Madge is very trustworthy and on the faith in club officials ranking etc I think he gets a higher rating than Pascoe and Lee!
A few things he might have done better on reflection:
* the support of ineffective assistants
* I didn’t like his retort after the dogs game last year. It was a bit over the top in excuses
* the Melbourne massacre last year
* when we won a few games and he’s popping up in the media. We all know a few wins doesn’t cut it in a long and arduous season. It seemed to me that he should have been heads down, per Dessy and Hook
But the Royal Commission into his coaching, played out so publicaly. Whatever really happened, he butchered his opponents and Lee’s official explanation, was very weak and foggy.
On another forum I got bullied for trying to play a straight bat and not condemn him or at least give him some respect. So much so, I had to leave it as the stalking got too much. The Madge haters are manic. Maybe not here, but elsewhere. New depths of depravity. Worse than Hitler and other hysteria.
People look for easy solutions, but there isn’t any. The game is full of variables and mystery.
It’s fun trying to work through it.
If the balance of the season in terms of player effort etc is as bad as the last couple of years, for all his qualities, we might have to let him go.
And I think even his most ardent supporters would wear it.
Like most long term coaches, he’s well off, so it might be sad, but he will be ok on a personal level.
