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"The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!"

Jon Ralph's reply at half-time of Ch 10's coverage of Melbourne vs Port when asked about how the Richmond hierarchy have responded to the Gold Coast loss. The media are loving it after the past month's bad losses  :scream.

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2011, 08:10:02 AM »
Unless there is a shock result/Kangas getting trashed by 100 again, we're going to cop it big time.

I expect plenty of 'should the Tigers go after Malthouse' discussion.
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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2011, 08:13:20 AM »
Unless there is a shock result/Kangas getting trashed by 100 again, we're going to cop it big time.

I expect plenty of 'should the Tigers go after Malthouse' discussion.

And let's face it, well deserved "feedback" from the media. We are a joke of a club.
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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2011, 08:28:57 AM »
Unless there is a shock result/Kangas getting trashed by 100 again, we're going to cop it big time.

I expect plenty of 'should the Tigers go after Malthouse' discussion.

why wouldnt we ?
We need to do something Radical as a club
Not go around in circles as has been the case in recent times

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2011, 08:53:23 AM »
I have followed this club for over forty years, paid countless thousands of dollars in memberships and coterie groups in the hope that one day the tide would turn.  During this time I have watched the fortunes of just about every other club in the competitions fortunes change for the better whist ours have gone nowhere.

There needs to be people held to account, I cant continue to watch this crap any longer...I understand we lack players in the so called age bracket that is required to be successful and that we have too many in the too young bracket but hey so to do GC.  What happened yesterday is inexcusable.

I have sent emails to B.Gale and have not received a reply, this so called repeated claim that we are a club of the people blah blah seems to only apply when the club wants something from me but when I want something from the club, what do I get? Big fat donut.

This pains me to say but I will not attend another RFC game whilst Dimma is coaching unless the club announces that they will be doing all possible to get some experienced help for Dimma.  he is all at sea and is surrounded by inexperienced help.  We need to do what Carlton did last year, surrounded Ratten with experienced people like Richardson and Brown etc. 

Why would anyone want to come t RFC in its current state, the club can bang on all they like about new facilities etc but the same poo is inside the the new facilities.  We need to change and change quickly.

To watch good junior footballers become incompetent footballers under the care of RFC is mind boggling.

Why has every other club been able to turn their fortunes around to some degree in the past 30 years but our useless miserable club has continued in the mire?  Wrong people at the top, people that run failed companies are running our club any wonder we are failed club.

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2011, 08:56:41 AM »
That's right, we have every reason to go feral!
The club should be done with fraud! All these promises to suck in members- 70-10-2793 or whatever the stupid slogan is!
"Earn your stripes" was a membership slogan a few years ago, well how about earning your members? Gary March talking about winning flags, well lets beat Suns and Power  first before we talk about flags. In fact Suns will win their first flag before we win another!
All this talk about heading in the right direction, well the only direction we can see is a very familiar pattern reoccuring and that is why we are going feral!

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2011, 09:08:51 AM »
That's right, we have every reason to go feral!
The club should be done with fraud! All these promises to suck in members- 70-10-2793 or whatever the stupid slogan is!
"Earn your stripes" was a membership slogan a few years ago, well how about earning your members? Gary March talking about winning flags, well lets beat Suns and Power  first before we talk about flags. In fact Suns will win their first flag before we win another!
All this talk about heading in the right direction, well the only direction we can see is a very familiar pattern reoccuring and that is why we are going feral!

Correct, going around in circles and Dimma isnt the answer either it seems
Its time for the chicken manure to be dumped at Punt Road

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2011, 10:21:29 AM »
That's right, we have every reason to go feral!
The club should be done with fraud! All these promises to suck in members- 70-10-2793 or whatever the stupid slogan is!
"Earn your stripes" was a membership slogan a few years ago, well how about earning your members? Gary March talking about winning flags, well lets beat Suns and Power  first before we talk about flags. In fact Suns will win their first flag before we win another!
All this talk about heading in the right direction, well the only direction we can see is a very familiar pattern reoccuring and that is why we are going feral!

This is a great post. It is unfortunate too many at Punt Rd have an sense of entitlement that they feel comes with the job instead of an accountability.
It's that simple Spud
"I discussed (it) with my three daughters, my wife and my 82-year-old mum, because it has really affected me … If those comments … were made about one of my daughters, it would make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I would not have liked it at all.”

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2011, 10:33:02 AM »
I have followed this club for over forty years, paid countless thousands of dollars in memberships and coterie groups in the hope that one day the tide would turn.  During this time I have watched the fortunes of just about every other club in the competitions fortunes change for the better whist ours have gone nowhere.

