Brendon Gale

[Leysy Days]

so just because they implemented the stand rule, our gameplan fell to *smile*?!. Sorry but i dont buy that one little bit. Dimma is implementing exactly the same game plan at gold coast, pies gameplan looks identical, in fact, the whole bloody league look like they're playing the richmond way now. except with better skilled players.

thats the problem, blair and clarke assembled an underskilled football team, theres absolutely nothing wrong with the game plan, only the players trying to execute it.

Reckon there's a lot of truth in this.

Yes the stand rule hurt. Yes it was deliberately brought in to bring us down.

But it hasn't rendered the Richmond dynasty game plan redundant.

Like you say - Collingwood under Fly and Leppa have double downed on the Richmond style and won a flag.

In fact, like us, pressure all over the ground is their DNA. Every list management decision is made towards building even more pressure. Stand rule isn't stopping that.

Likewise Kingsley replicating our imprint at GWS went within a point of the GF last year. Dimma bringing his same thing to Gold Coast has improved them loads.

Yes the AFL sucks and Shocking was a two faced conniving prick. But his rules havent stopped our game plan from working.

Our lack of talent that we can put on the field has.

 

[Little Ziggyadee]

Reckon there's a lot of truth in this.

Yes the stand rule hurt. Yes it was deliberately brought in to bring us down.

But it hasn't rendered the Richmond dynasty game plan redundant.

Like you say - Collingwood under Fly and Leppa have double downed on the Richmond style and won a flag.

In fact, like us, pressure all over the ground is their DNA. Every list management decision is made towards building even more pressure. Stand rule isn't stopping that.

Likewise Kingsley replicating our imprint at GWS went within a point of the GF last year. Dimma bringing his same thing to Gold Coast has improved them loads.

Yes the AFL sucks and Shocking was a two faced conniving prick. But his rules havent stopped our game plan from working.

Our lack of talent that we can put on the field has.

Our game plan works only if everyone buys in.
Collingwood have 23 players running like greyhounds. That keeps the pressure up therefore they create turnovers.
Geelong have brought in Holmes Close and Dempsey all running machines.
We need to regenerate with more Bolton types. Speed and skill

 

[tigertim]

Reckon there's a lot of truth in this.

Yes the stand rule hurt. Yes it was deliberately brought in to bring us down.

But it hasn't rendered the Richmond dynasty game plan redundant.

Like you say - Collingwood under Fly and Leppa have double downed on the Richmond style and won a flag.

In fact, like us, pressure all over the ground is their DNA. Every list management decision is made towards building even more pressure. Stand rule isn't stopping that.

Likewise Kingsley replicating our imprint at GWS went within a point of the GF last year. Dimma bringing his same thing to Gold Coast has improved them loads.

Yes the AFL sucks and Shocking was a two faced conniving prick. But his rules havent stopped our game plan from working.

Our lack of talent that we can put on the field has.

Well said old boy. And the inference must be that after the stand rule was brought in Dimma et al weren’t smart enough to combat it as this stand rule has just completely stuffed Richmond. And just Richmond. Sure…..

 

[DavidSSS]

We won 3 flags, when you win 3 flags all the other teams look at what you did and ask themselves: how do we do that, but better?

The massive pressure, run all day, chaos game plan was great. But it isn't the same now, they added skilled disposals to it and we couldn't suddenly change our playing group to go with the change.

Also, remember we used to put 7 in defence until they brought in the woeful 6-6-6 rule. It wasn't just the ridiculous stand rule which was put in to combat our game plan, but also 6-6-6.

The irony of this is that the chaos crazy game plan we had was really entertaining. In changing the rules they have made the game less entertaining.

DS

 

[The_General]

We won 3 flags, when you win 3 flags all the other teams look at what you did and ask themselves: how do we do that, but better?

The massive pressure, run all day, chaos game plan was great. But it isn't the same now, they added skilled disposals to it and we couldn't suddenly change our playing group to go with the change.

Also, remember we used to put 7 in defence until they brought in the woeful 6-6-6 rule. It wasn't just the ridiculous stand rule which was put in to combat our game plan, but also 6-6-6.

The irony of this is that the chaos crazy game plan we had was really entertaining. In changing the rules they have made the game less entertaining.

DS

Thanks SSS. Exactly what I've been trying to get across.

 

[Tigers of Old]

We won 3 flags, when you win 3 flags all the other teams look at what you did and ask themselves: how do we do that, but better?

The massive pressure, run all day, chaos game plan was great. But it isn't the same now, they added skilled disposals to it and we couldn't suddenly change our playing group to go with the change.

Also, remember we used to put 7 in defence until they brought in the woeful 6-6-6 rule. It wasn't just the ridiculous stand rule which was put in to combat our game plan, but also 6-6-6.

The irony of this is that the chaos crazy game plan we had was really entertaining. In changing the rules they have made the game less entertaining.

DS

Well said. They also changed the kick in rule because we were hemming the ball in. Others change too.
Unprecedented rule changes targeted at our game plan.

