wrennyboy
4 Mar 2004, 16:58
Former Richmond director Tony Jewell has been given one of the AFL's most prestigious accolades as the 2004 winner of the Jack Titus Award.
In an irony not lost on either the Richmond Football Club or the league, the Tigers' 1980 premiership coach, who was voted off the club's board in January, has won an award that each year rewards an individual for providing outstanding service to a football club.
Jewell is believed to have been given the nod following a strong recommendation from Richmond president Clinton Casey and chief executive Ian Campbell. Coach Danny Frawley, whose performance was publicly and critically scrutinised by Jewell in Tuesday's Herald Sun, wrote in glowing support of his four-year mentor in a submission to the AFL.
The veteran Tigers football director has left the club shellshocked in the wake of his criticisms of Frawley that immediately followed the Tigers' second-round Wizard Cup flogging at the hands of St Kilda.
The Richmond coach, in the final year of his current contract, has refused to comment about the Jewell attack.
Jewell visited Frawley on Tuesday night, the day the article was published, and while the two men talked over a couple of beers the issue was reportedly not resolved.
Speaking to Sport 927, Jewell said: "Yeah, I had a couple of beers with Danny last night.
"We've all been in this industry a long time and we understand how it works.
"Danny was disappointed with what I said, obviously ... (but) as I said earlier it was just my point of view. I made a point of view (about) how I felt the team should play. And it's my point of view only," he said. "My views might be archaic."
Jewell said he and Frawley had spoken on the topic many times and his comments were not intended as criticism.
Although Jewell is no longer an official at Tigerland he had remained in contact with the Richmond football department and had remained a confidante of the club's football operations general manager, Greg Miller.
Miller is also believed to have conveyed his disappointment to Jewell, and Casey, who called Jewell from London, accused him of bitterness and severely damaging the club.
The AFL Commission has approved Jewell's Titus Award, named for the late Tigers champion whose run of 204 consecutive games was only broken by Melbourne's Jim Stynes six decades later. Titus also served on the Richmond board, selection committee and briefly coached the club.
Casey and Frawley are both expected to be present at the AFL's March 18 season launch, at which Jewell will accept his award. Neither was available for comment yesterday.
Jewell, 60, worked at Richmond over a period of four decades, first as an 80-game player, including a place in the Tigers' 1967 premiership side.
He coached the club in two short stints and is the last man to have coached Richmond to a premiership.
http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2004/03/03/1078295447848.html?oneclick=true
In an irony not lost on either the Richmond Football Club or the league, the Tigers' 1980 premiership coach, who was voted off the club's board in January, has won an award that each year rewards an individual for providing outstanding service to a football club.
Jewell is believed to have been given the nod following a strong recommendation from Richmond president Clinton Casey and chief executive Ian Campbell. Coach Danny Frawley, whose performance was publicly and critically scrutinised by Jewell in Tuesday's Herald Sun, wrote in glowing support of his four-year mentor in a submission to the AFL.
The veteran Tigers football director has left the club shellshocked in the wake of his criticisms of Frawley that immediately followed the Tigers' second-round Wizard Cup flogging at the hands of St Kilda.
The Richmond coach, in the final year of his current contract, has refused to comment about the Jewell attack.
Jewell visited Frawley on Tuesday night, the day the article was published, and while the two men talked over a couple of beers the issue was reportedly not resolved.
Speaking to Sport 927, Jewell said: "Yeah, I had a couple of beers with Danny last night.
"We've all been in this industry a long time and we understand how it works.
"Danny was disappointed with what I said, obviously ... (but) as I said earlier it was just my point of view. I made a point of view (about) how I felt the team should play. And it's my point of view only," he said. "My views might be archaic."
Jewell said he and Frawley had spoken on the topic many times and his comments were not intended as criticism.
Although Jewell is no longer an official at Tigerland he had remained in contact with the Richmond football department and had remained a confidante of the club's football operations general manager, Greg Miller.
Miller is also believed to have conveyed his disappointment to Jewell, and Casey, who called Jewell from London, accused him of bitterness and severely damaging the club.
The AFL Commission has approved Jewell's Titus Award, named for the late Tigers champion whose run of 204 consecutive games was only broken by Melbourne's Jim Stynes six decades later. Titus also served on the Richmond board, selection committee and briefly coached the club.
Casey and Frawley are both expected to be present at the AFL's March 18 season launch, at which Jewell will accept his award. Neither was available for comment yesterday.
Jewell, 60, worked at Richmond over a period of four decades, first as an 80-game player, including a place in the Tigers' 1967 premiership side.
He coached the club in two short stints and is the last man to have coached Richmond to a premiership.
http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2004/03/03/1078295447848.html?oneclick=true