Mega Thread The Mark Neeld Mega-Thread

[Higgs Boson]

Thank You.

You ' re welcome

 

[Wonaeamirri33]

I originally created this bigfooty account to troll St Kilda supporters when that Kim Duthie thing happened. My nickname is also the chorus of a TISM song.

OK, that's damn good. Yes, I'm genuinely coming around to you now. And I do remember that song too, now you mention it



Anyone who likes TISM immediately rises in my estimation. I won't question you so harshly again.

 

[BC9_]

Who cares.

Why would I have empathy for them? First world problems...

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=sHIlemW2gMw&desktop_uri=/watch?v=sHIlemW2gMw

 

[Morris Major]

There results aren't that much worse than your team

and yet most people say we're headed in the right direction

 

[CharacterFirst]

Can't be too far away now.

 

[Brown Bottle]

You're post is entirely accurate, correct and beyond reproach - except, of course, for your appalling execution of punctuation

Says the man who confuses "your" and "you're"

 

[Sainter3and7]

I gre up watching the Saints in the 80s, and I can remember when I thought "Five wins in a season, that's a good year."

So I feel for Melbourne supporters.

Having said that, I do think the coach needs to go.

 

[Higgs Boson]

Says the man who confuses "your" and "you're"

Oh shiiii-

Would you believe I was trying to be ironic?

 

[pablo668]

Where do you start with Melbourne atm?
I don't think Neeld has it in him to be the coach.
The players who aren't performing have a lot to answer for as well.
As do those who were/are in charge.

So you can sack the coach but that is rewarding the players who don't want to listen to/play for him.
It also diverts blame away from the footy dept to the coach.

Can the AFL actually step in and audit a club? Then make changes? Get rid of who ever is responsibe and appoint people to fix the situation?

I think that's what's needed.

 

[Ancient Tiger]

From having a brain in my head.

Looks like you suffer from what we all expected: NO BRAINS!!!

 

[Brown Bottle]

Oh shiiii-

Would you believe I was trying to be ironic?

Only because it's you

 

[Auger Martel]

Honestly, for his own sake it might be best. Being under pressure and constantly on the back-pages of the paper and being targeted on radio can't be good for his health. Terry Wallace said if this continues he'll be a wreck by August and he's right. It's pretty evident the stress is already getting to him:

Unfortunate, but it might be best for all involved.

 

[half_back_flank]

Honestly, for his own sake it might be best. Being under pressure and constantly on the back-pages of the paper and being targeted on radio can't be good for his health. Terry Wallace said if this continues he'll be a wreck by August and he's right. It's pretty evident the stress is already getting to him:

Unfortunate, but it might be best for all involved.

Pretty sure that is an involuntary twitch that has nothing to do with stress.

 

[TP86]

Only just seen what Maclure said on 360 (and King's comments from 12 months earlier) and I agree with both.

 

[CakeEater]

I don't know of any of the internal baseball that is going inside Melbourne at the moment, but having watched Peter Jackson's interviews, it appears more likely that he will cut the footy department/ redesign the org chart which in turn will lead to football dept staff (Not Neeld) leaving.

This means to me that Neeld will stay for at least the season.

 

[tropicaltiger]

barrett interviewed him yesterday and according to neeld. he's not sure what 'all the fuss is about' seems to think things are 'going along nicely' has 'no regrets' of any drafting or other decisions and wouldnt change a thing. young players all are 'extremely talented' blah blah... pretty much said he'd be shocked and dismayed if he was moved on at the end of the season... wow is he deluded, insane, in denial, taking the piss or what???

 

[KeilorUnder9s]

It's not the coach that is the problem.

 

[I am Jack]

barrett interviewed him yesterday and according to neeld...he's'not sure what all the fuss is about', seems to things are 'going along nicely' has 'no regrets' of any drafting or other decisions and wouldnt change a thing. young players all are 'extremely talented' blah blah... pretty much said he'd be shocked and dismayed if he was moved on at the end of the season... wow is he deluded, insane, in denial, taking the piss or what???

That is why the AFL have sent Jackson in there, they could tell that all these blokes talk the good talk and if left by their own devices, McLardy and Neeld would talk themselves into remaining there.
Schwab talked himself into a new contract when blind freddy could see he should've been shown the door.

Andy D has had enough, he's been listening to all these blokes talk in circles about how they are going to do this and that - without any results.
So, well played Andrew, you've sent a bloke in there a year late, but it's better than nothing.

 

[Goady138]

barrett interviewed him yesterday and according to neeld. he's not sure what 'all the fuss is about' seems to think things are 'going along nicely' has 'no regrets' of any drafting or other decisions and wouldnt change a thing. young players all are 'extremely talented' blah blah... pretty much said he'd be shocked and dismayed if he was moved on at the end of the season... wow is he deluded, insane, in denial, taking the piss or what???

Bailey era looks rosier with each Demons defeat


Unfathomable though it may appear at first glance, how some Melbourne supporters must now yearn for a return to the high-flying days of the Dean Bailey era.
Shafted swiftly in the aftermath of Melbourne's cataclysmic dismantling in Geelong late in the 2011 season, Bailey, for all his flaws and his involvement in the Demons' impropriety during the 2009 campaign, guided football's oldest club to levels in his final two seasons as coach which incumbent Mark Neeld would accept in a heartbeat.
Two weeks prior to the Kardinia Park obliteration, Melbourne ended the round in ninth position on the ladder. They had collected seven wins and a draw from 15 starts, with a percentage of over 100. The Demons sat just a win and percentage behind eighth placed Sydney, and had the advantage of a game in hand owing to the byes that featured in the 2011 program. A rising Hawthorn then outgunned them in Round 18 before the eventual premiers blew them away on that ominously overcast afternoon in July.
http://www.backpagelead.com.au/afl/9459-bailey-era-looks-rosier-with-each-demons-defeat

 

[JackOutback]

barrett interviewed him yesterday and according to neeld. he's not sure what 'all the fuss is about' seems to think things are 'going along nicely' has 'no regrets' of any drafting or other decisions and wouldnt change a thing. young players all are 'extremely talented' blah blah... pretty much said he'd be shocked and dismayed if he was moved on at the end of the season... wow is he deluded, insane, in denial, taking the piss or what???

Not much more he could say publicly...I'm sure the tune is different behind closed doors. That said, maybe he expected some short term pain for long term gain, maybe this is part of the process. It's not possible to clear out a whole bad team in off season, it takes several years.

 

[Mr.X]

Gotta say, he's a bit of a survivor to get through this week.

Lucky for him they looked better today against the Tigers

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Hoping he at least survives 2 weeks when we play them.

 

[1980GFVideo]

Dont know if this week was a good week for Neeld because they looked a side that a good coach might see something in. Availablity of a good coach is what will be Neelds death knell.

If there is no interest then I believe Neeld will get a third year

 

[popin]

if not gorne after round 14 with the bulldogs depending on result, i would say there would be a 95% chance he we be gorne after round 19 and 20 playing gws and the suns if loose.

 

[Tiger2709]

Gotta say, he's a bit of a survivor to get through this week.

Lucky for him they looked better today against the Tigers

They did look better but in reality that was mainly because of Richmond's bad kicking at goal and Melbourne's accurate kicking early, in all other areas Melbourne were hammered.

Having said that it sort of felt like a decent coach, whoever that may be, could get Melbourne up and running reasonably quickly, they do have some good players but they seem to have no plan or process.