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Does our club know what it is doing?????
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tony_montana
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Because he was unaccountable.
Because he was full of excuses for 7 years.
Because he cant manage a footy budget He actually reduced our salary cap well below %100.... dont you remember what it was like when we signed Campbell, Knights, Richo, Gaspar, Holland all on huge contracts.... so I cant see your claim being anything from complete CRAP
Because until wallace came along, he used to trade our picks away.Maybe he was being directed by the Spud???? and people that were at the club before him!!!once settled into the job he made a more calculated assessment
Because he wouldnt give up his North shares.The shares dont give him a dividend so big deal...
Because the club has more faith in Jackson and CameronMillers role is being replaced by some one else...
Because when we lost to the Blues, we looked like we hadnt gone anywhere in 4 yearsok so the blues match was the make or break game for Miller... do realize how stupid you sound???
Because Miller was all promise and no delivery. If he'd been sacked after the Carlton game, everyone on this board would have done handstands. Or if we'd lost to the Lions.
Miller delivered the one thing this club has missed for decades..... STABILITY.... He delivered patience and he delivered along with TW direction.
The anti- Miller and Anti- Wallace factions out there will never be happy.... it's these sad people just cant sit back and admit that the last 4 years has been the best 4 years this club has had since the hafey days... that we have finally built a list that is going to improve big time over the next 1-2 seasons.
tony_montana
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Free should be told to pull his head in and say nothing. Thought March was doing a reasonable job of handling the stuff up and things were dying down somewhat and now this just brings it back to the spotlight. Only thing I want to hear from the board in the next few weeks is who is replacing Miller. Even then that is probably going to be told to us by some muppet in the media before the club does. Hell the media are already tipping Schwab is going to get the job according to sources at the club. Yet we don't have leaks.
Actually I think the way hes gone abt the whole process is shambolic. The way he let our coach get hung out to dry and take questions all day ON THE DAY of our biggest game for years was a disgrace. He should have got on the front foot that morning, when he saw the press had blown his cover, to take the heat off Wallace. March is the puppeteer behind this whole mess, heres a list of his stuff ups:
-First, authorises and conducts a football department review MID SEASON! Shocking, what clubs do that?? Geelong and the bulldogs both did it in the off season.
-Brings on to the board Tony Free, puts him in charge of doing his own review on the coaching panel, and in the process Free has to learn on the job how football departments in the AFL run these days. Add to that didn't give him accurate direction on what exactly he needed/required from him. IE: dont go into it gung-ho and put our coaches noses out of joints
-Leaves our coach to fend for himself on gameday of our biggest game in years, doesn't come out and take the heat for what is his own doing!
I never really had an opinion on this guy, was low key just the way i liked it, however in the past 5 days, bc of a few silly decisions hes brought unnecessary negative press to our football club. Can you imagine how this will be excacerbated if we start losing onfield? Punt Rd will erupt and the papers will have a backpage story for the rest of the year.
Why? what on earth possessed this guy to go about it in this way
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Tony Free suspects someone in the club has been posting on BigFooty under the name Peter Sassegum.
Do these luminaries of the wonderful nineties really sit back and think that they are what we need at the moment.
This must be so dispiriting for Wallace. As much as I have not been impressed with his term, he bears the brunt of frustration and for Free to turn up like this would really have him shaking his head.
Do these luminaries of the wonderful nineties really sit back and think that they are what we need at the moment.
This must be so dispiriting for Wallace. As much as I have not been impressed with his term, he bears the brunt of frustration and for Free to turn up like this would really have him shaking his head.
How naive. Stability is built on results, something Miller always promised but bever delivered.
If you think we were stable go back and look at all the posting after we lost to the blues.
Only a few nut jobs think some one out there can do a better job than Wallace. Miller was lucky to hang on to his job as long as he did. The fact that no-one wanted him after the Roos SACKED him (apart from a desperate RFC at its low point) is testament to the fact that his best days were long ago as a footy manager at North.
tony_montana
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...all this whilst we are also looking for a new sponsor......... RFC
as well as looking to bring in Voss/Buckley types as assistant coaches
Class acts like them, who would be sensational for our club, would rather have their balls rubbed raw on a cheese grater than give us the time of day.
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So we judge the stability of our football club by the amount of negative postings on internet forums?????
