Thanks for all the very positive comments guys much appreciated.
The reports revealed in todays papers now only triply confirm the theme of my original post regarding the enormity of the fire fuelled by Des.
The dysfunctional board is clearly due to the unworkable system of 3 factions, two opposed shareholding owners, and a complete misbalance of board voting rights, but none of these ills are accountable for the suffering at the hands of the ego maniac diseases injected by the head coach.
It's a bizarre situation given that far from failing on the field we excelled to the highest level, but notwithstanding our success these findings are continuing to provide more and more damning evidence that the war against the world Des dictatorship was simply unworkable.
We would all be absolutely gutted if our favourite sons the Stewarts left, but ultimately it's up to them and any others like Foran to consider what is the greatest power, one man or an entire club with an unshakeable history. Hopefully Watmough is on the phone to them all very quickly.
We can only pray they realise there is only one Manly-Warrringah, the club who will be all the stronger from this, and whose new coach Toovey's champion qualities will be as indestructible as they were on the field.