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Player Watch Josh Rachele - Sent To The Gulag!
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Well, Roo is sure going to have a few to tell to go support another club!
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Nothing needs to be fixed. The club is just full of losers with no personality.
Rory was the poster boy for this. Be surprised if he isn't rolled out soon.
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Let's hope he takes the toxic Board with him. The fish rots from the head.
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Wouldnt even do that. Just wouldn't follow afl anynore.
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I wonder what we thought of Eddie's goal celebrations?
Those must be the body of work
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Nek minnet, trade a future first to bring in notes hard trainer and dedicated team player, Jack Lukosius
And yet again it will be the long suffering supporterbase who will deal with the consequences.
"Body of work?"
As in, kicking 30 goals as a small forward, winning a game off his own boot a month ago, and playing "the best game of his career" a fortnight ago?
As in, kicking 30 goals as a small forward, winning a game off his own boot a month ago, and playing "the best game of his career" a fortnight ago?
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They're doubling down now. I can't seem to recall a club throwing a youngster under the bus like the AFC have done with this guy. Do we have a deep hatred of our 1st round, non-SA draft picks.
This has been a membership cancelling move from the AFC. You can't keep supporting this garbage.
I reckon Curtin is rubbing his hands together. We've just given him another reason to leave.
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Question, why do people think "it was a leadership group decision" is at all better then it being a Nicks decision?
Isn't that infinitely worse? Just a confirmation of the maddening fact we all already know. That the senior players have way too much say in the selection of this team. And anyone who isn't a complete Crowbot is under threat of being dropped (and apparently thrown under the bus).
TBH Nicks being totally incompetent is the lesser of 2 evils in that scenario. You can fire a coach, but you can't fire a rotten system.
Isn't that infinitely worse? Just a confirmation of the maddening fact we all already know. That the senior players have way too much say in the selection of this team. And anyone who isn't a complete Crowbot is under threat of being dropped (and apparently thrown under the bus).
TBH Nicks being totally incompetent is the lesser of 2 evils in that scenario. You can fire a coach, but you can't fire a rotten system.
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It's actually amazing how poorly this has been handled from even the most basic human level.
Even if you take the position of him doing something wrong or under-performing (which I disagree with). This is a textbook example of how to alienate and isolate a person, and how NOT to handle a team member you view as not behaving in a way you expect. This isn't even football talking, this is basic managerial competency. You don't pile up and publicly humiliate someone, shine the spotlight on them to highlight their deficiencies, or make them a scapegoat. There have been copious examples of other teams (as everyone has already said, stengle at geelong is the most obvious one) who have handled players they have felt needed re-focusing in a much different manner. You know, teams that have a reputation for a winning culture and professionalism. Surprisingly, they also end up having a great player retention and recruitment rate alongside flags to back them up.
The amount of gaslighting is phenomenal as well...he will be strong enough to get through this? As in, if he doesn't suck it up and tow the line he is weak. Piss off.
This is absolute amateur hour, and sadly a very common occurrence for this club.
Even if you take the position of him doing something wrong or under-performing (which I disagree with). This is a textbook example of how to alienate and isolate a person, and how NOT to handle a team member you view as not behaving in a way you expect. This isn't even football talking, this is basic managerial competency. You don't pile up and publicly humiliate someone, shine the spotlight on them to highlight their deficiencies, or make them a scapegoat. There have been copious examples of other teams (as everyone has already said, stengle at geelong is the most obvious one) who have handled players they have felt needed re-focusing in a much different manner. You know, teams that have a reputation for a winning culture and professionalism. Surprisingly, they also end up having a great player retention and recruitment rate alongside flags to back them up.
The amount of gaslighting is phenomenal as well...he will be strong enough to get through this? As in, if he doesn't suck it up and tow the line he is weak. Piss off.
This is absolute amateur hour, and sadly a very common occurrence for this club.
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Which Adelaide private school tossers are currently running the club?
Imagine what we would have done with Dustin Martin.
Anyone who thought this would inspire him to work hard over summer was kidding themselves.
He and Soligo probably sat around on the couch last night talking about how poor a coach Nicksy is and laughing at how average a player Laird is.
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