I thought the Club was pushing Write The Future quite heavily?

Trainor is not the next President.

1) Why does Bruce Mathieson care how many members we have?
2) Is it in Bruce Mathieson's interests to have more members/further vested interest in the club?

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HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

The closer we look at it, the more it really seems like a "green fields" job.
Total strip back required.

All of those you listed did significant time as asst coaches etc. Ratten had one year at Melbourne then coached in the suburbs. Massive difference.

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So Bruce states the bleeding obvious, again. We as a club are the best at identifying deficiencies when its too late... worst at fixing them before they can hurt us.

We are Carlton... its the other guys fault.

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Let's hope not!

If you want to improve brand and membership I suggest winning games is a great start.

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Synbad,

The major point I disagree with you on is that you resent the influential families. I want one seat to remain for matheison and one for Pratt Why? Because their job was to fix the finances and basically they did it out of their own pockets, through increased memebership and sponsorship. Most of the rest should go. They went on the board and were very honest about not being football people and football was not their responsibility. Kernahan, Swann, Ratten, Gleeson are/were responsible for football. Malthouse is now. I just think you tend to scapegoat the wrong people. You have to be very careful about throwing the baby out with the bath water and if you do it you need to know who the replacements are.

Two against which is fair enough BUT without reasons. Care to elaborate ?? Or give an alternate.

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Love him or loathe him, it's true and we all know it. (Well second worst). But we missed an opportunity to review our club in Ratten's last year. Geelong had a good look at themselves when placed in a similar position, while we got Mick. Whether that was the best call or not will never be known as we never canvassed the alternatives.

Carlton still behave as we did in the good old days, but they were 20 years ago. If we can't get it together, we will be in 16 cups in 100 years time. The game has changed so much yet we remain well below the elite. We need to get senior people into the best clubs in the world to see their practices and bring them home. Change will take a long time and we've been sitting on our hands for a decade. Time to get cracking

People forget the Tigers in recent history ...

Remember their track record in recruiting??
How's Oakley-Nicholls going these days?

We need to turn things around, and we are heading in that direction.
I think Bruce has jumped in and taken advantage of the usual hysteria that follows a Round 1 loss.

What is his motive?
Is he trying to put public pressure on Sticks and the board?
Surely he knows that things will change at board level next season, and not before then?
Is he posturing as a warning to the next President/board?

Sadly recruiting is not an exact science.
But if you put good management in place, then I imagine you can get better performance from your recruiting team.

I have a theory that what was lacking over recent years was effective governance and control measures to review Hughes and the department.
How was Hughes being assessed on an ongoing basis?
Who was reviewing the structure and strategy of the recruiting team?
Who decided to keep the odd tandem of Rogers and Hughes in place by demoting Hughes?
What could have been done to better synchronise our list management and recruiting strategies?
Did we adapt our strategy after the Judd and Fev trades as effectively as we could have?
Was the interaction with the coaches over recruiting decisions functional and effective?

Is Andy McKay fixing things?

I know nothing about footy recruiting, but as the average joe bloggs these are the type of things that go through my mind.

It's too easy to have a knee jerk reaction and rant on about how crap the end result of our recruiting has been.
We need to focus on the processes.

Hughes is gone.
We need to fix things and move on

Thanks Bruce.


flower deadshit.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

We never do.

It's either a club great with little experience (Ratten) or a big name who is most likely past it.

Unfortunately the decisions are made to appease the nuff nuff members.

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He only said what most of here have been saying for the last few years. Perhaps Bruce reads TC.
Our recruiting is terrible. The one thing that really stood out in that article is that we only have 13 players under the age of 23 on our list, with the average being 19. It was really disappointing that none of our new recruits played on Sunday, its something that i have always loved watching early in the season.
When was our last RS nomination? That long ago i cant remember.

What has SOS done to show he can manage/improve a rebuilding list?

To date he has managed a list of kids put together with the aid of the absolute lion’s share of the top end of two drafts. Entirely different scenario to what we face.

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I think it was Yarran in his first year

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TC suffers from the social media illness - the death of respect and constructive discourse by keyboard.

I have been highlighting that for a while. True indictment on our list.

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Heard from someone who's judgement I trust that he doesnt present himself in the most professional manner (doesn't speak on behalf of the club well)...something that this club needs after Kernahan.

+1. Play the kids FFS. No future in sticking with the proven plodders and turnover merchants.