I can't speak highly enough for Rocket!! And I can't say how tragic it was, for all of us, when we unceremoniously dumped him. I've never really doubted our Administration until that moment.
He brings a certain charisma, a real personality to the face of the club. We've always been a hard team to notice in Melbourne, but with him in control he tried his heart out to make us 'relevant'.
Before he took us up, people always forget that we were a list of 'potential' in some areas and utter garbage in others.
He extracted the ABSOLUTE BEST out of every-one of our players. He made our poor list look far, far better than it actually was. He was claiming we were top 4, before the football world had the opinion of us even escaping the BOTTOM 4.
And continued that opinion despite us having a shocking end to 2007 (injury, poor form, bad luck), that he turned POSITIVE where he deliberately 'put the defence into the fire' and played MAN on MAN and super-developed our backline into top 3 of the competition for years to come. He has an ability to consistently turn flawed rookies into star players.
To the few players he didn't get along with, they eventually left/were traded out and they haven't proven to be successful at all in the AFL.
Good luck in the future, and enjoy a great Rodney Eade era should you choose him for the future!!