One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on April 22, 2010, 12:30:15 AM
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Benny Gale was on Melbourne's new "talk" AM radio station 3MTR yestersay morning with Steve Price and Andrew Bolt ( .... yeah I know :help )
Here's the audio (goto 19.30):
http://www.mtr1377.com.au//index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=5904 (http://www.mtr1377.com.au//index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=5904)
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Summary
* Both Price and Bolt are Tiger supporters. Price is a member as is his whole family. Bolt converted because his kids barracked for Richmond.
* Why keep the faith? Gale replied because there's an exciting transformation taking place at Punt Rd. There's the physical with the new $20m redevelopment, new coaching staff with impecible credentials and an exciting young group of kids. Youngest side on the park last weekend since the draft was introduced.
* Price said it was the youngest side only because 4 older guys played up and you must have been filthy when you first heard what happened. Gale said we were. We are a bit thin in terms of leadership so we've got to set standards. Those standards weren't met in Sydney and that's it.
* Bolt thought Cousins was unlucky. Sure he wouldn't have punched anyone but Cousins was being the enforcer. Is that what you want? Gale replied that as he said before we're a bit thin in terms of leadership. Cuz brought to the club not just for footy but as a leader. Thought he could have done better. Bolt asked if Connors was punched once or twice. Gale said he was "subdued" and left it at that.
* On the positive Astbury, Dea and Taylor made their debuts.
* Hit 40k members last Friday. Says a lot about the passion and loyalty of our supporters. It also shows that we've in the past set the benchmarks both on and off the field. We've been the best in the past. We aren't at the moment and it doesn't guarantee we'll be successful in the future but it demonstrates we have the capacity to become the best. When we reach a sustained and competitive basis it will be a sight to behold. We've got to get through their period. It'll be tough and challenging but we know exactly where we are at.
* As a club we would've known about GC17 and GWS coming in. Timing not great but there's 15 other clubs in the same situation. Why we were aggressive in going to the draft last year. We felt the players who weren't going to be apart of our 11th premiership had to go. This year we've got 16 players capable of debuting. That's almost half a list. 7 of them have already.
* You go into every game to win but finishing mid-table doesn't benefit anyone. You play to win premierships and finals and if you don't there's opportunities to rebuild. Clearly in that rebuilding phase at the moment.
* Bolt asked how do keep up morale when you're getting thrashed every week? Gale said clubs are quite immune from the public perception of gloom and doom. We are quite "bullish". There's just so much to do. Personally jumps out of bed and ready to attack the day. Our staff do too. Everyone knows what to do and what is expected individually. There's so much to do. That's leadership. We have a terrific coaching staff. You try and break up "islands of excellence". Break things down into small comprehensible parts and go about each task and each training drill. Whereas if you think about the whole situation it can become quite overwhelming. We're confident in ourselves and staff that we'll eventually get there.
* Price complained about the language of our supporters behind the Punt Rd end goals. 12-13 y.o. girls chanting out "bulls---". Made him feel uncomfortable. Won't sit there again. Gale said it's a fair point and that the AFL has gone to great trouble to make the game accessible to women and kids.
* Bolt said he always liked Richmond because we come across as a family club with a family atmosphere. Handing out footys after games etc. Getting Cousins was a red flag for him, losing Richo, and doesn't having 4 drunken players hurt the brand. Gale said we're about Y&B and Tigers for life. Research says our fans follow us due to that family association. Those incidents are inconsistent with our brand and why we deal with them.
* Gale finished with promoting our new 3-game membership for those with work, family commitments who can't get to most games.
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Thanks OE, nothing ground breaking but good for Gale to reiterate to some of the fools that call themselves supporters that we are heading in the right direction. ;D
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Thanks OE, nothing ground breaking but good for Gale to reiterate to some of the fools that call themselves supporters that we are heading in the right direction. ;D
FFS,get out of his ars,you peanut.
