No Stripes I read it and you make some very valid points especially the Bowden being a cancer now that struck a raw nerve with me and I totally agree with you.
I just think the kids need to be thrown into the deep end, If Wallace gets sacked either tomorrow morning in the pre season break or at the end of the year the kids will still have pressure on them and they will need to perform to keep their AFL careers. I think backs to the wall pressure with young kids provides a steep learning curve and a hardening in terms of match conditions. It will be sink or swim but if these kids can get through this acid test then they have the world at their feet.
Sure older blokes like Richo and co need to go also so that we have to force these kids to play.
Beacause these older players are past their best and some of them are cancers it is best to let these kids loose on their own rather than learning unsavoury bad habits from those so called cancerous individuals. So I guess we have a difference in opinion there Stripes from some of your other posts.
Read your post Stripes as I read all your posts as you always have incisive and valid points with honorable intentions regarding the RFC as we all do. 
We all share the same frustrations. 
I was probably a bit harsh with the 'cancer' label but I'm glad you understood the reference.
Yes I do share many of your frustrations about the players, style of play and even TW but I also don't want to go down any path that would potentially damage our future success just because of those frustrations.
Our young players are developing and are having to absorb the pressure much earlier than they would have in other teams. Whether we have TW at the helm or another coach we still have at least two years of pain ahead of us based on our list development at the moment.
Bushranger you mentioned many other clubs whose coaches have been able to 'rebuild' quickly. This is an illusion. They had the senior and mid-age players there already particularly the Roos, Dogs and Hawthorn. We don't. Without a group of mid-age or 'premiershipship age' players in a side they will crumble.
When TW first came on the seen he was able to motivate our senior players to play fair above their normal output. This is why we had immediate success. Now that they are aging, getting injured and losing motivation in some instances more and more of the load is having to be absorbed by our youth who, plain and simply, are not ready to shoulder that burden. The proof of that is in the results.
I am just as frustrated and angry as the rest of you about our current plight and am sick of waiting for success but unfortunately the facts are there - until we have enough players in that goldern age bracket we can expect more results like Sundays.
The worst thing for me is as our senior players drop off over the next 2 to 3 seasons unless our younger players can make a huge leap we will actually get worse before we suddenly get better.
2009 may be even be optomistic but I expect us to make the finals in 2010 and grow from then on. Then all of a sudden a new recruits will be superstars because they will have the same pressure as other clubs.
Oh to dream...
Stripes
