My experience was that Directors were always at Coterie functions drinking red wine and Crown Lager with the toffs. After a few Herbert’s all Directors listened to everyone.
Spot on - in the days where 3 were sponsors (I was behind the sponsorship), I spent a heap of time with Sheeds at events and with alot of the players consistently (took Wally, Longy, Dave Hale and others to the Grand Prix). Realistically the “powerbrokers” and influencers at the club tend to spend disproportionately more time with corporates and coteries…
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Free booze !!
Sort of - my company paid nearly $6000 p/a IIRC for the Diamond Dons membership… 
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Remembering my Sunday School lessons, we need the same style cleanout as Sodom and Gomorrah or historically, as Rome did at Carthage or the Mongol Hordes applied to Baghdad.
Then, rebuild.
I can’t see how on your criteria you can look to change Dodoro. He has delivered good players from very limited draft choices. No other list manager has been hamstrung to the extent he has been after the saga. As Essendon are rebuilding you have Gold Coast and GWS compromised drafts that decimate your ability to rebuild. Furthermore the AFLs continued interference with academy setups and preferential talent distribution to rugby league state based clubs undoubtedly make his job even more difficult.
He has made a couple of draft mistakes but every club has their misses. Just look at any first round and you see 30% misses.
Currently from an age bracket point of view, Dodoro has landed rising stars Sam Draper, Nick Martin, Durham and D’Ambrosio from outside the main national draft.
He has attracted some decent free agents and has so far performed well in talent retention.
He has changed the age demographic of the list in our favour and balanced the mids / talls aspect of the list.
It’s about time other people at the club met there KPIs before people sink the boot into Dodoro. I think we desperately need his experience right now and it would be a bad decision to let him go.
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Thr fact that you just tried saying the mids are balanced, showed everyone you either didnt watch this year, or have your head in the sand.
Adrian had 10 years before the saga and achieved absolutely zero with those years.
We also gained pick 1 because of the saga which he totally muffed.
He’s attracted one good free agent (BJ) otherwise his generally paid through the nose for players ie, Shiel, Smith and Stringer.
And if you try and say Kelly has been a good free agent please refer to the opening paragraph
The only one he paid through the nose for was Shiel. You’re just buying into external dodoro noise here. Not only did he get good prices, he brought high returns for the ones leaving
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Here’s the Dodoro facts,
One of the only common themes accross:
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Every year without a finals win since 2004
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10 years, five coaches
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1 Brownlow medalist in the last 20+ years
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Consistent unfavourable Contested possession stats
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Low numbers of players in AA lists
…is Adrian Dodoro. FFS we just sacked a coach who’s been with us for two seconds but this guy can roll out consistently uncompetitive and unbalanced lists year after year??
Enough is enough on list build and shape. Time for change
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Announce Pol Pot as coach!
This is the only area that I cut him slack. You can’t build a list without the input of the coach. On top of that there are other obvious factors around our draft/talent position.
It still shouldn’t save him.
Agree - if the review is done well enough, the common thread through our last two decades can’t be ignored….
List selection, development, management and game plan are all big issues for us.
We can hire Pyke or Yze or Spike but it’s about the cattle on the field, how they are developed and how they’re managed. We’ve had crap player development. a second rate VFL system, poor fitness structure since Quinny left and a list manager who picks soft skinny types and speculative selections to feather his ego.
All not a very good mix
A LONG WAY TO GO!!
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I asked this question in writing prior to Player Sponsor meeting. Answer was the question is outside the meeting’s focus.
Of course it is - let’s not get the truth ahead of a good story…was B. Ham the player sponsor chair!!!
My ADD kicked in when i didn’t see “Sack Dodoro” in the first few lines.
Great effort though. I think.
He’d kill it!
Your saying you want to build a bit of fat in there somewhere.
Van Wilder, coterie liaison
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Just don’t get Herod involved.
We still need JHA.