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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Hard Roar Tiger on May 18, 2014, 07:25:44 AM
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As an appointed apologist to this forum, I would like youse out there to educate me. Whose fault is this season 2014?
Why do you blame them?
What is required to fix?
No rhetoric like Tigeritis or culture - what exactly do you propose and how will this address our win/loss ratio?
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Can't wait for someone in the media to ask this question but they won't
Dimma .how do you think your coaching ?
Very simple question
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Don't let the players off so easily Jack
They are as much to blame as the coaching dept.
Far too many have gotten ahead of themselves
And IMHO the Club has also got way too ahead of itself believing that we are far better than what we actually are, our recruiting last year in particular shows this
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It's the coaching staff.
Players play to instruction and are lazy because they feel no pressure from above.
Exhibit A. Newman, Grigg, Edwards, Houli and Vickery
How can you remove mediocrity when players get rewarded week in week out with game time
Only way forward IMO is to remove the whole coaching staff and start again. We have a descent core of players to work with but the coach down need to be sacked for us to move forward
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Heard Jake King yesterday speak at half time yesterday about game plan etc
No wonder the RFC are loses
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Look into our coaches box and you see who? local coaches at best. Daly & Williams (midfield spread) please.... :help Surround yourself with average personnel and you become average. Worst coaching structure in the comp bar none.
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And don't forget Danny Daly who has no idea
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The coach
Selection policy and general recruitment the direction isbshytehouse
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Whoever Bojangles gets his "mail" off.
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The coach- good coaches invent game plans, dimma plagiaris' them.
The club hierarchy- in the pursuit of profit they have sought an easy fix and in the process forgotten about those who helped them become debt free, the fans.
The players- like us, they were fooled into thinking they were good players.
Recruiting staff- you don't have to be a brain surgeon to realise that players rejected/traded from another are rejected and traded for a reason. They are not up to it, so leave them alone and blood kids instead.
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Players getting ahead of themselves. Last year our personnel got the job done ( 5th place is a great result ). Maybe losing wayne campbell and lepitsch had a greater effect then expected.. but honestly I think the players crawled into their shells after the Rd 1 lost to gold coast. Defensive running would be the worst in the game. No one wants to win if it means being stuffed after the game.
It's always the same people trying their hearts out to win the game ( cotch, morris, vlastuin and mcdonough yesterday, ) and the same people that are happy to coast along and accept defeat, ( grigg, houli, chaplin, ellis, vickery, hampson, the list goes on.) I feel its not too late for ellis and vickery to turn things around but the others are dead wood rotting our club. they have to learn winning games takes everything you got these days, you cant go at 75% and expect to win. Somehow the players still haven't realised this. a new coach may be the solution but I honestly think this is just tigeritis at its best, nothing dimma could have done to avoid this. RFC the coach killers.
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Heard Jake King yesterday speak at half time yesterday about game plan etc
No wonder the RFC are loses
Who is to blame (I'm assuming here its the coaches) but why
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Add this to the other million threads that have the same content.
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Choco wanted saints gig heart not in it
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As an appointed apologist to this forum, I would like youse out there to educate me. Whose fault is this season 2014?
Why do you blame them?
What is required to fix?
No rhetoric like Tigeritis or culture - what exactly do you propose and how will this address our win/loss ratio?
Ha ha. Yes a true apologist for mediocrity asks this question. Why?
Why are you asking this now? Have you finally realized we are up poo creek without a paddle?
Answer this:
Whats the main issue? What's your solution / How does the club fix this?
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Heard Jake King yesterday speak at half time yesterday about game plan etc
No wonder the RFC are loses
Who is to blame (I'm assuming here its the coaches) but why
It's the game plan, injuries token players and now confidence. We are playing a style that is designed to defeat zones and have players suited to this. Other teams are playing a congested and contested style which makes it difficult to get space and time to run it forward. Basically we have been found out.
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OK My 2 cents, it's recruiting followed by development.
