Demetriou cops the blame for GWS start-up troubles

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  • Adelaide Swan
    Up There For Sydney!
    • May 2010
    • 326
    #1

    Demetriou cops the blame for GWS start-up troubles

    Demetriou cops the blame for GWS start-up troubles
    Tags: blame, cops, demetriou
    • stellation
      scott names the planets
      • Sep 2003
      • 9737
      #2
      I do think that not establishing year-round training facilities from the get go was a pretty big mistake. A lot of money has gone into establishing BOP as a home base for them, I appreciate it was to share with cricket but that they haven't been able to train there during the summer is absurd.

      I understand they used public gyms through summer (not sure how frequently), and trained on half a dozen grounds. I think it'd be fine for them to have different summer and winter bases, but I'm not sure how practical that is- the Swans obviously use LSO in summer but that's with having direct access to their own training facilities- not sure what a split home would do for young players mentally.
      I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
      We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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        • dimelb
          pr. dim-melb; m not f
          • Jun 2003
          • 6889
          #3
          Originally posted by stellation
          I do think that not establishing year-round training facilities from the get go was a pretty big mistake. A lot of money has gone into establishing BOP as a home base for them, I appreciate it was to share with cricket but that they haven't been able to train there during the summer is absurd.

          I understand they used public gyms through summer (not sure how frequently), and trained on half a dozen grounds. I think it'd be fine for them to have different summer and winter bases, but I'm not sure how practical that is- the Swans obviously use LSO in summer but that's with having direct access to their own training facilities- not sure what a split home would do for young players mentally.
          An enormous mistake, an unbelievably stupid mistake. Reminds me of an old gag: Why does history repeat itself? Because people didn't listen the first time (e.g. 1983).
          He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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            • Big Al
              Veterans List
              • Feb 2005
              • 7007
              #4
              Agreed!!

              Can't believe these types of things weren't sorted out very early on. The travails of the Swans and Bears should have been a blueprint on how not to do things.
              ..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC

              Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN

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                • Bas
                  Veterans List
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 4457
                  #5
                  I thought the quality of my GWS fandana was very poor. Not much thought put into it at all !!!
                  In memory of my little Staffy - Dicey, 17.06.2005 to 1.12.2011- I'll miss you mate.

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                    • ShockOfHair
                      One Man Out
                      • Dec 2007
                      • 3668
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Bas
                      I thought the quality of my GWS fandana was very poor. Not much thought put into it at all !!!
                      We know who to blame!
                      The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news

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                        • AnnieH
                          RWOs Black Sheep
                          • Aug 2006
                          • 11332
                          #7
                          And the sad bit is that we've all got to sit back and watch them throw more good money after bad.
                          Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                          Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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                            • goswannie14
                              Leadership Group
                              • Sep 2005
                              • 11166
                              #8
                              This was the reason that North Melbourne didn't relocate to the Gold Coast. There was no facilities for them at the projected start up date.
                              Does God believe in Atheists?

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