That’s pretty strong words, wonder if some on here will start to believe the camp was a s**t show now?
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Roast Our fitness department - highly offensive/offended
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Punchy Bassett
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As fans we need to absolutely smash into the media about this, social media, sports show etc. Don't let up, if you want change that's the only way it will happen. And for once Rucci will let it all be aired as it is smashing the Crows. I intend to do so this morning.
Even they would look flat and lifeless once he was finished with them.
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Unless he wasn’t really aware. Sometimes the ceo finds out these issues far too late. Totally agree with your crow cast chat this week that winning premierships is not our number one focus. We almost need the club to have a financial crisis for it to wake up to why it exists. Being financially sustainable is an important support act but is not a measure of success for a football club.
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No, he won't.
Rucci wants the Crows to fail so he will be pushing for them to stay, I guarantee you that he'll be arguing that it's all just been bad luck rather than bad management.
The only reason I say this is that back in 2004 there was a group of us on here that weren't happy with the prospect of Neil Craig being given the job. We were very disgruntled about the process and the way we had been fobbed off by the club. We actually made an approach to Rucci thinking that he would love to have access to a group of disgruntled supporters that he could interview and write a hit piece on, but declined and said that he wasn't interested. He then started writing articles that massively pumped up Craig's tyres and endorsed him for the job so his agenda was clear, he will do what he can behind the scenes to help the worst option (in his eyes) come to fruition.
That's why I never buy any of Rucci's bullshit when he tries to argue that people only hate him because he applies a blowtorch to the club, once you look a bit deeper into things you find that he only ever strategically does it and it's always directed at some pointless crap with the sole purpose to try and make the club look bad.
Why write about Adelaide desperately needing to improve their fitness department when you can write about booing Robbie Gray.
If he lost his job, he would be offended
Burton is that type of guy, when the players have down legs he would make them run laps the next day.
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I recall a long piece about how nuffie latte sipping crows supporters who wanted Trigg gone had NFI.
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Continuity - running an player into the ground regardless of form or fitness.
Stability - the refusal to fire an employee regardless of performance.
Go crows
Stability - the refusal to fire an employee regardless of performance.
Go crows
Yes but Jenny do you really think these guys Chapman , Fagan and especially good friend Roo going to admit to making a major major disaster decision in bringing Burton back to club and then 2 huge promotions with no success to show why even in minor role let alone one of top 3-4 positions within club.
Then read that Burton leading a review into what went wrong .
MATE it was you that stuffed up everything
pre Season fitness -- sapping heart out of players
Camp.
Continuous hammy etc injuries -- taking all type of cohesion out of team and smashing players and team confidence.
No I will always support strongly my club but will never forgive this walking ego for what done to our proud club and have faith in those in charge if he not pushed out. Only have to demote him and his ego will take over and walk.
We don't have the cash to pay anyone out and pay their replacement and the tax if we go over the soft cap.
You don't pay much for loss making entities that have no history of profit making. s**t investments that just hamstring our ability to invest into our core business.
What review?
It's not, stability = continuity, the entire club is infested with this failing culture. Fagan is a joke and a fraud.
It won't matter, quality people intent on success won't stay at our club.
No, I don't believe he is. What I do believe is that the culture is so strong at the AFC that only a real change agent can resist assimilating. Fages has assimilated.
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And right on que Alex Keath out with a hammy
Don't forget the sage advice from the local toddler. Resetting the mechanism on its own isn't enough.
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We all know internal reviews are generally a whitewash. If there's a 'melt' before the review, they might just realize the members won't accept a whitewash and be more diligent with the review findings.
Perhaps more emphasis should be put on the fact that some of the players came back unfit at the beginning of the year. Which players, and why?? They were behind the 8 ball right from the start. That's very disappointing.
I've been posting for months that Smart and Harper will be doing our review. It was intended to be a piss-take, turns out to not be funny at all.
Pyke has the power, he's as much a problem as Burton.
Nice overreaction.
Do you really think the Fitness department would implement the exact same programme next year? I would have preferred that the club look elsewhere, but I can also understand them giving Burton the opportunity to redeem himself. If nothing, else there should be massive learning's taken from this year’s debacle.
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Not the dumbest.
