frawleyudud said:
Dean3, Koalill and co i just hope that you are around next year this time when we are in the same position, so we can hear your thoughts!!!
FUD, this time next year I will be what have been for the last 21 years a PAID UP and PASSIONATE Richmond Football Club Member. So don't despair, I'll be around giving my opinions and thoughts.
frawleyudud said:
All the frawley lovers STILL wont tell us WHAT danny frawley has done for the richmond football club and what his great assets as a coach are? Why he will improve our team??
The pot calling the kettle black there FUD - I have asked you questions and you don't reply. But I will try and list a couple of things Danny's done for the Club since he has been there and then you can knock it all and say what you normally do. he's a Dud blah blah.
In his first season 2000 we finished 9th. If everyone is 100% honest - the majority would say that was a surprising result (although bitterly disppointing missing the finals). He introduced a code of behaviour for the players. Which meant that when players stuffed up off the field (read: Daffy, Ottens) the were penalised. If my memory serves me well the majority of people applauded that. He was the major reason Brad Ottens re-signed at the completion of his first contract.
His second season resulted in a third place finish. Which in hindsight everyone agrees flattered the Club. I will concede (and this one will make you happy FUD) the players drafted, in particular Hudson, were mistakes. But the fact remains in his second season we made the finals. Whether you want to admit it - that is an achievement.
He traded for Leon Cameron and although Leon is nearing the end of his career that has been a good trade for the Richmond Football Club. He kept Andy Kellaway when alot of people called for him to be traded or de-listed after 1999. He is now a B&F and All- Australian.
You argue that he has no guts when it comes to getting rid of players. But isn't he the one who told Matthew Knights it was time and he then copped a bucketing for it. I don't wish to debate the decision - whether it was right or wrong but it took guts to make that decision knowing the possible ramifications.
Everyone criticises the list and questions why players haven't been de-listed or traded. The reason is simple contracts. If a players is contracted then they can be traded. We can offer them - but if no-one takes them- well you have to keep them. If you decide to de-list then you have to pay out the contract. That doesn't free space on the salary cap that just leaves an empty space on the list. We are short on the list now - we cannot afford to have a smaller list. Fact is we have to keep who we got until their contracts expire if we cannot trade them.
As I have said we have been burnt for paying fat contracts for players who don't deserve them. It is crazy to blame Danny for the $$$ being paid.
FUD, you ask what his assets as a coach are? And I ask you have you ever sat in on a team meeting, a match review, defence analysis? You don't answer. I am not trying to big note myself and say I know everything but I spent a week there and have done all those things and I can only go by what I have seen. He has the respect of the players (which is slightly more than some other coaches over the years). He and the rest of the coaches put alot of planning into matches. They do have other game plans than "bombing it into Richo".
I will repeat what I said yesterday - the Coach isn't the problem our list is. Clearly our second tier players are not up to it. The list is being reviewed and come the end of the season (once contracts expire) look for some changes.
