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I've heard The Aints are almost broke, they spent big at just the wrong time before COVID hit and are struggling financially. Our own club abolishing it's debt at just the right moment is a huge deal.
On the coaching issue, I think we need a JTurd type coach, that is a coach who isn't really the coach but the media front man, as JTurd was for BumberT!
Could FIGJAM fill that roll, be Teague's media front man?
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(06-08-2021, 11:09 PM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Have to disagree Paul, some of our players are lazy, want to play bruise free footy, get paid big money and leave too much to the likes of a few players who carry the team every week. They are killing the coach and providing not much leadership for our young kids. It's not about belting blokes, drinking 40 cans of VB and coming home at 3pm in the morning before a game to show how cool and tough you are. We just have too many blokes who don't care enough about what they are doing and it's frustrating. Sellers is a neanderthal stuck in the past but he did care about what happened on a Saturday afternoon and wouldn't have tolerated what our blokes dish up in terms of soft lazy disinterested football. Stkilda players are doing the same to Ratten....
Yes, exactly. It's such a waste as we are so competitive still on the scoreboard but don't have the care to take that extra step to work hard enough to turn that into wins. Because of the scoreboard competitiveness it wouldn't take that much to change things. Just some intestinal fortitude to do that hard work. That is the most infuriating.
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I reckon any sort of coaching position would be the last thing on Buckley's mind. Can't remember where I heard it but someone suggested he'll be doing special comments stuff for the footy on Channel 7 next year....might even be sooner.
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(06-09-2021, 12:54 AM)WASurfer link Wrote:I reckon any sort of coaching position would be the last thing on Buckley's mind. Can't remember where I heard it but someone suggested he'll be doing special comments stuff for the footy on Channel 7 next year....might even be sooner.
Tend to agree. He's been involved with football (and particularly the Pies) for most of the last 30? years. The time for a break is now IMO.
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As much as I'm in favour of a review there is a fair bit of mixed messaging going on here.
Hopefully they sort it out, but it's a bit of a dog's breakfast at the moment
It's quite confusing working out who is in charge, who's driving things, the scope and extent of any review and who is under scrutiny and who isn't.
I've always thought the 'rebuild' was a delaying tactic, a time buying exercise, to take the heat off a club under pressure.
By doing so they bought a couple of years free of criticism....because the expectations were low.
It may be a bit cynical but...Is the review just another one of these tactics to take the heat off for a bit...."Oh, we have a few problems but we're reviewing things so leave us alone for a while to sort it out."
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(06-09-2021, 01:55 AM)Lods link Wrote:As much as I'm in favour of a review there is a fair bit of mixed messaging going on here.
Hopefully they sort it out, but it's a bit of a dog's breakfast at the moment
It's quite confusing working out who is in charge, who's driving things, the scope and extent of any review and who is under scrutiny and who isn't.
I've always thought the 'rebuild' was a delaying tactic, a time buying exercise, to take the heat off a club under pressure.
By doing so they bought a couple of years free of criticism....because the expectations were low.
It may be a bit cynical but...Is the review just another one of these tactics to take the heat off for a bit...."Oh, we have a few problems but we're reviewing things so leave us alone for a while to sort it out."
That would imply we are smart enough to work that bit out.
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(06-09-2021, 01:55 AM)Lods link Wrote:As much as I'm in favour of a review there is a fair bit of mixed messaging going on here.
Hopefully they sort it out, but it's a bit of a dog's breakfast at the moment
It's quite confusing working out who is in charge, who's driving things, the scope and extent of any review and who is under scrutiny and who isn't.
I've always thought the 'rebuild' was a delaying tactic, a time buying exercise, to take the heat off a club under pressure.
By doing so they bought a couple of years free of criticism....because the expectations were low.
It may be a bit cynical but...Is the review just another one of these tactics to take the heat off for a bit...."Oh, we have a few problems but we're reviewing things so leave us alone for a while to sort it out."
Not sure it's so much mixed messaging from us, more the media have no idea yet.
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In context a president guaranteeing a coaches job confirms them as a dead man walking doesnt it??
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(06-09-2021, 02:29 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:In context a president guaranteeing a coaches job confirms them as a dead man walking doesnt it??
Sounds a bit more than the evasive "having the full support of the Board". Alot more elaboration.
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