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- Jan 29, 2013
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There is something wrong within the club at the moment. For a start, it’s unusual for any club to lose/discard 4 first 22 players in an off-season. That would suggest a hint of disharmony in the club wouldn’t it?
Now, they weren’t exactly our favourite players but they were each capable of making a contribution. The Acres situation was weird, he was a slightly above average, returned WA player getting paid below average money. He requested a salary commensurate with his ability/contribution and it was rejected, but then we pay Jackson $900K? That was a mistake, even if Jackson turns out to be good it’s still sends a bad message to the playing group and it reeks of arrogance. To think that we could say no to Acres’ request and then think that Hughes could simply step in and fill Acres role??? I think that was arrogant and naive. Whose decision was that?
The whole team is playing uninspiring footy, but to drop a contested ball player in Brodie when any one of Tabs, Henry or Jackson for that matter were also awful is laughable. And then give him one WAFL game before flying him over to SA, as if the flaw in his game has spontaneously been rectified??? Seriously.
Now I know a lot of you dislike Ross, a lot of you think he is a terrible human being, but I don’t. He was our first proper coach, he toughened us up as a club. He brought us respect and a good measure of success. He had a habit of dragging snipers out of the bushes and giving them a good public kicking which many found unsavoury, particularly towards the end of his tenure but I didn’t mind it. After some years of being the laughingstock of the competition and a few more years of simply being disrespected it was kind of nice to be the bully for a change. The thing with Ross was that his messages were simple and clear. We all knew his catch phrases,
anyone, anywhere, any time
never as good, never as bad
effort is non negotiable
we review it, we train it, we move on pretty quickly
There were lots of them, and I reckon he gave the players exactly the same messages he delivered in his press conferences. The messaging was clear and unwavering.
I haven’t watched JL’s pressers since his first year because I actually find them uncomfortable to watch but I did watch the one on Saturday. What I got from it was,
I wasn’t expecting that
I don’t know what to do about it
It‘s up to the players to fix it themselves
The guy seems out of his depth and bereft of ideas, in the very least it was a terrible message for me to hear as a long time supporter.
Do you remember that infamous Mark Harvey interview? What do you stand for?
What do we stand for now?
I actually turned the game off well before it was done. I turned it off when Kelli Underwood has a little sarcastic laugh about Dal Santo’s “Freeze-mantle”. At that point it became very clear that we have returned to being a dull, underperforming and disrespected football club. And whose fault is that? I don’t know, but surely the buck stops with the coach and the head of the footy department.
Now, they weren’t exactly our favourite players but they were each capable of making a contribution. The Acres situation was weird, he was a slightly above average, returned WA player getting paid below average money. He requested a salary commensurate with his ability/contribution and it was rejected, but then we pay Jackson $900K? That was a mistake, even if Jackson turns out to be good it’s still sends a bad message to the playing group and it reeks of arrogance. To think that we could say no to Acres’ request and then think that Hughes could simply step in and fill Acres role??? I think that was arrogant and naive. Whose decision was that?
The whole team is playing uninspiring footy, but to drop a contested ball player in Brodie when any one of Tabs, Henry or Jackson for that matter were also awful is laughable. And then give him one WAFL game before flying him over to SA, as if the flaw in his game has spontaneously been rectified??? Seriously.
Now I know a lot of you dislike Ross, a lot of you think he is a terrible human being, but I don’t. He was our first proper coach, he toughened us up as a club. He brought us respect and a good measure of success. He had a habit of dragging snipers out of the bushes and giving them a good public kicking which many found unsavoury, particularly towards the end of his tenure but I didn’t mind it. After some years of being the laughingstock of the competition and a few more years of simply being disrespected it was kind of nice to be the bully for a change. The thing with Ross was that his messages were simple and clear. We all knew his catch phrases,
anyone, anywhere, any time
never as good, never as bad
effort is non negotiable
we review it, we train it, we move on pretty quickly
There were lots of them, and I reckon he gave the players exactly the same messages he delivered in his press conferences. The messaging was clear and unwavering.
I haven’t watched JL’s pressers since his first year because I actually find them uncomfortable to watch but I did watch the one on Saturday. What I got from it was,
I wasn’t expecting that
I don’t know what to do about it
It‘s up to the players to fix it themselves
The guy seems out of his depth and bereft of ideas, in the very least it was a terrible message for me to hear as a long time supporter.
Do you remember that infamous Mark Harvey interview? What do you stand for?
What do we stand for now?
I actually turned the game off well before it was done. I turned it off when Kelli Underwood has a little sarcastic laugh about Dal Santo’s “Freeze-mantle”. At that point it became very clear that we have returned to being a dull, underperforming and disrespected football club. And whose fault is that? I don’t know, but surely the buck stops with the coach and the head of the footy department.
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