Casey, time for you to go too.

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This is a joke.

I want rex hunt to be our next president. Casey, your time is up. Take frawley and brittain and F&^K off!!!



Defiant Tigers stand by Frawley
By Emma Quayle
April 19, 2004





Richmond insisted yesterday that it would back Danny Frawley through the final year of his coaching contract, and denied it was struggling to attract new board members.

The Tigers also said they would not "hide" defender Darren Gaspar in less-pressured positions should his battle for form continue.

It also emerged yesterday that the Tigers had approached former player and media personality Rex Hunt three times this year about taking an official role at the club; demanded that their under-performing senior players dig the team out of its slump; and would revamp the playing list at the end of the season.

Richmond president Clinton Casey said last night that the board had been clear on its position on Frawley and that there had been "absolutely no change to that" since the Geelong thrashing at Telstra Dome on Saturday night.

He also denied he had struck trouble finding replacements for directors Brendan Schwab, Peter Welsh and Michael Daddo, who quit the club last month.



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Casey discussed the team's plight, and the responsibilities that would be placed on its under-performing senior players, with Frawley and director of football Greg Miller at his home yesterday.

"I'm happy to go back on the record to say that the board's position on Danny Frawley is clear. He will coach for the remainder of the year and fulfil his contract," the Tigers president said.

Casey, who recently appointed journalist Anthony Mithen to his seven-man board, said he had "dozens" of applications in his office for the remaining positions.

"We're in absolutely no rush. We're going to work slowly through them because what we're looking for are people with diversified skills and expertise in areas we don't currently have at the footy club," he said.

"When we find those people, and we think they're the right people, we'll invite them to join the board."

Casey said he was "really disappointed" with Saturday night's result and had not expected the team to be in this position so early in the season.

He said had had asked for an explanation of the team's "lack of confidence and the deterioration in skill level" from the football department after the game and again yesterday.

But the president backed Miller, who he said would continue to turn over the Tigers' list at the end of the season.

"Greg made some very big changes last year and we feel they were for the better and that we have a young team that is going to take us forward," he said.

"At the same time you can't do everything at once and at the end of this season Greg is probably going to need to make similar sorts of changes if we are going to manage our list to be competitive."

Gaspar, who is returning this year from a knee reconstruction, conceded four goals to Geelong forward Ben Graham, spent some time on the bench and was later thrown forward.

Frawley said the full-back did not have the luxury of working his way back into form like an onballer returning from major injury because he was responsible for the gun opposition forward each week, but that he was "proud" and would fight back.

Gaspar conceded yesterday that he was probably a "step off" his best form, but said to play a less-pressured position to rediscover his "feel" for the game was not the answer.

"I wouldn't say it's crisis point. I think it's just a case of I've got to get on the track and build on my speed and get that speed factor back," said Gaspar, who had his right knee reconstructed last June.

"It's not easy. I've got a lot of work do to. I'm working hard at getting the knee right and getting back to top physical condition, but I guess I've just got to keep working at it."

Hunt said he had been approached by Richmond, where he played 113 matches, including the 1973 premiership, three times since Christmas but did not have time to commit to a board role.

Miller said the club's key senior players, including Gaspar and Joel Bowden, were playing "safe footy" and were subsequently down on form but that he was satisfied with the pressure coming from the VFL team.

"There's probably half a dozen there who could come in," Miller said.

"The senior players are letting us down. They know that they need to get better. We've got to give them all the help we can."
 

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Casey said he was "really disappointed" with Saturday night's result and had not expected the team to be in this position so early in the season.
So why doesn't this surprise me.


Even the players have lost faith in the club and who can blame them.

Casey,you're an imposter and you've become as transparent
as Spuds game plan.

We ALL Hate you.

**** off.
 

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bring back neville crowe.at least we know he has his heart in the right place.
one oput of left field.john ribot?[ex melb storm].
having said that im not sure getting rid of both the coach and the pres at the sametime is a good thing for the club.we have to at least have some stabilty on at least one front.

cheers!
 

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What a shame Leon Daphne left the club. He worked his ar$e off to get us back into shape financially and now it's all been undone by this incompetent baffoon. Rexy would be just the tonic. Hi profile, pationate, no-shiit, gets the job done.

Our club is a mess on and off the field.

Most clubs have gone thru pain but then lift and find some success but richmond seem to have failure embedded on the walls.
 
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Originally posted by Otto's ladder
Casey's a dill, Spud's a dropkick, Brittain can't speak properly, Loewe's the dropkick's mate, Spargo doesn't care, the boot studder is past his used-by-date and the blonde bloke that carries the whiteboard looks suss.

Get rid of the lot of them. Let Rex run wild down at Punt Rd.
Gee you know your coaches well, Loewe left last year. You'd don't even know who's coaching them team, so how do you know the team is being run poorly? Radio?


I'm not have a go at all tiges supports, just the ones that don't go to games, but know what's best for their club.
 
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Rex made it abundantly clear yesterday on 3AW - that he aint joining the board because he doesn't "have the time".

