Thursdays Saints question time?

[Impatient Sainter]

https://www.saints.com.au/news/959256/m ... s-thursday

Wow this has the makings of a free for all!

Send your questions to the club to be answered by Ratten, Rath or Lethlean.

Q.1 Is the club negotiating to pay out Hannebrey at seasons end? If not why not?
Q.2 Is the club looking to bring in some new assistant coaches? If not why not?
Q.3 Is the club speaking with the Tasmanian Govt about a games deal? If not why not?
Q.4 Is the club looking at ways to go to the national draft with more than one early pick?
Q.5 What is the club doing to improve their recuiting & list management?

[WellardSaint]

Are questions submitted before the Q and A?

[WellardSaint]

Microsoft Teams?
I think I will watch as a guest.
Lucky I don't work this Thursday.

I fear that 100% of the answers will be spin, like the CEOs of Westpac, ANZ, etc facing the Banking Royal Commission.

[The_Dud]

This going to go well

[WellardSaint]

This going to go well

Drinking game:
Have a swig each time one of these phrases comes out-
- pleasing
- the process
- effort
- we need to give the ball to Hill more often
- he's a proven a-grade mid, and when he gains full fitness, he will make a huge difference for the next few years

[Wayne42]

I'll watch this, as a guest, it could be like watching an episode of the Comedy Company.

[roskilde]

I was going to submit a question but then realized there's enough hostility, swearing and vitriol in the world already.

[Yorkeys]

Well it could be interesting. Good initiative, but....

The guys appearing know what questions we want answered and the format allows them to skate over hard issues if they choose.

If its a puff piece, well that's an insult to members and missed opportunity, conversely if its honest journalists will be all over them.

Looking forward to how they tread the line, but cynically expect them to start from the premise members don't really deserve to know what the root cause(s) of this humiliating season is/are and why players are not buying into the program, so will serve up the standard cliches. Hope I am wrong.

Of course maybe they are actually clueless about the dramatic collapse of effort and we will see that for ourselves - worst case scenario.

[shanegrambeau]

They may have a few strong ideas about why we are in this state , but they’d be foolish to admit it.
They maybe clueless, but they’d be foolish to admit it.

They can look at Eddie McQuire, the Collingwood group as a whole and North Melbourne’s recently departed ex coach as examples of what not to do.

My guess, is they have some canned responses to anticpated questions.

[older saint]

4:30 time slot - most people at work , kids at home which is likely to be easier questions to answer.

like the press relaease on 23rd December timing imaculate

[Banger9798]

https://www.saints.com.au/news/959256/m ... s-thursday

Wow this has the makings of a free for all!

Send your questions to the club to be answered by Ratten, Rath or Lethlean.

Q.1 Is the club negotiating to pay out Hannebrey at seasons end? If not why not?
Q.2 Is the club looking to bring in some new assistant coaches? If not why not?
Q.3 Is the club speaking with the Tasmanian Govt about a games deal? If not why not?
Q.4 Is the club looking at ways to go to the national draft with more than one early pick?
Q.5 What is the club doing to improve their recuiting & list management?

Double down on Question 1 for me

[Teflon]

4:30 time slot - most people at work , kids at home which is likely to be easier questions to answer.

like the press relaease on 23rd December timing imaculate

Yes....does have a smell of crisis management attached to it

[darylcowie]

Well it could be interesting. Good initiative, but....

The guys appearing know what questions we want answered and the format allows them to skate over hard issues if they choose.

If its a puff piece, well that's an insult to members and missed opportunity, conversely if its honest journalists will be all over them.

Looking forward to how they tread the line, but cynically expect them to start from the premise members don't really deserve to know what the root cause(s) of this humiliating season is/are and why players are not buying into the program, so will serve up the standard cliches. Hope I am wrong.

Of course maybe they are actually clueless about the dramatic collapse of effort and we will see that for ourselves - worst case scenario.

There is no such thing as bad publicity, except no publicity, look at North who are invisible and irrelevant now.
If a nugget or two of controversial information is divulged today it will keep us newsworthy during our bye week and probably feed into the promotion of our otherwise insignificant, "big stage" Friday night game against the Tigers interstate in some backwater far away from the MCG next week.

[darylcowie]

No questions about Hannebery so far, are you kidding me?

[darylcowie]

So Ratts loves "Hanners" leadership, perhaps we could appoint him as our NON-playing Captain!

[Wayne42]

I watched the whole thing, there's an hour and a bit i'll never get back.

Whatever needs fixing with the team, the club, they are working on it.

[WellardSaint]

So Ratts loves "Hanners" leadership, perhaps we could appoint him as our NON-playing Captain!

Weasel word.
Robbo, Gears, Joey all used to sit in coaches box while injured.

Hannas?
{Crickets}

[WellardSaint]

Trying to keep members from cancelling the rollover
Ironic because, well, 'rollover'

[The_Dud]

So we’re any hard questions answered?

[Wayne42]

So Ratts loves "Hanners" leadership, perhaps we could appoint him as our NON-playing Captain!

Yes, Ratts said Hanners has 18 months to go on his contract and they want him to get his body right and get back playing, this year and next.

[WellardSaint]

So Ratts loves "Hanners" leadership, perhaps we could appoint him as our NON-playing Captain!

Yes, Ratts said Hanners has 18 months to go on his contract and they want him to get his body right and get back playing, this year and next.

If you get onto any Alfa Romeo fan forum, there's a few fans who say you need one Alfa and a normal car like a Toyota, because the Alfa spends more time with a mechanic than with the real owner

[Wayne42]

I was going to tape it but they said the audio would be available for members in a few days. I think the lady also said there would be an edited version on the website as well.

[Yorkeys]

Saw DH lecturing on effort/personal improvement in one clip. Saw room largely ignoring him. I admire his lack of self awareness. Of course can't judge anything from here sensibly but if I were in the room or comparable staff meeting I'd be thinking what a wanker. DH would probably be thinking the same about me. I hope he is not a negative influence. Tony74?

[Wayne42]

Saw DH lecturing on effort/personal improvement in one clip. Saw room largely ignoring him. I admire his lack of self awareness. Of course can't judge anything from here sensibly but if I were in the room or comparable staff meeting I'd be thinking what a wanker. DH would probably be thinking the same about me. I hope he is not a negative influence. Tony74?

DH probably should preface everything he says with, "back when i was playing", that might help his credibility.

[WellardSaint]

Saw DH lecturing on effort/personal improvement in one clip. Saw room largely ignoring him. I admire his lack of self awareness. Of course can't judge anything from here sensibly but if I were in the room or comparable staff meeting I'd be thinking what a wanker. DH would probably be thinking the same about me. I hope he is not a negative influence. Tony74?

I spent 5 years in admin in a warehouse. Each month we were forced to sit thru a safety meeting, watch videos of forklifts hitting shelves- knocking $000s of grog, and other types of stock, forklifts going wrong way down ramps n tipping over, etc.

So I get how the players would feel.
The usual safety guy was a paid external consultant in his 50's who sounded like a used car salesman.
He came to site in a grey C Class Merc, that was worth about $70k.
Ok there's jealousy on my part, yeah, but he was a self-important moron who nobody respected.
Before each meeting, guys were saying 'hope it's not that Fwit again'. We all had to sign in before each sesh.