Brendon Gale OUT

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have you watched the last two games? have you not seen the thread "This is the worst start to a season in our history"

Yze said

when we've got everyone available we can be competitive. ...."

injury list last week

Mykelti Lefau (jaw), TBC
Jacob Bauer (quad), TBC
Sam Naismith (suspected ACL), TBC
Rhyan Mansell (concussion), TBC
Liam Baker (corked leg), test
Dylan Grimes (back), test
James Trezise (concussion), test
Sam Banks (concussion), test
Seth Campbell (knee), 1 week
Jack Graham (hamstring), 1 week
Jacob Hopper (hamstring), 1-2 weeks
Tim Taranto (wrist), 2-3 weeks
Tom Lynch (hamstring), 3-5 weeks
Jack Ross (foot), 5-7 weeks
Maurice Rioli jnr (ankle), 7-9 weeks
Liam Fawcett (back), TBC/long-term
Mate Colina (back, TBC/long-term
Josh Gibcus (ACL), season
Judson Clarke (ACL), season
Oliver Hayes-Brown, playing VAFA

I noted we beat the Swans with more or less Yze''s best 22. Tom Lynch being the big loss over the last 1.5 seasons

 

[tigerisland]

I don't entirely disagree but there's the small thing of the biggest redevelopment of Punt Road to get underway. Someone needs to keep their eye on that or it will continue to experience cost blow outs and has the potential to be a massive white elephant. I'm sure if someone comes along for the CEO role prior to the end of the year, Benny will hand over the keys but to send him off on gardening leave without a suitable replacement wouldn't be a good idea in this scenario in my opinion.

And sorry, I wasn't referring to you specifically when I mentioned people getting foamy. That should have been directed at some others in this thread who have thrown their toys out of the cot. There's been a lot of carry on on this board lately. It reminds me of my early days on here when there was probably more justification for the carry on given we had been rubbish for so long but far out, we've won 3 flags in our very recent past! People are hanging s**t on me about the current day Tigers and I do not give a toss. This year can go straight in the bin but I'm confident we'll bounce back stronger sooner than some are predicting.

Perhaps you are referring to me. No one here will argue that Benny has been nothing but spectacular for this club. However the last 3 years many mistakes have been made.
I have been involved in some significant businesses. Once someone leaves they leave. Everyone is replaceable. I don’t care who they are. Project managers for the stand for example are a dime a dozen so he is not staying to see that through.Its about Benny now and not the club. That is unacceptable.
Benny is increasingly becoming a celebrity CEO like Gil or Allan Joyce.
Hubris is deadly it sneaks up on nearly all successful people.
His knew role is a big demotion. He goes from CEO of biggest club in the land to an embryo, years from competing and forever dependent on the AFL in a minnow market.
Imagine how humiliating it will be calling into AFL HQ every week to give updates on how their money is spent in Tassie to a guy who got the job over him by virtue of the fact he is in the AFL purple circle.
Good luck to him. I wish him the best and I will forever be grateful to what Benny has done but he needs to go. Today.

 

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Not sure how he improves us for the rest of the year. Gave Dimma the keys to trade out picks and then bail with a full payout to Gold Coast where he took key staff from us. Hired a coach who clearly doesn't have the players and then announced he is leaving to an opposition club and will no doubt take key staff and players with him.

As an organisation, the club has been an absolute mess in the last few years.

Late to the thread.

So Dimma takes his 14 year football analysis manager Hayden Hill? & his interchange guy.

Players, Coaches get paid out the calendar year they quit, not beyond. Dimma leaving early freed up soft cap for RFC
Dimma being in charge of the Tarranto & Hopper trade?
Taranto was B&F last year, Hopper can play too. MFC bought in Grundy and moved him next year.
Players, Yze and supporters need a new Fitness Coach.
Yze doesn't have the players? Based on what? Been too loyal selection wise to flag faves. Blooded 4 or 5 early on. Tried Kosi, Naismith early. Playing the kids now.

We can barely field a fit team.

I'd bury any spoil brats who don't like him in the VFL.

I don't mind the Yze appointment.

