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Steve Hocking
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How does Geelong get to pick and choose if they play at their home ground this week? The AFL have said they want all games played in front of some sort of crowd. This has SHockings finger prints all over it.
He makes Sep Blatter look like Mother Teresa.
He makes Sep Blatter look like Mother Teresa.
In all the years I have watched footy there has never been anywhere near the number of rule changes that has overseen the game in the past 4 or 5 seasons since Shocking has been in charge.
I've almost lost count how many changes Steve has overseen since he came in.
It's been a systematic attack on the way we play the game of that I have no doubt.
This is not the administrators job. This is the role of the opposition coaches and analysts.
For all his changes it's barely impacted scoring(which was the goal), yet it has affected our gamestyle. We've been good enough to overcome these changes in spite of his attempts.
Not to mention the calamtous confusions of players, coaches & supporters of the endless rule changes & the MRO decisions.
It's just one failure after another with Steve Hocking. *smile* off Steve.
I've almost lost count how many changes Steve has overseen since he came in.
It's been a systematic attack on the way we play the game of that I have no doubt.
This is not the administrators job. This is the role of the opposition coaches and analysts.
For all his changes it's barely impacted scoring(which was the goal), yet it has affected our gamestyle. We've been good enough to overcome these changes in spite of his attempts.
Not to mention the calamtous confusions of players, coaches & supporters of the endless rule changes & the MRO decisions.
It's just one failure after another with Steve Hocking. *smile* off Steve.
Leppitsch admitted it on SEN. Said he had a discussion with Hocking after least season and they discussed Richmonds defensive superiority when it came to manning the mark. Leppitsch was no longer at the tigers so said he wasn’t giving away IP.
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
Caro just had a whack at Hocking about forming committees when he came in and now they're lame ducks.
Mike said Tracys uncle's second cousin said Gil McLachlan said Richmond had won too many premierships.
Your post "Gil said we had won too many premierships"
No, you are claiming something was said verbatim, but are taking third hand information and stating it first hand evidence.
Let us know if anything interesting happens on the show, I can't bring myself to watch it.
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
Some people watch youtube videos of people bursting huge abscesses. The free-to-air equivalent is waiting for Hutchy's abdomen to explode.
No I am not. I said it was reported, and it was believable.
As others have noted, a former Richmond employee has discussed it and has provided the first hand evidence, which enhances the believability of what was reported.
That says nothing about "it was reported". It says he openly admitted to changing the rules.
Serial campaigner, Cornesnob, continued his RFC baiting again on FC tonight, blatantly encouraging other clubs to go after our unsigned players, especially Shai. He claimed that they really had to throw a truckload at him, twice saying (words to the effect of) just like we have ripped out players from other clubs like GCS.
This knob is really getting under my skin. Where does he think PA's Dixon, Allir, Fantasia, McKenzie et al have come from? Free Agency and draft/trading rules created by AFLCorp are open slather for every club and heaps of players move or are enticed to move. Thus BEllis, Markov and Higgins have moved to GCS/StK.
This guy needs a kicking (verbally, of course). Just a bitter and biased fool.
You make an interesting reference to the MRO. I am not big on conspiracy theories but the fact is that for
some time now Michael Christian has been largely irrelevant to the direction taken by the MRO, this as all final decisions are now made by Steve Hocking.
Accordingly there is no independence or appearance of independence of that body the MRO, from the agenda of the AFL.
Hocking’s control over umpires also raises a similar concern.
The continual changes in umpiring interpretation coupled with the fact that the chief of umpiring unexpectedly left his job recently, gives me no confidence that our ongoing consistently poor free kick results, are just coincidental.
I find that I now have little confidence at this point in a fair and unbiased ruling on all things Richmond, and that last mark awarded to Josh Kennedy certainly didn’t help.
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Ha, just means I won't be attending games. Planning to watch the rest of the season on TV, finals included. Watching on TV amplifies the effect of the stand rule because you hear the umpires calling it all the time. You're watching the opposition's feet to see if they move off the line, and get annoyed when they get a break because the umpire's too slow. It really is a diabolical invention.
Imagine if he'd got his way with a free kick for spoiling the ball over the boundary.
Hocking's supposedly about to become Geelong CEO. Whatever gets his hands off the controls is good with me.
