The perfumed steamroller slams Dimmatina

[LostDoggy]

He has drawn negative attention to our club at a time when it really isn't helpful.

Amazing how these tools always come out when the chips are down. I now class him in the Brad Hardy and Akermanis category.

Was interesting how Galimberti has been mentioned in this issue as well.

[Bulldog4life]

Decent 'story line' article from an unbiased spectator, bit subjective on Dimma though, makes a lot of innuendos without putting anything on the table and turns Dimma into a bit of an underworld figure. He deserves better, loves the club and wants what's best for it I believe. He may still come through with a bank roll and bail us out.

If she is purely going to put forward her 'opinion' the comment should stop at Richmond. Still, puts the ball back in Dimma's court. Whatcha got for the club Dimma?

I wonder if the White Knight is Mick Gatto

[w3design]

Decent 'story line' article from an unbiased spectator, bit subjective on Dimma though, makes a lot of innuendos without putting anything on the table and turns Dimma into a bit of an underworld figure. He deserves better, loves the club and wants what's best for it I believe. He may still come through with a bank roll and bail us out.

If she is purely going to put forward her 'opinion' the comment should stop at Richmond. Still, puts the ball back in Dimma's court. Whatcha got for the club Dimma?

Agree this article paints Dimma and other's as underworld shady people club champions like Hawkins Libba and Beasley. I will give dimma the benefit of the doubt until we have selected our new coach.

[w3design]

I wonder if the White Knight is Mick Gatto

Gatto barracks for the pies he's part of Eddie's crew .

[Bulldog4life]

Gatto barracks for the pies he's part of Eddie's crew .

I wasn't being serious.

[Topdog]

Has he blown his mouth off or have people like Caro blown out a story in the papers?Every article I read goes on about Dimma then at the end says he either denies it or has been no comment.

He has shot his mouth off enough for the media to talk about it.

[ledge]

Go up to any player who loved the club they played for who are in trouble and they will all comment on what they think needs to be done, especially if they have emotion, Hawkins, Liberatore the list goes on at every club.
The media have decided his opinion is a good one to go with.

[Rocket Science]

GWS targets need to start soul-searching

Caroline Wilson
September 13, 2011

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There is no doubt the team led by Graeme Allan and Stephen Silvagni has targeted the weak.

Melbourne, Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs will say they had no chance of retaining those players given the truck backed up in front of all three.

All insist they couldn't have opened contract talks any earlier, although Adelaide was clearly blindsided in the case of Davis.

All three have rightly blamed the system. But that is only part of the story.

All three would do well to examine their own internal systems and ask why GWS intelligence pointed its aggressive brand of hunters in their direction.

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[chef]

GWS targets need to start soul-searching

Caroline Wilson
September 13, 2011

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There is no doubt the team led by Graeme Allan and Stephen Silvagni has targeted the weak.

Melbourne, Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs will say they had no chance of retaining those players given the truck backed up in front of all three.

All insist they couldn't have opened contract talks any earlier, although Adelaide was clearly blindsided in the case of Davis.

All three have rightly blamed the system. But that is only part of the story.

All three would do well to examine their own internal systems and ask why GWS intelligence pointed its aggressive brand of hunters in their direction.

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We certainly stuffed up big time over the last couple of seasons. Both Harbrow and Ward should still be at our club and a smarter football department wouldn't have let this happen.

[bornadog]

We certainly stuffed up big time over the last couple of seasons. Both Harbrow and Ward should still be at our club and a smarter football department wouldn't have let this happen.

Nah, the money was too much of a lure.

[Topdog]

We certainly stuffed up big time over the last couple of seasons. Both Harbrow and Ward should still be at our club and a smarter football department wouldn't have let this happen.

Do you honestly believe that?

[Sedat]

Do you honestly believe that?

Do you honestly believe that our contract negotiation/list management personnel did absolutely everything in their power to try and hold onto Harbrow and Ward?

The truth lies somewhere in between. To blame the money and nothing else is perpetuate the culture of denial. We should examine what went wrong and how to better manage the process in future seasons. The free agency era is going to require expertise in contract negotiations and list management like never before.

[chef]

Do you honestly believe that?

We could have signed ward to a 3 year deal last year and according to Clayton if we had have been proactive with our dealings with Harbrow GC wouldn't have standed a chance, so what do you think?

[chef]

Nah, the money was too much of a lure.

Only because we left it long enough to become one.

[Sedat]

We could have signed ward to a 3 year deal last year and according to Clayton if we had have been proactive with our dealings with Harbrow GC wouldn't have standed a chance, so what do you think?

Lest I be accused of sounding like a broken record when talking about our head of football operations, but he has proven to be a complete failure in his key role of contract negotiator. Ward's management proactively asked for a contract extension in mid 2010 (when he was out injured) and what was offered to him was embarrassingly under par (no doubt in part due to us paying massive overs to hold onto Lake 6 months earlier) - is there any wonder that he chose to take the deal of a lifetime as a result? Similarly with Harbrow, there was little effort made to negotiate with his management, and an almost shrugged shoulders resignation that he would walk - well guess what, he did because there was bugger-all done to convince him to stay.

How do we all think the Boyd, Cross and Gia negotiations are going? Perhaps what has been offered was a pittance, and Ward saw a vision of himself 7 years from now being similarly shafted by his club? Didn't Melbourne recently shaft loyal servants like James McDonald? Guess what, Scully walks. Adelaide doesn't offer their senior players anything more than 12 months contract extensions? Goodbye Bock and Davis.

We have lost 2 starting 18 platers under 23 years of age, and both of them could have been retained had we had a savvy contract negotiator like a Scott Clayton still at the helm - no self-justifying soundbites from Garlick or Fantasia in the media will convince me otherwise. As a club we cannot shy away from this, and pointing the finger at the brown paper bags of GWS is a cop-out of the highest order as far as I'm concerned. Our club has performed appallingly in contract negotiations and it is high time we review this and fix the damn problem, because with free agency around the corner it is only going to become more critical to get this absoluitely right. I have no faith in the people charged with managing this area for our club, and it concerns me greatly that we will become a basket case in very quick time. The signs are ominous.