Sad for Ben Rutten, awful position to be in, but a change needs to be made. I donât think Clarkson will come to a Essendon, AFL and Tasmania stuff will make it not happen. Just cannot try to work out the result of all this, so many thoughts being put forward.
Well he isnât exactly a good coach now is he?? Is he even a mediocre coach? I would lean towards saying he is a â â â â coach based on the weekend and previous performances this season.
I know, I have kept saying that too, but inconsistency happens with young side, not straight out lack of effort. Young sides generally try their guts out coz they want to be and stay AFL players. Canât remember Geelong, Richmond or Hawks them being this bad as young teams. We looked to have promise last year, but then there was also the WB game.
Iâd love to think it could happen, and Iâve stuck fat with Rutten, but Sunday was just the last straw. I canât see how we can run out and be that bad, when weâve shown we can play with effort and system for 4 or 5 week stretches. And I donât necessarily âblameâ Truck or the players ultimately.
I think itâs the language people use. $hit like âfraudâ and what not. Trucks been authentic since day one - itâs the organisation thatâs been fraudulent.
Has been for decades.
Same with some of the language around Sheedy, which I just find really disrespectful and poorly judged.
If youâve been following the threads as things have unfolded itâs all there. Itâs usually frustrated but gutless people who find it easy to hang the coach when itâs just another example of the institution at fault.
Knights went in to have a reasonably successful career at Geelong as the VFL coach. He was put in an institution that had honesty sessions with itself that led to it becoming an environment that even with your flaws you could thrive.
Truck will go on and thrive somewhere else, just like he thrived before he got here.
We arenât a club you can thrive in, we arenât a club thatâs honest.
Our club is completely stuffed and has been for many many years. Unless we make changes at administration level this club will never amount to anything. I think the first step of changing president is the right one, and next we should purge the football department.