Organisational mess? New President, bloodless smooth transition. Steady profit margin. $35 million operation would have a dozen key managers. Who are in place now and after Gale leaves.

It felt like The new Tazzy club wanted to speed up their announcement of Brendon Gale as CEO. We haven't announced a new one but , I'm not in Melbourne, could you check whether the club is still there for me?

$ 100 million for a JDS grandstand/changerooms. Expensive. Whats the alternative

 

[SunshineBoy]

Yze said

when we've got everyone available we can be competitive. ...."

injury list last week

Mykelti Lefau (jaw), TBC
Jacob Bauer (quad), TBC
Sam Naismith (suspected ACL), TBC
Rhyan Mansell (concussion), TBC
Liam Baker (corked leg), test
Dylan Grimes (back), test
James Trezise (concussion), test
Sam Banks (concussion), test
Seth Campbell (knee), 1 week
Jack Graham (hamstring), 1 week
Jacob Hopper (hamstring), 1-2 weeks
Tim Taranto (wrist), 2-3 weeks
Tom Lynch (hamstring), 3-5 weeks
Jack Ross (foot), 5-7 weeks
Maurice Rioli jnr (ankle), 7-9 weeks
Liam Fawcett (back), TBC/long-term
Mate Colina (back, TBC/long-term
Josh Gibcus (ACL), season
Judson Clarke (ACL), season
Oliver Hayes-Brown, playing VAFA

I noted we beat the Swans with more or less Yze''s best 22. Tom Lynch being the big loss over the last 1.5 seasons

Tom Lunch is cooked

 

[rammmbo]

The footy department still thinks we can compete in finals if we had everyone fit...

Totally believe Cornes is correct this time Gale and Yze are definately Delusional and because of the make up of the list there is no coming back if we don't go full rebuild now which should have started 2 f..king years ago

 

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Tom Lunch is cooked

punny.

Crucial to the 2 KPF set up. Balta only just getting back from INJURY Kosi, Ryan, Naismith, have had cracks with limited success.
Le Fau the lifesaver.

Yze has had to deal with reduced output from injured Martin too

 

[Frustrated Tiger]

Totally believe Cornes is correct this time Gale and Yze are definately Delusional and because of the make up of the list there is no coming back if we don't go full rebuild now which should have started 2 f..king years ago

But Dimma wanted to cook sausages.

 

[smasha]

Yze said

when we've got everyone available we can be competitive. ...."

injury list last week

Mykelti Lefau (jaw), TBC
Jacob Bauer (quad), TBC
Sam Naismith (suspected ACL), TBC
Rhyan Mansell (concussion), TBC
Liam Baker (corked leg), test
Dylan Grimes (back), test
James Trezise (concussion), test
Sam Banks (concussion), test
Seth Campbell (knee), 1 week
Jack Graham (hamstring), 1 week
Jacob Hopper (hamstring), 1-2 weeks
Tim Taranto (wrist), 2-3 weeks
Tom Lynch (hamstring), 3-5 weeks
Jack Ross (foot), 5-7 weeks
Maurice Rioli jnr (ankle), 7-9 weeks
Liam Fawcett (back), TBC/long-term
Mate Colina (back, TBC/long-term
Josh Gibcus (ACL), season
Judson Clarke (ACL), season
Oliver Hayes-Brown, playing VAFA

I noted we beat the Swans with more or less Yze''s best 22. Tom Lynch being the big loss over the last 1.5 seasons

Lynch pretty much came in green but still showed how much of a threat he is when on the field.
While the footy World carries on about Cameron,if our big Lynchy had a better run with injury,he would be spoken in the same breath.
A champion.

 

[smasha]

But Dimma wanted to cook sausages.

But wants players who ate the thousanth sausage up there with him.
Making shrimps on the barbie now?

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

I've thought about this a lot. And the one thing I come back to is that Brendan Gale is a person of the utmost integrity. If he was shot, he would have left already. If he was full of s**t, we would still be without any flags since 1980.

The easy option is get foamy about how he's recently destroyed the club because he's "checked out". This despite being the man that has turned this club into an absolute TITAN of this comp. Do any of you really think he's just checked out on the club as he walks out? Shame on anyone who is taking a crap on Benny Gale's legacy.