He then added the following:

He asked Caro why she doesn't put her hand up?

He then made an impassioned plea for KB to come home again
 

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I like Crowie - he is a genuine Tiger supporter. Same with Leon Daphne. At least you know they have the club's interests at heart and not their public profile.

But if we are in a lot of debt, who would want to come in and be a board member. This is what worries me is our financial situation and how bad is it actually. I don't want another Save Our Skins and i don't want the club to go to the AFL with cap in hand.

And i want real diehards on that board with footy and business nous to get us going again. Rex or Leon Daphne are for me. Rex for his "energy", profile and luv of the club, and Leon because he's done it before and, despite a few hiccups with Northey and other things, he left the club in a good financial position.

I hate Clinton, just in case no-one had guessed lol.
 

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Originally posted by froars
I like Crowie - he is a genuine Tiger supporter. Same with Leon Daphne. At least you know they have the club's interests at heart and not their public profile.

But if we are in a lot of debt, who would want to come in and be a board member. This is what worries me is our financial situation and how bad is it actually. I don't want another Save Our Skins and i don't want the club to go to the AFL with cap in hand.

And i want real diehards on that board with footy and business nous to get us going again. Rex or Leon Daphne are for me. Rex for his "energy", profile and luv of the club, and Leon because he's done it before and, despite a few hiccups with Northey and other things, he left the club in a good financial position.

I hate Clinton, just in case no-one had guessed lol.
Wasn't daphne voted out???
 

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My mind is a fog, but i think he left because he said he would resign if they sacked Walls mid season. Well, we did sack Walls and that's why he left.

Someone help me if they can remember please.
 

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Originally posted by froars
My mind is a fog, but i think he left because he said he would resign if they sacked Walls mid season. Well, we did sack Walls and that's why he left.

Someone help me if they can remember please.
I will help clear the murky fog for you Froars.

Leon was the president who sacked Walls and appointed Gieschen. He gave Gieschen the contract extension at the end of 1998. He said during the course of 1999 when things were going pretty much like they are now - that his presidency was linked to Gieschen's tenure as coach. That if Gieschen left he would go too.

Well histroy tells us that Gieschen "resigned" and Leon true to his word retired from the board. There was a huge push for him to remain but he handed over the presidency to Clinton Casey.
 

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We need a fresh start...

BEC out of all of them has to go then frawley.. i dunno about casey he seems to be doing ok. Since we cant get anyone else we should stay with him.

We might as well stick with them get the priority picks, get a new coach some new faces on the list a new board and make it september the changes not during the year. And let miller select the board and recruiting managers to help him out a guy like colin wisbey would be perfect. Would really steer our future in the right direction. He does nothing else other than watch young talent. We need that dedication.
 

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We've got short memories. Crowe and Daphne are part of the same bunch that has kept the club back for 20 years. Casey is the 3rd of the 3 stooges.

Crowe was a total loss as president. Daphne sorted our the finances, but single handedly wrecked our 1995 momentum by approaching Sheedy because boofhead Mal Brown was in his ear that Swooper knew how to get teams in finals, but wasnt good enough to win premierships.

He oversaw the exit of Swooper which was badly managed by Daphne to let a coach that got us into our first finals for 13 years leave the club WHILE STILL UNDER CONTRACT, made the desperate appointment of Walls, and then panicked and appointed Geishen.

You cant seriously think these guys are any worse than Casey. They're just as bad, and Casey should f%%k off the same way they did.

Bring back Ian Stewart.
 

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Here here 1980. Who in their right mind would want Daphne and Neville Crowe back.
I seem to recall a supporters revolt in 1998 that wanted Daphne out.
Remember, his administration was the one to sign all those duds, like Daffy, onto long term deals.
 
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Im still wanting a David Morgan led takeover tilt! You sex Rex might bleed...but rex knows what its like to have no money...we are down the financial ****hole... directors are liable for debts if a club becomes insolvent. I dont think Rex would put his family at risk of financial ruin to save the tiges.
 

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to 1980 and diggler.what very short memorys u2 have or should i say very selective memory,s.
wasnt it the same neville crowe who helped save this club from extinction?
wasnt it the same coach[northey]who actually started the ball rolling regarding brisbane once he found out we wernt coming to the party regarding a coaching extention in which the club had every right to do so considering he has one more year left to run?
 

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Tiger of Old, how many times were Richmond in the finals whilst Neville Crowe was president??? Are you saying that the club under him was a success? Were you not there when we struggled to win 3 games a year?

And how can you blame Swooper for wanting a contract extension when it was in the papers that the club had spoken to Sheedy about taking over? How can you blame Swooper for talking to Brisbane when he didnt get one, despite getting us into the finals for the first time since 1982?

If the club wanted to keep Swooper and prevent him from going to Brisbane, they could have held him to his contract which had another year to run. Why didnt they? If Daphne was such a good president, why didnt he force Northey to honor his contract which had another year to run?

No wonder the club has gone backwards for so long with supporters like you quick to defend underperforming presidents that either never got us into finals, or when they did, ran the coach out of the club.

