Author Topic: Spud  (Read 2069 times)

Offline WilliamPowell

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Re: Spud
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2013, 09:44:17 PM »
IIRC no one wanted to coach Richmond given the basket case we were along with our poor reputation for sacking coaches.
So we got someone desperate to coach an AFL team and he was "cherry ripe" to take the gig

True sadly

We offered the job to Bomber Thompson but he knocked us back to take the Geelong gig because of our reputation for sacking coaches
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Offline bojangles17

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Re: Spud
« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2013, 10:10:00 PM »
why the hate?

hes a bit of a goose at times but he's alright.

I agree , he came and went, others have done worse jobs,
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Re: Spud
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2013, 11:04:06 PM »
IIRC no one wanted to coach Richmond given the basket case we were along with our poor reputation for sacking coaches.
So we got someone desperate to coach an AFL team and he was "cherry ripe" to take the gig

This is correct. The only blokes we had to choose from were Spud and Brian Royal. We took the better dud out of the two duds.