lachy
Norm Smith Medallist
Despite sparring with the likes of Ernie and the Professor thier angst and thoughts towards the current coach are in allot of ways understandable. My 'opinion' is the board brought all of this on in their justification of not offering Rocket a new contract and appointing Macca.
David Smorgon was emphatic all all press releases that the list merely needed a refresh and not a rebuild. The was despite the fact that just about every knowledgeable football expert, commentator and even Stevie Wonder could see that after a few years crack at a flag and coming up short the list did need a full rebuild.
There was no major opposition to Rocket being offered a contract amoung any stakeholders within the club with the exception of the board. My opinion at the time and it still holds is that Eade should have been offerred a 3 year contract to give him time to begin a rebuild and show some signs of progress.
After reading Chris Grants comments in the Age article today it is clear that the board clearly knew there was some short term pain ahead and a full rebuild was necessary. They clearly beleived Rocket was unable to complete this rebuild and brought in a known developer in Macca as coach.
If the club was up front from the start, admitted they understood the parlous state of the list most of the debates would not be happening now as it would be acknowledged our list was in fact in terrible position due to poor results from the draft 2005 to 2009.
My opinion is they got this, and many things wrong since Campbell Rose left, and it is hard to prove you are heading in the right direction when you never articulated the direction you were heading in in the first place. Refresh v Rebuild two words causing allot of angst
David Smorgon was emphatic all all press releases that the list merely needed a refresh and not a rebuild. The was despite the fact that just about every knowledgeable football expert, commentator and even Stevie Wonder could see that after a few years crack at a flag and coming up short the list did need a full rebuild.
There was no major opposition to Rocket being offered a contract amoung any stakeholders within the club with the exception of the board. My opinion at the time and it still holds is that Eade should have been offerred a 3 year contract to give him time to begin a rebuild and show some signs of progress.
After reading Chris Grants comments in the Age article today it is clear that the board clearly knew there was some short term pain ahead and a full rebuild was necessary. They clearly beleived Rocket was unable to complete this rebuild and brought in a known developer in Macca as coach.
If the club was up front from the start, admitted they understood the parlous state of the list most of the debates would not be happening now as it would be acknowledged our list was in fact in terrible position due to poor results from the draft 2005 to 2009.
My opinion is they got this, and many things wrong since Campbell Rose left, and it is hard to prove you are heading in the right direction when you never articulated the direction you were heading in in the first place. Refresh v Rebuild two words causing allot of angst