Failure and its Origin.

[Guest]

Posted on the Wall on the 21st May. But I'd prefer to be discussing it here.



Lots of threads about positional changes.

Lots of threads about assistant coaches.

Lots of threads about who we should buy, who we should sack.


But that's all just shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic as far as I'm concerned.


More fundamental problems are

the head coach has lost the dressing room, and none of his staff ever had it.

the head coach has failed to attract topline staff or players.

the concept of 'team' has slipped into a coma and players don't respect the jersey.

players do not respect each other.

player managers are desperately trying to get their players out.

the board have no head coach or coaching staff contracted for 2010. Politis can bark all he likes about loving Freddie, but until he re-signs him its all waffle.

the board have a terrible record of coaching appointments stretching back to Mr R. Jones.

the CEO has no experience in handling a coaching change-over and is new to our club.

the leagues club has fewer and fewer links to the team which means the team has no physical home that it shares with fans. There is no big fun night out with Easts fans after a home game. (Storm still attracts about 1000 people after home games for a big party across the road).

there is no pressure on players or coaches from below, and little roots laid down in juniors. Junior football and the NRL club are miles apart.

the club has lost most of its ties to the ex-player community and the wider community in the East. For example coogee, clovelly, bronte, and bondi's surf life saving clubs are more galvanising and involving.



So shuffle away dear friends, but I'm fretting about the loss of our very foundations. our pillars. our structural strength.

[Guest]

Great post that really nails our problems..

The solution..

A pineapple?

[Roosterfarian]

Solution is ganja mun.

Bring the brothers together. Bring da love back in the coq.

[melon....]

I miss pipeline.

[TheLoneRooster]

That was a well reasoned and articulate piece GW - some opinion mixed with some deduction.
I would like to hear some of these things from the club and a plan for fixing this mess.

[Guest]

That was a well reasoned and articulate piece GW - some opinion mixed with some deduction.
I would like to hear some of these things from the club and a plan for fixing this mess.

Don't hold your breath.

Despite many of us paying good money to see this rabble of a team come out and lose by 40+ each week, we're being given the same old excuses. "Oh we trained well but they were the better team" or "we'll be back next week".

Whilst I bleed red, white and blue and I don't jump on or off the bandwagon at any point in time, it's very frustrating to know that we as fans are not valued at all.

[stsae]

Don't hold your breath.

Despite many of us paying good money to see this rabble of a team come out and lose by 40+ each week, we're being given the same old excuses. "Oh we trained well but they were the better team" or "we'll be back next week".

Whilst I bleed red, white and blue and I don't jump on or off the bandwagon at any point in time, it's very frustrating to know that we as fans are not valued at all.

Lozz I dont believe there are really many players who love their colours anymore. Sure they all say the right things but in reality they are all in it for themselves basically.

I dont deny they have passion for the game or pride in their own performances, I just dont believe players play for the fans these days, if they ever really did.

Champion teams play for each other and the coach though. When you get a solid tight group who genuinely get on well they are usually gonna go on and have some success if they are held together. But with the cap and professionalism these days thats even becoming a thing of the past, well for most clubs.

If youre owned by News LTD there are different rules of course.

[Guest]

i think a great difficulty for us all to really appreciate the depth of the problem.

It gives me chills. it's the truth that dare not speak its name.

Since Politis took over we've had no formal planning, no investment in assets, little marketing intelligence (fisk was a media man by heart and by action), little investment in a culture that is bigger than the players.

Whilst i adore the mans money and passion, I am frightened by a boss who lurches from one disaster to another without trying to stop the disasters from appearing.

If not for the massive personality of Gould, i reckon we are witnessing life under Politis that could have been our 1990's experience.

No professional sport team should be held so transfixed by their head coach, but thats the truth. Our 'culture' is so fragile that we get tossed about by the man with the whistle and clipboard.

and thats gotta stop.

I Politis I trust (caveat: but I'm starting to have my doubts).

[Guest]

It is easy from where we sit to solve all the problems, offer all the solutions and bitch and moan about everyone within the club. With the excpetion of very few clubs, they all have highs and lows. When we are winning, everyone associated with the team is the ants pants. When we start losing we start analysing what is wrong and what needs to be done to fix it.

In reality we do pretty much nothing as we are fairly powerless. Do we stop going to the games and force the clubs hand to implement the changes that everyone is calling for (all 300 of them)? If that were to happen, what chance is there that things will turn around.

Things will turn around, things will get better and at the end of the day there is only 1 team each year that succeeds. Everyone else has lost.

Go the Chooks, I will watch you week in, week out in the hope that the next game will be the one that turns the team around. I will support Freddie while he is the coach but I do think he should not be given much longer to prove himself.

I will continue to support a team and not a bunch of individuals. The players have it in them, we have seen it before and we will see it again.

Now, where is that Darwin Stubbie????