One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on March 22, 2010, 05:28:07 PM
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A reminder Benny Gale will face up against Caro, Hutchy and co. tonight on Footy Classified at 10.30pm.
They'll obviously quiz him over the Club's 3-0-75 plan and Caro will push her 'Cuz is binge drinking' story.
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Up next after the ads
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lol at Caro & Hutchy the hypocrite. :P
Go Benny, straight on the front foot.
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Benny Gale, gee he started nervous but ended up full of fight. Well done!!
Came across very fair and articulate but what would you expect from a true professional.
Caro came across as you would expect. She is footy's number 1 pig allright. The more surgery she gets the more closer to Sam Newman she begins to look.
Benny Gale. "it starts with a vision, everyone wants to win. Im not embarrased about what i wrote"
What an absolute legend this bloke is.
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* Great to back (at the club)
* Biggest surprise - lack of footy involvement. Lots of good people controlling those sides of things. Looking more after the commercial side.
* Needs to get the basics right. Senior management and board transparent know where we are at. A transforming job.
* AFLPA has different demands (caro asked is the AFLPA role a bludge compared to being a club CEO role). Higher level of accountability at club level given you've got the pasion of members and fans.
* Cousins not at all has taken up his time. Media obsession. No extra time compared to any other player. Obviously took more this week with him in hospital.
* Had a go at Caro for suggesting Cuz was lectured about binge drinking. Caro said she said warned. Benny said in his time he hasn't been warned. Caro said it was before Gale's time and the people who warned him were and are still there. Gale said rumour and innuendo has followed Ben. We knew it would happen the moment we took him on. Latest rumour was Cuz had flown the coup. senior journo was chasing the story. Absolute untrue. Late last year when he had his finger surgery there was a week he was off as it all caught up with him. The coaches got him back up and there hasn't been a problem since. Cuz with the younger guys has been great and that is his legacy.
* We want to be the best. No point being here otherwise. We've got to build our commerical strength (various areas but especially membership), manage our finances better, eliminate debt.
* Hardwick is absolute transparent and has integrity (Caro said not very transparent avoiding interviews). Gale said Hardwick will talk when the time is right.
* Believes we'll win on Thursday night. We've got a pretty good midfield when they are up and running and have a few goalkicking options.
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Benny Gale hey... If this man cannot lead us out of the abyss then i don't ever see it happening.
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Benny implied and ex employee has spoken to Ben.
I wonder if its the same ex employee that Caro catches up with regularly ;)
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He'll be a good leader for our administration did really well tonight and understands what he wants to achieve and seems like he knows how to get there as well :clapping
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Benny Gale, you beauty!
Caro's media days are numbered.
Not much love in or out for her at Tigerland these days.
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great job, good to see the club not going on to much about our goals of winning 3 flags but just saying we want to be the best.
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Gale also said regarding our 3-0-75 plan - that he was not embarrassed by it and we will be building up muscle and horsepower in the next 5 years. Without high expectations, there is no outcome.
Garry Lyon said Richmond didn't deserve to have the opening game of the season and it should have been Bulldogs and Collingwood ::).
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Benny Gale, you beauty!
Caro's media days are numbered.
Not much love in or out for her at Tigerland these days.
I'd really like to see the club just burn her so to speak and her bloody lieing moles. Gale should make an announcement to the administration to the affect that "Moles will be hunted down, found and fired on the spot, now decide who your friends really are.
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Benny Gale, you beauty!
Caro's media days are numbered.
Not much love in or out for her at Tigerland these days.
I'd really like to see the club just burn her so to speak and her bloody lieing moles. Gale should make an announcement to the administration to the affect that "Moles will be hunted down, found and fired on the spot, now decide who your friends really are.
I would have loved Benny saying publically that anyone caught leaking information to Caro would be fired on the spot... and that he would be leaking false pieces of information to staff to test the club on what gets out.
That would shut up shop quick smart
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Gale also said regarding our 3-0-75 plan - that he was embarrassed by it and we will be building up muscle and horsepower in the next 5 years. Without high expectations, there is no outcome.
Garry Lyon said Richmond didn't deserve to have the opening game of the season and it should have been Bulldogs and Collingwood ::).
he was or wasn't?
:)
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There's a "not" missing from that sentence
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Gale also said regarding our 3-0-75 plan - that he was not embarrassed by it and we will be building up muscle and horsepower in the next 5 years. Without high expectations, there is no outcome.
