Miller never sold his North Melbourne shares, insisting he was holding them in trust for Bob Ansett.
Because they are not really his shares. Bob Ansett has his North shares spread around a few people to avoid a 5% maximum shareholding rule. Miller is just holding them for Ansett. He votes the way Ansett tells him too.
It has been said that Terry Wallace — whom Miller appointed to a five-year deal at the end of 2004 as part of Casey's legacy, which left the club in debt to the tune of $4 million — has escaped scrutiny this season. But surely Miller, by any stretch of the imagination, must be seen to have failed the club he joined to help win a premiership.
When was Miller CEO or on the board when Wallace arrived to appoint Wallace himself ???.
It was put to Miller that the club seems to have gone backwards since he took over. He pointed to the stable board, high membership and successive profits. This was cheeky. That Richmond again will make a million-dollar profit this year without special AFL assistance is, according to the AFL, due to the good work of chief executive Wright.
Yep it is Stephen Wright's work but the question was that the club has gone backwards. The answer is it hasn't. It is still rebuilding itself both on and off the field.
Consider Miller's early moves at Richmond. He urged the board to extend Frawley's contract to remove pressure from the coach and in his first draft, he effectively traded away picks two, 18, 28 and 32 for Kane Johnson and Jay Schulz.
Pick 28 was for Justin Blumfield.
We also got pick 41 in that Johnson trade which was used on Tim Fleming. The later picks were swapped.
It should have be mentioned we could have gotten both Sugar and Wells but instead the previous admin under Brayshaw put those wanting to leave on big $$$ and long contracts to keep them at Richmond.
Time could prove us wrong, but when you look at Richmond's youth in the form of its first, second, third and fourth-year players, they do not present as a potential force in 2011, the year the club has earmarked as high noon on the premiership clock.
That would be 11 on the clock Caro. We would not be consistent finalists until 2011 onwards according to Wallace's presentation. That's 4 years away at least. By then we'll have new facilities, no debt and hence more dough to spend in other areas around the Club that need more $$$. We're only now putting money into recruiting and development where we were the lowest spending club in the comp. And people wonder was mistakes have been made in recruiting and development of players.
A Richmond premiership player commented before the recent Hawthorn clash that he looked forward to watching the Richmond "pygmies" take on Hawthorn's "land of the giants". That game cruelly exposed two football strategies that left the Tigers wanting. In the Port Adelaide disaster, the club's youth was used as an excuse and yet the Richmond players averaged 64 games to Port's 69.
Agree we are small but taking averages is misleading in our case given the hole in the middle of our list. You cannot compare out more experienced players with those of Port's premiership players and both Port and now Hawthorn this year have a mid-age quality core group. We don't this deep mid-age core.
Miller vowed to lure old Tigers back to Tigerland but still no former player sits on the Richmond board.
We've had former players on the board during the past 25 years and we were still crap and they were hardly doing what was best for the long-term benefit of the RFC.
Miller has done some dumb things but sheesh get a new record Caro
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