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More of his usual pro-Carlton rhetoric 
, and people complain about Caroline Wilson.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12545848%5E12270,00.html
It was good to see this article got a bagging on other fan forums as well, particularly Saints fans.
I love the part I've highlighted about how he believes we have cheated the cap going back to 1985. I guess Essendon (his team) have also cheated the cap going that far back considering they as big a rorters as Carlton. Yet he quotes Ron Evans who was involved at Essendon when they rorted the cap.
Carlton is empowered, but it must cap the whinges
March 15, 2005
FOOTBALL is prone to be an unthinking follower of fashion and fad.
If a premiership side has a Wiggle in the coaching box you can be damn sure Kermit, Donald Duck, Hi 5, Spiderman and Humphrey B. Bear will be appointed to coaching positions with other clubs over summer.
In fact, it is believed Kevin Sheedy has been channelling Spongebob Squarepants for the best part of a decade. Certainly Mick Malthouse is on light sabre terms with Darth Vader.
Now player empowerment is the rage. St Kilda has taken it to new limits - as it does most things. On his appointment to the captaincy, Nick Riewoldt told the public that it was not the board, the coach, the chief executive or the president who ran the Saints. None of them. It was the players.
St Kilda fans - and the AFL - hope that Riewoldt, in his enthusiasm, overstated the position. Fraser Gehrig is a marvellous footballer, but whether the intricate task of delivering a $30 million budget is best left to the G Train and, perhaps, Stephen Milne, is questionable.
Player empowerment is not a new concept. If David Parkin is to be believed then his sole role as coach when Carlton rose to power a decade ago was to ensure the toilet paper in the rooms was of sufficient softness to keep the footballers happy chappies.
Such is St Kilda's determination to challenge every plank of football philosophy that Riewoldt may well have just renegotiated his new contract with himself. But we rather fancy coach Grant Thomas allows the players to have their heads in football-specific areas. And then ones that will not directly determine the future of Thomas himself.
Player empowerment is not followed slavishly by everyone.
Alastair Clarkson, in a bid to retake control of a dysfunctional and self-indulgent Hawthorn, is rewriting the player rules.
Former skipper Shane Crawford was suspended from a practice match because he failed to attend a sponsor's outing.
Clarkson's actions were considered so drastic and unwise that Collingwood's football general manager Neil Balme refused to believe media reports. But Crawford is just one player to feel the strength of the new order at Hawthorn.
Denis Pagan has coached Carlton to the Wizard Cup premiership. Much has been made of the way he has savaged the playing list he inherited in 2003. Only 17 players remain from the 42 players Pagan took to just four wins in his first year. Pagan's job was to dismantle a perverse form of player empowerment.
The joy and satisfaction delivered by Saturday night's win over West Coast was blindingly evident. Pagan refused to talk down the significance of the win. Not for him the contrived and childish glumness that greeted St Kilda's win the season before.
"If you had been through what we have been through, you would want to celebrate, I can tell you," the coach told The Australian after the win. "I can't apologise for our exuberance and excitement. It means a hell of a lot to us."
Pagan has empowered his men to play better football with his systems, game plan and philosophies. That's empowerment by direction and not indulgence.
Carlton's win was a triumph because the club has been through much, though all of it self-imposed. Unfortunately, it is not something that the club is close to accepting or understanding. President Ian Collins still wails about the salary-cap penalties handed out in 2002.
Yes, they were severe but they had to be for the cheating was extensive and substantial. The Blues lost picks one, two, 31 and 34 in the 2002 draft; were excluded from the first round of that year's pre-season draft; banned from rounds one and two of the 2003 national draft; and fined $930,000. Anything less would have been lenient.
The club had been systematically rorting the salary cap rules. Probably since the mechanism was introduced in 1985. The 2002 salary-cap breaches were the third in four years. And the club had taken the salary-cap moratorium available in the early 1990s. "We will not tolerate blatant cheating," AFL commission chairman Ron Evans said when announcing the penalties.
Collins argued at the time the club was being punished for the actions of a previous administration. They were and they had to be. Just because John Elliott was forced to walk away in disgrace did not mean that the club could escape retribution. The other 15 clubs would have revolted.
Collo was complaining away again on Saturday. "I don't think you ever forgive the harshness of the penalties," he said.
Well, Collo, the club flouted rules intrinsic to the successful running of the national competition in a most arrogant way. It was that breach of trust that was unforgiveable.
Congratulations to Carlton - coaches, players and administrators - for rebuilding the club. But for all that whingeing, put a navy blue sock in it, Collo.
