Poor old claw cops it from the feral brightsiders everywhere he posts. I think he makes salient points more often than not, though his cause isn't helped by his pee poor punctuation skills and run on sentences that give his comments the appearance of breathless rants - which I can only assume is how many read them in their heads - as much as his reluctance to give any credit to anything whatsoever. No need for everybody to dogpile on him though. Use the ignore function if you find his views that hard to deal with.
As for his Melbourne comments....who knows what will happen next year? How many of you predicted Port would finish ahead of us at the start of last year - which the effectively did by going deeper into the finals than us -? They were arguably just as big a rabble at the end of 2012 as Melbourne were.
Vince was start of second round, compo.
Hampson end of second round.
Vince also got four years at 28, but I take your point.
I will defend our recruiting vs. Melbs quite happily though.
My main gripe was with Claw heaping poo on his own players but lauding the rabble that is MFC.
I understand that Claw can be infuriating at times and outlandish with some of his statements, however I feel it's unfair to blame him for our failures over 30 years or even to claim his type of attitude is at fault. To the contrary IMO what has caused more pain and failure than anything has been an uncritical acceptance by the members of decisions made at Richmond.
Simply think of the messiah complex and the effect of people like Bond, Casey, Schwab, Sheedy, Miller, Wallace.
Hear, hear. Gotta love the way some constantly excuse failure and applaud mediocrity and carry on like defending premiers when we still haven't achieved anything beyond what any Richmond side has since 1982. There are many things the current regime deserve credit for but people need to step back and realise the job is long way from done and it hasn't been all been flawless. I believe we can make finals nearly every year and always have - even before the 2010 season - nearly any team can finish at least 8th in any given year, it's not really the sporting Everest that it's seemingly become for us over the decades. Should merely be the minimum standard for a great club like ours.