I wonder if he will come back in here and answer question now?
Would not have the stones for that, go hide in your ivory tower like the rest, fraud.
He got sucked into the last question IMO but that was about it. What else can he actually say that he didnât say? He said yeah, we went after Clarko and didnât handle Rutten situation the greatest, soz. I think thatâs really all he can say.
The handling of the approach to Clarkson though, awful.
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He handled in a awful way, no preparedness, no plan, no vision to tell the supporter why they caused the debacle. Was ad hoc, defensive and unimpressive give our situation.
All it would have taken is a word to Truck after Sundays game.
The board are going to probably want to sound out Clarkson after that performance, and Truck knew it was badâŚvery bad.
By being incompetent in their handling of it itâs ironically given Truck a bit of a life line.
If the players really CARE about their coach , they will show it in the first quarter of the game.
And Rutten has no excuse, heâs coaching against Dimma. He knows exactly what to expect.
"I fully accept heâs made a decision to go to North Melbourne and congratulations to them, well done. Tough on Ben, for sure. But thatâs the sort of thing that we have to do and I have to do for this club improve and get better and go forward."
Essendon champion and former club coach James Hird has been linked as a possible contender to return to the top job, but Barham said he had not spoken to the 49-year-old.
âIâm not sure what Hirdyâs got to do with it, to be honest. I havenât spoken to him. Does he want to [coach]? I havenât asked him,â Barham said.
Barham described himself as an âagent for some sort of changeâ but said no roles were under review. He said the Bombersâ board of directors would need to âlook at itselfâ and that he would meet with long-term chief executive Xavier Campbell about his position.
âXavierâs fine. Xavier and I need to sit down and have a long chat. Because when you have a new president, him and I have not had time to sit down. I donât know how he feels about me,â he said. âXavier and I have a lot of work to do in the next few months.â
Other than the terrible Clarkson approach, I couldnât be upset with any of these comments.
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Did this guy just rock up to the club on sunday?..for the first time ever
Gave me the impression he has no idea whatâs gone on
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This guy shouldnât be to blame RE Clarkson, he was made president 4 days ago. He didnât seem to have an effing clue in the presser, and hopefully that is a one-off with him, but it isnât solely his fault Clarkson wasnât pursued until Mon/Tues this week though.
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So X held off as long as he could to approach Clarkson, itâs like he wanted to give his man Truck every opportunity to hang on.
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I have heard more intelligent statements from pi$$ed punters at urinals.
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Has balls - tick. But hope itâs not another Paul Little situation. How is it a massive club like ours doesnât have any high profile supporters, Collingwood, Carlton, Richmond all have them, ours is Nick Gianopololous lol.
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Donât forget RoCo (the teetotaller).
Anyway, isnât Little Paul high-profile enough ? He was boss of the Toll Group from 1986 to 2011. Do we really need another like him ?
Heâs just interfered in the operations of the club with a half baked plan that has failed
He has to go. No two ways about it. This is an asteroid sized â â â â -up and his position is untenable
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There needs to be a complete clean out. There just has to be.
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It literally is.
His faction made the approach.
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When? And how is it that he is solely to blame?
How are X and Brasher not more responsible?
Spot on.
Exactly. We had plenty of opportunity to go all in with Clarko when we were 2-10 with supporters tearing their hair out.
We probably got word that a Clarko decision was eminent so had to move fast to even get a look in. Administration shat themselves and put together a half assed bid.
Brashers stubbornness cost us a real shot at Clarko, not the â â â â show of the last four days
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Barham just took it where it should have gone at 2-10 but all roads lead back to stupid Brasher. One of the greatest opportunities and we â â â â â â it up the wall because Brasher and his clique wanted status quo. Least Barham had the balls to do something
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Because they didnât do it?
I donât get what your angle is here?
Truck seems to think we are on the right path.
Heâs 39 and worked under Dimma who rates him highly.
His win loss record for a coach starting out with a basket case is about right.
Keep Rutten.
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