Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

[always right]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

Interesting tweet from Mark Stevens.

https://twitter.com/Stevo7AFL/status/520362273232003072

[Sedat]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

Which Senior players? Murphy, Morris or do you mean Griffen, or Boyd and Minson????

Its more than senior players not happy under Macca and that is the concern.

Griffen, Minson and Cooney (no-one in their right mind would want Boyd). For credibility's sake, they simply cannot return to the club under this current board - Peter Gordon made a point of highlighting the huge opportunity to really plunder the draft when he made his speech at the new logo presentation and I trust that this philosophy has not altered its course one iota even in light of recent events.

[KT31]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

I think we have come off the track, the next couple of weeks will tell if we are just a derail or a true wreck.

[MrMahatma]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

We're the softest club. Soft players. Soft management. Soft coach who walked away (apparently).

Everyone needs to harden up. Change hurts.

A famous business quite: Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

We needed to change the "players run the show" culture. We had the best chance ever. We blew it. We're a joke of a club. Gordon and Garlick put the wheels in motion to rebuild. They baulked at the first hurdle. Maybe they need to fall on the sword.

If you're not part of the solution...

[Twodogs]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

Yeah. If the list manager stays and does his job. He has to get us the best deal we can for Griff.


If we can parlay Griff into 3 picks and let Dalrymple do his job then maybe we can turn this to our advantage.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

We'll be ok, most of the senior blokes will be finished soon regardless and I'm confident that blokes like Stringer can see the opportunity to take over the club and drive the standards.

I think the first two years the players were willing to buy into the development phase but this year they rightfully would have expected to see some improvement, which didn't really eventuate. No doubt Macca could see that also and this probably had an effect on him as a coach as the pressure started to mount.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

Nope,it's a DAMN TRAIN WRECK!!

[SonofScray]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

Griffen, Minson and Cooney (no-one in their right mind would want Boyd). For credibility's sake, they simply cannot return to the club under this current board - Peter Gordon made a point of highlighting the huge opportunity to really plunder the draft when he made his speech at the new logo presentation and I trust that this philosophy has not altered its course one iota even in light of recent events.

Exactly. We must make good on this front, do what we said would do. Load up on elite talent now, the timing is right.

[stefoid]

Re: Has our President and CEO convinced you we are still on the right track.

Swapping senior players for good draft picks and good players was/is exactly the right amount of pruning that our list requires to make something better grow.

I can only conclude that sacking bMac was the result of younger players also harbouring doubts about the coach, specifically I think Stringer and Roughead were mentioned in an article as contacting the club after Griffen announced he wanted to leave.

I mean, imagine if players like Dal, Libba, Stringer, Roughie, or Dalhaus wanted to break their contracts as early as this year or next because of BMac. That wouldnt be a pruning, that would be obliteration.

If the board got any inkling that a walkout by younger players was on the cards, they would have had to act.

As it is, I still look forward to whatever we can extract from GWS for Grif, a massive draft, and poaching the @#$@ out of GWS's list next year.