Scorchie
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He was so good Gus fired him!One of the wobbliest posts I’ve read on BHQ
Poor Kev. Had to arrange his own welcome conference and had a shoddy exit conference
He was so good Gus fired him!One of the wobbliest posts I’ve read on BHQ
Sproj you summed it up perfectly for me. Kev brought back that old Broncos feeling again. He got the engine started because even though I will always be a fan I was definitely on idle for some time. Being at that last training session before the grand final last year with a number of old players, shaking his hand and wishing any player close by well will always stay with me.But man I'm sad for Kevvie, respect what he did last year and really feel like he's been massively let down for these prima donnas wearing the jersey, they should hang their heads in shame.
It is hard to move beyond him cracking though in the back end of this year under pressure.
I just feel sad.
Dave Donaghy took questions after Walters leftPresser was short and sweet. Just a statement by both, no questions. Kevvie doing his best not to shed a tear. Whole thing was a nothing burger.
In other news, water is wet.
Darius boyd will kick a football shaped ceramic jar with the new coaches name in it.I'm thinking there will be a puff of smoke and a car rim wrapped completely in a flexible length of soft metal appears and we all gasp and go... Mag-wire... Maguire!!!!
Dave Donaghy took questions after Walters left
Nothing earth shattering .. about what you’d anticipate from a CEO in this situation in 2024Did he? I retract my statement then. Sen just cut back to the show.
Anything interesting?
Michael McGuire coached the tigers to a wooden spoon in 22 and they haven’t recovered since and got two more….
Yeah he’s the fucking answer
Ikin wanted to be CEO, he made no secret of that. He wanted DD's job.That`s why Ikin left .
It was Kevvie`s way or the hi way . Ikin took the on ramp .
I'm over rookie coaches. The club's too big to bring someone in without head coach experience. Just way too much pressure.I hope Josh Hannay gets it, the Madge praise is craaaaaazy to me. Let’s build a future not a stop gap that might make us a top 4 team. Josh Hannay and Walker brothers as assistant. Than get an experienced defensive assistant
I'm over rookie coaches. The club's too big to bring someone in without head coach experience. Just way too much pressure.
Guess we'll have all the Old boys coming out in defense of Kev. Webke is a smart man and he has a clue but clearly the review, from someone outside the club, showed that Kev didn't have control. It had to be damning.Webke:
“When did it become our way to do things like this? We went from being wooden spooners to seconds away from winning the grand final. None of us are happy with the season just gone, and particularly Kevin. But I think the smarter thing to do, and the right thing to do, would have been to let Kevvie coach next year. This year is the wake-up call that we needed. We’ve got a good, strong club again, a wonderful roster full of great players. The wake-up call will lead them to bigger and better things next year, and perhaps getting back to where we know they can be.”“It can’t be anything else but spin. The toll on family wouldn’t make Kevvie Walters step away. I promise you. Kevin’s known that the whole time he’s been a coach. It does smell like they’re trying to put nice pretty wallpaper over it and call it something that it’s not. Adam Reynolds was saying the players did not know. If that is true, that is the most unprofessional thing I reckon I’ve ever heard that club come up with.”“If I thought this was the right thing, if I thought sacking Kevvie was the right way to go, I’d support it because one thing we all know is none of us are bigger than the club. No players are, no ex-players are, no one is. So the good of the club has got to come first. I just don’t think that this serves the best interests of the club. I don’t think anyone wins out of this, and I think you could have achieved the same result in a very, very different way. Give it a chance and all the rest of it and then none of us would be having these conversations. That’s the right way to do it, that’s the right way to run a footy club. On the surface it looks like a kneejerk decision made by people who don’t understand what our club’s about, and what our game’s about.”