Mega Thread The Mark Neeld Mega-Thread

[Kram]

has the full support of the board

Right up until the the day they sack him

 

[DJ75]

This article was published on June 2nd 2012 http://www.unambitiousus.com/sports/why-mark-neeld-is-doomed-to-failure/
Today it rings more true than ever. Unfortunately, now everytime I see Neeld I feel sorry for him. In many ways this mess is not his doing, but by goodness he is going to cop a lot of the stigma from it.
It is just sad.

 

[DJ75]

I just heard on SEN that more may be known on the 2:00pm news regarding the Melbourne coaching position.

and SEN will say the same thing for the next 5 weeks in a desperate attempt to draw listeners...

 

[manureid]

Watching bits of that game against Gold Coast and it reminded me of Primus last year against GWS. The look on his face, the total look of defeat and horror at the situation.

 

[Ancient Tiger]

From having a brain in my head.

Nothing yet...
I would order a CT scan tomorrow to check if it's there if no news comes through today!

 

[joe444]

I could talk about this for ages and did, in fact, when Jim Stynes was alive. Even now, bagging him and his club's obsession with him is 'too soon' for a person like me, who has such negative feelings about him to open.

Advice for Garry Lyon: If you're really not interested in the job, stop saying you are not interested. Stop turning up when the club is in crisis to lend a part-time hand as if you're the messiah. Either step up or shut up.

Advice for Melbourne's recruiters: You're the ones to blame. Resign now.

I could go on and on.

 

[E Shed]

This article was published on June 2nd 2012 http://www.unambitiousus.com/sports/why-mark-neeld-is-doomed-to-failure/
Today it rings more true than ever. Unfortunately, now everytime I see Neeld I feel sorry for him. In many ways this mess is not his doing, but by goodness he is going to cop a lot of the stigma from it.
It is just sad.

Another good one on the same site http://www.unambitiousus.com/sports/melbourne-demons-how-did-it-come-to-this/

 

[hotham]

and SEN will say the same thing for the next 5 weeks in a desperate attempt to draw listeners...

I think you're right.

 

[joe444]

"The very men who appointed Neeld to the position are looking for every way to distance themselves from the train wreck they have unleashed."

Quoted for accuracy.

 

[Wonaeamirri33]

They aren't anymore relevant that Fitzroy was.

This from a supporter of a club who've actually had a worse record than Fitzroy over the course of the last decade, and have consistently been in massively more debt since the turn of the millennium than Fitzroy ever was, while being propped up by large zero-interest loans by the AFL, as yet not paid back.

He has the memory of a gypsy moth. Or perhaps it's wilful blindness. Whichever it may be, it's accompanied by remarkable arrogance - without any logical basis for said arrogance either. (Weren't Carlton also beaten by the Gold Coast last time out?)

Personally, I think it's a case of rampant Dunning-Kruger syndrome.

 

[Forward Press]

Another good one on the same site http://www.unambitiousus.com/sports/melbourne-demons-how-did-it-come-to-this/

since that day, referred to as ‘186’, the club has only had one win against a non-expansion team from twenty-eight matches.

Yikes. And now they've been thumped for the first time by an expansion team.

 

[LeverPuller]

Yikes. And now they've been thumped for the first time by an expansion team.

You know what the worst bit is? I don't see another win for the year.

The Giants at Skoda? They could roll us there, and on percentage they'll jump us. We'll actually win the spoon.

 

[Gus Poyet]

This from a supporter of a club who've actually had a worse record than Fitzroy over the course of the last decade, and have consistently been in massively more debt since the turn of the millennium than Fitzroy ever was, while being propped up by large zero-interest loans by the AFL, as yet not paid back.

He has the memory of a gypsy moth. Or perhaps it's wilful blindness. Whichever it may be, it's accompanied by remarkable arrogance - without any logical basis for said arrogance either. (Weren't Carlton also beaten by the Gold Coast last time out?)

Personally, I think it's a case of rampant Dunning-Kruger syndrome.

This from someone who's club despite being crap still pulled big crowds, still contributed to big rivalries during that time.

Logic says you don't contribute much to the AFL landscape thus you wouldn't be missed much a few years down the track.

 

[Gus Poyet]

And if this was Carlton that was under threat and in jeopardy of going out, would that be ok too? Don't have to like other clubs, but do have to respect their right to be in the competition.

No I don't.

I don't support the AFL, I support my club only.

 

[B 52]

Neeld will go as soon as the president comes out and states the coaches job is safe.thats how it usually goes .

 

[Sunshine Saint]

No I don't.

I don't support the AFL, I support my club only.

But at the risk of labouring this, if you allow other clubs to close, you will be in a league by yourself. Maybe a league of your own appeals, but not to most.

 

[Gus Poyet]

But at the risk of labouring this, if you allow other clubs to close, you will be in a league by yourself. Maybe a league of your own appeals, but not to most.

Get rid of Melbourne and bring in a Tasmanian team. That would be more interesting.

 

[JackOutback]

I'd hate to think of an AFL without a team representing Melbourne, despite what Melbourne has become.

 

[Sunshine Saint]

Get rid of Melbourne and bring in a Tasmanian team. That would be more interesting.

Troll, that is not worth another response.

 

[Gus Poyet]

Troll, that is not worth another response.

Why is it a troll when one suggests getting rid of a Melbourne Club for a Tasmanian one?

Because diddums doesn't agree?

 

[TP86]

I can't believe the number of posters who think Neeld should stay. Whatever message he has, the players aren't listening. He's lost the group. Time for a new voice. It can get worse keeping him on. Agents will keep working behind the scenes for trades or free agency and hit confirm the second the opportunity "officially" opens. Showing a bit of fight under an interim in the last dozen or so rounds could at least get the team a FNF game when the fixture comes out for 2014. Neeld should have gone last year rather than get a free pass for all the blame to be put on Bailey. Definitely should have been sacked after round 1. As long as he stays Melbourne are a non-entity. But hey, I'm just a bloodthirsty Bigfooty poster, ignore me and keep him!

 

[Wonaeamirri33]

Logic says you don't contribute much to the AFL landscape thus you wouldn't be missed much a few years down the track.

So I take it you were lobbying for Carlton's removal throughout those previous 10 years Gus?

Bet that must've made life interesting for you around the club eh...

 

[bombermick]

The attitude from many of the Dees posters in this thread is why he has to go, and he has to go now. Posters like PuppetMaster are potting him who defended the appointment, when it's supporters like him - who were presumably doing so in the "real world" as well - that are reaching breaking point and giving up. It happened under Knights at Essendon and when it happens the coach has to go.

 

[hawksalltheway]

there is no question - he must go

whether it is his fault or not...irrelevant

he has been unable to motivate the playing group in any way -- the number 1 job of a coach, at the most basic level

 

[Whats a Battle]

Why is it a troll when one suggests getting rid of a Melbourne Club for a Tasmanian one?

Because diddums doesn't agree?

Because your club was shitter a few years back.