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If the Melbourne Football Club wants to win flags in an 18-team competition with a lopsided playing field draw-wise and financially, it's going to have to develop these two qualities - brute strength and rabid hunger. The skills are there, we've got raft of high draft picks, but are our boys capable of transforming themselves - under Mark Neeld - into mean, nasty win-at-all-costs arrogant brutes? Because that - like it or lump it - is what it takes to be a winner. This from Scott Pendlebury after the game: "When their mature-bodied players come at you with the ball it's as if they think: "I'm going to nail this guy." It's as if they want you to try to tackle them because they just want to break straight through you. Eventually, it just wore us down." To understand the mentality a bit better have a watch of this video from former undisputed middleweight champion Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, describing what it took for him to make it to the top ... and stay there. It's a mentality our players ... from Jamie Bennell to Colin Sylvia to Sam Blease ... have got to develop and develop in a hurry. The clock is ticking ... tick ... tick ... tick.