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Recruitment list management would be further up the list but hey even Cornes can see that
As I posted in the priority pick thread, our current percentage ranks us in the vicinity of such luminaries as Neeld-era Melbourne, the inaugural seasons of the expansion clubs and the dying whimpers of Fitzroy. Even still, all of those teams managed to win a game, so we’re potentially setting a new benchmark for awful-ness.
The biggest problem that I can see is that there’s not 1, or even 2/3 defining factors that have led to current events. While I appreciate that a football forum is a melting pot of differing opinions by definition, a scroll through the first page of this board can attribute our current state to:
- Nicks
- Our coaching team as a whole
- Our midfield structure
- Our forward structure
- Lack of overall talent
- Player retention
- Player development
- Drafting under Ogilvie
- List management under Reid
- Selection philosophies/
- Fitness under Hass
- Unaccountability of the board
- Chapman/Fagan/Ricciuto
- General contempt/indifference for fans
- Loss of trust between players & club (the camp)
The scariest part about this? All of these viewpoints have some validity to them to varying degrees, and solving a couple of them will have minimal effect on the club’s fortunes while the others are left unchecked.
I don’t see any way out of this mess without a clean out of the club from the top down, and as we’ve seen already, one of the few things the higher-ups are competent at is covering their own backsides ie the sham review of everything but themselves.
Anyone got any ideas on any meaningful change that can be impacted to stop us circling the drain? As much as I enjoy taking the piss out of the club, it kills me that we’ve turned into the laughing stock/punching bag of the comp.
Loosing Rendell didn’t help, it was a farceAll of this crap goes back to 2 people: Rob Chapman and Stephen Trigg.
It all started with the Tippett debacle.
Loosing Rendell didn’t help, it was a farce
Didn’t deserve the treatment he gotAgain more of Trigg's stellar work.
Didn’t deserve the treatment he got
AFL pressureAgain more of Trigg's stellar work.
AFL pressure
Exactly p poor leadershipOn who? Those 2 didn't have the balls to stand up to Dimwit and say NO. He stays.
There is no repairing this diabolical mess.
All of this crap goes back to 2 people: Rob Chapman and Stephen Trigg.
It all started with the Tippett debacle.
Get him backLoosing Rendell didn’t help, it was a farce
There is no coming back from this. If a Pine Forest gets Pine Beetle, all infected trees are cut down and burned. Scrap all the football department, and basically start a new
All of this crap goes back to 2 people: Rob Chapman and Stephen Trigg.
It all started with the Tippett debacle.
Also underachieving during the Craig days as well. 2005 was such a darn good team and then Roo lost his temper, got suspended and cost his team dearly that year.
Don't forget John Reid the architect of the Tippett debacle. I can almost 100% guarantee that Neil Craig would have also known about and rubber stamped the deal. The AFC has been the play thing of the Adelaide private school boys club.
But demetriou was the bastard behind it all as he happily let rendell move to collingwood. He effectively leant on trigg to sack him so a vic club coukd directly benefit. Demetriou should have been investigated for corruptionRendell didn't deserve to be sacked but WHO made the decision? Trigg. Who condoned it? Chapman.
But demetriou was the bastard behind it all as he happily let rendell move to collingwood. He effectively leant on trigg to sack him so a vic club coukd directly benefit. Demetriou should have been investigated for corruption
Are you kidding? The AFL and the AFL media are loving every minute of the Crows’ position.