We have recruited players from other clubs to fill roles. They are not A graders and they all have deficiencies. This policy is fine to fill structural holes, Collingwood did it well with Jolly, we did too with Maric, but not as a general recruiting strategy. That has left us with a team with a lot of senior players with technical holes like Grigg, Chapman or Matt Thomas. OK senior players but not great and their poor is really poor.
Secondly we basically almost always fail to develop players from the 2nd round of the draft and deeper. We possibly do better from our rookie list with hungry guys like Foley, Nahas and King. This is terrible and reflects badly on our coaches and recruiters.
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As an appointed apologist to this forum, I would like youse out there to educate me. Whose fault is this season 2014?
Why do you blame them?
What is required to fix?
No rhetoric like Tigeritis or culture - what exactly do you propose and how will this address our win/loss ratio?
I blame Hardwick and his coaching panel because they took short cuts.
I blame Hartley for bringing in rejects from other clubs who are no stuffing good.
I blame B.Gale for allowing this nonsense to occur and allowing good money to be wasted on Chaplin, Hampson and Grigg and to a lesser extent Houli and Thomas and Petterd. All up about $1.3 million in wages per year maybe more.
I blame the players for their gutless ineptitude and their disgraceful performances.
I blame the fitness staff for not pounding the crap out of the players over the summer leaving us with an uncompetitive team fitness wise.
I blame Francis Jackson and his team for not bringing in quality youngster after the 1st round of the national draft and for not recruiting players with any speed.
I blame them all.
What would I do:
I would terminate the employment of Blair Hartley coz his record isnt that flash
I would terminate the employment of the fitness staff right now.
I would delist Chaplin, Petterd, Thomas, Grigg and Hampson at the end of the year.
I would delist Newman, Foley, King and Stephenson
I would allow Hardwick to coach to the end of 2015 the end of next year but if their is no real improvement between now and then - 16 months (a very fair amount of time) I would sack him too.
I would pay major dollars to try and get the 2 best free agents over the next 2 years (ie. get 2 serious A graders)
And thats just as a start.
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Heard Jake King yesterday speak at half time yesterday about game plan etc
No wonder the RFC are loses
Who is to blame (I'm assuming here its the coaches) but why
It's the game plan, injuries token players and now confidence. We are playing a style that is designed to defeat zones and have players suited to this. Other teams are playing a congested and contested style which makes it difficult to get space and time to run it forward. Basically we have been found out.
Yeah but Hawthorn play this style too, so why are they 6 and 2? They have better players basically, playing with confidence and their key players are more mature. They also filled holes like Full back with Brian Lake. We're imitating their strategy which is fine, but doing it poorly. We have no Hodge or Mitchell from the previous generation to compliment their new generation. We have Newman and Foley instead, OK players but not great.
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No Tidy
They recruited class and paid top dollar for it
Gibson Mcevoy Burgoyne all didn't come cheap
We got M Thomas, Chaplin, Grigg for nothing
You pay peanuts u get Monkeyball and that's what we got
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yeah but when you add the salaries of all the monkies together they probably come up to about $1.3 million dollars and then when you add keeping Newman, King and Foley then theres about $800-900k is salaries so all up we are paying $2 million to keep all these blokes. Why?
For that amount of money you could put 2 A grade footballers into your list who could really help Richmond.
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My biggest issue with the Hardwick era is not developing the back line more. I appreciated when they drafted Batchelor and put him in the back line and when they moved Deledio back there too but that needed to continue. It hasn't, we need a distributor if Lids is to move back into the midfield, who is that in our team, Rance? Its not Newman, he's not that good and after 5 years we should have an Aussie Jones or a Leon Davis who gets 20-30 effective kicks out of the back line every game.
We also need tall defenders, we got Chaplin but he is limited, we must develop two more of our own. We must spend our draft picks on key defenders, Corey Enright types and get them to 50+ games.
