Frawley's biggest weakness

[Hungry]

He admires battlers. He likes a P-76 over a Ferarri.

In 1999 when he took over, we had too many players who couldn't kick. This has not been remedied.

The problem is, battlers remind Danny of himself - he admires their courage, their ability to make it against the odds, and forgives them when they cost the team with constant mistakes.

Remember the 2001 semi final? All Danny could go on about was his St Kilda mate Sziller. He played a good game but as an aquisition for the club, hurt us with constant mistakes, turnovers and missed shots at goal for two years.

Look at the other players he brought to the club: King (can't kick), Fleming (can't kick), Nicholls (can't kick, slow and fat), Hudson (past it), Houlihan (can kick, can't win a footy), Pettifer (can't hit a target), Vardy (can't do anything much). All battlers.

Then there's D. Kellaway, Rogers, Hilton, Biddiscome, Holland, Hall, Gaspar. All struggle to hit targets. All battlers.

Some of these players I admire, but you never will see a premiership team of battlers, and it's criminal that the club hasn't actively tried to weed them out, rather than bring more in (Fleming, Nicholls!!).

The other side of this is that Frawley doesn't know how to treat a Ferarri.

That's why Ottens gets thrown around the park like a rag-doll, Krakouer gets splinters on the bench, and that most of our better players seem unsettled, played out of position and inhibited.

Apologies for the kindergarten psychology, it's just the way I see it.

 

[Tigerbob]

Dont apologize.

Thats the best analogy if heard and its sooo blloody accurate its not funny.

Well said.

 

[Rampaging_Richo]

Hungry, you are a breath..........

Very accurate summary and something which goes a long way to condeming our club in the cellar for years to come.

I was saying to a friend last night, why wasn't Frawley copping any heat for his ineptitude over the past 4 years? I agree the list must ulitimately pay the price, but Spud has built this list, in fact he seems to have devoted some time with Greg Beck into identifying what the list needs and this is his end result ???

I have been told by a person who was involved at St Kilda while spud was captain and his summary of spud was honest, hard working, determined and not overly smart. It appears he uses the first 3 attributes to overcome his lack of smarts, but unfortunately, he has been found out and it is costing the club.

 

[MC24]

You are rarely going to get a Coach who is the whole package RR. That's why the support is so important, at all Clubs, but especially ours right now.

When RFC was successful, it had GR doing a lot of behind the scenes work and no doubt others.

When Danny started, it seemed as though he took on a massive task, without much in the way of support. That's what cost us, imo.

We'll have to wait and see what happens at the end of this season to know if the Club has done its homework and is serious about changing things.