Winning Together - The path ahead for the Richmond Football Club

[Chuck17]

Bottom line is it all comes back to winning games and I just don't know if we turned over enough of our list and got enough early draft picks.  Of course in the next few years a rebuild will be almost impossible with compromised drafts.

I just wonder how patient everyone is going to be as this list has to be the nuclues of our playing future.  If a fair portion of this list needs to be turned over it is going to take twice (thrice) as long in normal draft times.

[one-eyed]

More mocking in the media ...

From the cheap seats
March 14, 2010


STUNNER OF THE WEEK
AS IF to add epic fantasy to science fiction, Richmond has amended its five-year plan (you remember - three finals appearances, zero debt and 75,000 members) to include three premierships by 2020. One is increasingly prone to the suspicion that, pretty soon, an updated version of the master plan will be announced, featuring the triumphal conclusion, "And once we've got the free pink lemonade fountains installed throughout Melbourne, then we're all going to Disneyland!" Quite honestly, you'd wonder why the other teams would even turn up for the next decade or so, given that the Tigers will be winning everything and there won't be any Australian citizens left who haven't signed up as Richmond members. The other acts in the Melbourne Comedy Festival must be starting to feel the same way.

READER FEEDBACK OF THE WEEK
"Richmond's radical new five-year plan is to play finals, reduce debt, and provide a compelling case for supporters to take up membership. Imagine the surprise when someone pointed out that their old plan was actually quite OK. They'd just been holding it upside down for the past 30 years."

DEAN ADAMS, email

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/from-the-cheap-seats-20100313-q5ba.html

[Mr Magic]

More mocking in the media ...

Results like yesterday's won't do much to keep off the hounds.
We're going to continue to be a laughing stock until the tide turns on the field.

[one-eyed]

No this one isn't an April fools joke lol

Club 80 .... RFC - Winning Together

Please join us in welcoming Richmond Football Club CEO Brendon Gale as he outlines the vision for the future.

Also joining us will be our on field leaders in Brett Deledio, Nathan Foley and Daniel Jackson.

Make sure you don’t miss out on this very special event at our new venue – the Central Club Hotel

Date: Tuesday 20th April 2010
Where: The Central Club Hotel - 293 Swan St, Richmond
Time: 7.00pm sharp until late
Cost: $65 members, $100 non-members

Food & drink included (beer, wine & soft drink)

We sincerely hope you are able to join us. Once again an RSVP to the e-mail address is required by Friday 16th April to allow the venue to cater appropriately.

EMAIL: club80@tpg.com.au

http://www.club80.com.au/

[mightytiges]

Club 80 .... RFC - Winning Together

Please join us in welcoming Richmond Football Club CEO Brendon Gale as he outlines the vision for the future.

Date: Tuesday 20th April 2010
Where: The Central Club Hotel - 293 Swan St, Richmond
Time: 7.00pm sharp until late

For those that went tonight did Benny add anymore detail to the "3-0-75" plan or was it just reiterating what was already released on the RFC website and in the media a few weeks back?

[Judge Roughneck]

Our plan for a winning future
Brendan Gale
richmondfc.com.au
Wed 10 March, 2010

Last week in the Punt Road gymnasium, all Richmond players, coaches and staff, along with Club directors, gathered to hear CEO Brendon Gale outline the Tigers’ vision for building the next era of sustained Yellow and Black success.  Here is an edited transcript of Gale’s speech . . .

“I’m a proud Richmond man.

All that I’ve been able to achieve in football - and after football - has come from what I have learned from the people, culture and history of this great club.

Everybody in this room has the same opportunity this club has given me, and I hope, everybody in this room will do more - much more - with that opportunity.

I was privileged to have played 244 games for the Tigers from 1990-2001, a period in which we played in just two finals series.

From 1980 to 2010, we have had many, many fine contributors, both on and off the field, and indeed, we have been successful on a range of measures - but not on the measure that matters most.  For a big, proud club that, historically, has been hard-wired for success, where premiership success is part of our DNA - collectively, we have been a failure.

