by Choccies » Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:02 am
He was about 25% in his head if he was keen to go on or not so in the end I think the decision made by the club helped confirm his hesitations. Yes we got up a div last year but we had a fair chunk of guys leave, whether that be because they didn't like him or they liked the lure of $$$ from other clubs I don't really know. True, our recruiting this year was poor. 3 guys from TTG, 1 an ex-GG player anyway and 2 B graders came over and barely made an impact which was disappointing. 6, 12 and 14 games between them over the year and I would be close to say not 1 top 5 in the weekly awards between them so disappointing. 3 better recruits were lost early, one requiring a knee reco in pre-season and 2 not being cleared from TTG after training for 2 or 3 months so that was disappointing. So no, the Gullies people didn't follow him as we may have hoped.
I think the main downfall was the difference between coaching a Div 1 side to a lower div side. Div 3 and 4 teams still require a degree of coaching/mentoring/teaching where as a div 1 side probably doesn't require as much learning and Weavs struggled with this. Yes he got away with it in the first year when we sneaked out of div 4 via luck but it showed more this year I think especially when the pressure was on. His communication severely let him down in my opinion and this led to a fair chunck of the players losing faith in him. But the finger can't be pointed squarely at him because he was badly let down by a lot of guys this year and that was disappointing too.
But we have some great young kids coming thru now, we have Div 4 in 2012, time to rebuild and time to make amends for this year and be positive in it all.
I love grapes. With grapes, you always get another chance. You know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you’re stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. If you have a crappy grape, no problem-just move on to the next. ‘Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.