Love it! I love the new ‘Gloves are Off’ approach - time we started to stand up and not get bullied.
We make him do it - its either that, or tow the party line……until you’re out of contract.
I reckon there’d be teams queuing up for him (depending on his attitude next year and performance)
I’m all for acknowledging and forgiving Zack back - after all he’s going to go down as one of our greatest ever players. With the greatest of respect, I’ll also say this - As a leader of the club where he’s spent most of his career and has been anointed skipper. He’s broken trust, irrelevant of what people say in terms of today’s sport being open and commercial (there is a way to do this - if he wanted out, as a captain with a team largely made of impressionable youngsters, he should’ve consulted the LT and senior players and aired his desire and worked through those channels rather than getting dodgy advise from the wrong people (Tom P & of course S Mitchell - who is an absolute snake and seems to be on a mission to disrupt many athletes without considering the human impact and cost…..the karma bus is currently charging and should take off soon mate)
What I’m hoping happens (if the Karma bus gathers momentum and we keep our powerbrokers from intervening and let the elected people do their jobs)
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We put in massive effort into due diligence and recruit smartly focusing more on Footy IQ and skills rather than purely on athletic capabilities
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Zack is accepted back to the club (and kept in the leadership group - but taken out of captaincy - as its just untenable to have him as the main leader anymore) and take out emotional investment in him and treat him as a commercial commodity and start making backup plans (which includes dealing straight with his management in terms of his exit strategy if he wants to do so - which needs to be beneficial to the club like multiple clubs option rather than a single club)
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We manage to wrestle back the injury list and get some continuity into our key players (especially Ridley, Z Reid, Parish and second half (Martin/ Bryan)
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We implement a sustainable and identifiable brand that will stand up in finals & reflect current footy standards and blood youth at every chance whilst remaining as competitive as possible.
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We start investing time on a strategy to bring in elite talent next year (eg: Butters/ Harley Reid)…this will either entice Zack and others to stay or they’d be replacing Zack -either way its a win-win.
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We hope like hell (of course put solid effort into development / capability….etc) that the middle tier (Cox/ Perkins / Tsatas / Hobbs) take the next step and become at least serviceable footballers and role players.
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Finally, this is my sincere hope - the p%#ks in Who*ethorn implode and crash with everything (onfield and offfield) burning to the ground and get hit hard by the Karma bus!
Just wanted to have a rant and get it out of my system - apologies folks!
Go Bombers!