Garry Lyon said Richmond didn't deserve to have the opening game of the season and it should have been Bulldogs and Collingwood ::).
he was or wasn't?
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Doh!. Yep it's meant to be "wasn't".
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Benny implied and ex employee has spoken to Ben.
I wonder if its the same ex employee that Caro catches up with regularly ;)
Clean out your ears Jack and put in all the facts not just what suits your argument
Caro made it very clear IHO that yes she had been told by ex employees but also said some are still there
And to me that is the biggest issue, you cannot do anything about ex employees with an axe to grind but they can and should do something about those who are supposedly still at the club... KICK THEM OUT :banghead :banghead they are not needed
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Benny implied and ex employee has spoken to Ben.
I wonder if its the same ex employee that Caro catches up with regularly ;)
Clean out your ears Jack and put in all the facts not just what suits your argument
Caro made it very clear IHO that yes she had been told by ex employees but also said some are still there
And to me that is the biggest issue, you cannot do anything about ex employees with an axe to grind but they can and should do something about those who are supposedly still at the club... KICK THEM OUT :banghead :banghead they are not needed
Said that all along.
By the way, seen the sun-tanned one yesterday
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Benny implied and ex employee has spoken to Ben.
I wonder if its the same ex employee that Caro catches up with regularly ;)
Clean out your ears Jack and put in all the facts not just what suits your argument
Caro made it very clear IHO that yes she had been told by ex employees but also said some are still there
And to me that is the biggest issue, you cannot do anything about ex employees with an axe to grind but they can and should do something about those who are supposedly still at the club... KICK THEM OUT :banghead :banghead they are not needed
Said that all along.
By the way, seen the sun-tanned one yesterday
poo on him
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Benny implied and ex employee has spoken to Ben.
I wonder if its the same ex employee that Caro catches up with regularly ;)
Clean out your ears Jack and put in all the facts not just what suits your argument
Caro made it very clear IHO that yes she had been told by ex employees but also said some are still there
And to me that is the biggest issue, you cannot do anything about ex employees with an axe to grind but they can and should do something about those who are supposedly still at the club... KICK THEM OUT :banghead :banghead they are not needed
Said that all along.
By the way, seen the sun-tanned one yesterday
Is he working at all?
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I will have to listen to 3AW or 3LO then.
3Aw might be OK now that Rex has gone.
:lol
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What stations is Spud on? I need to know to avoid that station....
In the couple of years post Spud...I used to pull what little hair i had left every time Spud would comment about RFC and comment on our "leg speed"...a quality he left us totally bereft of...
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Cousins now a national obsession, say Tigers
TIM CLARKE
March 23, 2010
The interest in Ben Cousins has become an Australian obsession of hysterical proportions, according to Richmond CEO Brendon Gale.
But the Tigers boss has admitted the ex-Eagles captain has struggled to cope with his tumultuous past while preparing for the new season.
As Cousins attempts to improve his fitness in time for the Tigers' AFL curtain-raiser against Carlton on Thursday, Gale again denied the club has recently addressed the Brownlow medallist about his drinking.
But the former AFLPA boss did hint Cousins had been spoken to by ex-Richmond people about his habits – while revealing he was also confronted about a lack of effort in training before Christmas after a speed bump in his ongoing rehabilitation from drug addiction.
"In my time, no (he has not been warned)," Gale said.
"None of the senior management or senior coaches have sat down and warned Ben about his habits and drinking. If you want to talk about former employees in the last 12 months, that is different.
"All I can say is Ben is one player in our team – an important player – but he has ticked all the boxes with the new coach since I have been there.
"His preparation has been outstanding post-Christmas. Pre-Christmas he had some thumb surgery, and he had a little personal issue.
"He took his eye off the ball for a week or two when the magnitude of the previous years began to affect him.
"That affected his application on the track, the coaches saw a lack of effort, a lack of intensity on the track and that was addressed.
"Since then he has been outstanding, he has not put a foot wrong."
Cousins has been hospitalised twice in recent weeks for a mystery stomach ailment that reportedly caused him severe pain, and cranked up the rumour mill in Perth and Melbourne.
Gale said the focus on the former Eagle had become incessant.
"Clearly outside the club there is an obsession with Ben, and it is an obsession. We understand hat it commands a lot of public interest," Gale told the Nine Network.
"But from our point of view he has taken no more management than any other player.
