Then you shouldn't bring the money up in your post. Sorry MT, you've received a bit of my frustration over people complaining about being asked to fund gym equipment and using it to imply the club is strapped for cash and mismanaged. I have seen in other posts and on other forums. Personally regard the idea of asking the members if they want to contribute as a good idea and frees up money for something else.
Fair enough.
I do understand the point you are making above but it is not what I was addressing. I don't understand the role they have in mind for Miller since it is supposedly a bit different. I'm going to wait and see what transpires but I do agree with the idea of the importance of structure in a young team. Look what happened when Griff went down last year, goals were a hell of a lot harder to come by. Griff kicked what ... 2 goals last year? But having him in the forward line allowed Jack a lot more freedom and he was absolutely on fire during the Griff games. What's better for Jack. Learning to dominate or struggling under a double, triple, quadruple team?
Griffs was our lucky charm this year and does understand forward-line set-ups but Jack still kicked a few bags without Griffs alongside him. IMO when Jack was starved it was more due to our midfield being beaten especially on the spread and our inability to cope with and penetrate the defensive pressure of the opposition and their full-press zonal tactics. We need to add more classier players across all lines.
I see it this way Oiafi. If we cop injuries to key players then we'll stay around or even drop from 15th down to 16th/17th. Yeah it'll be painful to watch for another season but it's hardly something we need to "insure" against. What's the worst thing that could happen? We finish last and gain a free bonus priority pick who'll play and improve our list alongside Jack and Griffs when they return for 2012 and for the next decade. We should have had two priority picks from the past two seasons with some smart forward planning from mid-2009 but that's another story
. Anyway for me it's about 2013-14 and beyond and the longer we delay getting games into our youngsters the longer our rebuild will take. IMO Miller if he plays he is a development clogger and if he doesn't then he is a waste of a rookie pick. Either way it's not in our long-term interests.
No they should be accountable but at the beginning of his 2nd year as coach I think we can wait a little to judge Hardwick. His first year was not bad in my opinion. He definitely should not be held accountable for Howat, Humm, Silvester. That's just silly. (I'm not going to argue the merits of those players since it's off topic and not relevant to this discussion).
Although Hardwick will have some say in the (type of) players he wants as senior coach, he's not employed by the Club to be our list manager and long-term strategist. We do have a board director on the football subcommittee (Free) and Head of Footy Dept. (Cameron) who are Dimma's superiors. The days of blaming the senior coach and only the senior coach are gone. Accountability stretches all the way to the top especially when it comes to long-term planning or lack or it regarding list management and recruiting philosophies.
