How do you fix Melbourne?

[Sprout]

Nice comeback....

Thanks....

 

[Balance]

Get rid of Cameron Schwab.

 

[ManOfClay]

TBH I'm always wary of stuff like 'he'll set an example' because it's basically unquantifiable,

Melbourne supporters love anything unquantifiable. They'll rave about how good something is but when asked to provide evidence they'll give a wishy-washy answer like "oh i've spoken to people" or "Dawes provides us with elite training standards"

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I would ask the players. Each player on the list, regardless of whether they have played a game for the club or not, would be required to nominte three points of improvement. These could be personally, team, technical or mental.
Any player not submitting these points by the desired deadline, with no further promoptin or follow-up given, nor any indication of the penalty for failing to comply would be made unavailable for selection in finals.

p.s. I cut and pasted that from a job application at Cricket Australia

 

[greennick]

I think Melbourne needs a big name star to get some bums in seats.

The kids will come along, but this team needs a guy to take the pressure off them. A face.

Mitch Clark is not the man for that.

They need some kind of tall, athletic, freak of a footballer. A guy who leaps over his opponents and wins an All Australian at an early age. That would really help them get people excited. Now, where can they get such a footballer??

 

[greennick]

I would ask the players. Each player on the list, regardless of whether they have played a game for the club or not, would be required to nominte three points of improvement. These could be personally, team, technical or mental.
Any player not submitting these points by the desired deadline, with no further promoptin or follow-up given, nor any indication of the penalty for failing to comply would be made unavailable for selection in finals.

p.s. I cut and pasted that from a job application at Cricket Australia

I don't think being unavailable for selection in finals is going to trouble the MFC players anytime soon...

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I don't think being unavailable for selection in finals is going to trouble the MFC players anytime soon...

Yes, but a prospective "fixer" has to raise that possibility.

 

[Dazb86]

They need to stop wasting top picks on spuds.

 

[LBJ6]

Melbourne supporters love anything unquantifiable. They'll rave about how good something is but when asked to provide evidence they'll give a wishy-washy answer like "oh i've spoken to people" or "Dawes provides us with elite training standards"

Go watch the last quarter of the 09 grand final then, if you want quantifiable evidence.

 

[LBJ6]

They need some kind of tall, athletic, freak of a footballer. A guy who leaps over his opponents and wins an All Australian at an early age. That would really help them get people excited. Now, where can they get such a footballer??

Anyone sick of WC supporters constantly jerking themselves and their fellow supporters off over Naitanui?

 

[Tulip]

They need some kind of tall, athletic, freak of a footballer. A guy who leaps over his opponents and wins an All Australian at an early age. That would really help them get people excited. Now, where can they get such a footballer??

We had one, but he's on trial in Alice Springs at the minute.

 

[RandB]

Be a nobody or eat, breathe, live, shit, football.

Neeld will instill this.

 

[BananaOnTheRun]

Fix the public transport system, pay the ****ing teachers.

 

[ManOfClay]

Does anyone think Neeld is the new messiah for the Demons fans? like Scully was.

Seems to be a lot of "dear leader" about it.

 

[Tulip]

Does anyone think Neeld is the new messiah for the Demons fans? like Scully was.

Seems to be a lot of "dear leader" about it.

This I agree with. I like the guy, but we went backwards last year (for obvious reasons) and no amount of talk will substitute for the results I want to see.

 

[Higgs Boson]

Melbourne supporters love anything unquantifiable. They'll rave about how good something is but when asked to provide evidence they'll give a wishy-washy answer like "oh i've spoken to people" or "Dawes provides us with elite training standards"

Yeah, a love of unquantifiableness comes each year with our membership packs, along with the stickers and lanyard

rolleyes.jpg

 

[LouisCK]

Fire as many people from the top down as possible, replace them with outsiders who have a proven history of success that won't let internal politics or trips to the snow
interfere with getting the job done.

Sounds good in theory, but those at the top have increased our membership by 50% during our worst on field stretch since the early 80's.

They've done very well off field during the past 6 years, probably the best of any executive group in the AFL.

 

[santa claws]

three things forget the rest.
1/ recruit well.
2/ develop well.
3/ manage your list well.

 

[RandB]

Does anyone think Neeld is the new messiah for the Demons fans? like Scully was.

Seems to be a lot of "dear leader" about it.

He doesn't resemble a drunken street bum so that's a start I guess.

 

[Dan]

Patience

 

[ManOfClay]

This I agree with. I like the guy, but we went backwards last year (for obvious reasons) and no amount of talk will substitute for the results I want to see.

He's probably on the right track though, a new coach isn't going to suddenly impact a list that's been screwed up for the past 5 years. But Melbourne supporters seem to treat everything he does as some sort of divine act. Your post is the first I've seen ever questioning the cult of Neeld.

He doesn't resemble a drunken street bum so that's a start I guess.

So you judge on outward factors/looks? isn't that what your recruiters did and thus you ended up with Watts over Naitanui? Perhaps you should stop doing that.

If you were directly talking about McCartney (who is a little disheveled I agree) then the record is at 1-0 Macca's way.

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

He's probably on the right track though, a new coach isn't going to suddenly impact a list that's been screwed up for the past 5 years. But Melbourne supporters seem to treat everything he does as some sort of divine act. Your post is the first I've seen ever questioning the cult of Neeld.

Have you even read our board in the last 6 months?

People were pretty happy with the players that went in general; Morton, Bennell, Moloney, etc.

But people have questioned a few of his recruiting decisions; people were questioning the Hogan decision (paying overs), getting Dawes, getting Pedersen as well.

People are happy with Neeld because he's finally doing what a lot have wanted since Bailey's ideas proved useless in 2011.

 

[RandB]

So you judge on outward factors/looks? isn't that what your recruiters did and thus you ended up with Watts over Naitanui? Perhaps you should stop doing that.

If you were directly talking about McCartney (who is a little disheveled I agree) then the record is at 1-0 Macca's way.

No MOC, basic grooming doesn't make a coach (thankfully) but as I said it's a good start. Someone should remind Macca it's a tv dominated industry these days. But yes 1-0 to him atm.

Like Neeld, I respect him for the rebuilding job he has taken on though - no early rewards for either coach at clubs on the lower end of sustainable resources. Those roles take a special kind of character.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Have some patience. I expected a lot more from Melbourne last year, but underestimated the depth of the problems. Should escape the bottom four this season if Neeld has what it takes to be head coach.

 

[markm106]

The problems are still lingering from the tanking era. One can only hope the new personnel on and off field can change the dirty culture that era left behind. There has been massive change and Neeld appears to have a hard edge. There is hope but could take a few years to see results.