Scorpus
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- Apr 16, 2014
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Surely there wasn't just one chairman that oversaw all of this and implemented this culture at the top. Surely noti think being a crap hole is a lot more than the onfield
it started with Trigg.
we had a monopoly, an annoying little brother club, and became so arrogant we made Stevie from marketing our CEO.
- not caring about supporters. Clicks
- As far as the eye can see
- Tippett
- Sanctions
- Rendell
- Camp
- Esports, baseball (leveraging our expertise!!!!)
we were so complacent & corpulent that we would have made Nero take fiddle lessons from King George III
then came expansion, free agency and we were ill-prepared for any real off field competition
we started making excuses, clubs started picking off our players, we whinged about imaginary go-home factors etc
we became a football second corporation
and it’s snowballed downhill since then
I mean fu**, we got so full of our self importance we made our greatest ever player feel unwelcome, then instead of getting a wake up call - we had a board member plant a hatchet piece with her journalist husband in the daily press
that’s the sh*t we need to fix
I’d argue that Adelaide oval was one of the worst things to happen to us. It was a goldmine that made a complacent club feel like it could do wrong again
in a year of COVID we are again, like expansion, free agency etc the worst placed club to ride out disruption
Competition in all forms is survival of the fittest, best able to adapt to change, and that is not us
retention will improve when we sort out what matters
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