How would you Fix Richmond- Your Ideas to save a Great Club

[Ramps]

It pains me to say this, but our club is rooted, the club seems to be inflicted with some disease that it cant irradicate. The cancer has been there a long time, but as members and supporters, it is our duty to save our Club and to lift it.

IMHO the football model and even the business management model of Richmond is broken. Completely broken and its so bad, that band aid jobs wont fix it, we treat the sympton but we cant find the cause, and if you cant find the cause then you cant fix anything. Now im no management expert, but I know this, in the last 25 years we havent been able to attract a high number of the very talented people to our club, I remember looking at the Herald Sun, taking the pee out of us, with pictures of potential coaches crossed out- not because we didnt want them, but  because they didnt us. I cant see how we can move forward like this.

The only suggestion I can make is this, Steve Wright and his board need to sit down, infront of a white board and create a new football club, they should hypothesise how they would start a new club, what positions are needed, how many personel, who should come to this club and how? how much money is needed, they should determine a club philosophy, and imagine themselves as being pioneers of a new club. And after they have formulated there new club, they should move to install this plan as the plan for Richmond going forward.

Richmond has been wrecked and it is so bad, unless everything changes, EVERYTHING, then we cant move forward. Richmond needs to become a new idea, based on sound principles of action and philosophy. A new culture needs to be bread. There can be no sacred cows - from admin to players, whoever doesnt fit should be terminated and moved on.

End of rant   

[Jackstar is back]

Ramps.
Told you what was wrong 3 years ago.
Cant be bothered posting it on here tonight
Sick of posters abusing me either, as they dont like the truth
PM me and we can have a chat over a coffee one day

Steve Wright isnt the answer either.
Too many people at the RFC are there  for there own profiles and not the clubs.

[TigerTime]

we are a mess
the last 5 years was our chance and we stuffed it

th eblues were in dire straights and ar better than us

5 years ago we beat the dawks for the wooden spoon, only if we finished 15th, then roughead may have been ours and deledio a dawk
who the f knows

we need to start with a total new coaching dep, new recruiting and new board, march and co are way to soft and bow to the media

[Ramps]

Ramps.
Told you what was wrong 3 years ago.
Cant be bothered posting it on here tonight
Sick of posters abusing me either, as they dont like the truth
PM me and we can have a chat over a coffee one day

Steve Wright isnt the answer either.
Too many people at the RFC are there  for there own profiles and not the clubs.

My thread is about how we save our club Jack, I dont know who is and isnt capable anymore down there, All I know is that Richmond has to be changed in all parts of the organisation. Whats happening is terrible. We must all try and save our club from the hacks who have run it into the ground.

[Tigermonk]

cant be bothered myself anymore its all been explained. we all been over it.

[Jackstar is back]

Ramps.
Buy a broom and sweep and sweep and sweep
President and keep sweeping

[Jackstar is back]

cant be bothered myself anymore its all been explained. we all been over it.

Monk, fcucked if i can be bothered either

[wayne]

We need to target guys from other teams who have good, successful cultures and have a burning desire to turn things around for us, not just think it's an easy pay cheque.

What would Craig Cameron know about that coming from Melbourne?

The Kangaroos got Arocca from the Pies, Carlton got Swan from the Pies, Geelong got Balme from the Pies. If there anyone at the/previously involved with Pies we can target? I'd like Malthouse, the only question mark is if he'd still have the desire. I want Balme. I don't care about ages of guys.

We were sucked in by Wallace, we were vulnerable. I admit I was happy that we got him back then. Things had hit rock bottom and Wallace seduced us, told us we had a good list. He was a big name and we fell for it.

When we get the new coach, whoever it is, I don't want to see him working on new gameplans and structures UNTIL he re-teaches the team all the basics of football (things that they were told to do in under 14s football, but Wallace doesn't think they are important in senior AFL football).

[yellowandback]

In isolation, its not about the coach, the CEO, the recruiter or the President.
To me, it is how all of them co-exist in a functional way so that they may all pull together in the one direction.

The key question is "will it help us win more games?"

In saying that, each of the above people need to question what they are doing to help achieve that objective.

