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Neil Balme - Bring him back

West End, colloquially known as "wife beaters". Horrible stuff.

Used to enjoy Coopers (sparkling or pale ale) but have been off beer for years.
The entire coopers range is top notch
 
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Caroline Wilson on Footy Classified just then said that Balme had spoken to Mark Ricciuto late last week and told him he was staying at Richmond.
 
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Caroline Wilson on Footy Classified just then said that Balme had spoken to Mark Ricciuto late last week and told him he was staying at Richmond.
Always take Balme’s word with a pinch of salt.
 
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Balmey on Talking Tiger's admitted he had talked to Adelaide, but staying at Richmond is his plan.

He may be ageing but the club still needs to utilize him properly and make him feel valued.
 
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Everyone in the footy industry knows Balme is one of the best and smartest operators going around. Any AFL club would love to have a man of his experience and calibre at their club.
That said, it is imperative that RFC continue to find a way to make Balme's role relevant and central to the daily operations of the footy department,
I have no doubt that Brendan Gale and others have this front and centre in their thinking.
Balme will eventually leave the footy game as a Richmond legend, both on and off the field.
 
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Aren’t some of the great managers/ coaches in Soccer an other sports around the world in their 60s and 70s ?
 
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Everyone in the footy industry knows Balme is one of the best and smartest operators going around. Any AFL club would love to have a man of his experience and calibre at their club.
That said, it is imperative that RFC continue to find a way to make Balme's role relevant and central to the daily operations of the footy department,
I have no doubt that Brendan Gale and others have this front and centre in their thinking.
Balme will eventually leave the footy game as a Richmond legend, both on and off the field.
Balmey created the existing structure that elevated livo and Hartley in order to protect them from being poached
 
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Balmey on Talking Tiger's admitted he had talked to Adelaide, but staying at Richmond is his plan.

He may be ageing but the club still needs to utilize him properly and make him feel valued.
Probably meet to talk about potential trades and the free vanilla slice on offer.
 
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I saw this in the HUN today in The Score page in “ the whisper” section and wondered if it might refer to us and Balmey, and if so, how so? Or is it just some made up crap :)

” Has some fancy accounting with its salary cap come back to bite one contender who can’t call on a key off-field general because of the change in his employment title?”
 
I saw this in the HUN today in The Score page in “ the whisper” section and wondered if it might refer to us and Balmey, and if so, how so? Or is it just some made up crap :)

” Has some fancy accounting with its salary cap come back to bite one contender who can’t call on a key off-field general because of the change in his employment title?”

More off field undiscipline.
Cornes is right. We really are rabble.
 
I saw this in the HUN today in The Score page in “ the whisper” section and wondered if it might refer to us and Balmey, and if so, how so? Or is it just some made up crap :)

” Has some fancy accounting with its salary cap come back to bite one contender who can’t call on a key off-field general because of the change in his employment title?”
Is the whisper section a cover for journalists to just make up *smile* without needing to put their name to it? Sounds like something out of Women's Weekly.

On second thought, it sounds like something Jon Ralph would say.
 
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I saw this in the HUN today in The Score page in “ the whisper” section and wondered if it might refer to us and Balmey, and if so, how so? Or is it just some made up crap :)

” Has some fancy accounting with its salary cap come back to bite one contender who can’t call on a key off-field general because of the change in his employment title?”

What does the salary cap have to do with payments to off-field staff?

It may well be about Balmey, if they meant to say soft cap not salary cap. But I always thought Balme's change in role was to do with apprenticing a couple of people as he transitions to retirement.

DS
 
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What does the salary cap have to do with payments to off-field staff?

It may well be about Balmey, if they meant to say soft cap not salary cap. But I always thought Balme's change in role was to do with apprenticing a couple of people as he transitions to retirement.

DS

Correct Balmey's Livingstone's & Hartley's role changes happened in Nov last year before Covid and Soft Cap changes