Would say this smokey, the club isnt that smart and they are dills down there.
You have short memory.
Lets rewind the clock back 8 months ago to the Craig Cameron/Chris Newman presser on Terry Wallace, the one where they were standing in front of the Jack Dyer statue.
They are better off saying nothing at punt road, trust me, I know
I disagree Jack, I don't think they are all dills or even that many of them are. If some are then they are few and far between and reducing in number. As for short memories, how about remembering the disgraceful state of this club when it was run by dills 5 years ago. Led by Casey, this club had been taken from a position of financial stability and mediocre performance to one of near-financial ruin and terrible performance. The board was largely made up of dills and so was the internal management team, hence the situation our club found itself in circa 2004. Make no mistake, in 2004 this club was closer to folding than during the Save Our Skins crisis.
Since then we have had a board election in which some of the dills were removed and an almost total cleanout of management personnel - again, removing much of the deadwood dills. March and the new board has overseen a financial stabilization that has allowed our club to survive. We had 5 years of Wallace that did not advance our on-field cause but apart from the dills involved within the football department at the time, there were serious mitigating circumstances tied to the precarious financial position that compounded the issue of dills. Now, this board has been able to begin the task of turning around the on-field position and performance by increasing spending in a prudently managed manner that will give some guarantee of competitiveness in the future.
Yes, we have made mistakes in the past 5 years but not nearly as many or of such catastrophic consequence as before and as each year of March's reign goes by these mistakes become fewer and less 'impacting'. We now have a board that contains professionally successful people that, as a group, have demonstrated a capacity to guide our club on a path of improvement and future longevity and success. We have a very highly regarded CEO who has just replaced a very successful CEO. We have personnel in managerial positions that are now raising our profile and performance, and as far as the football department goes - even though Cameron and Jackson have been lambasted by a couple on here for 'non-performance' the fact is they have done very little that can be labeled as wrong in the short times both have been in their current positions.
Even though season 2009 was a serious blow to our hopes for the future and brought much negative attention to our club, through it all we handled ourselves collectively quite well and came out of it looking far more professional and in control than we could ever have dreamed of doing in the past. None of our press coverage last year was going to look good, regardless of who was doing the talking and what they were saying - our ego's took a hammering in Round 1 that we all took personally and many of us looked inwardly to pass any blame or point fingers in order to satisfy our feelings of responsibility for failure. The dills of years past would have turned our 2009 upheaval into a shambles of much greater and longer lasting impact than what eventually 'shook out on the ground'. We managed the antics of Sheedy, the removal of Wallace and his men, the search for a new coach, and the disillusioned expectations of our supporters very well, despite what the finger pointers would like to believe.
So no Jack, I don't believe we are a club of dills. Conversely, I believe we are a club of sound management that is taking baby-steps toward eventual success and I don't believe we have taken one backward step since our era of dills came to an end in 2004. We might not have succeeded as quickly as some would have liked but we are moving in the right direction with the right people, not dills.
