Opinion 2018 Non-Crows #4: You say Potato, I say Portato (Cont in Part 5)

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Ah... Elizabeth Park.
Have never sh** myself so much in all my life both for my own safety and that of my 15yo son who was playing for Modbury about 20 years ago. Absolute thugs. They went around trying to kill our lads. Truly horrifying. And all with the raucous support and encouragement from their parents.
 

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Ah... Elizabeth Park.
Have never sh** myself so much in all my life both for my own safety and that of my 15yo son who was playing for Modbury about 20 years ago. Absolute thugs. They went around trying to kill our lads. Truly horrifying. And all with the raucous support and encouragement from their parents.
Played on Robbie Muir at greenacres or Enfield once. Shook hands at the start and left him alone.
 

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Salisbury North provides a friendly environment where families can come together and celebrate our great game. If parts of our family chose as adults to partake in responsible gambling using our first class facilities, we welcome that and hope that their time with us is memorable.


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For the record, I moved from Salisbury North 25 years ago after a series of localised incidents, like a siege in the neighbours' yard with STAR force in attendance and multiple roof escaping episodes. I never played club footy with them nor have entered the clubhouse (I don't even know if they have one)
Don't forget the bodies buried (bodies in the barrel murders) across the road from the high school on Waterloo corner road.
 
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Bit of commentary surrounding hanging on to coaches through some rough times: Bomber Thompson at Geelong, Hardwick, Buckley... rather than turning them over.

Trouble is that Richmond wouldn't have appointed Hardwick with this mindset. They would have stuck with Wallace.
 

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Bit of commentary surrounding hanging on to coaches through some rough times: Bomber Thompson at Geelong, Hardwick, Buckley... rather than turning them over.

Trouble is that Richmond wouldn't have appointed Hardwick with this mindset. They would have stuck with Wallace.
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Ah... Elizabeth Park.
Have never sh** myself so much in all my life both for my own safety and that of my 15yo son who was playing for Modbury about 20 years ago. Absolute thugs. They went around trying to kill our lads. Truly horrifying. And all with the raucous support and encouragement from their parents.
I once saw a ref in a soccer match in Elizabeth, run off the field fearing for his life. He got into his car and just drove away.

It was the most bizarre, funniest but saddest thing I have seen on a soccer field.
 

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Bit of commentary surrounding hanging on to coaches through some rough times: Bomber Thompson at Geelong, Hardwick, Buckley... rather than turning them over.

Trouble is that Richmond wouldn't have appointed Hardwick with this mindset. They would have stuck with Wallace.
Port should be kept Primus......

Gee I nearly kept a straight face.
 

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Got nothing on Le Fever high.
I played rugby as kid and played a few games for Brighton High as my school didnt have a team. We went off and played.Le Fever down at Port Adelaide. So one of the guys that was tackled was on the ground so one of the Le Fever kids stompted on his head as hard as he could. He cut the guys head open right down to his forehead, required tons of stiches. I ran up to guy and screamed at him "why the f... did you do that?" With a big smile on his face he said "Now he knows who I am". I was about to start throwing punches, but thought I would check to see how many Brighton boys were with me. To my surprise and disappointment they were all over the other side of the ground walking off and I was the sole dude who challanged the psycho who did it. Brighton stopped fielding a rugby team from that day on.
 

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I might be completely wrong, but I thought St Pauls OS became Mawson Lakes?
They did and now they’ve separated into two parts again.

The league is about 100x better than it was which is just as well. I remember having a player from Cedars show me the knife they were carrying in their sock on the field.

But not sorry to see Salisbury North or West go; weirdly I’ve never seen a Salisbury FC player throw a punch on the field.
 
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A piece from an article in he Advertiser (Tredrea) calling for independent reviews on both clubs:


Wayne Jackson and Rob Snowden the men to help SA clubs bounce back from disappointment of 2018

Forensic reviews must take place, but talk of internal reviews that rubber stamp minor change is rubbish.

Fixing it quickly can only happen if fresh, outside eyes are brought in to offer wise, experienced counsel and given the authority to find out the facts of what actually went on.

Two teams to have suffered similar fates recently are Collingwood and Richmond — funnily enough they’re the top two-favorites to win this year’s premiership.

After getting their houses in order, it is important both SA clubs spend time investigating how Richmond and Collingwood have turned around their once ailing on-field fortunes.

Two years ago, Richmond coach Damien Hardwick’s was on the verge of being sacked.

It took a calm and collected Richmond CEO Brendan Gale to task Craig Mitchell of Ernst & Young’s Sports Advisory Practice to review the Tigers from top to bottom.

Under the microscope was the club’s leadership, management, culture, coaching, training preparation, mental strength, infrastructure, systems and process, talent development and player list management.

Newly appointed, experienced football manager Neil Balme played a vital role implementing the football aspects of Richmond’s review, highlighting failings in the football operations and coaching departments.

Perhaps the most important finding was the recommendation to connect the football department and, in particular, players and coaches — enter the Tigers’ HHH program.

HHH standing for — hardship, highlight, hero, where all involved saw players, coaches and staff pour their hearts out to each other to build deeper connections.

Simple actions like players regularly going for coffee with teammates they generally didn’t mix with. A key moment was where the entire team hired a bus and travelled to Dan Butler’s 21st birthday in Ballarat, further building trust and affection among the group.

A very similar thing happened at Collingwood last off-season. Experienced football brain and newly installed football operations manager Geoff Walsh came in with fresh eyes and after a similar exhaustive review identified Nathan Buckley needed further coaching resources around him for success, the moves have paid dividends.

Fresh eyes are needed at Adelaide and Port to gain further understanding of what went wrong — and they must be from outside the club.

Two senior, well respected, independent, experienced SA footy heads are right now worth picking up the phone and asking if they’re prepared to help.

Former AFL CEO and passionate South Aussie Wayne Jackson is one, the other former Port Adelaide and Sydney football manager Rob Snowden; two experienced football people whose opinions are widely respected and listened to.

It obvious to all that Adelaide’s football department messed up the handling of the pre-season camp and they suffered far too many soft-tissue injuries killing their season — both warrant further external investigation.

Just because the club unsuccessfully tried to deal with the camp saga in the split round in a poorly executed press conference, they cannot sweep what happened under the carpet, key people must be held accountable.

Questions need to be asked how did the club find itself in this situation? And under whose decision was it to proceed when it was already flagged as being questionable for the playing group?

After underachieving so badly in 2018, both Adelaide and Port Adelaide have no other option but to bring in outsiders.

Experienced fresh eyes must shake the tree and get to the bottom of exactly what went wrong.
Would be great to install Wayne Jackson as our Chairman.
 
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