Matthew Richardson is one of our greatest players, a Tiger through and through. He played 282 games from 1993, won the Jack Dyer Medal, kicked 800 goals, second on the all-time goalkicking list at Punt Road, and finished third in the Brownlow Medal in his second-last season. He played in just one finals series.  A great career, for a club which failed him. I could go on, Campbell, Knights, Kellaway, Broderick, Free, Bowden, etc. etc.

As much as it hurts me to say it, the fact is, we have been a collective failure.
In 2010, we have 16 players, who have the chance to make their debut at our Club, this season - David Astbury, Pat Contin, Matt Dea, Mitch Farmer, Alroy Gilligan, David Gourdis, Ben Griffiths, Dylan Grimes, Robert Hicks, Dustin Martin, Ben Nason, James O’Reilly, Relton Roberts, Troy Taylor, Jeromey Webberley, and Nick Westhoff.

Twenty years ago, any of you could have been Tony Free, ‘Cambo’, or ‘Richo’ . . . excited to be joining a great club, a proud club, a club that had thrived on success.
Look at each other, and think - can you imagine the next 20 years playing at this club, AND PLAYING IN JUST TWO FINALS SERIES.

NEVER PLAYING IN A GRAND FINAL?

WINNING NOTHING!

Can you imagine?

Can any of us imagine this - reaching 2030 with NO MORE PREMIERSHIPS!

It’s an intolerable thought, and one that only we, yes WE, can eliminate.

This room holds the future of the Richmond Football Club in its hand.

This room is not our present; this room is our future - all of us, Board Members, Administration, Football Department, players.

All that is missing are our members, our loyal and hungry members, but the truth is, they are helpless.

They can only rely on us. We cannot fail them.

2010 is year one in the application of a plan that is based not on hope, not on a wish, not on rhetoric, but a plan that defines who we are and what we stand for; a plan that puts the right people in the right places; a plan that is ambitious, but patient; a plan that relies on all of us to succeed; a plan with real goals, expectations and accountability.

Our plan is based on TRUTH - on the recent success of clubs like ours, clubs that have been through similar droughts, and have come through to be dominant forces in RAPID TIME.

We will do the same.

Our plan is not based on wondering why things have gone wrong, and then blaming those who have gone before us,  but on knowing why things go right.

We all know of the success of Geelong over the last three years.
Was that a fluke?  Of course it wasn’t.

The backbone of Geelong’s success was put together in a room like this, with a group like this, with a plan like ours, at the start of this decade.

Think of these names, and when they, like you, stood before their mates and started their careers.  Ling, Corey and Chapman debuted in 2000, Enright in 2001, Ablett, Bartel, Rooke, Kelly and Johnson in 2002.

At the end of the 2002 season, a season where Geelong finished 12th, the Cats had not won a premiership for 40 seasons.

At the start of the 2010 season, Richmond has not won a premiership for 30 seasons.
Geelong did it by applying simple processes to maximise the opportunity that all AFL clubs have.

The Cats planned for their success, they brought in good people, who worked together. They acted and made decisions in accordance with a strong set of values. They believed in themselves and their plan. They stuck to their plan and remained loyal to each other when the really tough questions were being asked of them.

At the Richmond Football Club we will establish and entrench a “brand” or “culture”, or simply a Richmond way of doing things, that both defines and binds us.

From this gathering on:

- We will be a UNITED Club and all of us will unite behind our team.
- We will be RELENTLESS - in pursuit of excellence, in sticking to our plan and never deviating, and in the way we apply ourselves to our goals.
- We will PROUD of our past and what we have achieved,     and we will be ambitious about our future, and of what we will achieve.
- We will be LEADERS - in terms of our thinking and people, and in terms of our relationship with our community.
- These are the benchmarks that will make Richmond a POWERFUL and GLORIOUS place to be over the next decade.
- Occasionally, you will be reminded of our successful past and see players and officials involved with that era in and around the Club. Some are with us today. They’re not people that provoke jealousy.
- They represent what YOU will represent - they represent WINNING.
- Our coach - who has come from successful, united clubs - represents WINNING.

So must WE.

I’ve had a gutful of representing an era of failure.

Many of you are tired of failure.

Many of you newcomers have never known failure.

And many of you newcomers must never know failure.