 

[momentai]

Everyone is acting like succession wouldn't have been a forethought of the club's CEO or Board.

It's an important responsibility of the executive management team and more so the managing board of directors to ensure the future of any venture is at least projected. That'll include succession plans.

A lot of that doesn't neccesarily fall completely on Benny as CEO but if he is half the administrator some you claim he is then he will 100% want to leave the club in good stead and will have put such plans in place.

Don't think it is as easy as you try and make it sound.

 

[momentai]

...
Geelong have brought in Holmes Close and Dempsey all running machines.
We need to regenerate with more Bolton types. Speed and skill

Agree with this. Bolton and like skilled players are in short supply on our current list.

 

[Willo]

Don't think it is as easy as you try and make it sound.

It’s never easy replacing good operators.
But if Gale knows he’s going or if the Board know other admin are ready to leave it’s incumbent on the firstly Gale and the Board to have some succession planning.
It may not be an “appointment” but a short list and maybe some of that persons responsibilities are shared a bit until the position is filled. That’s so you have some continuity.
It will never be an easy task to replace Benny. His devotion, business acumen and passion for the club will be sorely missed when he does depart.
All Joe and I are saying is the Board and head admin would be derelict in their duty not to have succession and contingency plans in place, where they can.

 

[Brodders17]

Our lack of talent that we can put on the field has.

Good post Navy!

Especially this line- the talent we can "put on the field".

Injuries have robbed us of any chance to contend for the past 4 years.

 

[Quickdraw]

Benny has been simply brilliant.

If we can get someone as good it would be awesome. We sure won't get better.

 

[Redford]

Benny has been simply brilliant.

If we can get someone as good it would be awesome. We sure won't get better.

Yes we will.

 

[TT33]

Yes we will.

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[Brodders17]

Sorry, I'm not sure who this is.

You're obviously not a young female working in the footy industry then.

 

[TT33]

You're obviously not a young female working in the footy industry then.

That's very very true.

 

[JoeGee]

Don't think it is as easy as you try and make it sound.

It’s never easy replacing good operators.
But if Gale knows he’s going or if the Board know other admin are ready to leave it’s incumbent on the firstly Gale and the Board to have some succession planning.
It may not be an “appointment” but a short list and maybe some of that persons responsibilities are shared a bit until the position is filled. That’s so you have some continuity.
It will never be an easy task to replace Benny. His devotion, business acumen and passion for the club will be sorely missed when he does depart.
All Joe and I are saying is the Board and head admin would be derelict in their duty not to have succession and contingency plans in place, where they can.

100% this - it's not that it's easy to find another amazing CEO/president combo like we've just had - but it is 100% the responsibility for any company or organisation that doesn't intend to go bust in the next 10 years to have good and proper governance. This shouldn't even be a discussion - whether the new CEO is as brilliant as Ben Gale is yet to be seen, but we are talking about basic company director stuff.

 

[AngryAnt]

People leave, retire, die, get better offers, just want new challenges.

Good organisations find productive ways to deal with that, both in terms of attracting new talent and preserving IP.

 

[mad_tiggy911]

Is he definitely leaving?

 

[TT33]

Is he definitely leaving?

Who knows. But I hope not.

 

[Feeling Tigerish]

We won 3 flags, when you win 3 flags all the other teams look at what you did and ask themselves: how do we do that, but better?

The massive pressure, run all day, chaos game plan was great. But it isn't the same now, they added skilled disposals to it and we couldn't suddenly change our playing group to go with the change.

Also, remember we used to put 7 in defence until they brought in the woeful 6-6-6 rule. It wasn't just the ridiculous stand rule which was put in to combat our game plan, but also 6-6-6.

The irony of this is that the chaos crazy game plan we had was really entertaining. In changing the rules they have made the game less entertaining.

DS

Oh no, how could you forget? how could anyone forget gerard banging on and on and on about the "state of the game'. he would whinge and whinge about how the game was becoming unwatchable when we were dominating. he wouldnt directly accuse richmond, but he defintely implied it was richmonds doing. and as soon as we started our decline, and geelong chip chip chipped their way to a boring flag, not a word since about the "state of the game"

i used to think it was bs, that we were the most despised club in the land, but i am absolutely convinced of it now. But they will never admit it, because they will never want to give us the pleasure of knowing that. So they stick to the teams that are "cool and trendy" to hate, like collingwood and carlton and essendon etc etc

They would never want to admit that its actually richmond, but you know what, the flogs dont have to admit it, because you can see it in their squirmy faces when anything positive gets said about us, or you can read it between the lines when they talk about us. Our flags hurt ALOT of people, in the media, at headquarters, and in the outer.

I stayed humble throughout our dynasty, (mainly to not jinx us in any way whatsoever, im superstitious like that) but if we ever get to the top of the mountain again, i will be far from humble, and gerards show on sen will be my first stop. then that korn flogs show