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Did you hear him on Open Mike? Do you listen to his show on SEN? Complete, unbridled, utter rubbish to suggest that the Ox doesn't love this football club.

You should know exactly what you get from David Schwartz by now. As said earlier, it's misdirected passion. He doesn't mean hoping to lose, he means that he's tired of losing games by an 'acceptable' 40-60 points and he wants the losses to make an impact. He's offered to help a number of times. He, unlike Garry Lyon, will do whatever it takes to help this club.

No way do we delist him. If he genuinely wants to retire, then let him go. If he thinks he can play for another year or two - let him.

I don't know. Is he a good operator? Or is he just the next in a long line of false hopes? Time will tell. Get it right PJ!!!

Much loved public figure, supports the Demons, plenty of pull in the city of Melbourne. And he's my bro.

Yes it does. We need to show him some loyalty after begging to get him over from Adelaide. He's been recruiting for the last year anyway.edit: This makes me insanely angry, he played 233 games for this club and even captained it. Why the hell would we boot him off.

Would actually be awesome.

Neeld and Lyon are two egos that have contributed to this clubs situation, two of many. Very harsh to blame a board who had the rug pulled under them. Some of them do still need to go, however. Get some external business nous in.

Doing the right thing and keeping silent after the 148 debacle with Schwab. I don't know a thing about Peter Jackson and I think that people are being very presumptuous to think that he will just fix our problems, but I'm going to wait the next few weeks/months out and see what Melbourne and the AFL can conjure up off-field. I think we're getting to a situation as dire as the end of Gardiner's reign, and that the next few steps will define the future of this football club. At some point, we have to stop treading water and either sink or swim. With the right action, we're gonna swim far away.

Realistically it's Eade for me. Would like him Williams or Matthews.

Stynes, the one who got us 5m out of debt? Along with you and I, of course. His illness and retraction from the every day workings of the club were the reasons we started going down hill.

Pedersen, Rodan, Byrnes? All great boys, bring a lot to the track, respected by the group etc. etc. Mark Neeld is a clown.

[censored] YEAH! More inside midfielders. Like we don't have enough C grade VFL hard nuts.

McDonald has been [censored] this season, Sellar isn't anything more than honest and Garland plays his best football in the Rivers position. It's like people calling for Jamar to be out, and then coming back like dogs when they saw Spencer ruck. Frawley is one of the best FB's in the league, if he wants to walk out it's just another hammer into the Melbourne Football Club.

Haven't actually read the article, but you can just imagine the smug [censored] reading the excerpts in that voice of his. Prefaced, of course, with a "yeah, well, look, Gaz..."

Setting off the bells ringing...about the intelligence of our coaching staff.

I think that people like Macca (and myself) don't expect to see us stone cold last two seasons in. There is one thing worse than being despised,and that is being pitied. Melbourne is being pitied, nobody is afraid of us anymore. We're a toothless tiger, a demon with fire or a trident.

One of the least credible journalists, and of those twats who insists on asserting his predictions as fact. It's Round 3 you [censored] purple [censored], just let the season play out before heaping more [censored] on the MFC that we can't do anything about.

People just don't get it, do they? If the Swans are in the spa, then it's because they've been bloody well told to be there and have earned a laugh. They're coming off a win, they're Premiers - they're respected and well drilled. Melbourne are not Sydney. Melbourne are a joke. If you dismiss enough individual incidents like this, you'll stop seeing the culture problem that is literally killing this footy club. The fact that the players are sitting there laughing after 3 100~ point losses in a row is disgraceful. They are an absolute laughing stock, and they're not even willing to put in the hard yards to actually get some respect back.

Very true.

Not sure he's what we needed, but Jimmy is what we don't need at the moment. He won't have the body for footy for at least two years.

No. But certainly too early to say Wines will be better than Toumpas. On a needs basis, it's Wines that we could use right now.

Died with social media and the smart phone. 7 or 8 years ago, all you had to do was avoid the radio or TV. Now you need a complete blackout.

Soooo....your criteria fits nobody? Clarkson is very unlikely, so is Worsfold. Roos has already retired, and is only 6 years younger than Rocket. Matthews/Mick are older than Eade by a margin.

Leaves them in decent shape.