Rod Grinter Riot Squad

Frawley and Garland can play, and play well. Add Tommy Mac to that. Sure they are struggling but for the last 4 years this pair have been hammered from pillar to post trying to stop wave after wave of unpressured attacks from our opposition. Put them in a top 8 club and they'd walk into most teams once they get some confidence back. These guys deserve medals for the way they have fought against the odds over time. They'll get it back and the better our midfield gets, the better they will

Yeah right, it was all the supporters fault.... Now let me go back to the coffee I am having with the tooth fairy.

The real issue is he has no interest in doing it. His words

Not sure about this line, as I thought we offered Clarkeson a 5 year, $5million deal. Think we could afford them, bur neither were keen (or able) to coach last year.

Lyon hides behind the conflict claims. One of the las things he said was the truth on the matter, he has no interest in doing it.

Not a bad thought Reckon we should try it out at Casey for a month first

Funny, I didn't hear Lyon offering a morsel of support to Schwab last night

A very dignified exit. Can believe how well Schwab performed, not surprised at all. But am surprised at how good he was to Don and how good he was for him. McLardy on the other hand was a disaster. His claims of this has been discussed for months don't exactly add up when he signed Schwab for 3 years in August, when he tells us how brilliant the business side is, when he tells us there will be no knee jerk reactions and how stability is the most important thing at a club. This bloke has no credibility at all after that performance. That said, I'll just have to avoid discussing Don for the remainder of the year as I have nothing good to say from what I have seen (and that's not just today) of him in action, but at same time we need unity so will be refraining discussing him for the rest of the season (well will try to, we all know I can't help myself sometimes). My voice will be my vote later in the year.

The calls timing is coincidental. There were volunteers working at the club last night as well, last week also on Monday and Tuesday. They will be there next week on Monday and Tuesday as well trying to get lapsed members to rejoin. I know, as I was there. Pure coincidence that you received your call tonight

They have to pull it together and show something. Spoke to quite a few lapsed members tonight who said they will join again once they start to see something on the field.

It was the sleeve that broke the camels back...

Interesting timing. would have thought he'd have enough on his plate to find the time to ge a sleeve. Would imagine they take a long time. That said, if he had it done over summer when he wasnt under the pump the WGAF.

you missed Eddie and Brayshaw (Eddie was CEO of 9 based in Sydney yet continued as president). Forget about Lyon, he is only interested in himself. We need a new leadership group, but Schwabs saviour has no desire or place to be in it IMO.

Amazing it has taken this long. Started a thread highly critical of Col some 3-5 years ago, critical of many aspects of his game, most notably lack of gut running and second and third efforts here or on 'ology. Got crucified by the natives with few supporting my case

God you are a [censored]We don't need a new thread every time someone writes an article that backs up your Johnny come lately view of Schwab

It pains me to completely agree with Caro (and Rangey) but I honestly believe for us to move forward as one, then Cameron has to move on. Till then, everything else is just shuffling deck chairs

Thought Schwab got off remarkably lightly, each time it looked like they would focus on Smooth the discussion moved elsewhere

Then make one change. We tried the coach, problem remains. One of main reasons for Baileys issues was Schwab. Novel idea, remove the person who was (and I believe still is) the problem

Actually we have over 30,000 members

Then I'm guessing you are Peter, Dave here - managed to pull 5 renewals that I was pretty pleased with. First time there tonight and really enjoyed it. I'm fiercely critical of many of the goings on with the club and will remain so, but felt great to be able to contribute a little.

What we should be angry with Lyon for was going in to bat and saving Smooth, he convinced Stynes not to go through with the sacking of Scwab as we were already sacking the coach. We should be livid with him about this and he owes us an apology IMO.

Plus Jimmy stuffed up big time in hiring Schwab and then reversing his decision at the time of 186 (thanks Lyon). Many people were critical of this decision

Except change needs to happen from the top.Don has passed the buck, quite gutlessly too.

Then why does he attend the players Leadership group meetings?

What you describe is what I thought the Andrews report was doing.The report that the admin obviously didn't like so they locked it away and made sure we never found out its contents