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Some people manage to do it.How can you defend the indefensible???
All of that may be true, and I suspect it is but Neesham and McNeil were knuckleheads/completely out of their depth in terms of football/list management and it took a long time to work his clangers out of the system. then you add in a WA football mindset that just wasn't suited to VFL style football in the late '90's and you have our history in a nutshell.It's not Neesham's fault that he was given the job. It's the people who put him there. And the people who put him there probably aren't to blame either. It's probably the people who put them there. If you follow what I'm saying, you would know I'm talking about the WAFC.
It's no secret that the WAFC wanted to ride the WC success wagon for as long as possible, which they did until the recent off-field collapse of the WC empire. Freo were always there for competition, to give WC more appeal. A Freo that functioned without making a profit would still bring dollars to the WAFC, through the WC channel.
And then maybe we can go a step further to blame the AFL, for giving the licence to the WAFC and for giving us virtually nothing to set us up with. I'm sure you're all feeling the same way about the Gold Coast concessions - bitter. The AFL know that they need to have the Gold Coast team hit the ground running, because they don't have the passionate supporters of the Fremantle area to survive a sustained period of limited success. We were given nothing near the sort of love the Gold Coast have been given.
No wonder Andrew McLeod walked out of the interview with Neesham when he was asked to take his earing out. Neesham was sitting in a pathetic demountable office. I would have been asking who the F... Neesham was as well. Do you blame Neesham for being a no-namer, or the WAFC for giving us demountables...and next to no facilities.
Freo were set up to be poor. The AFL gave us nothing because they knew that we would fight our way into a competitive state. The WAFC gave us minimal assistance, because they adopted Freo to keep their biological son WC company. The board at Freo were just useless, and the coach had never taken a team interstate.
In a case that stinks of conspiracy, it's not surprising the WAFC offices were situated in the Subiaco Freemasons Hall until recently.
oh and cheers for Naita chrisConnolly was really the backbreaker. Freo managed to recover a little from the neesham rabble, then along came that imobocile to trade away the future. well done chris
I'm sure it takes one "imobocile" to spot another, you are seriously just posting fail after fail
BF is hardly representitive of intelligence. You're a testament to that. You knew what i was on about flog, but you just chose to ignore the factsA spelling error well done
I think Karmichael Hunt will pick up the game faster the NicNat. You guys have blundered the last couple of drafts - no class amongst your lot and you know itConnolly was really the backbreaker. Freo managed to recover a little from the neesham rabble, then along came that imobocile to trade away the future. well done chris
It's not Neesham's fault that he was given the job. It's the people who put him there. And the people who put him there probably aren't to blame either. It's probably the people who put them there. If you follow what I'm saying, you would know I'm talking about the WAFC.
It's no secret that the WAFC wanted to ride the WC success wagon for as long as possible, which they did until the recent off-field collapse of the WC empire. Freo were always there for competition, to give WC more appeal. A Freo that functioned without making a profit would still bring dollars to the WAFC, through the WC channel.
And then maybe we can go a step further to blame the AFL, for giving the licence to the WAFC and for giving us virtually nothing to set us up with. I'm sure you're all feeling the same way about the Gold Coast concessions - bitter. The AFL know that they need to have the Gold Coast team hit the ground running, because they don't have the passionate supporters of the Fremantle area to survive a sustained period of limited success. We were given nothing near the sort of love the Gold Coast have been given.
No wonder Andrew McLeod walked out of the interview with Neesham when he was asked to take his earing out. Neesham was sitting in a pathetic demountable office. I would have been asking who the F... Neesham was as well. Do you blame Neesham for being a no-namer, or the WAFC for giving us demountables...and next to no facilities.
Freo were set up to be poor. The AFL gave us nothing because they knew that we would fight our way into a competitive state. The WAFC gave us minimal assistance, because they adopted Freo to keep their biological son WC company. The board at Freo were just useless, and the coach had never taken a team interstate.
In a case that stinks of conspiracy, it's not surprising the WAFC offices were situated in the Subiaco Freemasons Hall until recently.
I’M HERE
Just remember there were only two applicants for the coaching job, Neesham and Ken Judge. Neesham was a coach who was asked to be a coach, talent scout, recruiter, list manager and marketing manager with no money, no training facilities, no support staff, NO F*** ALL!!!
Now look at his record 1995 8 wins - 1996 7 wins – 1997 10 wins – 1998 7 wins
How many wins have we had this year ???
