The Ghost Of Glenferrie
Cancelled
Rain Man..
Great reading!!
This needs to be wiped under the nose of Pelchen as to how a list is determined, not on a bias subjective opinion that is outdated... like from the 70s
Chris Pelchen's only interest in this matter is that he is starting a new company called the STAR Network.
Sports Talent Assessment and Recruiting.
Simply put Graham Wright and Alastair Clarkson's ideas completely threaten his business model by advocating a far broader strategy to list management, talent identification, team building and premiership success than what his company is selling.
The same logic applies for the lower rung nitwits in media, like Cal Twomey, Adam Landsberger, Michael Warner et al; who in the absence of being anything or anyone meaningful with the world of AFL media, are consigned to scratching out an existence as bottom feeders - analysing the draft, TAC CUP or scouring night clubs trying to dig up scandals on players.
On occasion, someone of meaning will get sick, and they will get thrown a bone. When this happens they might get to write about increasing food prices at stadiums, the condition of the playing surface at Etihad or if they are really lucky are assigned a radio shift from 5-8 am on a Sunday morning to review the little league games.
You get my drift. They are nothing.
As an aside, do you ever wonder how they occupy their time between November and March?
It can't be media work, perhaps they work as Christmas staff at one of the retailers?
Wright and Clarkson are taking an intellectual dump on what they do for a living and these people don't like it. They are exposing them as charlatans, parasites and pretenders. They expose them as the weaker species who survive on the juices of superior animals.
Pelchin has no interest in understanding the broader strategy of the HFC, as it would be counter intuitive to what he is trying to sell.
I would even go so far to say, that he hopes that the new approach of the HFC fails. This would provide him with the platform to stand from the highest roof top, so he can trumpet his one dimensional product offering.
There's an old saying that no one knows what's going on in a marriage, except the two people in it; and the same goes for running football club.
Wright and Clarkson, might make mistakes, but they know what they are doing and would be completely across all the variables at play within the four walls at Hawthorn - beyond just the draft.
It is outstandingly arrogant for Pelchin and others to impose their philosophies whilst being consigned to the outside or more simply not knowing or understanding the strategy.
I think this is the reason the Pelican has been 'moved on', so many times.
He thinks his ideas are the biggest part of a clubs success and he the biggest player.
In the modern game he is an analogue player in a digital world.
