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http://www.theage.co...0420-1xcom.html This is scary. I remember Kelly very well as a Melbourne Player. My experience watching football over the years is tough players turn into tough and successful coaches while receivers and soft/skilled players turn into coaching duds. Mathews, Sheedy, Parkin, Nicholls, Ridley, Barassi and recently Hardwick, Scott Brothers, Worsfold, Thompson, Hird, Ratten, Clarkson.. I think you get the idea. Kelly is now seemingly in charge of scouting for this years draft. I hope he looks for "hard nuts" of the Sylvia mode. Confession here is though I try to be positive in previous posts I am and so should all of be being bitterly disappointed at the appointment of Neeld. Neeld after all the initial tough talk and talk of Melbourne having the best young list must now apparently endure another year of experimentation with game plans. We should all be up in arms about all this and be openly demanding the entire board step aside! Melbourne have long recruited dud coaches, recruits and administrators for decades now and with this Kelly appointment it's going to get worse. What an earth are they thinking to appoint such a person to this role? Sad for Melbourne the Viney, Healey and Lyon club while all passionate Melbourne past Players are all unwilling to take the job. Alarm bells rang loud and clear when Viney replaced Bailey for the last few games "because no one else would do it". I'll see if I'm interested at the close of the season type of attitude. Viney should never have been given that role unless he was a firm candidate for 2012 and fully committed to apply . He was only a 50/50 to apply at best. Gary Lyon is all talk and Stan Alves is probably just a bit past it. Would rather have had Alves, Sheedy, Malthouse or even Rodney Eade! How did we let Ratten go so easily!! Neeld swiftly appointed Grimes/Trengove as Captains. No Rudder, no leadership. Does Neeld really think guys like Jamar, Sylvia, Moloney, Frawley, Jurrah and Mitch Clark etc are going take any notice of these kids? A La the movie "the Castle" There all dreaming!