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Excuses, excuses and more excuses

waiting

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Apr 15, 2007
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After watching the Greg Miller interview last night on channel 9 i have had enough of the running excuses.

Greg you are catching the illness that is richmond. Underachievers and a club full of excuses about why we havent been successful and why with each passing year, actually no each passing game the club from coach now to football director/recruiter of when we might see success.

What disturbs me more is Caro's assumption from sorces that there may be some player unrest , some ruffled feathers whose skin is discoloured because the club is looking at its youngsters to deliver success to the club, that the bowdens, richos , gaspers and johnsons of this club will not deliver us anything. Dosent this concern you?

Get on with the game guys abd show the young players the way because all i can see and hear is making me feel uneasy. If this isnt rectified i am afraid that the illness that is within this club will filter through to some promising kids we have and they will end up being the same under achieved list as the past and present has been.

Greg when you came you promised within 4 years something will happened. Five years on Greg and its looking like 2009 now 2011.

Terry came with a five year deal to build this club and list and three years in we look in some trouble at this early stage so far. I dont want Terry to try and sell to you or to us members that he will seek an extension of his lucrative contract to take him to 2020(joking 2011).

Greg i am tired with the excuse i heard you make about why we have recruited so many recycled players of no value to the club , apart from maybe 3. The reason for this Greg which you think we suppporters are stupid is that after the year we nake the prelim with Danny we thought that we needed just a top up of players discarded from others clubs to take that next step to the grand final when instead of recruiting the best kids and developing the list we went backwards hence the decline after that final series whichg resulted in a wooden spoon year.

I went to the family day and heard Terrys speach. He is a good salesman but like all salesman i hate them because i know what comes out of their mouths is crap. I like proof and i like results.

Stop the talk and start delivering.

And in finishing did anyone read Garry Lyons article in the sun? Look i know he deosnt think much of us but he shouldnt be sticking the boot into us as his beloved deemons are not doing better but at least they have seen some finals ala us. But what striked me was the fact that he states that the hawks have the better list than us , have recruited better than us and if Terry had his way(any coach in waiting and both jobs became available) he knows which club he would go to.

I cant argue with that at this stage of the season but if things dont pick up starting this week against the dogs we could be looking at a 0-8 start and another spoon.

Could we bear to hear any other excuse that "this is the season we had to have"

gt
 
Terry chose to go one way and Clarkson the other, hopefully by the end of Terry's first 5 years, he will have struck a happy medium, if not, his first five might be his last.
 
Waiting, you like most Tigers faithful are fed up with waiting for success however lets put things in perspective for a moment. We had a particularly bad game on Friday night. If we had won that or the Carlton game then none of this sensationalism would be happening right now. Just like Caro's inference that the list has gone backwards and Gary Lyon's article, this is pure nonsense. The crap comparisons with the Hawks list still baffle me. I thought Greg was right on the money with some of his answers too. A lot of this is over the top and one thing I will concede is that Terry's press conference re 2011 was a bad mistake. I can see where he is going with it but I don't see any reason why that year should even be mentioned. No wonder the natives are restless.

I am expecting some interesting INs over the next fortnight, the likes of Casserley, Edwards, Roo junior and Jon (even though has played already). Wallace must make this happen or I too may change my tune.
 
Thanks Rimau Junior but what i should have said as well as i dont believe all that comes from Terrys or Gregs mouth as all salesmen they are good at selling but speak rubbish.

But on the field something isnt right. To not fight out a game, to not show passion and not crumble when the opposition comes at you, i could accept once , twice maybe but it keeps happening and will continue until hard decisions and changes are made to a list of senior players whose body language is questionable.

Thanks again
 
waiting said:
What disturbs me more is Caro's assumption from sorces that there may be some player unrest , some ruffled feathers whose skin is discoloured because the club is looking at its youngsters to deliver success to the club, that the bowdens, richos , gaspers and johnsons of this club will not deliver us anything. Dosent this concern you?

Caro not being able to name sources to this is a concern, however, let's assume she is correct.

There is one simple way for those argrieved players to settle the issue.... GO OUT THERE AND PLAY YOUR BEST FOOTY WEEK IN WEEK OUT NOW!

It's not as if Wallace wants to wait until 2011 for our successful era to begin, I'm sure he'd be more than happy for some of these over rated pea hearts to put in consistently week in, week out and make the club successful now.

Bunch of prima donnas. I swear to god, if Caro is right, then she has inadverntantly hit the nail on the head as to why our club has underachieved for so very long.
 
waiting said:
And in finishing did anyone read Garry Lyons article in the sun? Look i know he deosnt think much of us but he shouldnt be sticking the boot into us as his beloved deemons are not doing better but at least they have seen some finals ala us. But what striked me was the fact that he states that the hawks have the better list than us , have recruited better than us and if Terry had his way(any coach in waiting and both jobs became available) he knows which club he would go to.


Was waiting to see someone comment on this ...

Yep, Hawthorn have beaten North Melbourne and Melbourne (te he) ... Let's go and plonk a grand on 'em to win next years premiership, they certainly have the form on the board against quality opposition Gary. :rofl

They may be ahead of us, but geez, to use this years games as a form guide to date, and a host of unproven kids to claim Hawthorn are ahead of us is truly laughable. As laughable as his claim Flanklin is a young Richo (Flanklin may be able to kick a goal better than Matty, but I know 1 on 1 who I'd back home in a marking contest).
 
meltiger said:
waiting said:
What disturbs me more is Caro's assumption from sorces that there may be some player unrest , some ruffled feathers whose skin is discoloured because the club is looking at its youngsters to deliver success to the club, that the bowdens, richos , gaspers and johnsons of this club will not deliver us anything. Dosent this concern you?

Caro not being able to name sources to this is a concern, however, let's assume she is correct.

There is one simple way for those argrieved players to settle the issue.... GO OUT THERE AND PLAY YOUR BEST FOOTY WEEK IN WEEK OUT NOW!

It's not as if Wallace wants to wait until 2011 for our successful era to begin, I'm sure he'd be more than happy for some of these over rated pea hearts to put in consistently week in, week out and make the club successful now.

Bunch of prima donnas. I swear to god, if Caro is right, then she has inadverntantly hit the nail on the head as to why our club has underachieved for so very long.

Exactly...it's amazing how playing good footy can do the talking better than any words you might be able to put together.
 
meltiger said:
waiting said:
What disturbs me more is Caro's assumption from sorces that there may be some player unrest , some ruffled feathers whose skin is discoloured because the club is looking at its youngsters to deliver success to the club, that the bowdens, richos , gaspers and johnsons of this club will not deliver us anything. Dosent this concern you?

Caro not being able to name sources to this is a concern, however, let's assume she is correct.

There is one simple way for those argrieved players to settle the issue.... GO OUT THERE AND PLAY YOUR BEST FOOTY WEEK IN WEEK OUT NOW!

It's not as if Wallace wants to wait until 2011 for our successful era to begin, I'm sure he'd be more than happy for some of these over rated pea hearts to put in consistently week in, week out and make the club successful now.

Bunch of prima donnas. I swear to god, if Caro is right, then she has inadverntantly hit the nail on the head as to why our club has underachieved for so very long.


thankgod for some sense around here.....some of these senior guys need to be given the flick A.S.A.P...