No one is more responsible or accountable than anyone else.
And unless you know where the problem is, how do you know who is accountable when things go pear shaped?
You would think that 30 years of experience could help point RFC in the right direction, but more often than not they didn’t look further than the end of their nose before making a decision.
Is it all just coincidence that clubs like Richmond, Melbourne and the Bulldogs never get anywhere? Have these clubs been operating in a different Leauge all these years, or have they just lacked awareness, nous and not just money?
Neale Daniher spent 10 years at Melbourne and still didn’t know what made his players tick after a decade. Don’t know their situation, but maybe if they had provided him with the resources that other clubs have things could have been a bit different.
Finally, RFC has bitten the bullet and, this season, I’m just waiting to see what impact Jeff Bond and his team will make. Anything has to be better than what we’ve experienced to now.
Without expecting too much, I live in hope because Geelong had the team, but it wasn’t until they brought in a leadership group, from outside the Club, which helped them all ‘grow up’ a bit and ‘sort themselves out’ that took them to another level as players and a team. No one at Geelong was able to do that previously.
Greg Miller endlessly tells us about the quality of players on our list, but our players never seem to get beyond the early stages of their playing careers. They mature in years and experience, but their footy, to now, has never reached a level, as a team, that is anything comparable to that of the good teams.
Can you blame the players for that, or even the coaches, or do you wonder about the resources the players, and coaching department, have been provided with, up until the end of 2007, in order to help them progress? Because no coach has been able to do that at RFC in the time I’ve been watching.
Something new would be good, or better still, something good would be new.
