Frawleys Messege for '04

[rfctigerarmy]

Frawley's message for 2004
Matt Burgan
afl.com.au
6:54:23 PM Sun 31 August, 2003



Richmond coach Danny Frawley believes the club is craving for respect and that’s what his message will be for 2004, after the Tigers ended their disappointing 2003 campaign with a four-point loss to Hawthorn at the MCG on Sunday.

Frawley hinted at strong on-field changes over the coming weeks and was adamant that it was time for the club to stand up.


“The responsibility lies totally with me, so there’s got to be some really honest decisions made over the pre-season,” Frawley said.

“There’s obviously the word respect (which) we wanted to gain at the start of the year, (but) we were unable to achieve that. So that’s an area we got to make sure that as a club we crave that and we desire that and we want that. At the moment we haven’t got that.

“That’s the thing that’s going to get me out of bed tomorrow morning – looking towards next year.

“I think off the field, we’ve made some terrific appointments. Off the field the club’s in a terrific state, regardless of what people would think, but obviously on the field, that’s my responsibility. We have to make sure that we get Richmond up where they should be.

“It won’t happen overnight but it will happen. That’s a fact.”

Frawley said he was hungry for success and added that ‘it was going to be a good summer’ and that his players were ‘looking forward’ to starting the pre-season period.

“We know we’ve got a hell of a lot of work to do, so if you’re not ready to relish some hard work and get a bit of dirt under your fingernails, well come and see me now,” Frawley said in reference to his players.

“As a club, we’re really close (but) I think people outside our club have tried to delve in and say ‘What’s the issue’. But we realise that the on-field performance isn’t good enough and that’s why people do keep asking.”

“It’s been an inconsistent effort in the latter half of the year.”

An emotional Frawley said there was ‘no excuse’ for key injuries or poor form ruining the Tigers’ season and added that there were a ‘whole range of issues’ why the club had fallen away in the second half of the season.

The Tigers have won just one of their past 14 games – a 10-goal win over the bottom-placed Western Bulldogs in round 17 – after starting the season in impressive fashion with a 6-2 record.

But he was adamant that he was ‘not going to sit here and use any excuse whatsoever’ as ‘excuses are for losers’.

“The responsibility of the on-field performance is totally (with me). The buck stops with me. I’m not going to shy away from that. I relish that. I’ve been able to do that throughout my career,” Frawley said.

“But as the senior coach of our club, we’re really disappointed with our year, after a promising start. We’ve let a hell of a lot of people down. So we’ve just got to make sure our supporters and members get the respect they deserve.”

Frawley said he was ‘not going to talk about’ the trading period or the type of players that the club would be targeting in the off-season, while he didn’t buy into the debate of whether he would be seeking a contract extension in his coaching career.

“I’ll be looking forward to the next contest. That’s all I’m going to be looking forward to and that’s going to be out on the track in November. That’s all you can,” Frawley said.

Asked what went wrong with the Tigers in 2003, after they won six of their opening eight games for the year, before finishing the season with just one more win, Frawley said: “(We) probably (should) not (have) got onto the plane to Perth (to play West Coast in round nine). (We should have) stayed home. It all turned sour after that.”

 

[Piping Shrike]

I can't make any sense of his message. Looks like a bunch of cliches.

Personally I can't see much changing next year, except perhaps the coach, eventually.

 

[One-eyed Tiger]

Same ol' same ol'.

Used to like and respect Spud, problem now however is that I just don't believe him. Everytime he goes on about "respect" it makes me cringe. He is like the little boy who cried wolf and and as such I NO LONGER BELIEVE A WORD THAT COMES FROM HIS MOUTH.

He has a crap cliche for every occasion.

How do you get respect?........easy............win ****in games!

I've got a cliche to direct to the entire Richmond football club.............ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.

I will follow the offseason with interest. If any one of the following players are on the list next year then I'm gone.

ie Mills, Houlihan, King, Biddiscombe.

 

[TheFoxhat]

Spoke to Kingi at the end of season players drink on sunday night at the SWAN hotel (Campbells' pub ) it didn't sound like they were going to keep him...

 

[One-eyed Tiger]

Was King upset. Surely it wouldn't be unexpected.
I could never question King's courage.
Unfortunately endeavour can only take you so far. His lack of size, pace and skills let him down.
Looks like "Slippers" will have to get a real job.
Reckon he's done well to play AFL for as long as he has.
Any chance we can arrange to have King's heart transplanted into Pettifer?

