^^ Your view isnt any less correct because of anything to do with the book tour.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/mal ... 262l6.htmlWe changed a few things for the super coach, but THIS is where our rotten club culture is really and truly highlighted:
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Ratten commented in a radio interview three days ago that the Blues had suddenly found the significant extra money to fund Arizona, with the team departing along with the new coach on November 8.
Ratten also expressed on 3AW how disappointed he was at the club's treatment of senior assistant Mark Riley, who has been offered a development role with the club after being a midfield assistant. Riley is understood to have taken sick leave while weighing up his future.
The club's other midfield coach, Paul Williams, has been sacked.
He was just a bitter ex coach though, right?
That's not to say that these things aren't the correct decisions, but this is the way we do things. We treat people as disposable, and then when they don't bleed for the club, we wonder why.
This is how you build a strong culture. With Brendan Bolton, it was the first time I thought we had bucked the trend and turned the corner. He had his chances, and it wasnt working and it needed a breathe of fresh air.
We got, we did it, and he was gone. Even Caro was saying that she was surprised he lasted that long, which made me think that perhaps we didnt go too early on him, and that the change was required.
Sure enough, under Teague things lifted. We did go through a process to hire a coach, interviewed at least Michael Voss, and then elected to stick with Teague. Under Teague we have been at worst, competitive. Our 2020 given COVID was actually quite good, and we fell short on finals just. The 5 goal run ons became the problem. Thing is, they werent an opponent rampaging. To my mind, they came in periods where we didnt convert rather than the opponent had us on toast with only the recent Port Adelaide game being the one time I can think of that we were truly uncompetitive, but that was with Teagues sacking imminent, and the club already looking at Clarkson and Lyon.
Its all quite distasteful, and disrespectful.
Lets hope this time it will be different, but something tells me that it will simply be another piece of history repeating. At the start of the year, I thought Collingwood would be the biggest train wreck of the season, unfortunately it was the Teague Train instead.
Now we wait and see. My forecast is that we will have another split changing room which will simply cement in the next generation of guys going through the motions.