He is a legend of this club. I would have taken just the 2017 flag to my grave. I thought we were never getting a flag.

I ended up with 3.

Great post.
People think Benny would sabotage all his Great work are nuts.

 

[smasha]

The footy department still thinks we can compete in finals if we had everyone fit...

Of course we would except the ump 5 goal walloping before the games begin.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Totally believe Cornes is correct this time Gale and Yze are definately Delusional and because of the make up of the list there is no coming back if we don't go full rebuild now which should have started 2 f..king years ago

I think people have misinterpreted Yze's comments in the press conference though.

Cornes and Barrett seem to think he said that we can win the flag next year because of our smashing in 2016 against Sydney. He didn't say that, he was just saying how quick things can turn around.

A better example probably would have been West Coast in recent weeks tbf

 

[smasha]

Don't think Gale should be here if his heart isn't in it, but lol at the boomers in here going "woke woke woke". Self-parody.

Gen X mate.
GET IT RIGHT (Graeme Garden voice).

 

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Totally believe Cornes is correct this time Gale and Yze are definately Delusional and because of the make up of the list there is no coming back if we don't go full rebuild now which should have started 2 f..king years ago

Yze got a new game plan which is good enough to that beat the Swans. & should've beaten carlton too, despite the in game loss of Prestia, Gibcus and Young.

Full rebuild 2 years ago? FMD
. Round 16 2021 we are just out of the 8. We had lost Dusty Round 18 and we end up 13th. Bring in 5 draftees.

Start of 2022. . Gibcus, Sonsie & Clarke debuted. We couldn't win a close game all year. Lost Prestia in the final and they bring in TT & JH. Good on paper. & Tarranto was B&F.

Lynch playing 3 games in a year and a half has killed us. What do you do? A 1.5mill Contracted flag hero.
Not effectively replacing Jack R is the main list issue.

Got access to the top end of the draft, we seem to draft OK these days. New face there too. Toce.

 

[captain blood 17]

What an embarrassment of a thread. Disgraceful actually.

 

[tigerisland]

What an embarrassment of a thread. Disgraceful actually.

We are 17th on the ladder and no reasonable person blames Yze for that.

 

[captain blood 17]

We are 17th on the ladder and no reasonable person blames Yze for that.

Why would we want to disrespect Gale after all the service he has given the club with this bullshit? Absolute disgrace.

 

[tigerisland]

Why would we want to disrespect Gale after all the service he has given the club with this bullshit? Absolute disgrace.

No one is disrespecting Benny’s incredible performance. We are at a critical juncture in the club’s long term future and there are key meetings he cannot even sit in. It is now becoming about Benny and not the club.
Great leaders know when their time is up. They don’t wait around for their next job to start and try manage their conflicts of interests. Think Nelson Mandela, Bob Carr, Steve Bracks, Peter Beattie who walked away at the peak of their powers.

 

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No one is disrespecting Benny’s incredible performance. We are at a critical juncture in the club’s long term future and there are key meetings he cannot even sit in. It is now becoming about Benny and not the club.
Great leaders know when their time is up. They don’t wait around for their next job to start and try manage their conflicts of interests. Think Nelson Mandela, Bob Carr, Steve Bracks, Peter Beattie who walked away at the peak of their powers.

this article addressed a lot of concerns
The Richmond Football Club board will sit firmly at the crossroads on Tuesday night when it gathers to plot its future beyond Brendon Gale.

President John O’Rourke says he is not daunted by the responsibility he faces, even though the difference between the correct leadership decision and a misstep is sustained success or another journey into the wilderness for the Tigers, who sit second-last on the ladder with one win, only ahead of North Melbourne.

Big job: Richmond president John O’Rourke.CREDIT:JOE ARMAO

Nor does he give any credence to suggestions that Gale, who will steer the AFL’s 19th team Tasmania into the competition in 2028, should leave now and that in even some subtle way has already mentally checked out of Tigerland.

While O’Rourke said Gale would no longer play a role in strategic talks or long-term planning apart from the Punt Road redevelopment, the Tigers’ president said his outgoing CEO had two key jobs to perform before he left. He did not rule out Gale departing sooner should his replacement from the plethora of candidates be chosen sooner than expected.

