News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
DAVID Neitz did more than walk way from the game last Monday; he turned his back on the prospect of a payout worth as much as $225,000.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
DAVID Neitz was stung in April when the AFL delivered a blunt assessment of the club's image problem.
ABC (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Melbourne Demons captain David Neitz has announced his immediate retirement after 306 AFL matches.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
MELBOURNE captain David Neitz has confirmed his retirement from the AFL, effective immediately.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
... Ferguson, Johnstone, James McDonald, Pickett, Ward, Jeff White and Russell Robertson. Then there's David Neitz, who retired early this season, Adem Yze and Ben Holland. Of those still at the club, McDonald is the only one certain to return to senior level, and the coach is redefining his role to lessen his importance in the midfield. Sunday's 22 contained seven players with fewer...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
... Yze is no longer in the leadership group, along with the injured Russell Robertson and retired David Neitz. "Yze was one of the guys who unfortunately when it came to the review, he missed out on maintaining his position," Bailey said. "But his leadership is still there within the club." Bailey said Green had been rewarded after acting on the feedback of his peers. "Greeny has been...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
While the bottom-placed Demons have won just one match and have lost the heart of their forward line, they have put a nightmare opening behind them, which included dropping the first two games to Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs by a total of 199 points. And Bailey has given the credit to the youngsters who have been pressed into service to help cover losses like the retirement of David Neitz...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
BRAD Miller has been urged to reinvigorate his AFL career and do the same to Melbourne's forward line in the absence of David Neitz and Russell Robertson.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
... footy. Meanwhile, the Melbourne season couldn’t really get any worse with the retirement of David Neitz and then Russel Robinson being out with an achilles injury for the rest of the season. I just can’t see Melbourne getting up and winning, so I am going to pick another belting by Collingwood on the queen’s birthday.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Robertson's injury, following the injury-enforced retirement of David Neitz, means first-year coach Dean Bailey must assemble a rejigged forward line for Monday's game against Collingwood, who won their past two games by a combined 186 points.
ABC (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
... achilles tendon in yesterday's loss to Saint Kilda.A forward line still adjusting to the loss of David Neitz will now have to adapt without the potent weapon of Robertson, who snapped the tendon when reaching for a floated pass in the middle.Coach Dean Bailey's lack of forward options was displayed yesterday when fringe player Adam Yze made his return, kicking three goals in a low...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
... injuring his right leg. His loss leaves the side without a top-line marking forward following David Neitz's recent retirement. St Kilda's win kept them in touch with the top eight - they are realistically the only side which can threaten to dislodge one of the sides above them - and was the right reply to the challenge put on them by coach Ross Lyon. Lyon last weekend labelled his...
ABC (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
The 16th-placed Demons put in a spirited performance to put a scare through Hawthorn before losing by 19 points following the retirement of Melbourne skipper David Neitz.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
MELBOURNE chairman Paul Gardner has accused Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett of stealing the limelight from retiring Demons captain David Neitz with his provocative comments about the AFL club's future.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
... on a Sunday. We would all have loved to have been at the MCG on Sunday to pay tribute to the great David Neitz, but with a game starting in Bundoora at 1pm, we didn't get home until 3.30pm. That is five fewer people at the 'G who would otherwise have been there, and I know of another three or four Melbourne-supporting families who are in the same boat. Extrapolate that throughout...
