Paul Gough (journo and Tiger supporter) wants the current Board given the stuff......
Tigers board must go10/05/2010 1:36 PM
Paul Gough
SportalThose frustrated Richmond fans looking for someone to blame for the Tigers' dreadful predicament should focus their attention on the club's board of directors.
... it is certainly not the fault of new coach Damien Hardwick or other key personnel such as newly-appointed CEO Brendon Gale and recently-appointed head of football operations Craig Cameron.
Instead they are left to clean up the mess left behind by former coach Terry Wallace and former football operations manager Greg Miller, who failed to do the necessary team-building that Hardwick is now bravely implementing.
However the men responsible for the disastrous appointment of Wallace and offering him an initial five-year deal, as well as paying him so much that precious little was left to set up a proper recruiting network, are still involved at the club.
And that is the club's ineffectual board led by president Gary March, who has been there since 2002 and who has led the board since November 2005.
While it was former president Clinton Casey who appointed Wallace to succeed Danny Frawley at the end of 2004, March was the club's vice-president at the time and agreed to the decision as did fellow current board members Maurice O'Shannassy, Garry Cameron, Don Lord, John Matthies and Robert Dalton - who all remain on the club's board having also been part of the decision to appoint Wallace.
Read the full article here:http://sportal.com.au/opinion-display/tigers-board-must-go-90980