“We’ll be going back to the draft at the end of the year,” said O’Rourke, “and clearly there’ll be strategic decisions and planning Brendon won’t be part of. His role doesn’t need to include that.

“But he has two key deliverables ... The smooth transition of leadership and the redevelopment project, which is a passion project for him and which we believe if things go well can start later this year.”

Outgoing Richmond CEO Brendon Gale.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES

The Punt Road project stalled last year due to funding problems and remains Gale’s primary short-term focus.

The timing of Gale’s public resignation was largely dictated by Tasmania. That fledgling club’s chairman Grant O’Brien and his board targeted Gale more than a year ago and saw his early appointment as integral in their bid to bring the state behind the club and give it a face. O’Brien and O’Rourke agreed to as much in a conversation days before Gale’s announcement last week.

But Gale, contracted to Richmond until the end of this football year, has conceded that the prospect of running a club for a full three seasons before its senior men’s team joins the AFL will be a challenge for him after 15 years at the helm of Richmond. To leave even earlier, before coach Adem Yze has completed even half a season, would seem untenable for him.

“We never got to that discussion,” said O’Rourke. “But if I said it’s better that he go now he would have. To be clear, we want him to see out his contract. But we have got the most respect for Brendon as we possibly could have for a person who has served this club for 30 years. He’s exceptional. And he knows how the conflicts work.”

One external view is that Gale should leave immediately. Another is that he should have held off his resignation announcement until later in the season. And yet another is that he risks his own legacy should the Tigers’ dismal and injury-plagued year deliver the club’s first bottom-four finish since 2010 – Gale’s first year in the job.

“I think that would be an incredibly harsh judgment,” said O’Rourke. “It’s ridiculous to say he’s left us in a hole after 15 years of good work and coming from a low base.”

Under Gale’s stewardship, Richmond have not missed finals for two years running since 2012 – they are headed that way again this season – and have missed finals just three times in 12 years.

But the Tigers of 2024 find themselves more generally compared with the Brisbane Lions and more recently Hawthorn post their three-peats.

That the pivotal figure of Gale has emerged as the lightning rod for Richmond’s spluttering season is fitting given his influence and leadership. Just as the ageing and struggling Dustin Martin has proved the same on-field, much to the disgust of the Martin camp and notably, his manager Ralph Carr.

Dustin Martin is nearing the end of his storied career at the Tigers.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES

But with Martin nearing the end, Trent Cotchin and Jack Riewoldt retired and Damien Hardwick enjoying his new toys on the Gold Coast, the CEO’s resignation seemed like the final domino.

O’Rourke, who is nearing 10 years as a director but under the club’s new board regulations can remain at the helm for one further three-year term beyond 2025 should he choose to, faces a choice between an internal succession plan favoured by Gale pitched against a long list of high-profile contenders.

The recruitment firm Transearch International will run the process while Tuesday’s board meeting will establish a subcommittee and a timeline for the search. O’Rourke, and vice president and corporate executive Henriette Rothschild, along with at least one external selector, will take part.

The club’s chief marketing officer and long-time Gale lieutenant Simon Matthews – whose brother Dave has run the Giants since their inception – looms as the key but not the only internal candidate and Richmond have already gauged interest from within the AFL and across several clubs.

While O’Rourke said a football background was important, he has not ruled out seeking commercial candidates from outside the game. The other top sporting vacancy is at the Victoria Racing Club where Steve Rosich is soon to depart and where O’Rourke previously served as vice chairman.

“We’re going to take some time with this,” said O’Rourke, who, while insisting he was not daunted by the task, admitted the workload ahead for him had increased by some measure. “There’s no panic because the foundation Brendon has created is so good. The executive team in place and the 30 people we have in management roles who no one sees make me very confident about our future.”

The past three years since Gale signed his last three-year deal with the Tigers have been punctuated by a series of professional challenges.

In 2022, the first year of the new contract, the club made a fresh assault on September only to narrowly fail at the first hurdle.