"The last couple of weeks, given there have been a couple of visits to hospital, it has taken a bit more management.
"But the rumour and innuendo has reached hysterical proportions."
Apparently that rumour speculated Cousins had fled the country on Monday, which Gale said prompted a flood of calls to the club.
"The latest one going around is that Ben has flown the coop, he has jumped on a jumbo and gone overseas. The rumour went around all day – and we put up with this day in, day out," Gale said.
But the Tigers supremo insisted that Cousins was still not taking up too much of the club's focus, saying he had still brought more positives than negatives since his acquisition last year.
"From my point of view, Ben has been terrific and I have really enjoyed watching the practice matches when he is not playing with his instruction, talking them through," Gale said.
"I think he has been impressive, he has got a huge role to play and I think he can bring an enormous amount to Richmond in that department."
http://www.watoday.com.au/afl/afl-news/cousins-now-a-national-obsession-say-tigers-20100323-qrig.html
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Here's the Gale interview :thumbsup
http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx?tab=2&videoid=1C4F2ACF-8FB6-4844-9098-B963F519F3CC (http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx?tab=2&videoid=1C4F2ACF-8FB6-4844-9098-B963F519F3CC)
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cheers OE.
That Wilson is a real snake. Whatever you think of her, she chooses her words that go to print carefully.
Insinuates a lot, but denies "saying that" a lot too.
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cheers OE.
That Wilson is a real snake. Whatever you think of her, she chooses her words that go to print carefully.
Insinuates a lot, but denies "saying that" a lot too.
exactly al! I was saying the exact same thing to my fiance last night as we watched the slippery snake trying to slither her way out of taking any responsibility for the crap she wrote. I showed my better half the article earlier that day and she was literally disgusted at her continual protestations on the show last night.
I also notice with great disgust at the way she shiftily dumbs down the overall debate to little nitpicking on specific insignificant points exclaiming "i never said that" and goes off on a different tangent on that moot point to take away from the real debate which she is often getting slaughtered in. real dog of a reporter but then again aren't they all. Actually reminds me of some of the posters on BF, kings of deflection that can't admit they're wrong ;D
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"Sources, sources, don't expect me to reveal my sources". Caro sounded like Richard III searching for a horse (LOL @ the blackadder episode on this :lol ). She was very narky last night asking stupid questions such as "is the AFLPA job a bludge?" An ironic question coming from footy journos these days ::). When Grant Thomas is the only one asking sensible questions it doesn't say much for the other 3.
Benny Gale did very well. Handled the petulant questions with ease.
OE missed a bit in his summary when he was interrupted :wallywink. Benny Gale also said we will be spending the next two years getting as many games in to the kids. So the Club has obviously planned 2010-11 as "transformation years". If that's true as it should be we won't be seeing Jordie, Tucky, Kingy and any other experienced Tiger in Y&B this year. They'll be banished to Coburg until they are chopped at the end of the year.
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Caro didn't say boo about it tonight on 3aw :whistle
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People keep saying she is a tigers suppoter, is she really or just a fan of the dried sultana?
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People keep saying she is a tigers suppoter, is she really or just a fan of the dried sultana?
Well her father was President of the Club in 1970's through to the Mid 1980's (when he sent us spiralling into debt) - so she grew up being a Tiger supporter. Actuallt her old man was inducted into the HoF last week
No she just sticks the boots in and is over the top ... I am sure part of the reason why is so she can't be accused of being biased. But now she she biased in the "anti" form ....
Her efforts over the last couple of weeks can only be described as gutter journalism
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There was an umpire going back a few years ago who I reckon did that, as he was a Richmond supporter. Can't think of his name offhand.
Under what circumstances did Wilson leave the club? Harmonious or acrimonious?
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Wayne Campbell could be the leak that is still at the club.
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Wayne Campbell could be the leak that is still at the club.
Wouldnt think so.
Try again
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Wayne Campbell could be the leak that is still at the club.
Definitely a possibility
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All I know is C. Wilson is not a friend of the Richmond Football Club, whenever she puts pen to paper she does us harm, so she can take her caked on make up and her cigarette suckers, crumpled cat's arse sound hole and stuff off, imo.
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Wayne Campbell could be the leak that is still at the club.
Definitely a possibility
Heard Campbell speak this morning about the issue and would have to say I am convinced as I can be from such radio banter that it is extremely unlikely that he is the source. I was very impressed by his support of Hardwick also.