I don't know, isn't this the same man that gave the Tigers a quiet half a million when we were on the skids, although that's no reason to keep him as prez...
Didn't make
Casey a good president.
...but to be honest your stringing a long bow to blame him for our recruiting and coaching errors, wouldnt the coach be the mane decision maker in those areas, TW got his full 5 years of course his last was going to be finals or gone.
The coach, recruiting staff and the football department which oversees all of that obey the board's wishes when it comes to club direction. The direction they wanted was "finals or else" - March indicated that publicly on numerous occasions in Wallace's last two years. When the board want that, the recruiters and football department have to go and find players who can get us closer to that aim. McMahon, Hislop, Thomson - they're all March's babies, nobody else's.
On the other hand, Wallace is on record back in 2006 as stating that our list was way too unbalanced to be a serious finals threat until 2011, because we had too many glass half-full at best veterans and raw kids with nowhere near enough mid-age players to be serious challengers until the kids were old enough to be mid-age players themselves.
Clearly the board is to blame and Wallace and the football department - as employees have to - merely went along with their demands. It's pretty obvious that's why Wallace had totally got the shits with the place years before he left and was simply going through the motions of fulfilling his contract. He made a common sense evaluation of our list and the timeframe it required way back in pre-season '06, the board ignored him and stuffed up yet again by demanding sucess when we needed absolutely everything to go our way to be even moderately successful (i.e. finish 7th-8th), rather than continuing to rebuild with fresh juniors towards a realistic 2011 goal.
The fact that the board has eventually landed on their feet with Hardwick shoud not excuse the totally delusionary policies they oversaw over the last few years. They and nobody else are responsible.
...finals or else is how it always is in your last year of an overly long contract.
Yeah, and if it all goes to hell you can just flip-flop and give the next coach free reign to lose all year with basically the same list except a couple of pensioner veterans that had zero impact on our '09 'finals tilt.' Nobody will find that the height of hypocrisy.