There needs to be people held to account, I cant continue to watch this crap any longer...I understand we lack players in the so called age bracket that is required to be successful and that we have too many in the too young bracket but hey so to do GC.  What happened yesterday is inexcusable.

I have sent emails to B.Gale and have not received a reply, this so called repeated claim that we are a club of the people blah blah seems to only apply when the club wants something from me but when I want something from the club, what do I get? Big fat donut.

This pains me to say but I will not attend another RFC game whilst Dimma is coaching unless the club announces that they will be doing all possible to get some experienced help for Dimma.  he is all at sea and is surrounded by inexperienced help.  We need to do what Carlton did last year, surrounded Ratten with experienced people like Richardson and Brown etc. 

Why would anyone want to come t RFC in its current state, the club can bang on all they like about new facilities etc but the same poo is inside the the new facilities.  We need to change and change quickly.

To watch good junior footballers become incompetent footballers under the care of RFC is mind boggling.

Why has every other club been able to turn their fortunes around to some degree in the past 30 years but our useless miserable club has continued in the mire?  Wrong people at the top, people that run failed companies are running our club any wonder we are failed club.

post of the year, 100% spot on

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2011, 10:36:59 AM »
We need New Leadership. Starting with a new President and a new Director of Football or whatever Camerons job title is. We need to make a couple of changes to the assistants. And thats just for starters. We need a new momentum that the current incumbents cant bring IMHO.

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2011, 10:56:57 AM »
That's right, we have every reason to go feral!
The club should be done with fraud! All these promises to suck in members- 70-10-2793 or whatever the stupid slogan is!
"Earn your stripes" was a membership slogan a few years ago, well how about earning your members? Gary March talking about winning flags, well lets beat Suns and Power  first before we talk about flags. In fact Suns will win their first flag before we win another!
All this talk about heading in the right direction, well the only direction we can see is a very familiar pattern reoccuring and that is why we are going feral!

This is a great post. It is unfortunate too many at Punt Rd have an sense of entitlement that they feel comes with the job instead of an accountability.
Thanks Y&B, and you are correct too!
Imagine running a business where customers came in looking for a product that was advertised and the owner kept on saying," it is developing", "we have a debt to service first", "you can't have that product yet as we are more concerned about the processes"! Then the customer complains and the owner says," be patient!"
The business would not last very long!

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2011, 12:11:27 PM »
As peeed off as I have ever been!

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2011, 01:33:04 PM »
I have followed this club for over forty years, paid countless thousands of dollars in memberships and coterie groups in the hope that one day the tide would turn.  During this time I have watched the fortunes of just about every other club in the competitions fortunes change for the better whist ours have gone nowhere.

There needs to be people held to account, I cant continue to watch this crap any longer...I understand we lack players in the so called age bracket that is required to be successful and that we have too many in the too young bracket but hey so to do GC.  What happened yesterday is inexcusable.

I have sent emails to B.Gale and have not received a reply, this so called repeated claim that we are a club of the people blah blah seems to only apply when the club wants something from me but when I want something from the club, what do I get? Big fat donut.

This pains me to say but I will not attend another RFC game whilst Dimma is coaching unless the club announces that they will be doing all possible to get some experienced help for Dimma.  he is all at sea and is surrounded by inexperienced help.  We need to do what Carlton did last year, surrounded Ratten with experienced people like Richardson and Brown etc. 

Why would anyone want to come t RFC in its current state, the club can bang on all they like about new facilities etc but the same poo is inside the the new facilities.  We need to change and change quickly.

To watch good junior footballers become incompetent footballers under the care of RFC is mind boggling.

Why has every other club been able to turn their fortunes around to some degree in the past 30 years but our useless miserable club has continued in the mire?  Wrong people at the top, people that run failed companies are running our club any wonder we are failed club.

This is oh so true. Pretty much sums up how I feel. I would say we are 6 weeks away from a board challenge if we don't stop the rot very quickly
It's that simple Spud
"I discussed (it) with my three daughters, my wife and my 82-year-old mum, because it has really affected me … If those comments … were made about one of my daughters, it would make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I would not have liked it at all.”

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2011, 01:34:17 PM »
where are the old chesnuts Bernie Finn and David Clayton, LOL Board challenges

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Re: "The Club knows the Tiger Army are going feral!" - Jon Ralph
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2011, 01:34:32 PM »
People were ringing up SEN yesterday telling them that they were microwaving their membership cards ... now we are all disappointed but only one of ours would microwave a membership ticket as revenge lol. :lol