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How dumb is the Richmond Football Club?
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Mac said:
Mate, you have hit the nail on the head. I'm a platinum member, after our last premiership success ( the 3rd in 8 years that I could really celebrate) I thought I had invested in the best stock. 30 years later, we live in hope and dismay.
been a member 29 years and saying it as it is what the club deserves, what have they given back? turning up every week, buying memberships, sponsoring barwon tigers( country group who raise money for richmond), driving up every week from colac and geelong, in return they screwed our season in round 1 2nd quater, the new oxford dictionary has richmond under screwed up, yes i will go to games still, but please tell it as it is, the result is richo misses most this season, its well known that favouring one part of your body can cource injury to other parts, as has happened.
:fing32tigerjoe said:
I suppose Fitzroy, we all know what happened to them, they became extinct.
Seriously though, the RFC Board have a major reconstruction in front of them, the football department, the coaches, the players, the facilities and the list goes on.
Question is are the RFC Board prepared to take the really hard decisions, or will they buck pass, back stab etc instead of facing up to the tasks at hand and make the right decisions no matter how unpopular with players, staff, members, supporters and the media.
The rebuilding process is going to take years, at least 6 years in my book before we can even think of being a serious challenge in finals football, probably closer to
10 before we can consider a flag realistic.
Will the members handle the idea of watching players go thru the motions, developing their bodies, making errors and getting flogged by superior teams, comfortable in the notion that in a couple of years, it will the other teams copping the hiding, or will the members want instant results otherwise its goodbye coach and Board?
This Club Review is just oh so important, its probably the most important item the club has instigated since SOS, which is truly saying something, but I happen to believe that the club is now in a desperate situation in terms of the playing list and its got to get the next few years drafting and development of the players spot on, otherwise I'm not so sure if Richmond will have a future. I just hope that the current Board is prepared to do whatever it takes to get Richmond back to the "eat em alive" (on the field) mentality, that was so dominant in the late 60's and 1970's.
Add Richo's hamstring injury handling
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Cousins having tightness in his hamstring and being put back on the field in round 1 when the game was all over - then his hamstring tears
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Starts to get a pattern of foolish medical errors.
Dumb is not the right word to describe this!
Coaches/Administration/Medical-Fitness Staff panicking to appear to be doing something when under extreme pressure is more like it.
To
Cousins having tightness in his hamstring and being put back on the field in round 1 when the game was all over - then his hamstring tears
One
Starts to get a pattern of foolish medical errors.
Dumb is not the right word to describe this!
Coaches/Administration/Medical-Fitness Staff panicking to appear to be doing something when under extreme pressure is more like it.
Baloo said:
Not much good though - if you only ever hear the song before the game and never after the game.........
Too many people walking on eggshells at Punt Road. Almost like everyone is covering their a... so they're not held accountable if something screws up. You learn from making mistakes albeit not repeatedly.
Don't give a stuff who gets upset, ousted whatever/ whoever. I just want my club to start displaying the passion for success that its supporters have been showing by turning up week in week out for close to 30 years. Look at the member numbers for the worst performing club in the AFL, just imagine what could be achieved with just a small taste of continued success let alone a flag. One day ................
C'mon RFC no matter how difficult the task, the supporters will stick by the club as we've done till now, just stop the rot once and for all.
Eat em alive Tigers
Don't give a stuff who gets upset, ousted whatever/ whoever. I just want my club to start displaying the passion for success that its supporters have been showing by turning up week in week out for close to 30 years. Look at the member numbers for the worst performing club in the AFL, just imagine what could be achieved with just a small taste of continued success let alone a flag. One day ................
C'mon RFC no matter how difficult the task, the supporters will stick by the club as we've done till now, just stop the rot once and for all.
Eat em alive Tigers
IanG said:
Thats not how it was reported on the broadcast - but more fool me relying on commentators as the basis of my argument - you're probably right......
This issue has to be covered off in any new club strategy.
It must be that caution is excercised in all cases where a player is suffering a minor injury which has the potential to become a major injury. I know this has the potential to be unworkable as most players carry a niggle of some sort, but I am more referring to situations like Richo and Cuzz. Neither should have come back on in the games when they first hurt themselves. The likelyhood is that we would have lost Cuzz for one week at worst and Richo for 1-2.
Greg Hickey has a very good reputation in the sports medicine industry but he hasn't exactly covered himself in glory this season.
And to the original question, every time the club has an option they more often than choose the wrong one..stupid or unlucky?
It must be that caution is excercised in all cases where a player is suffering a minor injury which has the potential to become a major injury. I know this has the potential to be unworkable as most players carry a niggle of some sort, but I am more referring to situations like Richo and Cuzz. Neither should have come back on in the games when they first hurt themselves. The likelyhood is that we would have lost Cuzz for one week at worst and Richo for 1-2.
Greg Hickey has a very good reputation in the sports medicine industry but he hasn't exactly covered himself in glory this season.
And to the original question, every time the club has an option they more often than choose the wrong one..stupid or unlucky?
Ghost of 29 said:
Or over-cautious?
Fortune favours the brave....................time to get brave Tigers....................
Aren't these things the kind of things that tends to happen to clubs that have a playing list that includes 6 30+yos? They are right on the ragged edge of physically being able to play at the highest level and their body tends to give way. They are the cream not the cake. Time to play the kids methinks!
