FIND out what’s being said about the club in the major daily newspapers on Thursday, August 18, 2011

Herald Sun

I can coach Dees: Eade
By Mark Robinson and Michael Warner

RODNEY Eade will seek an audience with Melbourne powerbroker Garry Lyon to allay fears that he struggles to cope with the demands of modern coaching. As recently as Monday night, Lyon, who headlines Melbourne's search for a new coach, cast doubt on Eade's ability to "embrace" tactics such as the press. Eade was sacked by the Western Bulldogs and immediately installed as favourite, ahead of Collingwood's Mick Malthouse, to coach the Demons in 2012. On Monday, Lyon said on Channel 9's Footy Classified: "The decision they've (Bulldogs) got to make is whether or not Rodney can continue to develop the list, but also play the sort of footy the modern game demands. "Whether or not you've got a query on that, I guess, will be the determining factor. "I don't know whether there's been signs he's embraced the whole defensive press and those sorts of things, but they may have been conscious decisions on his behalf because he sees footy going in a different way."

The Age

Dees, Crows to look at Rocket
By Jake Niall

BOTH Melbourne and Adelaide will talk to Rodney Eade about their senior coaching positions following Eade's abrupt dismissal by the Western Bulldogs yesterday. And while at this stage Eade has opted to coach out the remaining games of this season, at the behest of the club's senior players, former teammate and ex-Hawthorn coach Peter Schwab yesterday advised Eade to quit immediately, telling him there was nothing to gain by coaching the last three games of 2011. Hawthorn assistant coach and ex-Bulldogs assistant Leon Cameron is considered the early front-runner to replace Eade, with many within the coaching fraternity predicting the Bulldogs will appoint a first-time coach, rather than an experienced coach, as the club seeks to ''refresh'' its list and plough greater resources into an under-funded football department.