All the bad feelings of this season have washed away, and optimism for our club has been re-ignited with Neeld's arrival. our overly complicated finals system, overlong home and aways and overloaded number of clubs for the moment play second fiddle to a brutal short pre-pre-season of coach culling and new appointments: Neeld, Lyon, McCartney and Verdun Howell for Stkilda. Accompanying the new appointments are the declarations and photo ops of the new coach/es, but what goes up must come down, and the reality check will come once the coaching appointments season concludes and 2012 reality hits.
Having said all that, I hope Mark Neeld raises the mighty demons back to the ladder position they held when I got my Ron Barassi boots in Grade 4. I have waited long enough.