Stephen Darby appreciation night

Compounded by giving new contracts to the rest of the back four. Two of which turned to sh1t.

 

As has been said, last night was easily the highlight of the season so far. When the video message from Darby playing it was probably the most quiet the room was all night. It really shone through how much he is admired as a professional and as a bloke.

As others have said, it was great to hear from so many influential people in the club's history but it saddened me that none of these people are involved with the club anymore. Baldwin especially showed why he is CEO of the year - we were lucky to have him. But that also applies to the likes of Mason, Jewell and even to Morais & McMahon. Jewell's story about Richmond was brilliant and McMahon's eagerness to speak and honesty when speaking was great to see. His account was another insight into Edin's demeanour.

As for the current players. I was glad to see them there and they received plenty of advice from some of the club's key figures. Hopefully it resonated with them. Fair play to whoever suggested that they sold the raffle tickets because it forced them to mix with fans. There were also a few positive comments about Hopkin being the right man for the job, including Dave Baldwin insisting that he is "cut from the same cloth" as Jewell & Parky.

 

Likewise, I will forgive you just this once for undermining the female anatomy

 

What was the Richmond story that Jewell was on about?.

 

Watch him more closely mate.

How many pens has he given away already.

 

Sounds like it was a great night.

will have to watch his video when i'm home from work.

 

when you hear stories such as this one from Tony - it really is no wonder our players downed tools, and possibly why this season's team don't want to play for us either - because they are treated like that by the man in charge.

that and, from Tony's own admission, Stuart was the only one holding the club together, and they'd have run through brick walls for him - when he's then fired it's no mystery why we're in such a mess.
doesn't sound like a man that had 'lost the dressing room' does it?

 

But that doesn't really make sense. They'd run through brick walls for him yet were a contributing factor in him getting the boot due the games we lost.
The fact is you can't argue against the way he was treated but not sure ALL the players bought into the McCall factor. Maybe the players in the photo were but not all the squad and that was possibly why the loses came about.

 

For the first time since last Jan I've finally seen a reason for the obvious dissent and subsequent collapse after Yeovil.

Both Tony Mac and Stuart Mac both treated shamefully by Rahic. No wonder things went pear shaped as these were two very influential people in playing matters.

I can't understand Rahic's thinking as far as getting a fee for Tony Mac rather than make him see out his contract and then leave for free.There must of been serious aggravation to deny him a new start at Scunny,but all the time while still with us allowing discontent to grow throughout the team,especially after Stuart was fired.

He really has caused some problems as far as I can see.

 

rubbish.
we lost games because we had a wafer thin squad, players injured, and having to play players out of position. and we didn't bring in any reinforcements quickly enough.

and if Edin was capable of treating McMahon like that, what was he saying/doing to the rest of the team to further damage morale prior to and during that bad run?

 

It's not rubbish Ricc, sh*t happens with injuries as we are seeing now. What I'm saying is half the squad visually with the meal photo supported him but I'm not sure all the players in the squad would run through walls for him, he didn't get the best out the players he did have and that's why we lost all them games.
I'm not sticking up for Edin btw he's royally fu**ed up with most things and should have sorted signings out earlier ie the start of Jan but I don't buy into the walls theory.

 

Same. He missed one game with a back problem, only enough to make him miss a game or possibly 2. I don't think we're talking back surgery/spasms or serious back problem.

 

it's not a theory though is it, it was said by a senior member of that squad. I'm not sure what more proof I can give you. some people will refuse to give any credit to McCall whatever happens, this is clearly one of those occasions so I'll leave it there.

 

I've given him massive credit in the past.

 

For me it is how you run a club that sets the tone, or philosophy of the club. That would include the players, they are not robots but they see ppl being sacked and ppl leaving from behind the scenes with either no replacement or ppl with very little experience.

No football club runs in compartments, everything has to be ticking for a club to make progress. So whether McMahon is under the impression he speaks for the whole team when he says they would run through walls or not, everything is visible to the team. What really may have spooked them was the undermining of the manager who they respected.

 

Not disagreeing with you but injuries are far worse now than they were then. When we lost to Wimbledon 4-0 at home Stuart had a bench of Raeder, Warnock, Dieng, Gibson, Lund, McCartan, Brunker. The players at the time do have to shoulder some of the blame for Stuart's sacking.

On the wider point though, plenty of people (Baldwin, Mason, Jewell, Jones, Dolan) last night alluded to how important stability is to a club. I think that was all aimed at the fact that Edin should have given Stuart more time. That should be the lesson learned - stability at the top is key.