Saints58 wrote: ↑Sun 21 Aug 2022 12:39am
I was at the club sponsored day for members today.
Had a great chat to Andrew Bassett he is really switched on and will do all he can to get us up the ladder.
It was a great day with players and board members mingling with the footy members I really feel we have a chance with this current board and committee they know we are not there yet but are working at it.
so hang tough and lets keep upbeat for 23 if I can after 47 years a saint well we all can the club and all saints need us.
It’s great to hear that and I genuinely like the optimism
I’m also sure Bassett isn’t silly and is a smart operator
But running a footy club ain’t exactly the same as running a commercial business….lots similar but lots not too
I’m also more or less sick of the words “he spoke really well” or “he really wants success like we all do”
Again, that’s great but I’ve learnt over time listening to corporate CEO spin doctors that the actions are what you judge on
An external review - tick, step in right direction
Putting Lethlean on it?? - cross …..his performance needs to be reviewed….Dracula in charge of the blood bank??
Then there is Bassett himself…..nice he called for a review but what the **** has he as Prez been doing putting out emails telling members our “windows open?”
Don’t give me the “he has to sell memberships” dribble because selling like that is a race to the bottom once members realise the emperor has no clothes
IF Bassett and the Board have been just gullibly accepting the footy department view of where we are then they too need to be questioned (my gut feel is Bassett has woken up that Lethlean and footy Dept might not have their finger in the pulse like they indicated they do…..Bassett now knows this and has finally decided (for his own fate too) that enough is enough
The Clarkson situation and the genuine lack of any real attempt to engage and bring him to St Kilda is another good example of Board vs Football Dept disconnect
For the simpletons out there (big shout to Vort here) it’s less about Clarkson as a messiah cia h and more about what he as the best modern coach going round as a package brings to the club - a game plan (yay finally), sponsors, members, top assistants (who want to play under him) and yep, gun FA players who come cause they see a vis h who has success/history of excellence (Malcolm Blight was Shyte at Saints……but gee we dined off his rep and that was good for the footy club with player acquisitions etc over multiple years after he’d gone..)
Point is we’ve dropped the ball
The Board and Bassett are complicit in that
I’ll watch the “external” review closely but judge in actions
IF, as an example only, Lade and co keep their jobs, if no new head of footy who knows footy and can challenge those in the footy Dept is brought in, then this review is more Corp spin
Actions /outcomes will tell you plenty about Bassett