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Within our 4 Walls
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Boys, lets stick together. Great to have opinions and to share them. Lets not argue between ourselves, lets devote our energies in positive thoughts about the club. Can you both list 5 goods things this season?
yandb said:
You've answered you own question there ynb. Two very bad results in a season are outliers, yes.
Close results either way for the rest of the season are not outliers. They say we are very competitive most games, we won't win by much, but we won't lose by much either. A ten goal win would also be an outlier result.
This tells me coach and team are mostly doing a good job each week given our structural deficiences.
Thanks jb03 - Great captains are like hens teeth no doubt but great sides and clubs don't exist without them. In creating this thread I wanted a focus on 2 aspects of any sporting club that goes a long way to determining the success of the club. CULTURE and LEADERSHIP. A floundering, playing catch-up culture does not and never will locate and install the type of leadership that Hawthorn, for example, has enjoyed for many years; the results of which are there for all to drool over with envy - even Tiger supporters. And you can go back to the 80's with Mathews leading them and the successes that club enjoyed then.jb03 said:
In the beginning of this thread I wrote in part, "The RFC has not produced anybody like a Luke Hodge in 4 generations and the culture today would not permit the next Luke Hodge to walk through the doors at Punt Rd anyway!!!" I believe this to be true because we have a CEO and president obsessed with their concepts of "stability" and a moribund, one dimensional coach obsessed with his "processes" who collectively would not recruit the next Luke Hodge - even if he came up and bit them on the ar!!e.
Great captains lead from the front; never stop marshaling their troops on the field and their intensity never wanes during a game. I have seen those exact same qualities in Hodge that guided the Hawks to great success and having spent most of the last 30 years living in Italy and being a Milanista I watched the rise and rise of Franco Baresi steer Milan to unparalleled success - but not before the club brought in a ruthless president and a visionary coach in Sacchi. The culture was radically changed and the leadership flourished and the rest they say is history.
Richmond desperately needs a change of culture from within those 4 walls – the existing culture will be tested this Sunday as we watch to see how our side responds to a complete capitulation against the Saints last week! And for all you armchair theorists who love the sound of your own thoughts - it's not just the number of games you lose in a season; the fewer the better of course. It's the manner in which you loose and what I saw last Saturday was a footballing disgrace!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7gqoHDwgQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zwGmbTMs
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123kid said:
handcuffs, arse-biting. Hodgey gets himself a polo pony and liquid paper his name on a Xavier report and he could run the AFL
I suggest you read the bit about the club culture which reflects on all departments - even blind Freddy would have to admit that our recruiting team have been less than inspiring and yet to the best of my knowledge the main incumbents are still in place. And they are in place because of the culture at the RFC. And yes they would be blind to the next Luke Hodge!123kid said:
Lack of intensity, playing consistently dumb footy, without one of our leaders taking the game by the scruff of the neck, yet, and you might ask yourselves exactly what did the Tigers do within their 4 walls to prepare for this game after their non performance last week???