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September 14, 2006
Costa Speaks
Thomas' demise of no consequence: Costa
The sacking of St Kilda coach Grant Thomas has not pressured Geelong to take the same path, according to club president Frank Costa.Costa said Thomas' demise after the Saints' early exit from the finals would in no way affect Cats coach Mark Thompson's position, despite Geelong finishing two places outside the final eight.
``We will not be making knee-jerk reactions. If you look at the administration of this football club after the last seven years, we've never made a knee-jerk reaction to the challenges we've found ourselves with, it's always been carefully calculated, assessed and planned,'' he said.
``At the same time we're not going to muck around either, but you look at Denis Pagan who didn't get his team into the finals and he wasn't sacked so what happened (to Thomas) makes no difference to us. Our case is isolated and separate, Mark has another 12 months to go on his contract and we'll assess everything carefully and properly.''
Thomas was shown the door just four days after the Saints' finals campaign ended when they went down to Melbourne in the elimination final last Friday night.
The Saints' shock decision was in stark contrast to the Cats' end of season review, which began almost four weeks ago.
But Costa said he remained confident the process the club had gone through was the right one and expected the review to wind up by the end of the week.
``I'm very happy with it, it has been the correct process, we've thought about it acutely and I'm very pleased it's been handled in a professional manner,'' he said.
``It's a very serious issue for the club to sort out and we've got to make sure that we go forward. It's close to the end, it will be completed by the weekend and we will come out in a transparent way as much as we can with the findings and strategies to let everyone know what is going on and what is going to happen.''
Posted by Sammy D at September 14, 2006 02:07 PM