MM interviewed on radio today in perth

[ed healey]

The coach was interviewed by Peter Vlahos and Peter strutter Wilson today/

Generally Brad Hardie does the footy interviews but MM wont speak to him on air so the second string did the job.

The points he raised were that after 1990 the pies went into hibernation and just expected success to continue ,and was a very dismal performance from all concerned.

He said that they percieved the major weakness to be.

Not enough backmen to rotate to stop a player doing well.

He stated that 2 hawks kicked bags of goals last year against us and it was after hollands bag of 6 that he realised they needed more backmen capable of shutting down a player.

Wakelin,Clement and Lonie are the 3 he mentioned that were recruited for this task.

Didak was recruited to give drive off the wing and Holland and Molloy to bolster up goalkicking and retention of the ball in the forward area,another sadly lacking area last year according toMM.

He did not single out any of the young brigade in particular but he is quietly confident that the list is good enough to go on with the job and rise up the ladder,although he would not commit to how far.

When questioned about Bucks leadership he was annoyed at the insinuations of him as a bad captain and was bouyant in his praise,and described him as a great leader of men.

[magpie24]

I have noticed Ryan Lonie doing a bit of work with Tarks at training.
What I can gather is Ryan will be doing the boundary throw ins in the back line and Tarks will crumb off him.

RYAN LOOKS THE GOODS LETS HOPE HE LIFT OUR BACKLINE

[magpie24]

Ed I understand where MM is coming from about the backline,Farmer for the Demons made our backline look a CIRCUS.
We had no hope of stopping him.Thats just one forward thats carved us up.I reckon Presti does very well on carey but Pagan plays the paddock which suits us,its when we have got 3 or 4 forwards to worry about we got no hope.I like MMs thinking on this one.