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Never had a season where I wasnt disappointed I reckon. A season without scandal would be nice though
Did we have a bad headline in 2012?
Never had a season where I wasnt disappointed I reckon. A season without scandal would be nice though
Did we have a bad headline in 2012?
Depending on who you ask...
http://m.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/n...316919289?nk=c7aeb33c94463120223d92f92fa244c6
Bronson Harrison has been shown the door at the goons, could be a handy depth pickup, was a NZ international just a few years ago
Winning is underrated - it does more for a squad, club and it's fans than any financial maneuvering or boardroom initiatives. It also drastically reduces the negative spotlight the media would otherwise have us in regardless of any side scandals. It's hard to be labelled 'rock bottom' or 'crisis plagued' when you are getting the 2 points every other week.
Spending money on new and better recruits in key required positions does not necessarily guarantee more wins but doing nothing almost certainly does the opposite
That sums it up pretty well. Again I ask have we stopped SIGNING NEW TALENT BECAUSE WE HAVE NO ONE TO DO IT . If that is the case our board needs a rocket up em.
I have don't think we have stopped trying to sign anybody - I think player managers are telling their players to stay away.
DCE won't come here unless there is another gun player like Barba in the team. Barba really needs to be signed. I have strong misgivngs about his potential to be a dick and that epic bender crew but we need stars.I'd love a fully committed barba coming into our team, but im not sure that is what we will get but as pointed out we are rock bottom so we should be having a good look around, this brand image crap that gets thrown around is wearing thin, it sounds and comes across more as the board jostling to stay another term... Not having a major sponsor for god knows how long to me is more important than If we should chase Ben barba. Those thinking that not chasing barba gives us a better chance of snaring dce or Adam Reynolds for 2016...PLEASE.
Too much uncertainty around too many areas of our club - from CEO to coach. Without a history of success to fall back on there are not a lot of positives we can spruik to incoming players.Why would player managers do that ?
Our current rabble remind me of souths all those years ago when no one but battlers wanted to play for them and they were rank average... My god we desperately need a white knight to ride in and shake this place up for the better... God sake we are even torn to weather or not to sign barba, any other club would have held a board meeting and come away with a yeah or nah and a game plan if they wanted a player, now 3 weeks since first mooted the board are still stymied on if they should or shouldn't... Talk about pro active.
Don't know how reliable or true this source is but I read something that we are looking to off load Lewis. I don't believe it.
We're nothing like Souths were. We came last this year because of 1. A freak injury toll 2. Inadequate coaching/football staffing and 3. Monumental off field distractions.
It wasn't because the Club is on its knees financially or because the roster is crap. Carney is the only significant loss from a roster that was top 6 in 2013.He's a big loss and the squad is ageing but some young talent has come though and there's plenty of cap space to play with for next year and beyond.
I think a lot of people are whipping themselves in to a frenzy because we haven't signed anyone for a while. I doubt we will sign anyone expensive without there being a Head Coach to make the call. That's the reality.
But the upside is that there's a lot of movement of contracted players this year and Flano/Mooney have a track record of getting handy ones.
I remember when Jon Green and Mark Taufua seemed to be were our main signings in 2011. Then we signed De Gois, Todd et al.
I think its more likely than not that we'll get someone of top 17 standard before next year.