plugger66 wrote:SaintDippa wrote:Burke was finished if Blight was not relieved of his duties and would not have made the 300. Ooops sorry, that's right Frawley would have brought him to Richmond.
Love to have GT make public why Burke was moved on from his assistants role. And two years later he returns!
Keep Burke out.
That is so far off the mark it is laughable. First Blight was sacked by the board because he wasnt doing his job at all. Had nothing to do with the players apart from the fact they werent getting coached. Second Burkie quit the assistants role GT wanted to keep him.
Burkie was a valuable asset to GT as an assistant coach, so was Terry Daniher. Daniher was exited out by GT after being the forward coach of one of the most potent attacks in the competition at that time. Terrys work with our young forwards was brilliant, he left so did our forward potency.
Burke left the Saints because Thomas' autocratic style had no room for his input, any suggestion he gave was roundly ignored, the great man had too much sefl importance to listen to the likes of petty assistants.
After very good people left the assistant roles they were replaced with what? Nodders and yes men, Thomas surrounded himself with people who would listen not speak.
The president in his wisdom gave Thomas his rope in the knowlegde he would hang himself with it and subsequently based this on his reason to dismiss him. Is this a proffessional way to lead any organisation?? Especially being part of the reason behind the outcome.
Look, footy first or the
Rebels if you may have basically just informed the members of a challenge, after all the media putting pieces to press, they have released a statement to officially challenge the current board. That is all, I'm sure in the very near future they will announce their plans to take the club forward, I wait to see if they have any fresh plans or not, surely this gathering of people want from the club more than what it is currently seeing.
Originally Burke had upset Frawley quite honestly from what we gather from Spuds radio outburst, but Spud has fallen in behind with support for the REBELS. I'm told others such as Stewie are behind them as well. This is not a group put together merely for nuisance value, they are generating support to get the saints out of neutral, where we have idled for the past two years and moving forward again, with a solid push to concentrate on on filed matters as well as player welfare.
There seems to be a good spread of people on this board. Thommo and Burkie obviously tasked with on field direction and a balancce of what seems to be very good business accumen to oversee off field and financial matters.
I'm looking forward to the alternative to offer us something of real substance, because, regardless of retiring debt or cutting costs, the current board is bereft of any substance, decisions over the last two years make me cringe, ego is not and should never be the driving factor of a board incumbant.
