I love getting a culture lesson from Grant Thomas. Like getting a women's Lib lesson from the Taliban, me thinks!
Awful article full of factual errors, I mean going back to the 70's when the club was running on fumes.( couldn't afford an oily rag)We all know the Wallace story, The Hardie story( blimey should we have rid the coach and not the player)Josh Hill has had numerous chances and failed. Chris Grant thinks Rocket (results will dictate) whether he falls on his sword or not , exactly what happened at Sydney! Anything wrong with Sydney's culture??Great article Mark Akermanis
Sorry Mofra your first paragraph is at best revisionist history. Wallace signed a new deal the year before he left amidst rumours of him going to Fremantle (2001), the year later he realized that the list he built was going nowhere fast and made an informal deal with Sydney. Also Wira was traded to Freo at the end of 98, so I'm not sure how that could've been a factor four years later.
On your second paragraph, Malthouse, Matthews and Blight (amongst others) used to bake their players in the media all the time. The only difference is the media spin it as 'a successful club not accepting mediocrity', as opposed to when we do it, it's apparently 'a culture of blame'.
Wallace walked in his words "massive cuts to his football dept".
People like Mark Robinson try and rewrite history, look the leadership group took charge and basically put it to Terry if he is going elsewhere, then go!We all know the Sydney stuff and even Elliott got a call. It's a factually wrong article in so many ways, Lazy Lazy Lazy
Enough soul searching. Leave the past in the past. Let's get behind the players, players win the games, we all feel good, drink beer and celebrate. It's simple!
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― Epicurus
I don't mind Robbo, but this was just junk. Sure, there were elements of truth, but as has been said, if we'd have been flying, he'd be singing a different tune.
[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]
Second that AP6, If this was such a prevalent part of the bulldog culture, you'd have think we'd have heard about it by now.
I usually watch AFL 360 and generally don't mind Robbo either, but based on what he said on the show Wednesday night (a highly condensed version of his article), I was keen to see exactly where he came to this view from and thought I'd find that in the article. Turns out, the article was just pure junk. Really lazy and poor effort I thought, offered no insight at all, no type of serious analysis on whats going or has gone on.
Just seems like he formed a view of a story he could write, and picked things out of history and out of context to support this.