The failures of Post, Griffiths, Dea and Grimes to become this key defender is troubling, Astbury is the latest attempt and I think he is a flop but the jury is still out.
We should have built from the back in the first year and we'd have 6 good defenders now after trying 12 or more who would have 50-100+ games now. I think we have 1 good one in Rance, and 4 or 5 ok one sin Morris, Chaplin etc
Maybe I'm wrong in my stats but I would have rathered they spent high draft picks on defenders every year, build form the back
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You ain't wrong
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1 elite player in Cotchin and a shedload of overrated/poor players.
Our talent pool is horrible.
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No Tidy
They recruited class and paid top dollar for it
Gibson Mcevoy Burgoyne all didn't come cheap
We got M Thomas, Chaplin, Grigg for nothing
You pay peanuts u get Monkeyball and that's what we got
They did it well, Chaplin was just free agency. Our similar trades are Hampson vs McEvoy. I think they win by 10 miles on that one.
Chaplin vs Gibson, They win again but by a bit less.
How they hell they got Burgoyne amazes me, they have some genius's on their recruiting dept.
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Chaplin might have been free agency but when youre wasting $400,000 a year on the tpp then its shameful recruiting.
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I blame: Hardwick
Reason: He's the coach and subsequently responsible for which players run out, as well as their state of mind/motivation.
Solution: Get a coach who inspires the team to go beyond the bar of what's at least acceptable. To push harder and risk themselves for the team, to put their bodies on the line for their mates and the club. Look at Hinkley for example...
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Everyone has a valuable point on this one.
Some are more vehement in their arguments and that shows anger and passion to the situation and that's fine too while others make their points and leave it at that. What is certain is that the clubs issues are not solely attributed to one isolated problem but a number of them
Culture which leads to failure which leads to nepotism which then leads to quick fixes which leads to false hope which leads to limited success which leads to failure which leads to false promises and statements which leads to anger which leads to backtracking which leads to more failure to more anger and ultimate resignation that club was wrong which leads to change of the figurehead of the playing side which then leads to new hope and then gets back to culture.
Club's issues are much deeper than a string of bad losses over a part of the season or a lack of finals over a period of 3 decades. Fix the above and we're on our way.
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The President to start with.
It's the President who tells the coach the winning style of football the Richmond people want to see.
PROBLEM, we have a woman President who firstly is American & has no idea how football is played & is only holding that position because she is a rich Lawyer & has other interest in the club
Well she aint going to approach a premiership playing coach to tell him that's not the way to play as she don't know any better.
The COACH is next. Why do the players go short, very stuffing short that the man on the mark barely moved. enough to drive anyone out the gates of the MCG & it certainly did me.
PATHETIC.
long direct football gets the players out of danger & releases the pressure but these twits put themselves under pressure over hand balling to idle players & bang is the turnover & punishment.
& why would players play this horrible way ? when its against the play of basic football & coaching. Match Fixing raises its ugly head.
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Don't let the players off so easily Jack
They are as much to blame as the coaching dept.
Far too many have gotten ahead of themselves
And IMHO the Club has also got way too ahead of itself believing that we are far better than what we actually are, our recruiting last year in particular shows this
here here wp. the club and supporters thought we were a certainty for finals that we had become a genuine finals side. yet some of us knew we were nothing but a middling team and we still had heaps of building to do.
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
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Chaplin might have been free agency but when youre wasting $400,000 a year on the tpp then its shameful recruiting.
:clapping
It's all well and good to bring in guys for "free" but you pay overs for FA no matter who they are. The one team that has been successful over a long, long period is Geelong who have built their own. Guys will stay at their own club for cheap. They won't change for cheap.