Together, our entire club is motivated by the vision of our future in 2020. It’s a vision of greatness and leadership that we describe as THE POWER and THE GLORY. By 2020, we aspire to have won our 13th Premiership; consistently provide the most exciting and powerful match-day experience in the competition; once again have the strongest support base in the nation, and enjoy the strongest emotional connection with our members and fans.

We acknowledge that we have an enormous amount of work to do, in the most competitive of competitions, in the most competitive era of our history, if we are to realise our vision. Therefore, the next five years is about building the capacity, or “horsepower” of our organisation, to deliver. Our plan features real goals with real measurements that need to be achieved along the way in order to succeed. These goals relate to our football performance, the strength of our relationship with our members, commercial popularity and financial strength.

If we could boil the whole plan to its fundamental essence, it means that by 2014 we expect to deliver 3- 0 -75

• 3 finals appearances (including 1 top 4 finish)
• zero debt
• 75,000 members

This is a plan that aligns the efforts and expectations of everyone associated with the Club. It is a plan to succeed.”

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/90372/default.aspx

 

I hear the Pope is thinking of making Gale a saint

[Penelope]

probably so he can meet his kids

[Rampstar]

Club should aim for 100,000 members inside the next 4 years

[WilliamPowell]

Club should aim for 100,000 members inside the next 4 years

Yeah hopefully not at the expense at the 30-35k odd who been there through the crap times

[one-eyed]

Our plan for a winning future
Brendan Gale
richmondfc.com.au
Wed 10 March, 2010

....

Together, our entire club is motivated by the vision of our future in 2020. It’s a vision of greatness and leadership that we describe as THE POWER and THE GLORY. By 2020, we aspire to have won our 13th Premiership; consistently provide the most exciting and powerful match-day experience in the competition; once again have the strongest support base in the nation, and enjoy the strongest emotional connection with our members and fans.

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http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/90372/default.aspx

Richmond Tigers’ eerily accurate 10-year plan has been revised, CEO Brendon Gale

A bold 10-year plan that Richmond released in 2010 has eerily been almost fully realized as the Tigers are close to another AFL premiere after several years as the top team in the league.

After Richmond made the third major AFL final in four years with a narrow six-point win over Port Adelaide on Friday night, a 10-year-old video posted on social media that quickly went viral.

The video clip is from an episode of Nine Footy classified In it, CEO Brendon Gale outlined the club’s long-term goals as part of its 10-year win-win vision.

Gale’s speech, in which the draft for the association was presented, was presented to the team and published in March 2010.

“Together, our entire club is motivated by the vision of our future in 2020. It is a vision of greatness and leadership that we refer to as THE POWER and THE GLORY. By 2020 we aim to have won our 13th Premiership and to consistently offer the best. “Exciting and powerful experience on matchday in competition: Once again the strongest support base in the nation and the strongest emotional connection to our members and fans”, means it in a transcript of the presentation.

The plan also included the club, which wanted out of debt by 2020 as it struggled to get around $ 4 million into the red in 2010.

At the time, the Tigers were a young team in a rebuilding phase with a frustrated fan base. They were eager to play the final, had just signed Damien Hardwick and were not yet able to reach their full potential. In 2010 they had just moved in seven fresh-faced players, including a Dustin Martin.

Gale’s bold plan was almost mocked at the time, and his appearance on Footy classified This underlined the need to resolutely defend the club’s high goals.

“Absolutely, we have to make the right decisions in the most competitive sport in the world and one of the most competitive eras in the history of our game,” said Gale.

“I don’t apologize for wanting to be the best football club. We want to be the greatest. ”

“It starts with a vision. We’re not here to just compete, nobody does.

“You can just as well wrap up. No, I’m not ashamed, I’m proud of it and we have a vision to compete and be the best.

“The best on and off the field. If we’re not tied to it, we might as well pack up and leave. ”

Fast forward to 2020 and the Tigers are about to capture their 13th VFL / AFL flag if they beat Brisbane or Geelong in the grand final.

They also really exceeded the goal of 75,000 members, with the club counting 100,000 members for the third year in a row despite the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.

Richmond has been debt free since last year and has $ 24.4 million in cash on hand, according to the club’s 2019 financial results posted on its website.

They have also developed their Punt Road Oval training facility over the past 10 years and in 2019 the Tigers had the highest average home crowd in the AFL for the third time in a row with 59,987.

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