its funny how all of a sudden people are saying the tigers are in trouble because of tony free.
last year most supporters couldnt wait to place the noose around wallace and miller.
and most of this year as well ,
its not frees fault miller went,it was decided before free joined the board .
l would suspect that steve wright also had a hand in millers removal ,maybe the tigers are using tony free as a scapegoat for some personal removal.
whatever the case is some deadwood needs to be removed if wallace cant handle new assistants maybe he should go.
you dont hear much from other clubs when they make changes ,lve got a feeling that this will benefit the club in the future, and will remove people who think they can do as they please wallace being one of them .
greg miller should have confronted march when he heard about his sacking instead of trying to turn it into a circus .
miller no doubt leaked his possible sacking to the media and took off .
all in all l think people are over reacting ,l see this opportunity is a chance for us to get better people in the club and take us to the top.
our financial position is really good and now we can finally get decent staff in ,with richmond success as there prime objective not there pockets or egos .
as for tony free speaking in an interview l dont think there would be a problem any other time, its just the timing when the tigers are trying to play low key.
I think you are twisting the situation here to somehow be TW's fault?!? ??? Tony Free is the problem here plain and simple. He is is the one who broke confidentiality, who went to the media against the clubs wishes and spoke about an inhouse issue that he knew very little about. Ultimately that was both unwise to his own position and damaging to the stability of the club.
The club is reeling from the sacking of a respected and influencial member of our administration. A leader who worked tirelessly to establish the groundings of future success for our club through player recruiting and coaching/administration appointments. Now perhaps he has done as much as he could do and the timing was right for him to move on but the whole manner in which it has been handled it extremely disappointing. This is particularly upsetting considering the positive position we find ourselves on field for the first time in years.
I am starting to believe now that Miller was moved on because of board politics rather than through any vision, shakeup or effort to bring in new ideas. It just reaks of petty squabbling and power plays that have nothing to do with trying to create future success in the club and everything to do with personal agendas.
Tony Free reminds me a young leader at work who is insecure and tries to force people to respect him and his ideas through aggression. This just does not work. He should have used the invitation into the coaches box to learn and understand how things work and sit with the panel. Tony should have attempted to establish trust and empathy with the coaches so then later, when he has had time to pinpoint any areas for future improvements, he can approach TW to work with him to initiate changes or at least give the coaches some shared ownership of the process. This way any changes are made collectively, with everyone informed and when he speaks to the board to make recommendation he has been transparent to everyone which caused far less resentment for all involved.
Instead now all the coaches despise the man and he will struggle to work with them or the players in the future. This makes it very hard for him to have any input or influence in the future.
I think he will not be around for very long. We need smart operators who can work
with people rather than try and make misinformed whole-sale changes.
Stripes
