Balancing the Books
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As BigA suggests Jackson had this tunnel vision about balancing the books, and given the rorts on payments that had happened beofre there was lots of pressure from AFL. He did what he did and took no advice from others and the Board rolled over, and Sheeds was collateral damage.
Others will argue that Sheeds was past it and he had to go, but he had a habit of reinventing himself and the Team, so I am not so sure about that.
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EFC was a Public Company long before the AFL reforms required all clubs to have that status.
Also, while it nearly went under in the VFL spending sprees, it was about the only club that didn’t need a bail out to survive. This was supposed to give EFC independence from AFL House and to lead decision making. However, under Jackson, we became another franchise. When the Saga hit, we didn’t have the status to take on the AFL. The other clubs took advantage of our weakness in playing along with the AFL ( with the notable exception of Freo) . The Doggies got rewarded with a Premiership after Gordon’s role in doing us in, along with Eddie.
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Sheedy went 5 years beyond his use by date.
Re-inventing a team incorporating recruiting the likes of Alvey, Allan, Murphy, Camporeale, Zantuck, a cooked Heffernan, Cole, Michael was criminal neglect.
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The club badly mismanaged the non renewal of Sheedy’s contact. It went into panic mode to try to get Voss, announced during the season that Sheedy was finished. Must have been fun playing out the season under a Coach sacked by the Club.
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Jackson made all the financial decisions and this affected what Sheedy could do.
Maybe you are correct, but the decisions to get rid of key players was all on Jackson.
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And yet people still blame the players for their manager negotiating contracts based on their value.
The continued criticism of Hird, Lloyd and Mercuri for Jackson’s financial mismanagement is laughable.
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I’ll die on the hill that trying to squeeze one last flag out of Hird/Fletcher/Lucas/Lloyd (the tragic circumstances around Mercuri’s decline notwithstanding) while they were in their primes was the right call, but the hard calls should have been made no later than 2005
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Considering the amount of players who retired between 2000 and 2003……… there simply is no excuse for the mismanagement of the salary cap.
Bewick, Wallis, Barnes, Long, Alessio, Barnard.
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I am proposing we get rid of B.Scott and ancillary coaching staff and just hire Darren Cahill. Think that could do it.
Why not hire Trump? Of course he would not have to do anything, and of course he does not know anything about the job, the game or the country. But that hasn’t stopped him so far.
He even already has some Blitz supporters cultists.
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Yes, and Elon as CEO. Makes as much sense as what is actually happening in the greatest country in the world (thats the USA, just ask them, they’ll tell you, or dont ask them, theyll tell you).
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Can we keep the political references out of every 2nd thread on Blitz FFS?
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Not sure a bit of light hearted banter on Jan 28 worthy of a FFS.
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That blog is spot on.
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“When Scott arrived in 2023, he played Langford as a forward and leaned into his skills as a lead/mark player.”
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Although this is a bit revisionist:
“When Scott arrived in 2023, he played Langford as a forward and leaned into his skills as a lead/mark player.”
I seem to remember he played Langers back until 2MP and Stringer got injured, then Weid was all alone and so they swung Langers forward halfway through a match to find out the he’s is actually good inside the F50.
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It’s also a massive stretch to claim that Scott personally headhunted Rosa
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good article
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