Braithy wrote:
Blue Vain wrote:
Braithy wrote:
Brently8 wrote:
Compare our list this year to Clarko and Hardwick's list in their 3rd year. They had far superior lists, much more quality and experience, mature bodies and an incredible run with injuries.
Add this to a club that had the lowest footy department spend in the entire competition, a rookie CEO coming on board and the football manager 'resigning' half way through the season.
But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
our club is a mess and riddled with incompetence from top to bottom. bolton included. no one gets a pass. trying to credit the proper amount of blame on any one person or department when we are this glaringly bad, is the equivalent of herding cats.
if you judge bolton on his gameday product he still fails. the skills and effort this season has been a fail and the players at times look so lost and incapable of any gameplan. this is coaching.
... but, the club has totally screwed bolton over by thinking because we're reseting, there's no need to spend money on departments. development, scouting, recruiting, injury prevention and rehab etc ... bringing in rookie CEO's and a pres who are all about business, and less about football acumen, will obviously do that.
as a club we lack quality people (at the top) with intelligent football brains.
No offence, but how would you know?
The membership or marketing or Corporate Marketing department may be working far better than previously. How would you know?
How do you know the President has less football acumen than any other Presidents? It looks like a lot of guess work to me. The trouble with these posts is others cling to the opinion as it has some form of fact attached to it. Then we get posters coming up with solutions to a problem that may well not exist!
Does Hawthorn have people at the top with intelligent football brains? How about the Bulldogs? Kangaroos? Sydney?
I think you're doing more guesswork denying it. in an on field results driven business, cfc are not getting results and have not for 20 years.
Fact: cfc invested the least money of all clubs into its football departments. it isn't footy intelligence to not spend money on football departments. for 20 years who would argue that we've been the league worst with recruiting, drafting, development, injury prevention & rehab?
fact: rookie coach; rookie president; rookie CEO. A fossil of a footy operations manager that was in over his head for how ever many years he had his job; and a list manager who's previous experience was the very unique job of building an expansion team from zero ... where's the experience (or competence) here?
Eddie Betts. I heard it straight out of his mouth; he didn't know what hit him when he went to adelaide. "So, this is what a real football is like. ok?" He then went and talked about the professionalism and training methods and the expectation at adelaide is like nothing he ever saw at cfc.
it's like sheesh, bv. when are you going to wake up and actually admit we are literally the worst team in the history of the afl?
with all of our club's braintrust & resources chasing 55k in memberships, they've abandoned the on field product. Business over football acumen.
womens, mens wooden spoons and the ressies not far from it either.
Forget the last 20 years. This administration can only be judged on the past few years.
Recruiting- Far from the worst in the past few years. In fact, I'd suggest we've done very well. Cripps and Charlie are both players taken outside the top 10 yet I'd suggest they'll be top 10 players in the AFL within the next 2 years. Add Fisher, Williamson as later picks, Dow and O'Brien are impressive picks from the top 10 and I still have high hopes for SPS, Harry, Macreadie, Cuningham etc. I believe our drafting has been as good as most.
The fossil of a football operations manager was as qualified as most to do the job.
As for the President, he isn't a great media performer but he's the best thing to happen to our club in years IMHO.
We've spent decades trying to rort the system and take shortcuts. For the first time in living memory, we've had the guts to fully rebuild the playing list and take the long term option. Lots of people have shown they dont have the guts to see it through (including plenty of supporters) but I give him credit for having the courage to see it through.
I know others disagree but I know how difficult it is to manage a team decimated by injury. All indicators show the teams who are impacted by injuries to their better players will struggle. They are the facts. Anything other than that is emotive and uninformed gossip IMO.
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