, and people complain about Caroline Wilson.http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12545848%5E12270,00.html
It was good to see this article got a bagging on other fan forums as well, particularly Saints fans.
I love the part I've highlighted about how he believes we have cheated the cap going back to 1985. I guess Essendon (his team) have also cheated the cap going that far back considering they as big a rorters as Carlton. Yet he quotes Ron Evans who was involved at Essendon when they rorted the cap.
Carlton is empowered, but it must cap the whinges
March 15, 2005
FOOTBALL is prone to be an unthinking follower of fashion and fad.
If a premiership side has a Wiggle in the coaching box you can be damn sure Kermit, Donald Duck, Hi 5, Spiderman and Humphrey B. Bear will be appointed to coaching positions with other clubs over summer.
In fact, it is believed Kevin Sheedy has been channelling Spongebob Squarepants for the best part of a decade. Certainly Mick Malthouse is on light sabre terms with Darth Vader.
Now player empowerment is the rage. St Kilda has taken it to new limits - as it does most things. On his appointment to the captaincy, Nick Riewoldt told the public that it was not the board, the coach, the chief executive or the president who ran the Saints. None of them. It was the players.
St Kilda fans - and the AFL - hope that Riewoldt, in his enthusiasm, overstated the position. Fraser Gehrig is a marvellous footballer, but whether the intricate task of delivering a $30 million budget is best left to the G Train and, perhaps, Stephen Milne, is questionable.
Player empowerment is not a new concept. If David Parkin is to be believed then his sole role as coach when Carlton rose to power a decade ago was to ensure the toilet paper in the rooms was of sufficient softness to keep the footballers happy chappies.
Such is St Kilda's determination to challenge every plank of football philosophy that Riewoldt may well have just renegotiated his new contract with himself. But we rather fancy coach Grant Thomas allows the players to have their heads in football-specific areas. And then ones that will not directly determine the future of Thomas himself.
Player empowerment is not followed slavishly by everyone.
Alastair Clarkson, in a bid to retake control of a dysfunctional and self-indulgent Hawthorn, is rewriting the player rules.
Former skipper Shane Crawford was suspended from a practice match because he failed to attend a sponsor's outing.
Clarkson's actions were considered so drastic and unwise that Collingwood's football general manager Neil Balme refused to believe media reports. But Crawford is just one player to feel the strength of the new order at Hawthorn.
Denis Pagan has coached Carlton to the Wizard Cup premiership. Much has been made of the way he has savaged the playing list he inherited in 2003. Only 17 players remain from the 42 players Pagan took to just four wins in his first year. Pagan's job was to dismantle a perverse form of player empowerment.
The joy and satisfaction delivered by Saturday night's win over West Coast was blindingly evident. Pagan refused to talk down the significance of the win. Not for him the contrived and childish glumness that greeted St Kilda's win the season before.
"If you had been through what we have been through, you would want to celebrate, I can tell you," the coach told The Australian after the win. "I can't apologise for our exuberance and excitement. It means a hell of a lot to us."
Pagan has empowered his men to play better football with his systems, game plan and philosophies. That's empowerment by direction and not indulgence.
Carlton's win was a triumph because the club has been through much, though all of it self-imposed. Unfortunately, it is not something that the club is close to accepting or understanding. President Ian Collins still wails about the salary-cap penalties handed out in 2002.
Yes, they were severe but they had to be for the cheating was extensive and substantial. The Blues lost picks one, two, 31 and 34 in the 2002 draft; were excluded from the first round of that year's pre-season draft; banned from rounds one and two of the 2003 national draft; and fined $930,000. Anything less would have been lenient.
The club had been systematically rorting the salary cap rules. Probably since the mechanism was introduced in 1985. The 2002 salary-cap breaches were the third in four years. And the club had taken the salary-cap moratorium available in the early 1990s. "We will not tolerate blatant cheating," AFL commission chairman Ron Evans said when announcing the penalties.
Collins argued at the time the club was being punished for the actions of a previous administration. They were and they had to be. Just because John Elliott was forced to walk away in disgrace did not mean that the club could escape retribution. The other 15 clubs would have revolted.
Collo was complaining away again on Saturday. "I don't think you ever forgive the harshness of the penalties," he said.
Well, Collo, the club flouted rules intrinsic to the successful running of the national competition in a most arrogant way. It was that breach of trust that was unforgiveable.
Congratulations to Carlton - coaches, players and administrators - for rebuilding the club. But for all that whingeing, put a navy blue sock in it, Collo.
