Melbourne has a serious leadership issue across all parts of the club.
Goodwin is the second worst coach in AFL history. He was handed a finals ready team and has sent them back ten years. His history includes gambling on games, public drunkenness, assaulting opposition players off-field, physically assaulting media, taking performance-enhancing drugs, being part of a coaching panel administering performance-enhancing drugs to players, covering up the use of performance-enhancing drugs. He should have been unemployable. Unfortunately, Melbourne got knocked back by their main choices and got desperate to appoint someone as part of the Roos plan.
Gawn is happy to be there. No real leadership about him, he is everyone's best friend but doesn't seem to command respect from anyone around him. Would be a really good deputy vice caption. He seems like a fun bloke, but on-field does not have the brains to work as an on-field coach like the good AFL captions do, he's a hard worker, but doesn't direct traffic and really not a leader. Unfortunately, he is the best of a bad bunch.
Watching Viney play I always have a saying run through my head - "I'm not real smart but I can lift heavy things". Jack Viney is the lowest IQ footballer in the AFL. To be clear, IQ and Sports IQ are two different things (Andrew Bogurt proved that in the NBA). Looks down at his foot as he runs and kicks the ball, has no idea what is happening downfield. Lacks any peripheral vision or sense of gameplan. doesn’t make anyone around him better. The sooner he is out the better.
Josh Mahony, General Manager - Football Operations. This one has me stumped. 9 years he has been there and not one indication that he is up to the job. It's every man's dream to spend a decade in a job on good money and not be accountable what so ever, but his time on the gravy train surely must come to an end. Terrible performance over a decade. Surely even he knows he is taking the piss at this stage.
Bartlett. AFL appointed President when they took over the club and need to insert a yes man. A lame duck. Has not made one decisions in 7 years. The only thing more worrying than his total lack of involvement and direction, is that he seems to think he is actually doing well in the the job he is appointed to. I doubt there has ever been a less active director in the history of corporate law.
Melbourne has no leadership anywhere in the club. Board, Executive, Coaching, players. When the season is on the line, to have players on the field ****ing around at three-quarter time when the coach is addressing them is an indication as to the culture of the team. Players have no hunger to win, they have no drive burnt into them. They seem to be pretty happy just turning up each week.
Meanwhile a player back at the hub is on a bender.
That's culture.
As they say in the classics - the fish rots from the head.
Barlett was put in as an AFL stooge that would shut up and take whatever the AFL serves up. The CEO was sacked from Collingwood because he was not up to it, and a head of football operations has never shown anything to indicate that he is qualified for the job.
Melbourne needs a change and someone that is not just happy to be there. We need a new board, a new CEO, a new head of football operations and a new coach. All of that is unrealistic right now, so the obvious ones are new President and new head of football operations. If it doesn't happen in the next couple of months the club will most likely die over the next 2 years.
Goodwin is the second worst coach in AFL history. He was handed a finals ready team and has sent them back ten years. His history includes gambling on games, public drunkenness, assaulting opposition players off-field, physically assaulting media, taking performance-enhancing drugs, being part of a coaching panel administering performance-enhancing drugs to players, covering up the use of performance-enhancing drugs. He should have been unemployable. Unfortunately, Melbourne got knocked back by their main choices and got desperate to appoint someone as part of the Roos plan.
Gawn is happy to be there. No real leadership about him, he is everyone's best friend but doesn't seem to command respect from anyone around him. Would be a really good deputy vice caption. He seems like a fun bloke, but on-field does not have the brains to work as an on-field coach like the good AFL captions do, he's a hard worker, but doesn't direct traffic and really not a leader. Unfortunately, he is the best of a bad bunch.
Watching Viney play I always have a saying run through my head - "I'm not real smart but I can lift heavy things". Jack Viney is the lowest IQ footballer in the AFL. To be clear, IQ and Sports IQ are two different things (Andrew Bogurt proved that in the NBA). Looks down at his foot as he runs and kicks the ball, has no idea what is happening downfield. Lacks any peripheral vision or sense of gameplan. doesn’t make anyone around him better. The sooner he is out the better.
Josh Mahony, General Manager - Football Operations. This one has me stumped. 9 years he has been there and not one indication that he is up to the job. It's every man's dream to spend a decade in a job on good money and not be accountable what so ever, but his time on the gravy train surely must come to an end. Terrible performance over a decade. Surely even he knows he is taking the piss at this stage.
Bartlett. AFL appointed President when they took over the club and need to insert a yes man. A lame duck. Has not made one decisions in 7 years. The only thing more worrying than his total lack of involvement and direction, is that he seems to think he is actually doing well in the the job he is appointed to. I doubt there has ever been a less active director in the history of corporate law.
Melbourne has no leadership anywhere in the club. Board, Executive, Coaching, players. When the season is on the line, to have players on the field ****ing around at three-quarter time when the coach is addressing them is an indication as to the culture of the team. Players have no hunger to win, they have no drive burnt into them. They seem to be pretty happy just turning up each week.
Meanwhile a player back at the hub is on a bender.
That's culture.
As they say in the classics - the fish rots from the head.
Barlett was put in as an AFL stooge that would shut up and take whatever the AFL serves up. The CEO was sacked from Collingwood because he was not up to it, and a head of football operations has never shown anything to indicate that he is qualified for the job.
Melbourne needs a change and someone that is not just happy to be there. We need a new board, a new CEO, a new head of football operations and a new coach. All of that is unrealistic right now, so the obvious ones are new President and new head of football operations. If it doesn't happen in the next couple of months the club will most likely die over the next 2 years.
) I feel for you guys. In a fun twist of irony, its the same player creating a facepalm moment.
