I'm not talking about eels I'm talking about our stupid recruitiment and retention team.Like how can a group be so fcken stupid,surely we can petition to get em out of the club cause they fcken suck.Like you look at all the other clubs signing guns for good money then there's our stupid club who are "playing strategically "ITS NOT WORKING OUT FCK THE PLAYING STRATEGICALLY and go all out fmd.
Anytime I see eels connected to a player I instantly lose hope cause there's 0 chance of us even getting him even a reserve grade player we can chuck a mil at and they still won't come.Fck anyone here can do a better job then those idiots.
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Matt Cameron has a great approach to retention and recruitment. They PLAN for attrition and have continual succession in place for all key positions. They are never ever sitting still and are never caught short because they plan for all outcomes.
We had Talagi as our backup to Dylan Brown. We allowed both to be lost. We lost Zac Lomax and replaced him with a frantic purchase of Brian Kelly. Addo Car was not a plan, he was a lucky break.
We have a stop gap half with Pezet who is playing out of position. We haven't been able to offload Matto. We have Jr Paulo playing well past his used by date. We bought JDB to play him for a few weeks and then punt him.
We are not on the same path as the Panthers. We don't have the same method, we aren't learning from their success. We definitely don't have the "next man up" mentality that Cameron talks about.
Matt Cameron can be stoked for his attrition because he's planned for it. We don't. I genuinely don't like being down on us, but I also don't want to be delusional, I want us to be successful and that's going to require continued evolution.
I said this at the time and it's still absolutely true - BA going was Step 1 of the changes that need to happen, it appears we never continued with the rest of the steps. Matt Cameron forced those hard changes at Penrith. We need someone with the conviction to do them here.
Matt Cameron should be at Parra. I've been saying it for years.
Totally. I really do get annoyed by folks thinking that we're on the same road Penrith were and that if we just stick to it we'll end up where they are.
Matt Cameron at Penrith has made tough decision after tough decision. He never settled for what was. He chased excellence and if things weren't working he changed them - fast and decisively, and always had plan A, B and C ready to roll. But these weren't changes for changes sake, they were calculated. He has held strong to core principles and wasn't afraid to pivot on a plan whilst still holding true to the core principles that have kept them successful.
We did an amazing thing rebuilding our club structure, and our current administration have done wonders for our club finances and governance. We are in an amazing place as a business. This was done through prudence and solid safe foundations - the best way to build a strong organisation.
Our football team need a different approach. We need folks who aren't afraid to innovate, take risks and try to get ahead of the game whilst holding firm to key principles. We won't be successful if we don't roll the dice (on the football side).
Mutts, Everybody knows the Matt Cameron Story, unfortunately we pissed him off before this current regime.
I said this on another post and cannot get a response..... I will try it again on this blog!
Finally I want to say something about Shane Richardson and yes really think about what I am going to say!!!!
He is a wily old guy who could be everything you want him to be to get R&R moving in a direction that would make Parra fans HAPPY.
BUT do you really think he would come to Parra when he finds out the HANDCUFFS that will be placed on him by our board and its Chairman.
What's this you say....well think illegal TPA's, backroom corporate deals, paid intermediaries to set it up.
THINK ABOUT IT Parra as a club is too naive and honest at this point in time. I have been thinking this since I wrote yesterdays blog and realising its that obvious, why cannot we get players across, surely it cannot be the communication skills of MON or the lack of influence from the coach. We have the centre of excellence, the best club ground, a wealthy Leagues Club and a very financial football club..........MMM'm makes you think, I suspect it is an evolutionary process of the strict demands that were placed on us 2014 etc....but those board members are well qualified and I am sure they would all make fine police officers as well, but they not from a world of private commercial enterprises where most of the hard heads have dealt with the "grey world".
Putting this to another level do you think that PVL hasn't dealt with this "grey world" when he revolutionised horse racing within Australia, bumped heads when making rugby league the first sport of the rank when Covid was closing everything....its commercial and it can be grey....take my word on it! .....he is now negotiating the largest TV contracts in Australian Sporting History.
BTW....most of you blokes don't like him.....looks like a gangster! LOL
I think there's a 2 speed approach Pops. The corporate club needs very firm governance and stability, and we'd be crazy to reverse all the amazing work done there since we got rid of the inexperienced clowns who destroyed our club previously. The uncompromising governance should stay on the corporate side. It's a recipe for stability and sustainable success.
On the football side - I agree we need more wild wild west. If we break the rules on the corporate side we are breaking the law. If we break the rules in the VLandys league, we just have to message Peter and ask him to "Apply the blowtorch" to our competitors.
We won't win playing clean in a VLandys world. We need to use every advantage he will give us. It doesn't feel like we have that gritty edge of leadership on the football side.
Good response Cappy, I was looking for some any response that understood the real problem....your 2 speed approach was an identification of the issues.
I have replied hereunder to Chiefy who think's I crave Mark O'Neil's approval. Fair enough but anyone can think what they like, solutions are what i really crave.
Unlike most on here, I don't need to win a premiership to satisfy my tribal alignment with Parra....I just want us to be in the same league as Storm and Penrith and be regarded as a threat in every year that a competition starts. Do that and Premiership's just happen....the real issue why we are not in that league is we took our foot off the pedal after 1986, we still have people like Fitzgerald around wanting to ressurect that.....we definately need a new and dynamic General Manager Football. Someone who will bring people to the club because he/they are running it. Candidates are few and far between, Cameron won't come, he has already gone to executive management, Ponissi could be a rough chance if we pay a rediculous sum (I have no problems in that)....anyone else? maybe a rediculous retirement package for Bellamey or someone from somewhere I dont know, and really I don't because I dont know who is out there...... living in my cocoon?
Let's give Richardson a go but I question his dynamism?
So what , it doesn't mean we can't get him again. Pops you are doing anything and everything to support the failure mark O'Neill
Will if I am, I must be doing a bloody good job! Funny I don't feel that I am??
I will not be in the slightest disappointed if MON left tomorrow, the reason you don't see that is effectively a naivette about his role.
Let's say he does and we appoint Shane Richardson, my guess he will be a spokesman more like Jim Saratinos takes on now and will dictate his own edict of going about things his way.
Well I will be happy about that because it will bring out in the open some of these issues that I am talking about.....I do question as stated whether Richardson will take on the job if the handcuffs are exposed.....it maybe the board will have an out by saying they went to the market with Shane in charge and we believe he will make a difference to the problems we could foresee but not change.
How about that Chiefy, will that satisfy your urges to shoot me in trying to explain why Mark O'Neill is not the cause, just a bloody good "scapegoat" in an environ of not coming to terms with "marketing for players".
I'd like you to discuss some of our recent recruitment/retention successes.
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