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Good on you Benny, keep the positive interviews coming mate, US real supporters know the path ahead... :clapping
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I wouldn't go spreading around that Price and Bolt are Tiger supporters, FFS why couldn't they follow a scum club like collingwood or carlton :banghead
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I wouldn't go spreading around that Price and Bolt are Tiger supporters, FFS why couldn't they follow a scum club like collingwood or carlton :banghead
Careful where you tread there Tiggytam, this is not a political forum and we don't want to muddy the fine waters with that sort of debate do we! ;)
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I wouldn't go spreading around that Price and Bolt are Tiger supporters, FFS why couldn't they follow a scum club like collingwood or carlton :banghead
Careful where you tread there Tiggytam, this is not a political forum and we don't want to muddy the fine waters with that sort of debate do we! ;)
Machiavelli for President! Richmond has become a place for softie leftists who wanna make everyone be equal, we should be aiming to be like Monk in here, he doesnt give a poo, its dog eat dog, and thats how it should at Tigerland ;D
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How could you sit so close to Andrew Bolt and not smash him in the effing head is beyond me....Benny Gale you got some serious self control.
Bit of a follow through elbow for Steve Price too come to think of it.
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its good to have support in the right places, steve price has been a tiger supporter for a long time...didn't know of Bolt but he's welcome to the fold :gotigers
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dont mind price and bolton well some cat stand him , but he is a liberal with an opinion plus a tiger fan so he is ok
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That would be a 'Liberal' not 'liberal' i think!
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there's a pretty big difference mate, it aint splitting straws
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I'm a fan of Bolt, the angry dwarf is a funny f@rker
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it's weird how we all want Tiger supporters to be just like us, and find it hard to cope with when they arent they same. We cant help who barracks for us and we should just be happy people do.
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Bolt is a halfwit who has made a career dining out on the outrage of other halfwits, much the same as Price and that toilet trader up in Sydney, Alan Jones. He will tell you what you want to hear, don't worry bout the facts! lol Andrew Bolt my stuffing god what did we do to get him on board. Were all outraged. Im outraged about being outraged. Global warming is all made up, the scientists are all lefty liars ! Greenies are all Nazi's! And probably communists too!
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Bolt is a halfwit
Jack Dyer would be turning in his grave with this little backdoor man for Howard and Abbott being a tiger supporter.
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I wouldn't go spreading around that Price and Bolt are Tiger supporters, FFS why couldn't they follow a scum club like collingwood or carlton :banghead
:lol So true.
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Bolt is a halfwit who has made a career dining out on the outrage of other halfwits, much the same as Price and that toilet trader up in Sydney, Alan Jones. He will tell you what you want to hear, don't worry bout the facts! lol Andrew Bolt my effing god what did we do to get him on board. Were all outraged. Im outraged about being outraged. Global warming is all made up, the scientists are all lefty liars ! Greenies are all Nazi's! And probably communists too!
so what's your gripe owl, are we supposed to believe everything some left wingenviro nazi rams down our gobs...thank heavens we live in a democratic society where such notions can be challenged :lol
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lmao @ left wing nazi! :bow
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nothing wrong with price or bolton
they are both tigers
who gives a f if they have different opinions than most Labor Party nuff nuff followers
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the main thing is that we have supporters. like every club we have idiots as well as good, decent people.
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Bolt is a halfwit who has made a career dining out on the outrage of other halfwits, much the same as Price and that toilet trader up in Sydney, Alan Jones. He will tell you what you want to hear, don't worry bout the facts! lol Andrew Bolt my effing god what did we do to get him on board. Were all outraged. Im outraged about being outraged. Global warming is all made up, the scientists are all lefty liars ! Greenies are all Nazi's! And probably communists too!
so what's your gripe owl, are we supposed to believe everything some left wingenviro nazi rams down our gobs...thank heavens we live in a democratic society where such notions can be challenged :lol
lol @ left wing enviro nazi, you have been listening to Bolt :rollin
I just prefer hard science to uninformed lunatic opinions on the environmental debate. Oh and I prefer that when someone is getting poleaxed in a debate like Bolt usually is, that they don't resort to shouting people down with abuse. As for Left or Right, I don't really care, two shades of the same bullcrap in this town, personally I don't vote for either, and I don't judge people on their politics I judge them on their actions.