How dumb is the Richmond Football Club?

[CarnTheTiges]

Dumb? or just incredibly unlucky. In the case of draft picks and injuries there is an element of luck involved - and it seems like none of it has gone our way for an awfully long time...

As for the game plan, contacts and administration.....

No, I wish they were unlucky, they're actually really stupid. Have been for years. I used to think it was the players, but it's the entire club and that's where the players get it from.

 

[Pandaboy]

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.

If too many people are walking on eggshells, wouldn't you think they would have taken the precautionary/conservative approach and not risk your best player (who is also 34)???

Dumb does not do this situation justice. This latest saga just adds to the comedy act that is the RFC. It's as if the circus act couldn't get any more laughable so we decided on this latest encore.

CLUELESS Players
CLUELESS Coach
CLUELESS Development Staff
CLUELESS Recruitment Staff
NOW CLUELESS Medicos

God help us. No wonder we are so screwed up, we can't even get the basics right. How much more of a joke can this club become??

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[Freezer]

Not sure the current administration deserves to be categorised with the current coaching and recruitment staff.

 

[Tigerhart04]

Eggshells can mean also "I'm not going to make the call on Richo to not play him, what if it backfired and we only lost by a point to the Swans. He may have kicked those 2 points and we've won the game, cripes not putting myself out that far". Since then of course, the tale is " Phew thank god it wasn't my call to play Richo, someone else can deal with the fallout".

 

[Pandaboy]

And in BREAKING NEWS . . . .it has been discovered that a number of the RFC's Medical Staff lied on their CV's and actually obtained their medical qualifications off the back of a cereal box.

 

[Streak]

Not sure the current administration deserves to be categorised with the current coaching and recruitment staff.

Steve Wright certainly doesn't.

 

[tigerinthetank2]

Steve Wright certainly doesn't.

Isnt Steve leaving ?
It is mooted that he is going Sydney to run a parade

 

[mb64]

Steve Wright certainly doesn't.

Agree,he's done a pretty good job

 

[Punxsutawney Phil]

I ask you, could a club be any dumber than Richmond.

Wouldn't have thought so. Dumb as a box of hammers.

 

[Hypoxic]

This post has saved me starting a new thread, which I would have called Misguided Loyalty, which is somehting I have been accused of. My only response was along the lines of "Oh yeah? Is not. Says you." But I didn't have any real come back.

In hindsight it has been misguided loyalty. If the RFC was a stock, I would have dumped it years ago. If it was the local garage, I would have switched to someone who could actually fix my car. Not many other entities enjoy such a return of loyalty like a football club and no more so than the RFC. It is of course different to these analagies, because of the emotional and tribal attachment with a team - and it's usually virtually impossible to change for a true supporter once they've aligned themselves. I always held the utter belief and hope that one day they would repay me, not understanding the nature of how a good team works (when I was a kid I didn't understand why the players in my team wouldn't do the things the players in other teams were doing - now I understand it's because they couldn't). The RFC of course hasn't repaid me and doesn't look like doing so for some time still. And yet I remain loyal. Why? It's not like the rewards are abundant. Are they loyal to me? If I let my membership lapse for a year, would they embrace me back as a gold member? I'd have to make my case to them pretty good - they might do it. What if it lapsed for 3 to 5 years? No way known would they reinstate my gold status. What if they invested in me for 27 years and I let them down for all but 2 of those years? How loyal would they feel toward me?

I won't be changing teams, but I currently don't have that unshakable hope because I'm older and can understand they have to build/rebuild properly and if they don't they will continue to perform poorly - I'll just be more philosophical about it.

And let's face it. They have been and continue to be dumb. It was one thing to put Richo back on against the roos as a game day tactic, but it is inconceivable to me how they didn't rest him against the swans. I was astounded he was was even considered let alone named and played.

At the risk of being repetitive.....if you don't like Richmond anymore...........GO AWAY AND JOIN CARLTON.

 

[Hypoxic]

Would have to be the biggest basket case of a sporting organisation on the entire planet.

Cannot seem to get one thing right.

If Gary March sends me any more warm fuzzy Fighting Tiger magazines I'LL SPEW UP!!!!!

Then spew up and GO AND JOIN CARLTON.

 

[Hypoxic]

Desperately.

You sound so desperate to join Carlton.

 

[sportshow]

this has cost us 10 yrs until next chance for premiership, with the weak draft this year, compromised for next two with gold coast, then the next two with sydney.

clean out now from top to bottom

march goes first, clean out majority of gutless weak board, then finance department (although this haven't done too bad), football department :clap , then need to delist 6-7 players (don't know what maximum allowed is?) - delisting these players with a view that weak draft - although we will probably trade these so called 'hacks' to other clubs who will then go on to star! :

in sheedy as president! :rofl (but wouldn't it work!?!?)

 

[Hypoxic]

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.

Live and breath Richmond in hope.

If you are dismayed....join bloody Carlton.

 

[Hypoxic]

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.

Its what makes being a Tiger SUPPORTER special....."RISKING HEAD and SHIN".......the success will feel so sweet.

 

[Hypoxic]

But we only get to sing it at 37% of all opportunuties for the last 26 years!!!!!!

But Geez, how good does it feel when we do get to sing it.

 

[geoffryprettyboy]

If Gary March sends me any more warm fuzzy Fighting Tiger magazines I'LL SPEW UP!!!!!

The club should hold off distributing the fluffy tiger magazine until next year. What else can Wallarse say? It'll save the club tens of thousands of dollars that should go to paying off the loan.

 

[Hypoxic]

Steve Wright certainly doesn't.

Steve breathes and bleeds Richmond and is doing a great job.

The only parade he wants to run is a PREMIERSHIP parade. Go Steve.

 

[Tigerbob]

Some people are pretty delusional.

I want whatever you smoke Hypoxic.

Anything that takes away from the reality at Richmond at the moment has got to be good!

 

[Freezer]

march goes first, clean out majority of gutless weak board, then finance department (although this haven't done too bad)...

Can you give me specific examples of where this current board have performed so badly please, and why you feel they are a "gutless weak board"?

Thanks in advance.