Buffalo
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- Joined
- Mar 31, 2008
- Messages
- 101
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Like everyone I am happy to bash Des and Raelene for their inept management – seriously it is 4th grade at best.
However, the board are the ones that must take responsibility for the actions of our club overall.
Realistically Des has been given a green light by the board to buy the players he wants and to implement the structures he wants.
Realistically Raelene cannot do what she wants without having board involvement or approval.
The board must be accountable – they have created this issue and yet seem reluctant to do anything about it.
Could it be because they actually do not have the experience in running a football club. Look at the board members and their skill sets and what do they actually bring to the table.
What has happened with this current board/Raelene/Des structure is that the focus has shifted from creating a successful club on the back of winning games to one where winning a set number of games is sufficient.
The current game day experience is a turn off, its all fluff unless your team has a a winning attitude - our team does not, we play "not to lose" rather than to win.
The merchandise growth and new fans will come on the back of success, not on the back of how well we look socially or how we met our base KPI’s.
The success of the club automatically attracts players to the club – it is a privilege to play for our club, not a hand out because we cannot attract any other player.
I want my kids and grandkids to follow a successful Bulldogs side – not a club that everyone considers also rans.
Ray, grow a pair, lead your team and make our club great again.
Keep your head in the sand and your legacy will be that of a chairman that destroyed one of the greatest and most valuable sporting clubs in Australia.
However, the board are the ones that must take responsibility for the actions of our club overall.
Realistically Des has been given a green light by the board to buy the players he wants and to implement the structures he wants.
Realistically Raelene cannot do what she wants without having board involvement or approval.
The board must be accountable – they have created this issue and yet seem reluctant to do anything about it.
Could it be because they actually do not have the experience in running a football club. Look at the board members and their skill sets and what do they actually bring to the table.
- They have unlimited funds yet we have no assets other than $1M worth of fitness equipment and cameras bought for Des.
- We have no communication between our junior clubs and the senior club
- We have no visible pathway for our juniors to play first grade.
- We do not have sufficient depth in our NSW cup side to challenge for 1st grade spots.
- We have a recruitment strategy that is laughable at best.
- We have a playing philosophy /retention philosophy solely focused on 1st grade – no forward thinking or development of juniors.
- Other clubs have been extremely successful in blooding junior players to compete at the 1st grade level – we do not have any focus here at all.
- We cannot keep buying solutions to our problems. The fullback issue is a classic case of this – 2 years without a recognised fullback. No blooding of abbey at all this year. No doubt we will throw him into a crunch game and be disappointed because he fails.
- We have created a marketplace where the gun players do want to come to our club – we used to be the ones to determine if you played for the Bulldogs or not, we choose you, you didn’t decide to play with us or not.
What has happened with this current board/Raelene/Des structure is that the focus has shifted from creating a successful club on the back of winning games to one where winning a set number of games is sufficient.
The current game day experience is a turn off, its all fluff unless your team has a a winning attitude - our team does not, we play "not to lose" rather than to win.
The merchandise growth and new fans will come on the back of success, not on the back of how well we look socially or how we met our base KPI’s.
The success of the club automatically attracts players to the club – it is a privilege to play for our club, not a hand out because we cannot attract any other player.
- Our leadership from the very top is failing.
- Our board have given Des unlimited control and he is destroying the very values that made the Bulldogs great.
- Our board are happy to swan around talking with other club CEOs’ about protecting revenue from gaming rather than worrying about and overseeing a successful football club.
- Our board is not being led by people of strength, rather by people who prefer to look the part.
I want my kids and grandkids to follow a successful Bulldogs side – not a club that everyone considers also rans.
Ray, grow a pair, lead your team and make our club great again.
Keep your head in the sand and your legacy will be that of a chairman that destroyed one of the greatest and most valuable sporting clubs in Australia.
