rohan connelly article

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the article by Rohan Connelly today hits the nail on the head.

No doubt Frawley will use this article as his smokescreen for the upcoming week but surely the pressure is mounting on him.

In terms of naming individual players that he believes are not up to AFL standard, there are others on our list he forgot to include (Pettifer, D Kellaway (on current form) to name a couple and Hilton). Although I know Frawley will disagree with Connelly's article, it is Frawley that is wrong and not Connelly.

Frawley has to go at the end of the season. Also, Richmond has to commit to retaining all draft picks. Trade players not draft picks and trade good players to get great players. Trading at the fringe level (eg Ben Holland) will never help us out.

These are the players that surely must be reviewed as tradeable based on current form:

-Fiora (I feel sick everytime I see him and realise he was pick 3)

-Bowden (he does nothing for the RFC)

-Tivendale (Tivendale's game suits a team that only needs him to do the finishing touches - we need a player to do the grunt work)

-Ottens (this is the wildcard trade and would be done if it meant we were given a very good player and a top 10 draft pick).

I could write all day but that is enough for now
 

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Agreed but I think you have to go further to get a change of culture at the club. What we saw on the weekend was the leadship is not up to scratch.

Do we need to weed out our senior list so that those younger players coming through don't get ingrained with the same "heads down" attitude.

Whether Campbells stays or not we need a new Captain to show a committment to changing attitudes and results.
 

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You expect journos like Caro, Stewart and Sheehan to rubbish us, but Connelly is spot on.

He'd make a better president than Casey. And like Casey, he doesnt follow Richmond but at least understands how a footy club should run.
 
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