Adam The God

Is it Hinkley or is it Carr? Roos was "coach" in 2016, but Goody was essentially coaching then.

Very fair. And the fish bowl probably doesn't help.

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We drafted Clarry and Trac and are now imploding, but I guess you're right. The leadership needs to be better next time.

Even if we could get him, Reid doesn't look good cultural fit for us...

Choco did this with Dusty at Richmond, I had always hoped he would do the same with Clarry. It appears, not so much.

And have the board say they were implicitly responsible? The board could have had PJ undertake the external review at the end of the last year. Instead they had Pert review himself.

The latest review was run by Pert who later... resigned. Ridiculous conflict of interest. Signed off on by the board.

But of course this isn't the board's fault. 🤦

As usual, anyone that doesn't play for Melbourne is great.

No, I blame the board. They installed Pert (a disaster) instead of those PJ put forward, and then allowed messy legal battles to play out over Goody's head for at least 12-18 months. And every club in the land has the same constraints vis a vis COVID, that's not a reasonable excuse. We got unlucky with Burgess wanting to move home. I think had we had him across 2022-2023 we'd have at least another flag, but the personnel inside the FD have clearly let standards plummet and continue to do so.

Brad joined the board in November 2020. He and the board have been asleep at the wheel. The FD report directly to the board. The board is accountable.

The fish rots from the head and your mate Green is front and centre.

It's pretty clear the review was a smokescreen. Deemocracy lobbied for an external review. The club didn't want to do one initially, but eventually bowed to this external pressure. Unfortunately, as the closed shop at board level remains, we got a tokenistic "external" review where Shand and Crowe were to restore harmony and team spirit. But has anyone heard from Shand and Crowe? Mentally, we went to water in Round 2. Green is a sycophant, his conversation with Clarry was all about the past, and nothing about Oliver's past 24 months, or the standards the club needs to set for the future. Green and the board need to take full responsibility and Smith needs to get the new CEO installed asap. Would any other club take 4-5 months to find a new CEO? I get we don't want just anyone, but our inability to land one should set off alarm bells with this administration. We need significant on and off field change over the next 6-9 months, and unfortunately I have no trust whatsoever in this board to put in place competent people.

It's way too easy to manipulate mismatches with 1v1 footy. It's why it went out. But clearly the next evolution of footy will be one that slows down the ball movement of the opposition.