draw it's a headache with some good crumbing forwards like byrnes and davey around too \

I mean if he turns out to be solid but not brilliant and really only a fringe player i'd rather see them get more games into these young players but i have a feeling he and terlich will both turn out to be great pickups.