Gillon McLachlan announced his departure in April that year and Gale was a key contender favoured by the majority of clubs. But he, like all the short-listed candidates, was forced to endure a drawn-out process of more than a year indisposed by months of silence from the AFL.

In 2023, initially buoyed by the recruitment of former Greater Western Sydney prime movers Jacob Hopper and Tim Taranto, coach Hardwick eyed another flag but quickly became frustrated by his team’s failure to deliver on their previous non-negotiables and eyed an opportunity on the Gold Coast.

He was gone by May, around the time Andrew Dillon became AFL CEO-elect. While Gale remained steadfast in his faith in Tigers football bosses Blair Hartley and Tim Livingstone he must have wondered whether he had been distracted by the AFL role.

Dillon approached Gale to take the top football job at head office but was unable to deliver a role impressive enough to counter the prospect of a consolation prize. And although O’Rourke knew he would probably lose his CEO by the end of this year he convinced Gale to steer clear of the AFL job under Dillon.

The view of the Tigers’ president was that Gale was a leader and should resist any job without the title chief executive attached to it. And so it transpired.

Despite Richmond’s predicament and the clear hole that Gale will leave behind I’m choosing to keep the faith with the club’s board and the culture the departing CEO has created.

The Tigers’ new leadership will take charge at a time the AFL is looking certain to regenerate Next Generation academies and football soft caps – two strategies, particularly the club’s multicultural and Indigenous academy – crucial to Richmond’s success, which were cut back and stopped the club in its tracks.

O’Rourke would not be drawn on list management strategies, but it seems overkill to suggest the club has been immeasurably set back by the Taranto and Hopper (aged 26 and 27 respectively) deals given their age and the roles they will be in transitioning the club towards its next assault, just as Shaun Grigg, Ivan Maric and Bachar Houli did before them.

To compare Richmond with the Lions or Hawthorn is inaccurate given the ailing administrations at both those clubs after their third respective premierships. Alastair Clarkson lingered for six years beyond his last flag and when Leigh Matthews retired four seasons after his last grand final the club replaced him with the completely inexperienced Michael Voss.

And Gale? If anyone deserves to be trusted to deliver transformation in his final season then he does. Particularly given the unique state of the yet-to-be-established Tasmanian Devils.

If the beginnings of a new-look Tigerland can physically emerge in the twilight of his stewardship with the symbolic turning of the first soil of the new development then why shouldn’t Gale be allowed to hold the spade?

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

No one is disrespecting Benny’s incredible performance. We are at a critical juncture in the club’s long term future and there are key meetings he cannot even sit in. It is now becoming about Benny and not the club.
Great leaders know when their time is up. They don’t wait around for their next job to start and try manage their conflicts of interests. Think Nelson Mandela, Bob Carr, Steve Bracks, Peter Beattie who walked away at the peak of their powers.

LoL.Your kidding aren't you.
Your comparing leaders of the state & Country to a CEO of a football club whom i might add answers too someone higher than himself the president.
And as stated by the club and indeed Benny himself he's excusing himself from any decisions that may be in conflict.
Why shouldn't it be about Benny?
Shouldn't he be affored somekind of celebration just Like the players get for say 300 games?
I know lets cancel Dustys 300th celebration because its all about Dusty.

 

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In the grandstand thread, Gale and the club are reluctant to take on a $100 million project. It sounds like there is some funds, but the full amount. Interest on a loan might put us in the red each year.
Maybe one way to get more funding from HQ.

The 6 years of toing and froing Its finalised at a time in tough economic times; when our performance has gone through the floor & he's leaving for Tassie, so far from ideal.

Be interesting to see Plan B. No car parks, oval doesn't have to be MCG size. VFL games are played there satisfactorally

 

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PERFERT cheap stand update. White building ...New Toilets out the back

 

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Coaches box. fully stocked bar & canteen.

 

[rammmbo]

But Dimma wanted to cook sausages.

And he has left us with burnt overcooked sausages that are no good.

 

[captain blood 17]

Amazes me people are saying the players are no good when we have 26 fit blokes to choose from and 5 starting players who would rotate through the middle. Would love to see the supercoaches in here do better.