Before Miller we didn't have a rookie..... we didn't participate in the PSD from 1997-2001... we were paying %100 of the salary cap to hacks....
Two lessons to be learned here:
1. Ex players are not necessarily experts or have merit to be on boards.
2. Casual vacancies and how they can be filled with virtually no communication to the members. Would have been nice to have had a say before the event and I'm sure a lot of people would have vented their concerns especially given the comments made on that website.
1. Ex players are not necessarily experts or have merit to be on boards.
2. Casual vacancies and how they can be filled with virtually no communication to the members. Would have been nice to have had a say before the event and I'm sure a lot of people would have vented their concerns especially given the comments made on that website.
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as well as looking to bring in Voss/Buckley types as assistant coaches
Class acts like them, who would be sensational for our club, would rather have their balls rubbed raw on a cheese grater than give us the time of day.
Exactly!!!!!!!! well done richmond football club... back to the "eat your own blood spilling days" that were so successful during the eighties and nineties.
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Well put... Tony Free has not earned the right to do anything at board level... he was not voted in by members, Miller was.
tony_montana
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exactly, not saying Miller was perfect, but he did a lot of good at our club which is glossed over by the ferals who love to look for a scapegoat. Im not necessarily against the club moving him on at some stage, but the way they have gone about it and the way plan B is looking just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Winning doesnt create stability, stability breeds success not the other way around. Look at Geelong, they got the backroom right years before onfield came good/ So too Hawthorn
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Lmao@ you calling Nut naive.
Check the facts b4 you speak.
Miller was CEO of North.
As for stability.yep since Miller has left we appear so stable
A Director who "learns on the job"! PFFFFFT
A Director who conducts un-authorised interviews 'Double PFFFFFFFT'
He should be shown the Director's door....... pronto. And I like the bloke, always did but that's immaterial.
A Director who conducts un-authorised interviews 'Double PFFFFFFFT'
He should be shown the Director's door....... pronto.
And I like the bloke, always did but that's immaterial.
I've got that sick feeling in my gut again. Obviously the whole off field department needs to get together, be frank and clear the air so that everyone knows what their role is and what needs doing, then get on with it. I'm getting the feeling it's a bunch of individuals running the club, rather than a team.
Tonys a Tiger, whoever he is, posted on Y&B. He was anti-Wallace, anti-Miller, pro Cameron Schwab and made a few statements
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hmm intersting conspiracy there froars, schwab and free would have been at tigerland at the same time...perhaps we can do our own "Pelican brief" and bust this wide open
I am delighted the way things are heading. Absolutely stoked.
Useless freeloader Miller shown the door. That was sooooo wonderful. I am still aching from laughing so hard
Free speaks the truth.
We're on the up.
If we do OK, then Wallace gets another gig. If he/you don't like it, then maybe you'd best stick to playing tapes of the '67 GF....
Useless freeloader Miller shown the door. That was sooooo wonderful. I am still aching from laughing so hard
Free speaks the truth.
We're on the up.
If we do OK, then Wallace gets another gig. If he/you don't like it, then maybe you'd best stick to playing tapes of the '67 GF....
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Lmao@ you calling Nut naive.
Check the facts b4 you speak.
Miller was CEO of North.
As for stability.yep since Miller has left we appear so stable
3 days in and I dare say that by 7pm Saturday we'll be firmly in the post-Miller era.
And much the better for having booted him out. What a clown that guy was.
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'We never carried out a full board induction with him and that will now happen.'
Love this quote. Feel secure in the knowledge that Free will now know the location of the tea/coffee making facilities, the whereabouts of the toilets and nearest fire escapes - and when to keep his mouth shut.
If he needs to be educated in the sensitivity of speaking to the media then we clearly have the wrong person in that position.
Love this quote. Feel secure in the knowledge that Free will now know the location of the tea/coffee making facilities, the whereabouts of the toilets and nearest fire escapes - and when to keep his mouth shut.
If he needs to be educated in the sensitivity of speaking to the media then we clearly have the wrong person in that position.
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Who the **** does Tony Free think he is anyway, he is a freaking director and shouldn't be saying a ****ing thing to the media, have we ever heard any other clubs directors speaking about this shit in public?
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Leave it to the President and the CEO
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Leave it to the President and the CEO
