FIND out what’s being said about the club in the major daily newspapers on Saturday, April 30, 2011
Herald Sun
Bailey to put Dees to work
Bailey to put Dees to work
By Bruce Matthews
MELBOURNE players face a weekend of self-analysis before what coach Dean Bailey has promised will be a long, tough training program. Midfielder Nathan Jones described Thursday night's 54-point capitulation to West Coast in Perth as "one of the worst losses" he had experienced in more than five years at the club."There will be some real home truths come Monday and it's up to us to turn it around now," Jones said. Bailey flagged a ruthless back-to-basics approach after watching his players surrender to the Eagles."We need to get back on the training track and, not only get confidence there, but lift our intensity," Bailey said."We need to make sure that the players who roll out next week are clear about their objectives about the tackling, chasing and pressure that they need to do. If we don't do it on the ground, we've got to do it at training."
The Age
For Lyon, Demons were 'almost too bad to believe'
MELBOURNE players face a weekend of self-analysis before what coach Dean Bailey has promised will be a long, tough training program. Midfielder Nathan Jones described Thursday night's 54-point capitulation to West Coast in Perth as "one of the worst losses" he had experienced in more than five years at the club."There will be some real home truths come Monday and it's up to us to turn it around now," Jones said. Bailey flagged a ruthless back-to-basics approach after watching his players surrender to the Eagles."We need to get back on the training track and, not only get confidence there, but lift our intensity," Bailey said."We need to make sure that the players who roll out next week are clear about their objectives about the tackling, chasing and pressure that they need to do. If we don't do it on the ground, we've got to do it at training."
The Age
For Lyon, Demons were 'almost too bad to believe'
By Jon Pierik
MELBOURNE great Garry Lyon said the Demons' horror 54-point defeat to a resurgent West Coast ''was almost too bad to believe'' as the spotlight turned on to coach Dean Bailey. The Demons, refreshed from the bye last weekend, had arrived in Perth on Tuesday, giving themselves an extra day to train at Patersons Stadium ahead of Thursday night's clash. Yet their first term was arguably the worst by a team this season.While the Eagles managed 21 inside-50s, the visitors had just three, the equal second-lowest tally recorded by any team in the opening term since 1999. The differential of 18 was the fifth-greatest recorded for a quarter as the Eagles built a game-breaking five-goal lead by the first break.So poor were their skills that the Demons finished the match with 48 clangers.''It was pretty hard to watch, wasn't it? There just didn't appear to be a lot of fight there and I guess that's the disappointing thing,'' Lyon said yesterday.
The Australian
Dark days revisited
MELBOURNE great Garry Lyon said the Demons' horror 54-point defeat to a resurgent West Coast ''was almost too bad to believe'' as the spotlight turned on to coach Dean Bailey. The Demons, refreshed from the bye last weekend, had arrived in Perth on Tuesday, giving themselves an extra day to train at Patersons Stadium ahead of Thursday night's clash. Yet their first term was arguably the worst by a team this season.While the Eagles managed 21 inside-50s, the visitors had just three, the equal second-lowest tally recorded by any team in the opening term since 1999. The differential of 18 was the fifth-greatest recorded for a quarter as the Eagles built a game-breaking five-goal lead by the first break.So poor were their skills that the Demons finished the match with 48 clangers.''It was pretty hard to watch, wasn't it? There just didn't appear to be a lot of fight there and I guess that's the disappointing thing,'' Lyon said yesterday.
The Australian
Dark days revisited
By Courtney Walsh
MELBOURNE was so poor against West Coast on Thursday night that defender Colin Garland was transported back to the days of 2008 when the Demons had no interest in winning. Then, for the sake of the reconstruction of the side, losses and the draft picks that came with them were deemed necessary. For the greater good, defeats, many of them heavy, were common."As a group we probably thought we were past this. Playing in 2008 we copped some pretty bad losses, but we thought we were past performances like this and it's just not good enough," Garland said after the nine-goal loss to the Eagles, the club's second embarrassment in a month. In round two, Hawthorn split Melbourne open with ridiculous ease in the third term to win by 45 points. The entire club was left stunned by the capitulation. Late on Thursday night, Garland's teammate Nathan Jones went to the trouble of apologising for the performance in Perth, via the club's website."At the moment, with emotions running high, it's probably one of the worst losses I've played in," Jones said.
