St Kilda & Blight - the mail.

Elvira7 · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2001 4:52 am

Received an interesting email from a friend who prides himself on good footy mail which 9 times out of 10 is accurate. The timing for the start of all this goes back a month or two. Consider the following:-

1. St Kilda board ask Blight for a plan for next season. He gives
them a list of twelve names who he doesn't want to see next season. The list contains Burke, Harvey, Leowe, Everett and Jones.

2. A member of the board leaks the list to one of the 12 players.

3. Burke and Leowe who have links to Danny Frawley approach him
asking to be picked up next season on one year contracts with richmond knowing that they are going to be cut. They dont think at this stage that the board will ever sack Blight or that there is a problem with him.

4. There are rumblings at board level about Blights behavior and
possible concerns about some of the names on the hit list and these are leaked to one of the hit list players.

5. The twelve players, with renewed confidence that their coach may not be as "untouchable" meet and take the list to Caro at The Age and tell her of a players revolt. Remember some of these names have been involved in the "removal" of other coaches in recent years.

6. The 12 players let the board know that they have gone to the press and are going to give the word to run the story unless something is done about their futures.

7. Grant Thomas becomes persona non grata in the St Kilda coaches
box. (see point 2???)

8. Blight is furious and refuses to attend functions outside those associated with coaching the team.

9. Butterss gets an unprovoked grilling of the decade on TF about Blight from Caro and Walls.

10. Butterss now knows that there is some truth in the players
claims about going to the press. (Nettlefold may have been questioned by Caro or got the impression from her that she was holding on to some hot info on StKilda to further confirm Butterss and the boards concerns about the press
knowing something)

11. Board moves quickly and sacks Blight defusing any story about a list and or leaks from the board at St Kilda. Caro gets the drop on the story. Burke is interviewed leaving the club meeting jovial but "shocked" and states "nothing that happens in football surprises me anymore."

12. Thomas installed as coach with deputies Burke and Harvey.

Unrelated but interestingly enough Frawley refusing to re-sign with Richmond until the end of the year. Has he been sounded out under the banner of the possibility of the club that he played 250 plus games for going to the wall if something isn't done?? If the Tigers fall from the eight this year would he be any better off staying there or going back to coach St kilda where he understands the culture and has clearly embraced the club in the past? Point 3 above definitely took place so he
would have known some time back that something could be "on" at St Kilda.

Butterss referred to a list of dot points being Blights Strategic plan which was unacceptable to the board. Was this the list of names???

Interesting.

Kristin5 · Fiery Redhead Joined: 19 Apr 2001

There may be some merit in all this, as something similar has been posted on BigFooty. Looks like the players at St Kilda have done it again! Who runs that club, anyway?...

The biggest mistake they ever made was in getting rid of Stan Alves, as it's been all downhill from there.

Elvira7 · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2001 5:21 am

That's what I asked myself Kristin, Who exactly runs the StKilda Football Club??????

It's all quite disappointing really, especially for the supporters!

Elvira....

JLC · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2001 6:32 am

Harvey will be at richmond next year

Daffy wont play for Richmond again

APA

EVERYONE IS A COLLINGWOOD SUPPORTER ITS JUST THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE IN DENIAL

Greg J · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 11:59 am

Very interesting, and probably has a ring of truth about it.

When I saw Butress being interviewed on Talking Footy I knew Blighty was in trouble, problem being the bitch from the Age would have asked a whole series of interesting questions if 12 players had approached her with that story. It would have been splashed all over the front page of the Age too. And if the players had not seen her by then, there was only a small window of opportunity for them to do so, before the shit hit the fan Thursday night, (and Blighty's fate was sealed Wednesday night).

Mmmmm, I agree they should never have got rid of Alves.

Greg J

Legga · Joined: 10 Jun 2001 Location: Lilydale, Melbourne, Victoria

I heard Daffy may end up with us as MM has said in the past that he rates him as one of the best small forwards in the league.
Apparently last year we nearly had him, but the Dorks offered Daniel Harford as a swap, and we weren't prepared to offer a senior player. Seems his time is very limited at Prickmond.