Re: 2019 - What do you expect from the club?
Reply #13 –
2019:
Love PBs list
Here we go:
No trite slogans to buy time and encourage patience. Truth and facts please combined with ambitious expectations. If I hear "we won't put expectations on what we can achieve..." again, I'll rip off my own ears. How about something simple like, "It's our goal to play finals this year."
If I hear, 'not too high, not too low' again I'll spew up. When we win, celebrate, whoop it up (for a short time). When we lose... hurt, hate it, despise it, get outraged by it (also for a short while), it's what healthy humans do...
A much healthier list.
A new football manager (Macca's replacement) who will hold SOS to account re his recruiting (trades a resounding fail to this moment) and bring in another recruiting talent with a proven track record under not so easy conditions (not building a list with rampant AFL favour).
A return to some of the mongrel we saw in players in BBs first year. And it is sustained.
At least 3 new senior footy ready players in the 22 - 27 yr age group who arrive ready to play. No more broken cast offs. Ensure they've also got some hardness about them.
Either get BB a highly qualified and demanding Mentor or bring in a senior coach who understands discipline and not being a buddy to the players. Yes, I think BB is just too hands on/familiar/nice. The best leaders are a little detached and are highly skilled delegators. I am sure the current players love BB, but do they respect him? Or even fear him a little? I really like BB and think he's been handed a poison chalice in some respects, and that he is a round peg in a square hole. His ability to stand up to the media hostility has been outstanding (and he's had to do it with FA public support from the President / SOS etc).
A winning focus/culture/expectation/desire/demand...
Cripps appointed Skipper. We need a Captain who has some mongrel, no more nice.
Get McClure, Rhys, Dominator, Wallsy etc involved and active at the club in some capacity - blokes with a bit of flare in their nostrils and absolutely intolerant of losing along with a deep love and understanding of PP.
And although I was highly supportive of not going cap-in-hand to the AFL re a priority pick, I've done a 180. We should demand it. They've participated in the demise of this club and owe us. Yes, we contributed and got ourselves into this mess... to a degree. Those original sanctions were vindictive and excessive aimed solely at sticking it up Elliott. And those bludgeoning sanctions sowed rotting, putrid 'black shoots' which have borne too much ugly fruit - we became desperate and just about anyone would qualify to run the place (further into the ground) to the point where for too many years we've become a club mired in guilt and apology... and have been bending over for way too long. No more. Now is the time for angry, uncompromising competence/excellence.
Board: get some people on there who have ruthlessness and boldness about them. The Board should be right royally p1ssed off with our situation and act accordingly.