*Sacking Greg Miller in August last year "will it help us win more games?" maybe in 2 or 3 years time but NOT in season 2008.
*Rating a coach 5 out of 10 on radio on the eve of the final game last year? "will that help to win more games"
*Executing a rolling zone gameplan in 2009 when a "man on man" style won us 8 of 11 in the back half of last year

And there are a million more examples.....

When Alex Rance threw himself head first into a contested situation, we all loved it because that is the type of sacrificial act that wins games. It should inspire other acts from the players around him (like the Lions with Selwood).

What are our on and off field leaders truly sacrificing to inspire the same thing?

I largely disagree with the whole theory of "it is all broken", I'm sure the same list at Collingwood or Adelaide would've played finals this year and be around the 3 or 4 wins mark this year.

It all comes down the leadership. There is no way that the leadership at Richmond is as tight as the Cats, Eagles, Swans, Crows, Pies etc etc. They clearly do not trust each other and there is little sense of unity.

That is what is broken.

The same people can make a difference is they are prepared to sacrifice their own agendas to all pull in the one direction.
At the moment, it is difficult to believe that is the case.

[Ramps]

In isolation, its not about the coach, the CEO, the recruiter or the President.
To me, it is how all of them co-exist in a functional way so that they may all pull together in the one direction.

The key question is "will it help us win more games?"

In saying that, each of the above people need to question what they are doing to help achieve that objective.

*Sacking Greg Miller in August last year "will it help us win more games?" maybe in 2 or 3 years time but NOT in season 2008.
*Rating a coach 5 out of 10 on radio on the eve of the final game last year? "will that help to win more games"
*Executing a rolling zone gameplan in 2009 when a "man on man" style won us 8 of 11 in the back half of last year

And there are a million more examples.....

When Alex Rance threw himself head first into a contested situation, we all loved it because that is the type of sacrificial act that wins games. It should inspire other acts from the players around him (like the Lions with Selwood).

What are our on and off field leaders truly sacrificing to inspire the same thing?

I largely disagree with the whole theory of "it is all broken", I'm sure the same list at Collingwood or Adelaide would've played finals this year and be around the 3 or 4 wins mark this year.

It all comes down the leadership. There is no way that the leadership at Richmond is as tight as the Cats, Eagles, Swans, Crows, Pies etc etc. They clearly do not trust each other and there is little sense of unity.

That is what is broken.

The same people can make a difference is they are prepared to sacrifice their own agendas to all pull in the one direction.
At the moment, it is difficult to believe that is the case.

If a team is so bad, its got to be more than just a lack of teamwork and cohesion, theres a severe lack of talent right across the board from players to coaches etc. Maybe it isnt all broken, but a lot of it is. You cant be this bad for 25 years+ for it not to broken.

[Go Richo 12]

Make every supporter sign loyalty oaths," thou shall not baggeth the clubbeth in times of strifeth!"

[Chuck17]

Make every supporter sign loyalty oaths," thou shall not baggeth the clubbeth in times of strifeth!"

LOL GR12, they would probably sign (and brag about it) but then go and act true to their nature under an alias

[Go Richo 12]

gee you sound like you really know what your talking about Chucky

[mat073]

Now that I have calmed down after yesterdays disappointing effort...got my head around the fact that Terry wont lead us to the promised land...And finally accepted that another rebuild is necessary....Here are my suggestions-pretty obvious really.

1) Never swap draft picks for recycled fringe players from other clubs.

2) Never "Top Up "your list with more mature players when you finish outside the eight.

3) Stick to a game plan that plays to the players strengths not highlights their weaknesses.

4) We have to be more ruthless when it comes to "List Cloggers" and hard unpopular decissions have to be made.Im talking about players like Polak,Pettifer and Cogs(sorry).Being good Humanitarians wont win us games of football.

5) The most obvious of all....we have to fix our recruiting dept and look at player development.

[bojangles17]

There are aspects of the club that have seriously have defied the odds...it's a borderline miracle that we have maintained viability with such limited success....However the football operations is in fact rooted, recruiting, player development is the very seed of our currentl plight. i'm of the view that the task is far too formidable for a rookie coach ...we need to back a seasoned coach IE sheedy or Malthouse that can lead us to the promised land coz he;s been there before and Im not talkin 3g on a HFF in the Big one...Im talkin,coached and built a successful side into premiereship material....This is our best chance