Football Department Review

[Blue Moon]

I agree with what Rhys-Jones has had to say. Off the field we are going well on field we are losing because of the losing culture we have had now for twenty years. The worst thing Elliot did, and there were many, was instill the belief that we could only win if we cheat. This is why the tanking was actually corrosive for the Club's culture even though getting Judd was enormous. Winners win because they win and losers lose because they lose. We need to become winners again and if this review can show us a pathway to achieving this, then well and good, however if this review isn't going to send us back to bad old ways of looking for a Messiah, then we are in trouble. We have had two coaching Messiahs, Pagan and Malthouse, and that ended disastrously, and one playing Messiah, Judd, who wasn't able to carry us to where we wanted to go. Mark Maclure called it early by saying we don't play as a team and by saying the improvement has to be player driven. Nothing has changed. Changing the Coach hasn't worked for twenty years, maybe it is time to change the culture.