Reading all this information about what was said at the Forum just has my blood boiling.
What hope does this football club have, I ask, when our Football Department is full of such a bunch of complete and utter losers ? Frawley, Beck, Miller, Hutchison etc. …their statements over the course of this year indicate that the whole lot of them are dumb, deluded, egotistical and completely un-talented for the roles they are supposed to be performing. Every week there is a different statement on where we are going, what needs changing, what there interpretation of things is.
We just have no hope in the world while the quality of people in the Football Department is just so downright pathetic.
Effectively, what these losers have been telling us over the last few weeks is that even though they acknowledge we have a crap playing list (oh, and that really, its been crap for some time even though we did say after 2001 we were close to being premiership contenders !) we will, never the less, continue to:
a) recruit discards from other clubs to solve the problem b) trade away a lot of our draft picks in order to get these discards - despite constant media bashing and member anger at our refusal to re-build the proper way c) not make that many changes anyway because we really don’t have the guts to move enough players on d) make up pitiful excuses like injuries etc. as having an impact e) pay ridiculous sums of money all the while to these duds that remain.
And what is this utter garbage coming out of Miller’s mouth about how hard it is to make significant inroads into a playing list ? What crap that is. He’s just like every other RFC representaive at that level. He doesn’t have the guts to take us 2 steps back to go 1 step forward.
I agree Harry, I have never heard such a bunch of excuse makers like these blokes. They stick their collective heads in the sand at every failure they present. They have no guts, no foresight and certainly no intelligence. Fancy suggesting our year could have been vastly different if it weren’t for a couple of incidences in a few games ! Whaaaat ? We’ve bloody well lost 12 out of our last 13… or what ever it is !
Fancy taking a termination clause out of a guy’s contract that has a losing record like Frawley’s ? Insane. Just insane. Fancy Miller trying to suggest that Frawley is not responsible for the playing list ? Ha ha ha….what an insult to our intelligence. As Ridley pointed out on separate thread, every player on the list has either come to the club, or been through a contract negotiation, during his tenure. As I’ve posted on this site before, Frawley personally canned the trade of both Daffy and Bourke years ago. Frawley coaching next year is an absolute disaster for us. Great move Miller.
Forget all the spin doctoring of Casey and Greenberg about how good our Football Department is because it is a joke ! I’ve met Hutchison and he is a moron of a bloke. Ditto Frawley. I know people from North Melbourne who reckon Miller is nothing but a recruiter that did well in the 90’s and has lived off that reputation ever since. Outside of that, he isn’t that talented. He nearly bankrupted North as their CEO.
We appoint crap coaches. We get crap footballers from other clubs. We recruit youth minimally, and even then half of them are hopeless. The ones that are any good don’t get much of a run. All the while these duds that we’ve got grow into 4 or more year players that are grossly over paid.
This football club needs a complete cleanout - again. This time, however, replacing it with people who actually know what the hell they are doing. And you're right Harry. That means starting with a new board that would have the sense to clean out the Football Department completely, including Frawley, Brittain, Crocker, Hutchison, Spargo, Wheadon, Miller and Beck. Then, the new board would advise the new football department that it has 3 years within which to completely re-vamp the playing list and have us playing in the finals each and every year. The football department would then appoint Wallace as coach, Scott Clayton as Recruiting Manager, ensure that 10 players were deleted in the first year and another 10 in the next. Under Wallace and Clayton replacement players would come via a combination of astute recruitment from other clubs (not bloody hack discards) and national draft picks. In the 3rd year we should be in, or very close to playing finals football with a vastly more promising list. Thereafter we should be finals participants for a number of years.
Sound familiar ? Look at Collingwood.
Maguire took over a crap board and replaced half of them. He then got rid of Shaw and replaced him with a decent coach in Malthouse. Malthouse then turned over 22 players in 2 years whilst getting remaining players to lift their game under a better system. He then complimented this with a blend of youth via the National Draft by using the talents of Noel Judkins (a half decent recruiter, unlike Beck) to recruit Lonie, Cloke, McGough, Didak etc. etc.
The new slogan for Richmond next year should be:
Mistakes. Excuses. Forever !