Geez mate!
 
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I thought the upheaval at Board level is because Casey has rubbed most of the old board the wrong way.

If this true, can I suggest he should stay because his staying will mean we basically get a new board.

I kinda thought the 'Sack the Board' fans amongst us would be happy that Casey has told most of them to clear out.

Keep Miller, keep Casey, build the club around them.

(OK Casey haters, let me have it...)
 

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Originally posted by 1980
Tiger of Old, how many times were Richmond in the finals whilst Neville Crowe was president??? Are you saying that the club under him was a success? Were you not there when we struggled to win 3 games a year?

And how can you blame Swooper for wanting a contract extension when it was in the papers that the club had spoken to Sheedy about taking over? How can you blame Swooper for talking to Brisbane when he didnt get one, despite getting us into the finals for the first time since 1982?

If the club wanted to keep Swooper and prevent him from going to Brisbane, they could have held him to his contract which had another year to run. Why didnt they? If Daphne was such a good president, why didnt he force Northey to honor his contract which had another year to run?

No wonder the club has gone backwards for so long with supporters like you quick to defend underperforming presidents that either never got us into finals, or when they did, ran the coach out of the club.

Geez mate!
how many times did we make the finals under neville crowe? well hell we couldnt even pay the boot studder let alone a list of players.we had to make do with what we had and could afford.does a young gale,free,lambert,knights,hogg etc ring a bell?

as far as northey goes he walked out on the club after being knocked back for an extention then you expect the pres to say to the players ok swooper is going to coach us again next despite him walking out on the club in the 1st place but he has a contract to honour.

how ironic your calling supporters like myself bringing the clubs to its knees when its a fact its supporters like yourself who put so much pressure on the club to make a change to shut you guys up.and what a raging success that policy has been.now we have a rep where not even the best coach,s in the comp[at rightly so]wont touch us with a barge pole.
 

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You just cant be serious that Crowe and Daphne were good presidents and support bringing them back. I'm sure you know better than this.

By the way, you're starting to spell and type like Cairo. Calm down or your wife will move you to Egypt.
 

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Originally posted by 1980
You just cant be serious that Crowe and Daphne were good presidents and support bringing them back. I'm sure you know better than this.

By the way, you're starting to spell and type like Cairo. Calm down or your wife will move you to Egypt.
what part of the response about crowe didnt you understand?
as for daphne his only mistake was aligning himself with a doomed coach.he got us on the path out of debt and left the club in good shape off the feild anyway.

who is cairo?:p
 

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Fine, lets agree to disagree. Crowe and Daphne were good for the club financially, but a disaster on the playing side of things. Unfortunately, we're not a company listed on the ASX. Playing in finals is what footy clubs are there for.

The only one bright playing year we had in all the years collectively between the Crowe and Daphne administrations, was 1995. And Daphne's appointment of Walls and Geischen took care of that blimp.

But for me, Richmond's darkest ever days was when Neville was president. I remember those days well. I would go to the games never expecting to win, but hoping at least to see Andy Goodwin thump someone.

And for the record, you ever get a chance to speak with Lambert (who you've quoted below), he'll tell you the administration kicked him out of the club after he raised the players concerns with what the administration was doing. You ever speak to Campbell about why he wanted to leave and go to North, he'll tell you he was pi$$ed off the administration ran Northey out of the club.

Anyway, 2 weeks ago you were supporting Frawley. Now you're as much a feral slagging Frawley as the rest of us. Thats good enough for me.
 

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Leon was great. He got us into a great financial position, started the Jack Dyer Foundation which was to go the rebuilding of the club's facilities - and which people gave to in good faith that that was what it was for - and now that money has gone elsewhere.

Casey has alienated the board for some reason - I don't believe work commitments in the case of Woosha, and for whatever reason Schwab had, you don't do it on the eve of a new football season unless for a darn good reason.

Clinton has shown his face to the Richmond supporters only when pressured to do so. He is not the public face of Richmond where he should be out there telling supporters what's happening with their club when things go wrong like now.

His effort on the Footy Show coming out and talking about what's happening at the club told me nothing. Then he goes and appoints some poor young lacky journalist who i haven't heard a word out of since.

They say the players lack leadership - well i think the whole club lacks leaders. Only Miller, to my mind, is doing his job effectively, and thank god for that.

Clinton is a fraud. Came in guns blazing, going to do this and that. What have we got now? We're the greatest joke in the football world how we run our club, and it annoys me that Leon had to stand down when we were finally getting somewhere. May not have been on the field, but the finances were in such good order that we could have by now been playing off for a premiership. Nope, not us. Some Essendon supporter joker invades our club for his own selfish self-promotion, and totally wrecks the greatest football club going.

And whoever thinks Crowie wasn't a great President don't know nothing. The work he did to fight for this club's existence was second to none, especially at a time when his own business was suffering. And the reason we had to fight for our life was because of previous administrations of the club and our continuing fight with Collingwood poaching each other's players. Not Crowie's fault we were in that position.
 
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