Time to change the jersey? Brumbies lose to the Lions at home. [with poll]

mp2615 said :

Sadly I am blocked from hearing the recording. Any chance of putting an actual copy on TRA, not a link ?

From the comments I have read it looks like the rest of the season is going to be really ugly. how do you spell schadenfreude ?

Here you go: http://the-riotact.com/~john/misc/Rea_spray.mp3

Read plenty of comments that true fans won’t desert the team when they’re needed most. Ok, in theory a sellout crowd may lift the team. But in reality it’s both entertainment and a business. If the business is performing terribly then how can they expect people to invest by attending??

Sadly I am blocked from hearing the recording. Any chance of putting an actual copy on TRA, not a link ?

From the comments I have read it looks like the rest of the season is going to be really ugly. how do you spell schadenfreude ?

Fagan’s comments are interesting (see link below). Is he pretending he wasn’t in the firing line too?

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/sport/rugby-union/brumbies-coach-safe-for-now/2163795.aspx?storypage=0

Bad season for Brumbies supporters, but the first season in many a year that I, as a QLD Reds supporter, have been able to hold my head high.

The press world might be shocked at the comments from Sniffer, but he is only repeating what us fans and the whole rugby community have known for the past couple of months. Odds are Sniffer will lose his spot early because the spoiled brat pack didn’t like what he said. New coach is in town, so maybe he’ll be starting his tenure early – don’t like his chances to be able to do much if he isn’t going to get the backing of the brumbies board.

BerraBoy68 said :

Here’s a tip for Fagen, he needs to speak to the players and get cracking on changing the culture at the Brumbies where the players simply have too much say. If he doesn’t, he won’t have much to be CEO of.

Fagan needs to do the respectable thing and throw in the towel. He said he took responsibility for the sacking, let’s see him do that. Major change starts at the top.

johnboy said :

The ABC’s Tim Gavel has tweeted:

CEO Andrew Fagan says he will speak with coach Tony Rea today following Rea’s outburst at post match media conference last night

Now wouldn’t that be typical. Finally someone in the organisation has the intestinal fortitude to stand up and say the players aren’t up to it and the CEO says he will deal with the person that said it. No doubt the ‘players group’ that runs the club aren’t too happy about being called out. They need to toughen up in every sense of the word.

Here’s a tip for Fagen, he needs to speak to the players and get cracking on changing the culture at the Brumbies where the players simply have too much say. If he doesn’t, he won’t have much to be CEO of.

I am reminded of something George Smith once said in an interview when questioned as to why he was so good on the field and yet apparently one of the least fit players on the team. He said something like “I just never let the opposition know that i am tired, exhausted and feeling like quitting, eventually they give up first”.

It seems to be something that as a squad and organisation have forgotten.

[i]Asked if the side could lift for their last five matches of the Super season, Rea replied: “No, no chance.
“These blokes are not going to find something that is not there”[/i]

Well, full points for honesty.

Just as well they sacked the coach, eh?