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Richmond president says team must be better
Date August 25, 2014 - 8:04PM
Caroline Wilson
Chief Football Writer for The Age
Richmond president Peggy O'Neal has vowed the club "will not be blinded" by its stunning home run that has pushed the team into final eight contention.
Regardless of the outcome of Saturday's must-win clash against flag favourite Sydney, O'Neal has promised an indepth review of the Tigers' football operation, declaring: "We must get better."
Nearing the end of her first season as president, O'Neal said Richmond's board and executive would be asking if the club needed to be "tougher on ourselves than we have ever been" following the Tigers' form reversal since its loss to Sydney in round 14.
"We're all feeling that we've got a lot more work to do," she said. "We've all learnt a lot and one of those is you can't take your eye off the ball."
Having urged the club in June to "stay the course" and "hold our nerve", O'Neal at the time strongly backed the club's leaders, coach Damien Hardwick, chief executive Brendon Gale, general manager of football Daniel Richardson and captain Trent Cotchin, demanding unity and refusing to "look for scapegoats".
She emphasised the club's need for improvement in her final pre-game address before Sunday's game against StKilda at the MCG.
"There will be no knee-jerk decisions based on the first half of the season," she said.
"Equally, we will not be blinded by what has unfolded in the back half.
"We will consider what needs to happen to build a better business, a better football department and ultimately a better football side. We must get better.
"We must become a club that achieves and sustains excellence ... so at the end of this season we will sit down and make informed and prudent decisions that are focused solely on improvement."
O'Neal said on Monday that her final home-game address would have been the same whether the club had won five, six, seven or eight games on end.
She added the fact the club had collectively held its nerve and won eight games in succession was a "great credit to all".
O'Neal said that while the club should not be celebrating its season as a whole without some serious scrutiny, she remained proud that Richmond had avoided the off-season drama of previous decades, something she said the Tigers could not afford to endure again.
Richmond's on-field turnaround, which has led to the longest current winning streak in the competition, will also lead to a better-than-forecast financial result from the club, which had suffered a dramatic downturn in attendances and eight weeks ago was facing the prospect of no Friday night fixtures next season.
Now, Gale has reinforced his push for 11 home games at the MCG next season, along with a renewed bid to host a Friday night game on the eve of Anzac Day.
■ O'Neal and Gale will join the 17 other AFL club chiefs at a special function in Canberra on Tuesday night, where AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan will host government and opposition leaders in a bid to build better relationships with federal government ministers.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will both address the club bosses
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/richmond-president-says-team-must-be-better-20140825-108b7i.html#ixzz3BPDWC8Uh
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You tell 'em, Pegz.
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Good to hear....hopefully this finally signals the end of the lock and loaded/cherry ripe bullshyte of years gone by, regardless of what happens on Saturday or after.
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"There will be no knee-jerk decisions based on the first half of the season," she said.
"Equally, we will not be blinded by what has unfolded in the back half.
Finally :clapping
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All for Anzac eve game but against Melbourne? Come on ::)
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Well done peg, played em on a break once again :clapping u go girl :shh
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Yes, yes it's all in the execution but good to at least see there is intent.
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
These are not theories Ox. There will be a thorough review of the football department. It will happen.
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Don't you talk poo bout my mum Ox
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Yes very good words. Lets see the proof in these words at seasons end.
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Yes Peggy, Leader of Men!
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
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Nek minnit.
Newman gets another year!!
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
These are not theories Ox. There will be a thorough review of the football department. It will happen.
Isn't that the same thing as cleaning the poo off the wall after the 2014 fan splattered it?
Easy job to hire cleaners.
I'm interested in someone who turns the fan off after the first turd.... is that wrong ?
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:lol
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
These are not theories Ox. There will be a thorough review of the football department. It will happen.
Isn't that the same thing as cleaning the poo off the wall after the 2014 fan splattered it?
Easy job to hire cleaners.
I'm interested in someone who turns the fan off after the first turd.... is that wrong ?
Not if you're equating running a football club with having poo hitting a fan..... :lol
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
No but she's a figurehead and spokesperson for what the club does and intends to do. She's not handing down her own dictates in these speeches.
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
No but she's a figurehead and spokesperson for what the club does and intends to do. She's not handing down her own dictates in these speeches.
Unfortunately the list management decisions are completely out of her hands and she relies on Dan Richardson to make the right calls. The football department review should look at Dan's role was well as Blair's and FJ's. Once she has had the review she should take on the recommendations. That's the way it works so I'm not sure what you guys expect her to say or do at this stage.
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
No but she's a figurehead and spokesperson for what the club does and intends to do. She's not handing down her own dictates in these speeches.
Unfortunately the list management decisions are completely out of her hands and she relies on Dan Richardson to make the right calls. The football department review should look at Dan's role was well as Blair's and FJ's. Once she has had the review she should take on the recommendations. That's the way it works so I'm not sure what you guys expect her to say or do at this stage.
Not expecting her to do anything with regards to football operations, just expecting the club to back up the rhetoric. Re-signing Newman with at least one match still to play to me seems contrary to talk of having serious reviews, not overrating the back half of the season and therefore the list.
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
No but she's a figurehead and spokesperson for what the club does and intends to do. She's not handing down her own dictates in these speeches.
A spokesperson who's said FA this year...
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
No but she's a figurehead and spokesperson for what the club does and intends to do. She's not handing down her own dictates in these speeches.
A spokesperson who's said FA this year...
She should be talking about Free Agency as prez anyway! ;D
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
No but she's a figurehead and spokesperson for what the club does and intends to do. She's not handing down her own dictates in these speeches.
A spokesperson who's said FA this year...
So have most Presidents bar Fat Head, Sticks, Gayshaw and the bald flog from Essendon.
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
No but she's a figurehead and spokesperson for what the club does and intends to do. She's not handing down her own dictates in these speeches.
A spokesperson who's said FA this year...
So have most Presidents bar Fat Head, Sticks, Gayshaw and the bald flog from Essendon.
:lol
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
Eddie does
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
Eddie does
I forgot about Fat Head as Diocletian calls him! :lol
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
Eddie does
Board would only get involved if there is a mega contract on the table to someone. Eg 5 year deal or huge offer to a FA.
Apart from that it's all up to the footy dept. board sets them rules and procedures and as long as footy dept follows, no need for board interference
Having said the footy dept review currently going on will flush all the things out that need flushing ;D
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
She does her best work behind the scenes :shh
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Lovely ideologies but nothing more than theories from the peg-bunger.
Sadly, it looks like you're right again Oxen. First major decision since speech - re-sign Newman.
Do you think the president of a football club looks at and controls who gets re-signed? :gobdrop
No but she's a figurehead and spokesperson for what the club does and intends to do. She's not handing down her own dictates in these speeches.
A spokesperson who's said FA this year...
Publicly maybe, behind the scenes , the football dept where read the riot act :shh