redback wrote:
cimm1979 wrote:
Our only hope is if there is an emergency board meeting called for Monday.
All this tells me is that the players run the club.
If the players don't like the coach the coach goes.
Well I don't think Ratts is a great coach but he is the coach for now.
What happens if they don’t like or respect the next coach after two or three years.
It’s never up to the players to run the coach.
Who do these little pretentious pounces think they are?
Drop Judd.
Drop Gibbs.
Drop Betts.
If you’re going to lose, lose your way and show the public what you expect from these little shits who think they are above what is expected from them when they pull on this jumper that has had so much history and respect in the past.
Who do you think you are to destroy that with your childish whinging, pathetic and over valued self worth?
Toughen up or get out.
It's not about whether the players like the coach or not. I'm sure most of them like him as he is a nice bloke. But does being a nice bloke make you want to play for him? No, of course it doesn't. Leadership, respect, an understanding and a sense of consequence are what drive a team to play for a coach.
I've said this previously in another thread that the way players respond to coaches is much like the way people respond to their superiors in the workplace. If you have someone who is not a natural born leader trying to implement a plan or strategy that the subordinates don't believe in it's never going to work. You may have times where things just click for one reason or another, or have patches of brilliance instigated by indiduals but you will never form a successful, cohesive unit.
That's exactly where we're at and if things don't change quickly then Ratten has to go - like it or not.
If you want an example of how quickly things can change, look no further than the Crows, Geelong last year, or even St. Kilda under Watters. A new coach with a sound plan empowers the players and breathes life into them. It doesn't mean their predecessors were bad coaches, or bad blokes, or even unliked by the playing group - it was just time for a change.
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