Would you say that we are currently a club in crisis?
Everything from that 6PR interview certainly suggests so... I've never heard Ross so upset.
I think it's the combination of both losing a winnable game and simultaneously being let down by 3 of his players.
The way he discusses Josh it seems like he's currently in a pit far deeper than what SonSon was two years ago... and unlike Walters I'm not sure if Josh has the mental endurance to pull himself out.
I wouldn't want to be at training today...
Remarkably prescient - apparently you weren't the only one who didn't want to be at training today!!

Seriously, much as this last few days of events has prompted the return of negative meeja focus, I am hopeful that it is just a quick bumpy patch that is just the thing we need to remind the players (and some fans) that we aren't simply going to breeze on into the top eight without real, undying and ever-improving effort from every player on the list - great, great effort, as it were...
I could be wrong, but I think a lot of this has been over-blown due to a lack of happenings elsewhere at a slow news period (ffs, what else is there to focus on if you are a tabloid journo except the missing plane, the latest reality TV show and the cute baby pics of wee Prince Georgie and his parents??). As
GilG has pointed out in his sparse but excellent posts, none of the boys have done an Aaron Hernandez, and while it isn't a balmy day down the beach with Freo sitting easy at #1 on the ladder with a 400% percentage, the sky isn't exactly falling in either (just yet).
We always seem to have some period of mini-crisis each year, and while I'm not rapt with Ballas, Joshy or Col, at least we are getting it out of the way early this year. Hopefully it is just the kick up the backside that the squad as a whole seems to be in need of.
Most of all, I am absolutely delighted with Rosscoe Pekoe's unique brand of professionally irritated irascibility.
His approach has been much better than when he was at St Kilda, and is so very much better than the more common responses of coaches either:
- trying to pretend there is no problem,
- saying nothing at all and giving up with a grimaced whimper on a lost cause,
- blaming the umpires/draw/weather/AFL/MRP/media, and/or
- entering into hysterical tirades about the unfairness of the situation (or having their wives deliver such tirades for them #standbymellatonanman)
Ross has been open, honest and sharp - he's not avoided any questions, and clearly set the standard for the whole group (including specifically mentioning post match that he and the rest of the coaches have to fix things). For me, it shows he really cares about the chance to do great things with this team, his faith that the core talent is there if we'd just apply ourselves with consistent great effort - and how upset he is that even early in the season we are not getting the basic things right in-house.
Would any of our other coaches have ever been so effective at sending a "Not Happy Jan" message??
BpG