Sharp Axes

**bulldogtragic** · 22-08-2023, 07:05 AM

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Telling you, Shocktober vibes.

**jazzadogs** · 22-08-2023, 07:18 AM

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Originally posted by bulldogtragic

Minno copped it. But I think it?s a fair sledge. But Cornes is still actually banging on about it. Likes to take easy shots for the headlines, just is surprisingly think skinned himself. Maybe the truth hurts most.

Don't think the thread needs to continue to be derailed here, but feel I need to say that it's not a fair sledge at all to reference someone's unwell son, and if the roles were reversed we would crucify Kornes for being so disrespectful.

I wouldn't forget a sledge like that either, and I think being offended by someone attacking your parenting and your son during a football match is very different to a football commentator sharing (sensationalist) views on football.

**bulldogtragic** · 22-08-2023, 07:24 AM

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Originally posted by jazzadogs

Don't think the thread needs to continue to be derailed here, but feel I need to say that it's not a fair sledge at all to reference someone's unwell son, and if the roles were reversed we would crucify Kornes for being so disrespectful.

I wouldn't forget a sledge like that either, and I think being offended by someone attacking your parenting and your son during a football match is very different to a football commentator sharing (sensationalist) views on football.

We won’t derail it, but agree to disagree. I think it was squarely aimed at his choice to play a game of footy rather than be with his sick son. But I digress.

Game on.

**SonofScray** · 22-08-2023, 07:36 AM

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Originally posted by Vred

Playing group wants Ameet and Grant to go, they want Bevo to stay, mostly sparked by the treating of Rohan Smith, no one wants him to leave but the board/CEO.

This is coming directly from a player.

He?s too close to the playing group. Commented earlier on how what gets put out as his strength can easily be reframed as a lack of professional boundaries. Behaviourally, that?s on him, structurally though the right set up would have made it easier to manage those boundaries, which is on Bains and Grant.

This is going to be a real problem.

**chef** · 22-08-2023, 07:50 AM

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Originally posted by bulldogtragic

Telling you, Shocktober vibes.

Bont and Bevo gone?

**GVGjr** · 22-08-2023, 07:54 AM

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Originally posted by Vred

Playing group wants Ameet and Grant to go, they want Bevo to stay, mostly sparked by the treating of Rohan Smith, no one wants him to leave but the board/CEO.

This is coming directly from a player.

Vred, thanks for the updates. If I can be so bold but is this information coming directly from the player to you or via someone else?

I got to see how good Smith was with his players over the preseason so I'm sure some players will be very sorry to know that he is going.

If one thing is becoming evident after the news that Smith is departing is that we can bury the notion that Bevo wields too much power. All the day-to-day footy decisions would still be under Bevo's control but clearly Grant has a vision for the strategic direction of the footy department and he is starting to implement it now.
It will be fascinating to see how we set-up the footy department for next season.

**bulldogtragic** · 22-08-2023, 07:56 AM

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Originally posted by chef

Bont and Bevo gone?

Not Bont I wouldn’t think. But everything else sounds like it’s a tinder box. One spark and everything goes up. Then who knows. If some people don’t fall on swords and this gets done orderly and we can manage stakeholders and spin the narrative, then it will a red hot mess like Shocktober. I just don’t like all the different things coming out of lots of different sources. I’ve got a bad feeling. It might be good long term, Shocktober took us to a flag. But won’t be fun at this rate.

**GVGjr** · 22-08-2023, 07:57 AM

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Originally posted by bulldogtragic

Telling you, Shocktober vibes.

I'm not getting that vibe BT, this is what would be happening at a lot of clubs but it's becoming a bigger news story for us because we aren't performing to expectations.

**bulldogtragic** · 22-08-2023, 07:59 AM

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Originally posted by GVGjr

I'm not getting that vibe BT, this is what would be happening at a lot of clubs but it's becoming a bigger news story for us because we aren't performing to expectations.

I’m not reading the news about it. I’m just getting a sense of a bad period ahead.

**bulldogtragic** · 22-08-2023, 07:59 AM

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Post 1,000 twice in a week!!!

**G-Mo77** · 22-08-2023, 08:08 AM

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Not sure why players would take aim at Bains and Grant? I've never been inside a footy club but you'd think day to day they would have very little to do with them. If it's to do with Bubba being sacked, well that's probably because of the way the team has performed. Do they think we should just continue to sit on hands and roll the exact same thing out again next season?

**Grantysghost** · 22-08-2023, 08:18 AM

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Originally posted by G-Mo77

Not sure why players would take aim at Bains and Grant? I've never been inside a footy club but you'd think day to day they would have very little to do with them. If it's to do with Bubba being sacked, well that's probably because of the way the team has performed. Do they think we should just continue to sit on hands and roll the exact same thing out again next season?

The entire group made me laugh.

Anyone who's been around a footy club knows they arent that united.

Rory Lobb is upset because a defensive coach was not renewed? My word.

As for Ameet I've dealt with him a few times and had some casual conversations at functions (mainly about Newcastle United) and we are in really good hands.

Club is doing very well off field.

**chef** · 22-08-2023, 08:19 AM

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Originally posted by bulldogtragic

Not Bont I wouldn’t think. But everything else sounds like it’s a tinder box. One spark and everything goes up. Then who knows. If some people don’t fall on swords and this gets done orderly and we can manage stakeholders and spin the narrative, then it will a red hot mess like Shocktober. I just don’t like all the different things coming out of lots of different sources. I’ve got a bad feeling. It might be good long term, Shocktober took us to a flag. But won’t be fun at this rate.

I guess for it to be as bad as Shocktober he'd have to walk.

**Grantysghost** · 22-08-2023, 08:22 AM

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Originally posted by chef

I guess for it to be as bad as Shocktober he'd have to walk.

I did speak with him recently and when I said the words Gold and coast not in that order one of his eyebrows lifted.
Damn it chef you're right!

**JanLorMill** · 22-08-2023, 08:27 AM

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We should let Bains run another Sham review this year again.