Agree Leon. RFC is not run as a business its run as a hobby. NO ONE IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. Not the executive (the review we were having without apparently happening or our wonderful 5 year plan). Not the recruitment group - we still pay the same unsuccessful duds. Not the coaching panel where mediocrity is accepted as a norm - but we are brave and they are proud of the players. Not the players - the same players non performing continue to be played, everyone knows the names. If ever an organisation needed a massive clean out its RFC starting from the top. Have been a member for around 30 years and if there is (hopefully) a board challenge this year I will be supporting it. There looks to be no downside in a change at the top.leon said:
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When will Bernie go !!
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Always had excessive fear of what the opposition will do and not enough belief on his own crew.
This will end his senior coaching tenure with us more than anything else.
This will end his senior coaching tenure with us more than anything else.
Leysy Days said:
Seriously????????? You trying to tell people you believe the bland gibberish n media speak presented to the public by the coaches n players? All clubs, all coaches n all players sing from the same hymn book every week. Flap the gums but say nothing because saying something creates controversy for the media parasites to crawl all over, as they did a few years ago when Jaaack actually said something while flapping his gums.
Guess the players must have set up against GWS exactly the same as they're trained to do when Shai kicked the match winner as Cotch is reported as saying in today's paper. Only problem was there was a goal review going on so it might not have been a goal and the only idiots who didn't notice and wait for the call were the Richmond idiots, who set up wrong n didn't have time to reset when the call was made. Too busy celebrating instead of thinking n paying attention.
We'll learn from that. We'll get better. Translated to english = We're idiots. We *smile* up again.
On field leaders failed by not finishing off the game properly on both occasions, there's stuff all the coaches can do from the box in the last minute or two of a game as it's impossible to get messages and instructions out to the players that quickly. That's why there's supposed leaders out on the field to ensure all the players are set up in place correctly and concentrating on their tasks properly.
We've been shockers at conceding the lead in the dying minutes of games for years and shockers for conceding late goals or multiple goals deep in time on of qtrs also. That's the area of influence of onfield leadership.
TigerMasochist said:
Yet our leaders have changed constantly over that period. From Newman, Maric, Lids to the current group.
Do you see who the constant is over this period who drives the message/process and needs to ensure that message is so ingrained they know what to do.
Yep - The head coach of 8 years.
Current group of " leaders " have been around the place longer than Dimma. It's a rolling evolution from one generation to the next. Thirty plus years of mediocre recruiting, coaching, playing list, admin etc. etc.Leysy Days said:
Won't surprise me at all if Dimma gets nudged at the end of this year, unless we go deep into finals. Which would surprise me a hell of a lot more.
Far as I'm concerned though the players need to wear these insipid, incompetent last moment losses just as much, if not more than the coach. Every team has the occasional game where they get rolled over by a last minute charge or streaky error. But that's a swings n roundabout situation, it generally bounces both ways like a pointy footy.
What we've shown over the years is that we're still incompetent when it comes to shutting down an opposition side that gets a run on, or holding off a side against that last minute streaky surge. They keep bull shitting the public with their we'll learn from that, we'll get better chant. Beyond time the players started executing properly in those situations.
Sometimes it's just time for a leader to leave. Doesn't matter whose fault it is that the team hasn't performed but the change of the head honcho has to happen.
The only concern is can the next coach break this screwed up inability to rise properly this club has carried since the early 80s.
The only concern is can the next coach break this screwed up inability to rise properly this club has carried since the early 80s.
pretty obvious where the 'I'm so proud of the boys' comes from.
he's vulnerable and he desperate to keep the players onside.
I doubt he even blasted the players behind closed doors for fear of losing them again.
when a coach is compromised like that, time to go :hihi
he's vulnerable and he desperate to keep the players onside.
I doubt he even blasted the players behind closed doors for fear of losing them again.
when a coach is compromised like that, time to go :hihi
Baron Samedi said:
that's a much better post from you dude. people who know me know I have been saying this for years, but Dimma does not coach in the same way he plays. he is a soft coach who treats the players with kid gloves. His outward persona to me suggests he has never given the players a decent spray in his time as coach. Nor has he ever (as far as I know) smashed them with a dawn training session after a really pathetic loss. Some would argue this is how modern footy is, but I still think there is a time and a place for some of these old school techniques.
