The Big Shrek wrote:boozehound wrote:twogood4u wrote:rumours of sacking greg phillips are just that! last years debacle did nothing but harm and if we continue to bring any players under A1 amateurs or league reserves standards the club will keep going backwards. We MUST as a club offer long term contracts to players of the standard required together with a 3-5 year plan(bringing through the right juniors )then the club might start to turn things around. The problem is that the committes over the last 5 or so years have no or very limited football knowlage. back to greg phillips he is nice a bloke all the players get on well with him, but he needs the support from ALL the locals to get the club going again.
Not sure i completely agree with you. To limit your search to players leaving league clubs or playing div 1 is leaving a lot of top quality players out....I do agree however with nurturing the local juniors are they are the real future.
Not sure how you will go getting players, coaches etc to sign for anything more than two years and i think most clubs would be relunctant to do that anyway.
It does seem a long term plan needs to be put in place though.....
Long term plan, boozehound to Virginia! Take a lot at their B grade if you get some spare time, you might understand what is wrong with the club then.
Yep! The B-grade at Virginia are a disgrace. They have no understanding of the spirit of Aussie Rules. No respect for opposition or umpires. Not the umpires always deserve respect but out right intimidation is not on. It reminds me of some overseas soccer games at times. The A grade is marginally better only because it is mixed with a few outsiders. The mental capacity of some of the Virginia locals is puzzling. When you see full grown men leaving the oval doing burn outs? I mean come on!!!
or buy a boat and go fishing! forget the footy. in virginia's case we get to play 3 times in 8 weeks. GREAT STUFF. try working into some form with our match program! 