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
Mate we lose to 9th. Nothing killer about that. If you ask me the writing was on the wall after that defeat then to recruit graham when there were guns like mcevoy around was trade suicide
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
lol the list has always been in the mire with about 12 14 other teams. if you think we were head and shoulders above 13 other teams you were truly delusional.
we were and remain a middling team who is having a tough time of it atm. we at no stage have ever become a good side capable of regularly playing finals.
the list lacked depth and quality it still does. it used to lack maturity and experience but over the last two yrs we sure as hell fixed that didnt we. trouble is we did it with a shedload of glass half fulls adding to the many glass half fulls we already had.
there was absolutely no need to take the number of mature players we took this yr not unless they were quality players.
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
BJ you overvalue everything RFC as per usual.
This footy club is skata. If we aren't an on field basket case every five years or so then things aren't normal.
We are pathetic.
Campbell as coach would ensure we would be a basket case in less than 5 years from now.
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
Not really Romeo
12 months ago Grigg was still rubbish.
Chaplin should in the 2nd part of last season he's no good IMO
Houli squibbed it
The like of king. Newman. Aaron Edwards.were showing our oldest players are worryingly not good enough.
Our ruck division was weak
Griffiths. Elton. McBean. Dea. helbig Types were dropped/not selected. Often in due to being blocked by guys that as now no longer here (McGwire, white, nahas
The same of coach favourite players were really if ever dropped.
We seemed to favour middle aged / old types instead of giving the kids games
I believe the cracks were showing. We didn't need some tinkering bollocks - we should have continued to build the list with as many highly rated kids as possible
Now the avalanche can't be stopped
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
Not really Romeo
12 months ago Grigg was still rubbish.
Chaplin should in the 2nd part of last season he's no good IMO
Houli squibbed it
The like of king. Newman. Aaron Edwards were showing our oldest players are worryingly not good enough
Our ruck division was weak
Griffiths. Elton. McBean. Types were dropped/not selected
The same of coach favourite players were really if ever dropped.
We seemed to favour middle aged / old types instead of giving the kids games
I believe the cracks were showing. We didn't need some tinkering bollocks - we should have continued to build the list with as many highly rated kids as possible
Now the avalanche can't be stopped
Get some chewing gum. Chew it feverishly. Take it out of your mouth and give it to BJ and ask him to plug the crack that's growing in the dam wall with it whilst you run like the wind and watch the tsunami from a safe distance.
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Matthew Richardson was spot on during 3aws coverage this afternoon from 12pm. Basically said the list is no good they reached their capability last year and that was their maximum output. So in effect the talent we have on our list was only ever capable of finishing in the lower reaches of the 8 as a maximum. In effect our best effort with this list of players was to make finals get eliminated by Carlton who didnt even make the finals. In effect what Richo was say is that the
LIST IS stuffed
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Everyone has a valuable point on this one.
Some are more vehement in their arguments and that shows anger and passion to the situation and that's fine too while others make their points and leave it at that. What is certain is that the clubs issues are not solely attributed to one isolated problem but a number of them
Culture which leads to failure which leads to nepotism which then leads to quick fixes which leads to false hope which leads to limited success which leads to failure which leads to false promises and statements which leads to anger which leads to backtracking which leads to more failure to more anger and ultimate resignation that club was wrong which leads to change of the figurehead of the playing side which then leads to new hope and then gets back to culture.
Club's issues are much deeper than a string of bad losses over a part of the season or a lack of finals over a period of 3 decades. Fix the above and we're on our way.
Agree mate.
It's the one thing this club has failed to address.
Culture is the problem.
That's why we need a strong leader or leaders that can stand strong on this issue.
Implementation of programs and throwing money at departments won't fix the problem if the culture is up poo creek. You can recruit the best and most skillful players but that won't fix the problem because tigeritis will ruin them.
A leader that is willing to stand firm on a no compromise winning culture of excellence, then will the club finally rid themselves of the disease that has plagued it. A leader that isn't swayed by the frenzy of over-enthusiastic praise when only one final is played. A leader that doesn't bend on standards even after success is achieved. A leader that doesn't tolerate prima donnas. A leader that stands by his convictions and doesn't accept players that compromise team ethos. A leader that excels and the players excel because of him regardless of ability. A leader that demands toughness and hates softness.
