heard job gets reviewed every 2 years?

Peter Jackson and Glen Milner are the 2 guys that need to be swept out the door! Terri does a great job in tough circumstances. Good luck to any coach that wants to build a culture there! You better be quick cause your out the door in 12-24 mths!

As someone who has been involved at the club at a variety of levels, it's sad to see what has been happening for the past few years. Yes there have been championships in the womens program - but at what cost?

Support is at all time lows for the senior program, the junior teams are struggling to make VC and the domestic competition is struggling.

So what does it need? And I say this with the point of view that it doesn't just need something to revive it - changes need to occur so that it survives. There needs to be a fresh view from the top. Decision making that makes more sense. At all levels. Start with some coaches that can attract players. So the Champ teams don't need to disrupt the YL sides every year so that they can put a team of 10 together. Success breeds success. Put something together that people want to be a part of. Give the kids something to aspire to. Don't provide an environment where every year the YL coaches have to go and ask Under 18 players to come and play because they haven't got the numbers. The senior program is for elite players, who are selected - they shouldn't need to be begged to play. Have meetings with senior coaches to discuss issues and player management, and allow the coaches to coach.

Some of you might say this all comes down to money. But it can be done. And the club has had people in the past who have been able to make it happen - as players and board members.

Most people don't even know who Peter Jackson is. Even some senior players. Not knocking him - but for those who don't know he is the President. Something which is frequenly confused with someone else appearing to run things.

All I hope is that 2012 is a year for change. For the better. And some sort of progress is made at all levels. Otherwise I may just become another one of those who leave for greener pastures and are told if you leave don't ever bother coming back.

Very well said Sweet72, the problems at the club this year were not the Head coaches fault at all, he tried very hard against all kinds of hurdles, no wonder he's left. The problem exists from the apathy at the top, zero leadership, just protectionism and denial of the issues.

Two good coaches put in a bad situation? Did not hear one good thing mentioned about the pair of them all year.
Sinking club? maybe
Norm did not try hard enough, 5-6 main players can not win a championship, certainly not with Maybank on the bench half the game.
Tony is just a whinging old man with a crap win loss record, not sure why he was appointed to start with.
Past YL coaches have had great success starting with Colin Sutton winning a championship whilst being coach of the year, Jamie Watt made the final series and Steven Paz? just missing out on finals if i remember last year.
I can not recall any problems with the YL teams over the last 5-6 years.
Peter the puppet, the puppet master himself Glen Milner, Norm and Tony have destroyed the mens program.

Surely it can only get better with new coaches next season.

All the results from where Lowery has played/coached have been negative, players like him, but results of the clubs go backwards (see Eltham for proof)

Should be interesting to see how too strong characters like Epperson & Lowery work together!

this looks like an interesting forum...

I cant think of any problems with the mens program in the last 29 years.
Being part of the program this year, it was a shaaaaaamozzle!!

Saw one or two of their games this year and if Brown wasn't in that team they would have been smashed by 60+ every week!

Maybe they need to stop ripping up $$$ on two imports and look to rebuild around Youth by putting the minutes into them over the next couple of seasons.

At least if you build a local core then you can go out and get a couple of solid imports to compliment the local talent.