Bill Davoren - Dead Man Walking

[Robbie]

Whenever a subordinate used statistics to placate what seemed to be failure I thought it was just prolonging the inevitable, and now faced with a regime of additional charges required by the AFL for spending on football administration, I do not believe we need to play politically correct rhetoric when results are required.

Bill would not be the there without Rocket, and now that he's gone why do we need to view a spreadsheet supposedly proving Davoren to be good at his job when any member of the Club can tell you the depth of despair suffered in 2014 due to soft tissue injuries amongst others. We have a new Doctor and weights instructor, proof of Eddie's concern, and sufficient to keep a close eye on Davoren. My point can best be explained by the example of Chains and Weak Links. I would be looking at our Olympic Hockey Squad or similar where players fitness and happiness is absolutely necessary because of the almost amateur nature of their participation. Something along the lines of thinking Outside the Square.

[think positive]

I can't believe he's still there, been saying it for months! I would have thought he be first out the door!

Seriously when they hired him, my comment was, yeah let's get st Kilda fitness guy, they are on the way down! Ok!

[Pebbles Rocks]

Am i the only one who had to read that more than once and still said to himself 'wtf?'.
Too many big words and over engineered sentences for this simple nickster...[/list]

[neil]

[think positive]

Yeah but isn't deveron The Fitness Guy?

[Dave The Man]

You can’t sack a guy after 1 Year

[mgh3536]

"Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:11 pm

what recruitment process does the club go through when they have a vacancy?

e.g. Bill Davoren, Head of High Performance, how transparent was the process, or did we just ask a mate, like Rodney Eade who used to work with him at Footscray…………

Amateur at best, negligent at worst!

We deserve the best at Collingwood, if the appointment was made as I suspect through the mates network, then those who appointed him and recommended him, have shown a complete lack of judgement and transparency!"

tick tick tick

[Neil Appleby]

I think we got an insight at Eddie's post-season meeting at the MCG. Although this was seen as a clever move by Eddie to head off discontent 'at the pass' so to speak, much time and analysis had gone into the injury problem. Now, I attended intending to ask questions about the injuries and about the re-selling of Legend seats in the Ponsford, but the injury questions were anticipated and Eddie introduced Davoren, who gave us all a very detailed analysis of the injuries. He suggested that if we took out the injuries to Freeman, Sharenberg and Reid, we were actually better off than in 2013.

My reading of that night in hindsight was that the riot act had been read to the whole fitness/sport science staff. Heads have rolled and if there isn't a marked improvement this year, I'd expect Davoren to get his marching orders at the end of 2015.

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[Jezza]

Davoren was very lucky to retain his job at the club. If we don't see an improvement in 2015 on the injury and fitness front then he's certainly gone.

[think positive]

[Hiss]

[Bob Sugar]

Should've been sacked this year IMO, if we cop more of the same next year our management will look like complete muppets, more than ole Billy boys head will roll.

[Fatui Attata]

Yippee! A witch hunt!!
Burn Davoren! Burn Davoren! Burn Davoren!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

[Albert Parker]

I'd like to think of myself as being pretty measured, but on this one I am with the many who have called for Davoren to go.
His overtraining did the damage. I think they pinged the long serving Doc and Rocket/politics save Davoren. Wrong choice in my opinion.

Shame we didn't get the ManU fitness guy that we originally targeted for the role.