tommy
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- Jun 5, 2015
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Dimity Clancey was always my favourite.Your loss
Fwiw, Danika Mason has overtaken her in my books.
Dimity Clancey was always my favourite.Your loss
Fwiw, Danika Mason has overtaken her in my books.
Any port in a storm mate.unfortunately, it the ugly one that everyone else has passed on
In fairness, he does have a point. Who is being held accountable in the front office as they have contributed to the current football situation. Our recruitment team do have to take a large amount of responsibility for the current roster issues.
In fairness, he does have a point. Who is being held accountable in the front office as they have contributed to the current football situation. Our recruitment team do have to take a large amount of responsibility for the current roster issues.
Whether this is Paul White's area or whether he is more the commercial side of the club, I don't know.
Does he even talk about the Titans? He is obsessed with us.
This club has been a major failure at succession planning for the last 13 years or so, basically coinciding with the tenure of one Bruno Cullen.
A brief look at the failings over that time:
1. They had no succession plan in place to replace Bennett when he left originally. They allowed their succession plan to walk out the door and go to Melbourne. They then stuffed up trying to re-sign Bellamy (either twice or three times) which led us to the wonderful predicament of having no option but to appoint Henjak. This then rolled into the appointment of Hook.
2. They allowed Luke Priddis and then Michael Ennis to leave without having a viable and competent hooking alternative. You all know what this has resulted in.
3. Nothing apparently was planned for the inevitable retirement of our last superstar player, one D. Lockyer. No viable alternative had been groomed and any attempt to go to the market to buy a ready made replacement failed. We really needed to buy one of Thurston, Cronk or Smith to replace him.
4. There has been a failure to prepare for the inevitable retirement of our last cohort of experienced leaders, Hodges, Parker and Thaiday which has led to current leadership vacuum.
5. The final example is the cluster **** that resulted in trying to manage the ending of Bennett's involvement with the club.
Hopefully, this area will eventually improve.
they allowed their succession plan to walk out the door and go to Melbourne.
Where did I say in my post that I expected him to, can you show me? My criticism was the failure to get him back which was totally on Cullen.Bellamy wasn't going to stay an assistant with us for 6 years until we needed a successor to Bennett, especially as we weren't expecting to need one in 2008
The club tried to sign smith and JT (not 100% sure about JT), but they were at clubs who could match our offers and they didn’t want to leave. Smith was coming to Brisbane until his ‘wife’ convinced him to stay.
People in the media talk about how much cash we have, but we’re still bound by the cap. If it didn’t exist then the criticism would be warranted.
But his point is also invalid saying white has been through 4 or 5 coaches.In fairness, he does have a point. Who is being held accountable in the front office as they have contributed to the current football situation. Our recruitment team do have to take a large amount of responsibility for the current roster issues.
Whether this is Paul White's area or whether he is more the commercial side of the club, I don't know.
@Foordy and @Battler, can you both honestly say that you believe that in terms of recruiting, retention and development that the club has been professionally and competently managed in the last 12 years?
I think you know my thoughts. Since 2010 who could we call a marquee signing that this club has made? I can only really identify Milford, and that has not really worked out as well as what they had hoped.Are there actually fans who can read that still think the club has been run well for a decade? Or that our recruiters and scouts are actually good?
Can't be, surely.