Faces change.
Overall direction hasn’t.
That comes from the top.
What’s the overall direction?
Exactly.
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The first one I would sack would be the fitness guy. I’d scour Australia and overseas to find someone who knows what he is doing. Pay them whatever they ask for, with a proviso that they lose a percentage every time a player does a soft tissue injury or has a recurrence of any injury
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The direction is pretty clear to me. All signs point to a rebuild, blooding new players asap and we have shedded Woosha and with it, any excuses post saga. Brasher said as much and he’s been impressive every time I’ve heard him speak.
It’s easy to complain, coming up with solutions is a bit more difficult (and I’m not talking “be more hard to score against!” which I just read elsewhere).
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The greatest coach of the modern era is sitting at home probably punching holes in his wall, bring the angry little man in!!
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For memory he was.
I thought he was part of the Royal Board.
One of the assistant coaches or in development somewhere.
For memory, it was Goodwin, Hird, Bomba and McCarthy (the Bulldogs coach).
I’m pretty sure Wellman was there.
Maybe he was just before it and I’m mistaken.
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he wouldn’t want to endanger his reputation.
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I don’t agree at all.
His comments were classic bob each way.
Want to win a flag in “the next 2-3 years”, but also want to make finals this year.
It’s amazing we’ve found someone even less decisive than Tanner, but we did.
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Certainly part of the coaching box in 2011, not sure if still there in 2012 or not.
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I don’t remember him saying that? But could be wrong.
I also don’t expect a president to ever say “strap in for some pain - we doing this the hard way”. Selection has shown us very clearly what we’re doing since Rd 1 last year.
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Agree. Buckley is actually a decent coach and a very good human being.
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I think the comments were designed very well to that end.
“ Essendon president Paul Brasher says the Bombers expect to be a serious premiership contender within the next two or three years, but view 2022 as a season in which the club is “building” a team that can win a flag.
A frank Brasher said while the Bombers wanted to make the finals this year, he suggested they were among 10 teams vying for two to four positions in the final eight, in what would be a tight ladder.
“Obviously, we certainly want to make finals, absolutely,” said Brasher, who described the 2021 season as “a development” year this time last year.
“But what we want to do is win a grand final - and I don’t mean necessarily this year,” the president told The Age . “That’s what we want to do and everything we’re going to do is going towards that.”
Yep a lot of people like brasher because he told them what they wanted to hear.
Those quotes mean nothing. We want to be good…
You’re correct about the bob each way in short and long term success.
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Can’t break a promise if you never make one.
To me that’s as clear and unequivocal point to a development year without outright telling members “don’t bother rocking up this year - there’s no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow this season”
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I’d have him right now as senior coach.
That’s what cars are for
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But why does he need to hedge and prevaricate? He’s chairing a fucken footy club, not the UN.
But let’s put that to the side.
In a development year, why is Rutten picking Dev and Phillips? Why is Stringer being rushed back? Why are we waiting til round 5 to see Hobbs? Why’s Shiel the focus of the centre square setups?
If we’re all meant to (wink wink) ignore about half of the president’s statement, and we are all about the 2-3 year picture, then Rutten should be sacked on all of that.
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