All the whipping of Widdop will achieve nothing.
For some on this forum they always come up with a way to apportion blame to an individual and think the sacking or replacement of that individual will be the cure and tomorrow everything will be ok.
That behaviour is just ignoring the real issue at the top that permeates down and affects everything below it.
It was Creagh, Rein, Prior, Marketo, Dugan so and a so on now Widdop.
Beating them up is ridiculous as they are only the pawns in the chess game.
Whether they are good players or not is a separate issue, the fact is they are all players that are chosen to play 1st grade at our club and are supposed to be coached and skilled to a high level.
If they don't achieve that, then they are supposed to be dealt with, but that doesn't happen and we keep rabbiting on in here about how they survive.
They survive because they are either doing what the coaches ask of them and the coaches are happy enough with that, or our coaching staff is so hopeless it has no plans, no strategies, no idea of acceptable performance and that is because they have no ability to teach anyone anything and even less ability to analyse anything.
How many players have we had since Bennett that have excelled and been chased massively by other clubs?
Frizzell is the only real stand out, Dugan has made rep footy in an alternate position but not liked by the market at the price he wants because he hasn't really blossomed as people thought and of course some will say Bird.
Bird is an interesting case because he actually didn't have to play 1st grade under Price and/or Mc Gregor and in fact if he had been elevated to play under them his star might never have risen and his career over before it started. Lucky for him he left and yet lunatics in here keep thinking there is some incentive for him to come back. Please explain it to me what is the big attractant for him and don't tell me because he was a junior.
Drop Widdop by all means, but get it through your thick heads, no matter who replaces him under current arrangements, we will not go any better than what we do right now. No one player can fix this diabolical mess.
We may see a very temporary improvement just like when Widdop first arrived but that will quickly fade away as our useless management and coaching staff strangle the skills and initiative out of every player that has come to us since Bennett left.
For gods sake we look forward to SOO time so we can play teams that are severely weakened as we lose so few players to rep footy. How ridiculous that we make our charge (as lame as it is) for the semis during the time that other teams are depleted but then we wonder what happened to that charge as it faltered when other teams return to full strength.
Our staff are like a huge boa constrictor that slowly squeezes the life out of everything it can wrap itself around and that includes the players and the fans.
By all means continue to make comparisons why this player or that player deserves to be picked ahead of somebody else but thinking our fortune is linked to any 1 player is just plain stupid.
By the way Benny V your post on this subject in another thread excellent.
