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Title: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: taztiger4 on October 13, 2022, 10:10:37 PM


https://www.afl.com.au/news/856948/saints-to-part-with-ways-with-ratten-after-review

What an effin rabble
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Andyy on October 13, 2022, 10:12:48 PM
Wow didn't see that coming.

Thought he wasn't too bad myself sheesh certainly better than several others out there
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Assange Tiger 😎 on October 13, 2022, 10:54:34 PM
Bit out of the blue. Sacking a coach at this time of the year is interesting

Oh well. Rats gets paid for the next 2 years to sit on the couch. Good on him
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: mightytiges on October 13, 2022, 11:55:43 PM
So St Kilda re-signed Ratten in July for two more years, did stuff all during the trade period about their middle of the rung topped up list except hang Hunter Clark out of dry, and then sacked Ratten six weeks after the season has finished and the day after the trade period. And the Saints wonder why they've won just one flag in their history and now have twice the longest premiership drought as any other club.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Francois Jackson on October 14, 2022, 07:54:14 AM
They are a complete basket case. My neighbour moved down this way to be closer to Moorabin, and last night was applauding the decision to “clean out the joint”

I said what about your pathetic recruiting and the response was it’s all about the coach.

Seriously just fold the bastards and be done with it.

Hope Ratts goes on like Truck, and I hope King leaves that club.

Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: WilliamPowell on October 14, 2022, 09:25:37 AM
What a rabble

Like MT said no wonder they only won 1 flag.

The blokes who re-signed him 100 days ago, now sack him. What a stable effective leadership team they are.

Well at least they a relevant now (for all the wrong reasons) for at least the next week

Brett Ratten deserves better treatment than this. Seems like one of the good guys in footy
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Assange Tiger 😎 on October 14, 2022, 10:22:24 AM
I actually dont think he's a bad coach either. Not a great one but he has been very unlucky to coach at two absolute rabbles

Can understand some Saints fan being somewhat pleased that their club seems to want to get ruthless and make a stand now...but whoever was involved with signing Ratten for 2 more years must exit the door with him.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Broadsword on October 14, 2022, 11:11:05 AM
Can understand some Saints fan being somewhat pleased that their club seems to want to get ruthless and make a stand now...but whoever was involved with signing Ratten for 2 more years must exit the door with him.
Exactly. Why not wait until the conclusion of the review to renew him? To extend his contract a few months before that review was completed and then sack him as a result of that review is insane. Heads should roll higher up for that.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Andyy on October 14, 2022, 11:39:24 AM
Yep surely it will cost them $1-1.5million you'd think.

Disgraceful management.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: mightytiges on October 14, 2022, 03:16:43 PM
An angry Saints member rang up SEN and said the sacking was made the day after their automatic membership renewal. Not happy campers!

The honchos at St Kilda today wanted to use the "hindsight" excuse in their press conference. If those running that club didn't know where their side and list was at in July when they had fallen outside the top 8 after missing the finals the previous year then what makes them think they know now. LOL at hoping the senior coach would get them into the finals but didn't. Reminded me of us 20-30 years ago.

Seriously, what a rabble!
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: mightytiges on October 14, 2022, 03:22:13 PM
Yep surely it will cost them $1-1.5million you'd think.

Disgraceful management.
Exactly. Especially when they are on the AFL drip due to being $5million in debt  :thumbsdown.

I almost fell off my chair today when one of the idiots in their presser said they were willing to wear the $1-1.5 million cost. You're not wearing the cost you clown; it's the whole competition. We've had well run clubs like ours forced to let good people go due to the enforced reduced soft cap and this rabble are throwing $1.5 million away like it's confetti  >:(.

Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Francois Jackson on October 14, 2022, 03:24:12 PM
Yep surely it will cost them $1-1.5million you'd think.

Disgraceful management.

A saints fan told me he thinks the payout is only 6 months due to some clause in his contract. Hopefully someone can confirm.

Can’t believe we lost to them.

I’d be happy if they just folded. They make me sick.



Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Andyy on October 14, 2022, 04:09:14 PM
Yep surely it will cost them $1-1.5million you'd think.

Disgraceful management.
Exactly. Especially when they are on the AFL drip due to being $5million in debt  :thumbsdown.

I almost fell off my chair today when one of the idiots in their presser said they were willing to wear the $1-1.5 million cost. You're not wearing the cost you clown; it's the whole competition. We've had well run clubs like ours forced to let good people go due to the enforced reduced soft cap and this rabble are throwing $1.5 million away like it's confetti  >:(.



Yep agreed.

Honestly they're so crap they'd be better off trading out their good players and using Ratten's last two years to tank for picks, then get a new coach.


Yep surely it will cost them $1-1.5million you'd think.

Disgraceful management.

A saints fan told me he thinks the payout is only 6 months due to some clause in his contract. Hopefully someone can confirm.

Can’t believe we lost to them.

I’d be happy if they just folded. They make me sick.

Interesting, no idea myself but surely it would still be at least $300-500,000.

They should merge with Norf and move to Taz.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Broadsword on October 14, 2022, 05:00:10 PM
Anyone interested in Ratten as an assistant?
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Francois Jackson on October 14, 2022, 06:22:37 PM
Welcome aboard Ratts. We will show you what a real club looks like again.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: mightytiges on October 14, 2022, 09:25:08 PM
"The desperation of our members for success can sometimes lead you down the path of impatience... of focusing on outputs which is winning games rather than the process that leads to winning games."

- @stkildafc president Andrew Bassat.

https://twitter.com/AFLcomau/status/1580726473954316288


LOL at blaming their own club's supporters for the continual poor and shortsighted decisions they have made :facepalm :rollin.

(https://virginia-organizing.org/wp-content/uploads/passing%20the%20buck.jpg)

Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: one-eyed on October 14, 2022, 10:08:52 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fe-2nmTacAAPtly?format=jpg&name=medium)
https://twitter.com/DanielCherny/status/1580682790332694528

 :whistle
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Broadsword on October 14, 2022, 10:40:04 PM
"grow our presence in the Bayside region, our heartland"

Someone wasn't listening during SMART goals training.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Andyy on October 14, 2022, 11:54:31 PM
"grow our presence in the Bayside region, our heartland"

Someone wasn't listening during SMART goals training.

Lmao was about to post this pertaining to about half their goals.

'reduce debt' haha
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Andyy on October 15, 2022, 12:04:23 AM
Also, and I wonder if my memory is biased, but I feel like no clubs really made strategic 5-10 years plans like Benny and Penny until after they saw us winning?

All crap clubs are now trying to do the same again and again, mostly failing. I guess they just don't have the business acumen and other tools to get it done like our team.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Francois Jackson on October 15, 2022, 07:26:21 AM
"grow our presence in the Bayside region, our heartland"

Someone wasn't listening during SMART goals training.

They seriously have nfi.

What they going to door knock now. My pity for them stopped when the ball bounced the wrong way. Idiots couldn’t get it done that day and wont ever.

 They lost that so now so I’m happy if they fold, so we stop propping up their poo club.

Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: Broadsword on October 15, 2022, 02:42:34 PM
Also, and I wonder if my memory is biased, but I feel like no clubs really made strategic 5-10 years plans like Benny and Penny until after they saw us winning?

All crap clubs are now trying to do the same again and again, mostly failing. I guess they just don't have the business acumen and other tools to get it done like our team.
I can't remember exactly what ours said but it was beautiful in its simplicity.

3 - 0 - 75

3 premierships
0 debt
75,000 members

By when? By end of decade.

Michael Collins (Apollo 11) said something similar about President Kennedy's mission statement.

"Beautiful in its simplicity": Do what? Moon. When? End of decade.

Damn! Now we know what we're doing. Okay let's get to work.
Title: Re: Brett Ratten given the Lemonade & Sars
Post by: tdy on October 16, 2022, 06:51:56 PM
There's been questioning around if there might be something that happened during his time at hawthorn that has yet to come out.  But maybe he was just a crap coach.