An ignorant arrogant Robert Walls insultingly wants to question what Fremantle stands for.
Robert, show us another club that entered into a national professional competition consisting of part time WAFL players. Show me a club which has enormously struggled for success and many times squandered the chance at success as much as Fremantle has. And finally, show me a club that has done and gone through all that yet constantly increased their fan and membership base.
Robert Walls you talk about the culture, or lack there of, at the Fremantle Football club. The fact of the matter is you were going around in the Bedrock league with Fred Flintstone. You never were involved in the AFL as a player and barely as a coach, a sacked coach I should say. Culture at clubs today is virtually non-existent unless it's the much thrown around term "drug culture." Culture at a club is created in the old suburban leagues. The WAFL, SANFL and VFL. The days when you played for the club depending where the suburban boundary lines were drawn. You played with your mates from the under 9's up to the South Freos, the East Freos, Claremonts and so on. That's what creates club culture. Today's national competition makes it near on impossible to gain or create that same level of loyal, or for want of a better term, gang tight type mentality. But you are obviously past your use by date as it seems you haven't been able to mentally move with the times. The "good old days" are just that. They're gone and this is how it is now.
I am constantly stunned, yet incredibly proud to see the supporters that Fremantle has. Sure we all hurt when things go horribly wrong and fire up and shoot from the hip. But when the dust settles, you know each and every one of those fans and members will be back as strong, as passionate and as loyal as ever before. Show me a Richmond or a Melbourne that has that level of loyalty in their supporters! I would go as far as to say that there would barely be another club in any sport worldwide that having as less success as Fremantle has had yet keep such a tight and sizeable loyal supporter and membership base.
Sure, as Guy Smiley said, we're desperate for success and we'd each probably give our left arm for a premiership but being a supporter and a fan of Fremantle, to me, is so much more. I get angry and disappointed like the rest of us but never will I, nor could I and neither do I want to, support any club but Fremantle. And I don't believe I am on my own in saying so.
Why is it when coaches and the majority of players that leave Fremantle all count themselves still as Fremantle people? Why is it they say "No matter where they are or who they're involved with, they still bleed purple to a degree? That is a large part of what this club stands for and it's an attractive club quality and one of which I hope we never lose.
Mr. Walls if you can't see what this club stands for and what it means to all involved then, like we're all suggesting, it's time for you to hang it up, disappear and drift off into the land of insignificance and let someone who is rationale, respectful and competent take your place. Belittling clubs, their coaches, players and supporters is nothing short of arrogance of the highest nature.
Unfortunately many people in this game believe success is a given. Well quite frankly, it's not. The Robert Walls, the Hutchy's and the Carolyn Wilson's are nothing more than condescending, egotistical weasels who thieve an overinflated undeserved wage by playing up their own self claimed importance.
Hutchy is an absolute parasite constantly hiding behind his, "I'm just doing my job" line. Carolyn Wilson should not be involved in the football media as she dishes it out without a second thought but then when someone has a crack back at her, she goes and gets the person sacked or calls for a nationally broadcasted apology to be forwarded to her. Robert Walls, A SACKED COACH and a coach who had a player physically belted by his own teammates, went and spent a week with the Eagles and gave them the all clear, saying they handled the incidents well, they've cleaned everything up and they're a great club.
What firstly Robert Walls on On The Couch and then Hutchy on Footy Classified both threw in Mark Harvey's face was some of the most atrocious indecent and insulting acts I've seen on a show where you would expect a decent level of respect to be forwarded to all concerned regardless of current happenings, in a long long time. I would have applauded Harvey if leaned over and gave them both a smack in the mouth because that's what they both deserved. However, Harvey, a man who has done more for football than those three lowlifes will ever do, carries himself too well and occupies too much class to sink to their gutter reporting level.
It's safe to say if the show was Underbelly and all three, Walls, Caro and Hutchy made guest appearances, then they would have been capped by the first ad break in episode one.