Seems to me after reading the line up of this search team that the club is after a newbie, not a traditional old school name. Perhaps after the situation with Walls and Lyon, they wanted to avoid cronies and mates... or maybe these were the only people who returned our calls.
Teflon wrote:Im a little puzzled....we have the Coles guy on the panel for "commercial" matters......and no senior experienced previous coach,
This strikes me as odd.
My sentiments exactly. Since when does a Senior Coach have anything to do with 'Commercial Matters'?
Brad Johnson?
What the hell would he know about a winning culture, a successful coaching structure or anything to do with what we need? Essentially, he's like Harves; nice guy, champion player and excellent trainer who dragged his team up, played a lot of games and only played in one environment, watching different coaching teams go through the revolving doors.
He's too nice, Burkey and Thompson are too nice, even Nettelfold is too nice. Nettelfold is the fella that said Lyon wouldn't leave as he's contracted then after he left said the same thing about Misson. To make a mistake, though costly, can be forgiven. To not learn from that mistake and get done by the same trick is unforgivable at this level. This guy gets $700'000 a year, apparently. If he says the same thing about Brendon Goddard next week I will kiss Barks4Eva's arse and jump on his mystery presidential ticket. Not sure Nettelfold's the right person for
any role at St Kilda. Starting to agree with Barks here, this board SEEM incompetent.*
It's a dirty industry these days footy, and this is a
crucial moment in our history. At the very moment Footy is making the transition to ultra-commercial emotion-free business, at the very moment that the AFL is pushing in 2 new expansion teams at the expense of the rest, at the very moment the global economy is going down the drain leaving everyone with less cash to spend, it seems like the club is being run by innocents. That won't wash. I want clever schemers and machevelian operators there making the hard decisions that will put us ahead of the pack. Because the other clubs are run that way, and if they see a vulnerable club, they will do exactly what Freo have done.
Pelchen at least seems snakey and calculating enough to know rat cunning when he sees it, and lets face it, that's what we need. Vacuous Space's suggestion might actually be true. Bloody Hell.
I am sorry guys, I'm really trying to be positive here, but there is not one person on this list that instills me with confidence. Worse still, now it's public, the footy world can have another little laugh at our expense. The poor players, you'd have to be as loyal as the Dog On The Tuckerbox to want to stay with us the way things are going.
*However, I am hoping that it's all a cunning ruse and they have a plan all along that we are not privvy to yet, perhaps all will be revealed after the finals. I am hoping that there are things in the pipeline that when revealed will make us go "Ahhhh, right, that's why they let Lyon and Misson walk out the door, that's why they put together a coaching search team that didn't have one single ex-coach in it. That's why, those clever brilliant bastards! Hahahahahaha!"
If not, then I think at the very least we need a new CEO and perhaps a new board too. If this was not all part of the plan, then the decision makers at our club are too naïve and not tactical enough.
Behind Play wrote:As long as Walls stays away....lowest of the low.
Now
that I can agree with. He calls in Ross, he waits a few years, then he bloody pushes like hell for him to bail on us. Walls can suck my b....
( God help me)
