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20-09-2008, 03:50 AM
"Earl O'Neill" <paoneill@idx.com.au> wrote in message news:48511d4e@news1...
> Greetings Tipsters
>
>
>
> When it came to sorting colours for the new footballing franchise in the
> west, green and red were chosen to echo the colours of navigation lights
> in a port. Purple was chosen because market research indicated that it
> was the hip, funky kind of colour that kids might relate to.
> Historically, purple was the colour of royalty, because it was a lengthy,
> complicated and expensive process to produce purple dye.
>
>
>
> The Funky Purps - they've always seemed to play with a sense of
> entitlement you might expect of people born to rule. Recruitment seems
> driven by a marketing need to appeal to a fickle audience. The red and
> green, symbolic of tough dockworkers, is rarely seen. They cheat their
> fans week after week, year after year - with the one exception of 2006.
> And the Freo fans I know love their club just as much as the lunatic
> Tigers fans. Even if some of them did find better waves on the East
> Coast.
>
>
>
> There's a relevant analogy within the club - they were broke and in debt
> some years back. They hired Cameron Schwab, relatively young, but
> massively experienced, and he turned the club around. Memberships,
> profits, the whole box and dice. So why do they persist with rookie
> coaches?
>
>
>
> Eccentric Gerard Neesham - a case study in how being ahead of your time
> can be worse than being behind the times. The luckless Damian Drum, they
> almost forgot to tell him he'd being sacked. Caretaker Ben Allan, the
> only coach with previous experience of the club, declined any chance at
> the fulltime gig. Chris Connolly got the Purps to the penultimate week
> and was gone 12 months later - thus far, the only Purps ex-coach with
> another job in the AFL. Harvs? You can see it already, the poor bugger's
> already being driven insane. Even Beetle Bailey is demonstrably not
> suffering the way Harvs is. He won't be there in '10.
>
>
>
> Every assistant coach harbours dreams of being the boss. Aint a single
> one of them gonna knock back a chance to try it on, but you can't help but
> wonder of them thinking "Yeah, I'll take that gig no matter where it is -
> but I hope it aint Freo."
>
>
>
> Yet the Purps persist with rookie coaches, despite the obvious evidence of
> what a bit of experience can do. Worth noting here that rookie CEOs can
> do a good job, like Campbell Rose - yet he came onboard at a club that,
> poor as it was, had already figured out a way forward for itself.
>
>
>
> So what could the Purps do for an experienced coach? There aren't really
> any recent retirees that seem to have a hankering for another go, in the
> way that Lettuce and Stump did before scoring their current gigs at the
> B'ogs and the Tigs. The Reverend's the only guy that would seem remotely
> qualified, and having been an assistant at Freo, he knows the score and
> would be most unlikely to want to hurry back.
>
>
>
> Then again, the chance to throw his ego all around the club might be
> enough to distract The God Of Fertility away from suing the Saints on a
> weekly basis. Naturally, Sandilands would have to go - but he'd have a
> certain cultural familiarity. A Freo-fan mate described the Purps as the
> St Kilda of the west, and how so! The parallels are many and intriguing -
> and obvious.
>
>
>
> Of current coaches, Gandalf is the obvious candidate. He's the kinda guy
> who'd whip 'em into shape, just as he did with the Wiggles. That
> connection, though, would rule him out, aside from Fast Eddie not letting
> him get away from the 4&20s until he's too old to read a whiteboard. The
> Pharmacist might be worthwhile, but, again, that Wiggles connection would
> go against him.
>
>
> Roos and Thompson are already on the record saying they don't want to
> coach beyond their current clubs. Most other coaches are either unproven
> neophytes, have unfinished business or will end up with sullied records.
> Choco aside.
>
>
>
> Yeah, it's a long shot. He's probably got some weird congenital DNA thing
> that'll destroy his cognitive capacities if he attempts to coach another
> club - but he's got a flag to his credit, he's got spirit and, maybe, his
> time at Port is almost done. Sell the Purps gig to him as a challenge.
> He might just rise to it. And it'd save another hapless assistant coach's
> longterm career from the graveyard.
>
>
>
> Considering the round ahead, by the gods, Sydney are at a shorter price
> than Geelong! Well, there is a much larger pool of bettors in Sydney than
> Geelong, p'raps they're just throwing the last mortgage payment at it, cos
> they'll be evicted by the bank anyway - a Swans win means another month
> with a harbour view from the mostly innaccesible roof of the flats.
>
>
>
> I'll take the blue and gold ahead of the red and black - the colours of
> mystery and death, fittingly enough. I'll take Footscray and North, and
> why are North only quoted at $1.95? Sounds like a value bet. Sydney,
> Geelong, Collingwood seem straightforward enough or so you'd think on
> Thursday night. Take Hawthorn on form only. I gave it some thought,
> figured flat-track bullies might have enough momentum to get 'em through
> one more week. And, despite the odds, I reckon Melbourne have form and
> are due a win.
>
>
>
> I've tipped 27 from 32 in the last four weeks, which might sound like I
> know what I'm talking about. But they have been four very predictable
> weeks.
>
>
>
> Good luck, Tipsters
>
>
>
> A Stop Privatisation of Footy Production.
>
> This week's column has been brought to you with the assistance of the pop
> hits of 1962, including The Crystals, Dick Dale, Gene Chandler, The
> Marvelettes and The Tornadoes.
'Mopsy' Fraser. LOL. There's a name I haven't heard in a while. I'm assuming
you're actually refering to his son, 'Mopsy' Fraser Junior, the feared Tiger
that missed 84 games (4 and a half seasons) due to suspension during his
time in the VFL and VFA. Anyhow, what's with the 'lunatic Tiger fans' line?
