This is a tough one. Hayden and Melandri are both having terrible seasons for completely different reasons.Hayden is on a bike that clearly is not built for him (or anyone else in the paddock)and he is struggling. Melandri is likewise on a bike that was not built for him but not nearly to the extreme of the Honda. Both of them are proven race and championship winners. Is Hayden a good fit for the Ducati? I think so just because of the fact that the Ducati "seems" to be the least "reigned in" of the factory bikes. By that I mean that it seems in watching stoner that he is able to do what he wants with it without being hampered by the electronics or even the bureaucracy of the Honda/Repsol "situation". Dorna is Spanish, Repsol is Spanish, Pedrosa is Spanish, Puig is Spanish, and Honda is ....not Spanish. The Ducati team is predominantly a purist effort. You can see it in the pits, those guys are passionate about this crap!!! I think Nicky could do a whole lot worse than Ducati! For his own sake he needs to walk away from Honda while he can. Melandri ... I am not sure what is going on there? But with Gibernau back in the fold at Ducati he may get the hook before the season is even over? It all seems to date back to Laguna last year when he got his boot tore off and hurt himself. He really hasn't had much since.