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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Ramps on July 01, 2009, 10:59:46 PM

Title: Robert Wiley, Neil Balme and Others
Post by: Ramps on July 01, 2009, 10:59:46 PM

Weve all talked about Neil Balme coming to Richmond but Rob Wiley very rarely gets a mention for a role at Punt Rd. A Richmond Premiership player Wiley has had a successful career as an assistant coach for WCE and now he's the High Performance Manager for the WA under 18s who just flogged everybody in the carnival. Why isnt Wiley at Richmond? Why do we persist in bringing in people from other clubs who have very little to do with Richmond and who have worked at unsuccessful clubs. People like Balme and Wiley should be at Richmond.

On another front and talking about Non Richmond people, but Shane Woewodin seems to be doing a fantastic job in developing young kids in the WAFL for his side. Player development is a major flaw at Richmond- and if he is doing such a good job then maybe he should be looked at for an assistants role.

Title: Re: Robert Wiley, Neil Balme and Others
Post by: mat073 on July 01, 2009, 11:29:50 PM

Rob Wiley gets a regular gig on 6pr as the special comments man.Does a very good job.

He is also a very regular customer of my Pizza shop.(I have been waiting 6 months for the opportunity to mention this) :thumbsup

Title: Re: Robert Wiley, Neil Balme and Others
Post by: mightytiges on July 02, 2009, 05:35:58 AM

We saw Wiley walking along the boundary near the interchange benches yesterday. He's been entrenched at the Eagles and back in Perth for what must be close to 20 years. Hard to see him moving east again.

Title: Re: Robert Wiley, Neil Balme and Others
Post by: Mr Magic on July 02, 2009, 01:05:23 PM

One of my all time favourite players was Wiley.