I have a question for everyone, that is baying for blood.
What do you think is Ciraldo's job?
1) Do whatever is required to win the next game?
2) Do what is required to get the bulldogs to compete and win a premiership?
I ask this question because while they can be mutually inclusive, there are certain scenarios that the outcome of the priority reduces the likelihood of the secondary goal.
we can not win the premiership this year, but decisions made this year will affect the likelihood of being successful next year.
In business and in the corporate world you can either make the tactical decision that can delay your strategic goals, or make the decisions that drive us towards our strategic goal faster.
The old short-term pain for long-term gain. I hear you saying yes, we have already had the long-term pain with no gain.
Is that the fault of Gus and CC?
Boards and management can bring consultants in that can give you all this advice, but you can still stuff it up even if the consultants vision was true. We are like that company that has had too many different consultants telling us what we should do and because the course change is taking too long we are hemorrhaging cash and employees. We have another consultant in now, and we don't want to wait for the implementation of the strategy, we just want to see short-term obvious growth.
Are we willing to wait longer for our strategic goals for a few feel-good wins now?
Oh, and if you said Ciraldo's job was to just win the next game, well, simply I disagree.
unfortunately, those of us who work in a job that has daily, weekly or monthly defined goals think differently to someone who is working on 5 year goals. But that is human nature, you know what you know.
As far as Ciraldos comments about change, maybe it was a mistake, maybe we still havent seen the end of that or maybe it was a warning to certain individuals, that think they are guaranteed a spot in the 17. I don't know, and I have no inside information, but I do not take things simply at face value. Multiple perspectives would be required that we simply aren't aware of. But the only people that need to react to his words are the 17 that run out on Sunday.
Sorry for the length of the post.