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Brendon Gale

I think both the Tiges and Tasmania need to know soon. There is lots of work to be done for both and if Benny is going as well as Blair as great as that would be for Tassie we need to move on and get the best available appointments.

It's a delicate time for the TIges given the state of the club on field and the new Punt Road devolpment cost blow outs. Get the next couple of years list management decisions wrong and we could become a basket case like North have been.
 
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Redford said:
I couldn’t believe they chopped Gio last year. Strange strange move. Wonder what went on there ? He was pretty well liked and had been there for a while. Bit of an institution.

Maybe it was the fire with the towels ! :ROFLMAO:
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Allegedly overheard saying something that did not meet the standards of today
 
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Surely the club knows by now otherwise they can't be involved in future decisions especially Blair as we have a massive draft and trade period unless it's his last.
 
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They’ve got Jack as well of course.

I remember watching the series on Stan about the player agents and what was clear was that the agents liked dealing with Blair Hartley, they found him very fair and balanced. Not the same with some of the others.

He would be a big loss especially on the back of Peggy, Benny, Balme, Dimma and from a player leadership perspective Cotchin and Riewoldt. We also lost our main recruiter in Clarke. Some of those are big losses but maybe not all of them.

Good organisations just move on but a major loss of organisational IP like that will have an effect for sure.
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Yep and the fact that it's all happening too quickly.
 
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Blair has more power now than ever.

Plus, the attraction of building a premiership list TWICE might be a lure just to say “yeah I’m the dude.” One of the absolute best in the caper.

Richmond is a mature, modern, successful club.

New clubs take so much time. Just look at our last couple. A lucrative Tassie gig is by no means an auto-accept.
 
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How hard would you work knowing in less them 6 months your going elsewhere??
He can't say bad things about the AFL otherwise there's no CEO job in Tassie.
I see no difference what Gale is doing that Hardwick did.
Both legends of the club, both leaving when we are close to rock bottom.
 
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Little Ziggyadee said:
How hard would you work knowing in less them 6 months your going elsewhere??
He can't say bad things about the AFL otherwise there's no CEO job in Tassie.
I see no difference what Gale is doing that Hardwick did.
Both legends of the club, both leaving when we are close to rock bottom.
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There is one thing wrong with this post Zips which is that it is based on an assumption they are leaving.

I must have missed the announcements
 
Little Ziggyadee said:
How hard would you work knowing in less them 6 months your going elsewhere??
He can't say bad things about the AFL otherwise there's no CEO job in Tassie.
I see no difference what Gale is doing that Hardwick did.
Both legends of the club, both leaving when we are close to rock bottom.
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I've been in that position. Had another job lined up. Was asked to give an extended time to replace me (3 months).
I kept working just as hard as normal, because my industry is small and your reputation means everything. How you leave a place is just as important as how you go say to day.
PS. It paid off because someone i"d worked with for the last 4-5 months from the first place ended up hiring me in another job a couple of years later .

Gale has lots of credits in the bank. He has Integrity (which is why the AFL don't want him in the house) and others know it. There's a level of expectation from him. But everyone is only a couple of bad farts from being called stinky for life. Gale won't let that happen.
 
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Has any club been picked apart like ours? Almost every off field personnel of any importance has or will be poached.

All our recent success now feels very short lived and it seems we have to start again without those largely responsible for getting us there in the first place.

And they just keep coming for them.

On top of that we’ve bottomed out again at a time where a new club is coming in.

It’s all just fallen apart 😢
 
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taraba said:
Has any club been picked apart like ours? Almost every off field personnel of any importance has or will be poached.

All our recent success now feels very short lived and it seems we have to start again without those largely responsible for getting us there in the first place.

And they just keep coming for them.

On top of that we’ve bottomed out again at a time where a new club is coming in.

It’s all just fallen apart 😢
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I think that depends on what you call success. If you only consider premierships, then it's gonna be a long depressing road.

I think our success started in 2013. It finished in 22. We used existing talent to make finals and finished 5th. We tanked the finals match. But learned something from it. Every season thereafter brought us closer to the Dynasty.

This sounds weird, but in one sense I'm glad they're picking us apart. Because it reinforces how *smile* dominant we were. Think about it. We rebuilt a dynasty whilst being *smile* and expansion clubs coming in and taking the best picks. Who does that?

We aren't going to get better by staying the same. We need new ideas and fresh blood. A lot at once is scary and the injuries etc make it feel worse. But if we've rebuilt this club properly, we'll survive because of our standards and culture. We shouldn't be held together now by messiahs.

*smile* the AFL. *smile* the 18 other clubs. We're good enough to get back. Watch us.

"There's nothing more Tigrish than a bloody tiger. A wounded tiger". Let's not forget that.
 
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taraba said:
Has any club been picked apart like ours? Almost every off field personnel of any importance has or will be poached.

All our recent success now feels very short lived and it seems we have to start again without those largely responsible for getting us there in the first place.

And they just keep coming for them.

On top of that we’ve bottomed out again at a time where a new club is coming in.

It’s all just fallen apart 😢
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I feel the same way.
 
taraba said:
Has any club been picked apart like ours? Almost every off field personnel of any importance has or will be poached.

All our recent success now feels very short lived and it seems we have to start again without those largely responsible for getting us there in the first place.

And they just keep coming for them.

On top of that we’ve bottomed out again at a time where a new club is coming in.

It’s all just fallen apart 😢
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We need to stop the rot, If Gale goes he goes and we can cover that imho, but if we lose Blair as well? we may as well buckle up for another stint in the wilderness, you cant lose this much IP/expertise in such a short period of time. We need to keep Blair for at least another 3-4 years to settle things down with the new head of recruiting and potentially new head of High performance. Gives our head coach a bit of time to settle in as well.
 
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If Gale goes, who is he taking with him?
The guts of the club is being torn out.
 
Little Ziggyadee said:
He might not go to Tassie but he definitely leaving punt Rd in October
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He may be, he may not be. If he is then as a CEO the true measure of his worth is whether he leaves the club in a better position than when he came.
Clubs go up and down the ladder but when Benny came we were an on field and off field basket case. During the last 14-15 years we have gone from that to making finals 8 times, winning 3 premierships, wiping out our debt, 100,000 members and on the cusp of a $100 million redevelopment of the precinct.
If he leaves he will be rightfully lauded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, administrators of the RFC in our history. He has presided over what is one of the biggest turn arounds of a football club in AFL history.
If he leaves on October and the board knows it then he is giving plenty of time for the best successor to be found.
No Richmond supporter can logically have anything but gratitude for what Benny Gale has brought to our footy club.
 
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Little Ziggyadee said:
I see no difference what Gale is doing that Hardwick did.
Both legends of the club, both leaving when we are close to rock bottom.
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Like Dimma, Benny and Blair have to decide whether they're in this for another long rebuild. If not, it's best they move on. Whoever is in these roles from next year needs to be planning to remain in the role for the full cycle of 7-10 years.
 
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Tony Braxton-Hicks said:
Like Dimma, Benny and Blair have to decide whether they're in this for another long rebuild. If not, it's best they move on. Whoever is in these roles from next year needs to be planning to remain in the role for the full cycle of 7-10 years.
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A departure of a majority of senior managers means a loss of accumulated internal information and experience, which becomes unavailable to those coming in.

For both Brendon and Blair to leave now, on top of the other significant departures, is bound to do considerable harm to the progress of the rebuild that is now taking place.
 
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There is no reason good enough for Richmond to not keep Blair Hartley, with 107 million turnover, match it ,he is vital.
 
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