I like it.
Go Tiges.
'Onya
> Greetings Tipsters
>
>
>
> When it came to sorting colours for the new footballing franchise in the
> west, green and red were chosen to echo the colours of navigation lights
> in a port. Purple was chosen because market research indicated that it
> was the hip, funky kind of colour that kids might relate to.
> Historically, purple was the colour of royalty, because it was a lengthy,
> complicated and expensive process to produce purple dye.
>
>
>
> The Funky Purps - they've always seemed to play with a sense of
> entitlement you might expect of people born to rule. Recruitment seems
> driven by a marketing need to appeal to a fickle audience. The red and
> green, symbolic of tough dockworkers, is rarely seen. They cheat their
> fans week after week, year after year - with the one exception of 2006.
> And the Freo fans I know love their club just as much as the lunatic
> Tigers fans. Even if some of them did find better waves on the East
> Coast.
>
>
>
> There's a relevant analogy within the club - they were broke and in debt
> some years back. They hired Cameron Schwab, relatively young, but
> massively experienced, and he turned the club around. Memberships,
> profits, the whole box and dice. So why do they persist with rookie
> coaches?
>
>
>
> Eccentric Gerard Neesham - a case study in how being ahead of your time
> can be worse than being behind the times. The luckless Damian Drum, they
> almost forgot to tell him he'd being sacked. Caretaker Ben Allan, the
> only coach with previous experience of the club, declined any chance at
> the fulltime gig. Chris Connolly got the Purps to the penultimate week
> and was gone 12 months later - thus far, the only Purps ex-coach with
> another job in the AFL. Harvs? You can see it already, the poor bugger's
> already being driven insane. Even Beetle Bailey is demonstrably not
> suffering the way Harvs is. He won't be there in '10.
>
>
>
> Every assistant coach harbours dreams of being the boss. Aint a single
> one of them gonna knock back a chance to try it on, but you can't help but
> wonder of them thinking "Yeah, I'll take that gig no matter where it is -
> but I hope it aint Freo."
>
>
>
> Yet the Purps persist with rookie coaches, despite the obvious evidence of
> what a bit of experience can do. Worth noting here that rookie CEOs can
> do a good job, like Campbell Rose - yet he came onboard at a club that,
> poor as it was, had already figured out a way forward for itself.
>
>
>
> So what could the Purps do for an experienced coach? There aren't really
> any recent retirees that seem to have a hankering for another go, in the
> way that Lettuce and Stump did before scoring their current gigs at the
> B'ogs and the Tigs. The Reverend's the only guy that would seem remotely
> qualified, and having been an assistant at Freo, he knows the score and
> would be most unlikely to want to hurry back.
>
>
>
> Then again, the chance to throw his ego all around the club might be
> enough to distract The God Of Fertility away from suing the Saints on a
> weekly basis. Naturally, Sandilands would have to go - but he'd have a
> certain cultural familiarity. A Freo-fan mate described the Purps as the
> St Kilda of the west, and how so! The parallels are many and intriguing -
> and obvious.
>
>
>
> Of current coaches, Gandalf is the obvious candidate. He's the kinda guy
> who'd whip 'em into shape, just as he did with the Wiggles. That
> connection, though, would rule him out, aside from Fast Eddie not letting
> him get away from the 4&20s until he's too old to read a whiteboard. The
> Pharmacist might be worthwhile, but, again, that Wiggles connection would
> go against him.
>
>
> Roos and Thompson are already on the record saying they don't want to
> coach beyond their current clubs. Most other coaches are either unproven
> neophytes, have unfinished business or will end up with sullied records.
> Choco aside.
>
>
>
> Yeah, it's a long shot. He's probably got some weird congenital DNA thing
> that'll destroy his cognitive capacities if he attempts to coach another
> club - but he's got a flag to his credit, he's got spirit and, maybe, his
> time at Port is almost done. Sell the Purps gig to him as a challenge.
> He might just rise to it. And it'd save another hapless assistant coach's
> longterm career from the graveyard.
>
>
>
> Considering the round ahead, by the gods, Sydney are at a shorter price
> than Geelong! Well, there is a much larger pool of bettors in Sydney than
> Geelong, p'raps they're just throwing the last mortgage payment at it, cos
> they'll be evicted by the bank anyway - a Swans win means another month
> with a harbour view from the mostly innaccesible roof of the flats.
>
>
>
> I'll take the blue and gold ahead of the red and black - the colours of
> mystery and death, fittingly enough. I'll take Footscray and North, and
> why are North only quoted at $1.95? Sounds like a value bet. Sydney,
> Geelong, Collingwood seem straightforward enough or so you'd think on
> Thursday night. Take Hawthorn on form only. I gave it some thought,
> figured flat-track bullies might have enough momentum to get 'em through
> one more week. And, despite the odds, I reckon Melbourne have form and
> are due a win.
>
>
>
> I've tipped 27 from 32 in the last four weeks, which might sound like I
> know what I'm talking about. But they have been four very predictable
> weeks.
>
>
>
> Good luck, Tipsters
>
>
>
> A Stop Privatisation of Footy Production.
>
> This week's column has been brought to you with the assistance of the pop
> hits of 1962, including The Crystals, Dick Dale, Gene Chandler, The
> Marvelettes and The Tornadoes.
'Mopsy' Fraser. LOL. There's a name I haven't heard in a while. I'm assuming
you're actually refering to his son, 'Mopsy' Fraser Junior, the feared Tiger
that missed 84 games (4 and a half seasons) due to suspension during his
time in the VFL and VFA. Anyhow, what's with the 'lunatic Tiger fans' line?
I like it.
Go Tiges.
'Onya