Stephen Rowe told FIVEAA Breakfast on Monday:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve received phone calls over the weekend from a broad cross-section of the club — players and officials. All of them have said the residual scars from 2018 are real\u2026 residual scars from management from 2018. They are real.<\/p>\n
\u201cKey management promised to earn back players trust the respect and change behaviours that would create a different environment. Put simply, they haven\u2019t. I talk of senior coach Don Pyke and football manager Brett Burton predominantly, nothing\u2019s changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe faith in the football program — from not all players — is out the door. This is what happens I think, and we go all the way back to the end of last year, when you review yourselves. The club needs an independent external review.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a top down problem, it\u2019s not bottom up. It\u2019s not a players up problem, this is a top down problem. It\u2019s into its second year. Making the eight from here, winning a final from here, is irrelevant.<\/p>\n
\u201cMake no mistake, change is afoot. The wheels of change are in motion. I think there\u2019s a lack of trust and hope in the club\u2019s direction — [Pyke] as coach and Brett Burton as footy manager — I think the PPT, the list manager, this is a whole of club problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be brutally honest, you could just see this day coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fans are angry. They want answers. Over to the board, for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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