 

[empire]

blah,blah,blah

Richmond will continue their mediocricy yet again.

20 + YEARS OF CR-AP.

That is a whole generation.

Richmond are a club going nowhere-fast,and part of the reason is the supporters who continue to accept the crap that is fed to them from the hierarchy and the players.

Boycott memberships next year and you will see how quickly they will change.


It is a shame that a once proud club is now so low.

 

[Showbag]

Re: blah,blah,blah

Originally posted by empire
Richmond will continue their mediocricy yet again.

20 + YEARS OF CR-AP.

That is a whole generation.

Richmond are a club going nowhere-fast,and part of the reason is the supporters who continue to accept the crap that is fed to them from the hierarchy and the players.

Boycott memberships next year and you will see how quickly they will change.


It is a shame that a once proud club is now so low.

I want to tell the damn troll its wrong and that it would be well served to keep off the computers whilst it was undergoing treatment. But I can't. I can't see too much wrong with that. Well, I don't intend to not buy my membership next year, aside.

 

[Rodgerramjet]

Empire

Empire get stuffed, your advice is the surest way for us to kill our own club. We all need to buy our memberships again next year.

Just a bit on the respect bit that Frawley continues to go on about. I think he over does it on this line, we couldn't give a rats backside about respect, what we care about is winning.

If he goes on about respect to the players continuously then he is going about it the wrong way. The players aren't playing the game to get respect, there supposed to be playing the game to win a premiership, if they play the game to win and to win the premiership and do win the premiership then they will have all the respect they ever wanted without ever trying to get it.

Respect is being hated in our game and the way you become hated is by winning, how many people hate Collingwood, plenty I can tell you... Why? because they win, because they are out spoken, because they have a walking publicity machine in Mcguire and they can back up that publicity machine because they have a good coach that knows that the premiership is the goal, not craeting respect for the team, who gives a $hit about respect.

Our coach seems to think that going out and giving a good contest is enough ( at least we're competitive seems to be his level of achievement... well, listen here coach we aren't St Kilda we have won 10 times as many flags as that team and i'm here to tell you, we didn't do it by trying to gain the respect of our supporters or the rest of the football world either, to hell with that think) he seems to think that by being competitive will gain us respect, he is deluded if he thinks that. Losers try to be competitive, winners dominate and its the lesser lights underneath that try to be competitive.

In short winning a premiership is what the supporters want, we don't give a damn about being competitive, we dont give a damn about being respected by others, but we do give a damn about the necessary steps and actions being taken at club level to ensure that we do win a premiership because thats what we're after, to hell with respect.

 

[sethlad]

Agree with most of that but I do think the respect line is debatable.

I do give a **** about respect.
Not from the fans,not from the journos.
But respect from the opposition is Essential.
We are a laughing stock,it's painful but true.

Other teams consider Richmond a joke.
The game is played above the shoulders too nowadays.
When we run out against a top team,the game is virtually lost.
Look at our record in crunch games,it's laughable.
Sure,we might put up a brave effort for a half but eventually we fail.Opposition teams expect mediocrity from us,under pressure,that's how we perform.

I dont pretend to know the answers but culture around a club is so important.The last week proves we have it,where has it been hiding?

Until we can prove with our performances that we are worthy,I'm talking 3 or 4 yrs consistently,the rest means nothing.

Seth.

 

[Rodgerramjet]

Seth

Seth if you concentrate on winning and winning well and not concentrate on just being competitive the respect part takes care of itself because sides will stand up and take notice of us.

 

[wagstaff]

Originally posted by rfctigerarmy


“It’s been an inconsistent effort in the latter half of the year.”

Inconsistent? I thought Richmond were consistent.

Consistenly awful!

And I agree with the reactions to Frawley's words, just meaningless drivel from someone who's only there because he has a year left on his contract.

And contrary to what the report said about Danny being emotional, he's hardly been emotional at all this season, almost bordering on dispassionate. Why? Because of the negative reaction to his emotional, empty-headed tirades during the 2002 season. In the end, it doesn't matter whether emotion is or isn't involved, he still talks drivel.

He just seemed to be going through the motions in the latter stages of the year. A classic example was after the Round 19 St. Kilda debacle. His comments after the match were pretty mild considering the side had been belted. Yet he did a complete turnabout on the Monday and at a press conference was there with Richo making big proclamations about how the performance wasn't good enough and so on. The only reason he did the Monday press conference was because of supporter anger at the performance, it seemed to be a pretend show of anger by Spud and the phoniness shone through.