Originally Posted by
jeemak
Fair points, can live with all of them on their merits.
I guess I was arguing that incredulousness in response to what's transpired, even vitriol as portrayed in the article isn't unreasonable. Particularly given you've got a bunch of guys running the club who have saved themselves from a review, sacked a coach whilst the club is in serious debt, and haven't even considered the rudimentary safety net of a basic process as necessary in landing a coach who had his success 9-13 years ago. What you've talked about with Rocket, Knights and Hardwick, or anyone else, happened over a decade ago. The world has changed, administrations need to be accountable to people who fork out their hard earned and those who work for them.
All of your selected examples of having a punt can't be argued with, nor can those examples of following process backfiring. But we talk about the folly of amateurism within the AFL all the time around here, and I just can't see this as anything other than a modern era example of that very thing.
It's bold, but that doesn't mean that it's not mind boggling that such a poorly run club could ride roughshod over so many key decisions. If Lethlean and Gill weren't mates from their Old Boys footy days - let alone their AFL HQ days - this whole saga would have been ripped to shreds from all comers, and possibly not even allowed to happen in the first place due to AFL HQ interventionism taking hold.