We need a strong leader that can withstand the overlay of hype and stand firm on the foundations of excellence he implements at the beginning. Someone who is uncompromising with high standards of excellence and will not waver from its coarse.
Only someone with strong convictions that is willing to see through the frenzy that masks mediocrity.
I want a leader like this.
Richmond needs a leader like this.
We aren't the same as other clubs. Unless this issue is dealt with once and for all we will always be the laughing stock of the competition and the cycle will continue.
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Matthew Richardson was spot on during 3aws coverage this afternoon from 12pm. Basically said the list is no good they reached their capability last year and that was their maximum output. So in effect the talent we have on our list was only ever capable of finishing in the lower reaches of the 8 as a maximum. In effect our best effort with this list of players was to make finals get eliminated by Carlton who didnt even make the finals. In effect what Richo was say is that the
LIST IS stuffED
That's funny , he wasn't saying that pre season, ::)
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
It wasn't the list that took us to finals it was us.
Yes the throngs of loyal delusional fans that bleed yellow and black took this rag tag bunch of lollipop p00fs to their first final in 12 years.
The signs were there that their were issues not being addressed. Many on this forum would point these our but you, HRT, Al and '65 and some other apologists for mediocrity couldn't or would fail to see the true picture.
This club has poo culture that allows hype to swell the heads to unimaginable proportions. It's the throngs of supporters screaming and cheering that carried the team that far but bad culture always rears its ugly head if its never been fully dealt with.
Hype will only get you so far. The facts are the club was poo, is poo and will always be poo until someone fixes the culture first.
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What they need are people who will put the RFC first in their lives.
Good luck with that.
It's over, my friends.
Try to save a drowning person and they'll eventually take u down with them.
I'm done.
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
lol the list has always been in the mire with about 12 14 other teams. if you think we were head and shoulders above 13 other teams you were truly delusional.
we were and remain a middling team who is having a tough time of it atm. we at no stage have ever become a good side capable of regularly playing finals.
the list lacked depth and quality it still does. it used to lack maturity and experience but over the last two yrs we sure as hell fixed that didnt we. trouble is we did it with a shedload of glass half fulls adding to the many glass half fulls we already had.
there was absolutely no need to take the number of mature players we took this yr not unless they were quality players.
Would be fair to say those comments were not consistent with how we performed in 2013 , registering 15 wins along the way with major scalps against the two GF sides. Not sure that 12 other sides accomplished that ::)
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Bj, you sound like a religious zealot. Lmao
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Matthew Richardson was spot on during 3aws coverage this afternoon from 12pm. Basically said the list is no good they reached their capability last year and that was their maximum output. So in effect the talent we have on our list was only ever capable of finishing in the lower reaches of the 8 as a maximum. In effect our best effort with this list of players was to make finals get eliminated by Carlton who didnt even make the finals. In effect what Richo was say is that the
LIST IS stuffED
I respectfully disagree.
Mcdonuts. Darrou. Grimes.
Rance. Astbury. Mcintosh/helbig.
Conca. Miles. Martin.
McBean. Elton. Arnot.
Lennon. Riewoldt. Lloyd.
Griffiths. Vlastuin. Morris.
Maric. Deledio. Cotchin.
Sub. (. Gordon. Ohanlon. Dea. Bachelor. Ellis. Seawards. Vickery)
I feel a roos or Hinckley type could at least make the. side competitive.
The list has some talent.
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Matthew Richardson was spot on during 3aws coverage this afternoon from 12pm. Basically said the list is no good they reached their capability last year and that was their maximum output. So in effect the talent we have on our list was only ever capable of finishing in the lower reaches of the 8 as a maximum. In effect our best effort with this list of players was to make finals get eliminated by Carlton who didnt even make the finals. In effect what Richo was say is that the
LIST IS stuffED
I respectfully disagree.
Mcdonuts. Darrou. Grimes.
Rance. Astbury. Mcintosh/helbig.
Conca. Miles. Martin.
McBean. Elton. Arnot.
Lennon. Riewoldt. Lloyd.
Griffiths. Vlastuin. Morris.
Maric. Deledio. Cotchin.
Sub. (. Gordon. Ohanlon. Dea. Bachelor. Ellis. Seawards. Vickery)
I feel a roos or Hinckley type could at least make the. side competitive.
The list has some talent.
But that's not hardwicks prefered list......
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That list might be shyte too
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Why is conca a required player ?^^
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12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
lol the list has always been in the mire with about 12 14 other teams. if you think we were head and shoulders above 13 other teams you were truly delusional.
we were and remain a middling team who is having a tough time of it atm. we at no stage have ever become a good side capable of regularly playing finals.
the list lacked depth and quality it still does. it used to lack maturity and experience but over the last two yrs we sure as hell fixed that didnt we. trouble is we did it with a shedload of glass half fulls adding to the many glass half fulls we already had.
there was absolutely no need to take the number of mature players we took this yr not unless they were quality players.
Would be fair to say those comments were not consistent with how we performed in 2013 , registering 15 wins along the way with major scalps against the two GF sides. Not sure that 12 other sides accomplished that ::)
rubbish we played better footy the yr before.
yes we won 15 games and it was clearly an over achievment but the hype and spin sucked plenty like you in. the list certainly screamed at us all that nothing we had done was sustainable. it is a lot like 2001 there was a lesson to be learnt from 2001 instead we made the same mistakes.
you see it all the time middling sides who have great runs with injury, play against opposition sides at the right time, have things generally go your way and have players perform above what they can sustain. that was last yr for us. the yr before that it was nm. before that essendon.
we knocked over top sides hawthorn and sydney in 2012 it didnt mean much. just like beating hawthorn last yr meant nothing. when it counted to the hawks they thrashed us.
mate its the depth of the list and the quality spread thru it that determines the true state of the list. we have sorely lacked in both under hardwick and we continue to lack in them.
plenty of ordinary sides have made finals and plenty more ordinary ones will continue to make finals.
your trouble is you dont work things out for yourself and you get sucked in by the hype and spin the club feeds you.
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Hardwick, poor game plan, not utilising players strengths and playing them in their correct positions, lack of run in game plan and poor player selections.
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I blame Hardwick and his coaching panel because they took short cuts.
I blame Hartley for bringing in rejects from other clubs who are no stuffing good.
I blame B.Gale for allowing this nonsense to occur and allowing good money to be wasted on Chaplin, Hampson and Grigg and to a lesser extent Houli and Thomas and Petterd. All up about $1.3 million in wages per year maybe more.
I blame the players for their gutless ineptitude and their disgraceful performances.
I blame the fitness staff for not pounding the crap out of the players over the summer leaving us with an uncompetitive team fitness wise.
I blame Francis Jackson and his team for not bringing in quality youngster after the 1st round of the national draft and for not recruiting players with any speed.
I blame them all.
What would I do:
I would terminate the employment of Blair Hartley coz his record isnt that flash
I would terminate the employment of the fitness staff right now.
I would delist Chaplin, Petterd, Thomas, Grigg and Hampson at the end of the year.
I would delist Newman, Foley, King and Stephenson
I would allow Hardwick to coach to the end of 2015 the end of next year but if their is no real improvement between now and then - 16 months (a very fair amount of time) I would sack him too.
I would pay major dollars to try and get the 2 best free agents over the next 2 years (ie. get 2 serious A graders)
And thats just as a start.
And I blame the board for not making all these people accountable.
And I blame the members for not making the board accountable, in fact LESS accountable.
This didn't start with Hartley or Hardwick or Gale or even Jackson. This started with the 2004 election when a failed board was given a free pass to continue to control the club.