Richmond’s next senior coach

[Drunken Wookie]

Everyone’s chiming in on who should get the gig…

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lol whered they dig up paul haselby for that ripper insight.

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

I can understand why there hasn’t been a shift in game style; just a focus on performing a bit more cohesively and maybe a renewed buy in, an occasional positional change to get the result etc. but hopefully when McQualter presents he will have a revamped plan of his own.

Other applicants will have their own vision; I would hope that if Mini gets the job it’s because he did too.

 

[Hoos]

If only we got treated the same as Umpies

Nobody gets treated the same as the Umpies. Even the Dogs and the Sydney Swine take a back seat to them.

 

[Truetiger]

Lets see how things go in the next 4-5 weeks

we could be 1-4 from now to the end of the season
Melbourne - St Kilda - Doggies - Port - North

Melbourne Loss
Stkilda/Dogs 1-1 split
Port Loss
North Win.

So many important games. If he can coach us into the finals will be massive.

 

[Yappie dribbles]

What happened to this announcement?

It was good Mini has a 3 year deal

 

[Not Important]

do we know all those who are on the selection list for the coach?

 

[Harrison Bergeron]

Just hope we don't stuff up and accidentally appoint Ralph Carr as our next coach.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Those list management decisions will be started with Blair Hartley . It would be a brave decision to ignore the demonstrated capability with his hands on the wheel over an untried asst
Pointing to carr 12m stint at state level is fairly meaningless where the balance of assets is the pivotal point to success or failure : REFER Gold Coast or lions or do they have the best vfl coaches Going around
Our shortcomings are very much infield availability not coaching , a key forward of lynches ability we’d arguably be too 4 ,,, bloody coach ain’t gonna cover that gap
The sentiment for a clean out is when theres a toxic under performing culture, is that relevant to us ?
I’m fairly certain our power brokers would be comfortable that our winning culture is alive and well , they’re decision will be very much how to foster that not disrupt it

A culture that has been bought by all and sundry at RFC and has delivered it 3 GF's...so the issue for Gale and Co...do we disrupt this winning process totally and start the climb to success afresh?!? OR build on/with it...like Fly has at the Wobbles...Mini's current coaching tenure and it's success will have a big say in what Gale and the Club's due diligence decides....

 

[RFCGloryJC]

Bluebaggers are the best team in the comp.
Wallsy can provide unique insights.

 

[Bojangles17]

A culture that has been bought by all and sundry at RFC and has delivered it 3 GF's...so the issue for Gale and Co...do we disrupt this winning process totally and start the climb to success afresh?!? OR build on/with it...like Fly has at the Wobbles...Mini's current coaching tenure and it's success will have a big say in what Gale and the Club's due diligence decides....

I think the answer to that 64,000 question is fairly glaringly obvious , anyways still work to do and we look forward to see how mini meets these challenges ahead

 

[Tiger2709]

I can understand why there hasn’t been a shift in game style; just a focus on performing a bit more cohesively and maybe a renewed buy in, an occasional positional change to get the result etc. but hopefully when McQualter presents he will have a revamped plan of his own.

Other applicants will have their own vision; I would hope that if Mini gets the job it’s because he did too.

Why would we change a game style that everyone else is now copying, what we need is too make sure we have the cattle to carry out the gameplan.

 

[Tigeron]

I think mini will be fine just get good assistants around him all will be good I think any coach is only as good as the men around him things have changed.

 

[Mr Magic]

I'm with you. Nothing against what he has achieved so far he has done a good job.

I just think we need a new set of eyes over this group to give a clean break from past as there will be numerous tough decisions coming up where Premiership players need to be either dropped or moved on, and based on decisions this year not sure if Mini is capable. He may have too many existing long term relationships with players that compromises his thinking.

If Mini cannot make some hard decisions that need to be made he can't get the job.

I would have thought part of the deal would include some hard decisions even if minor, a pivot of sorts will require some change.



There might be harder decisions later in the new coach's tenure if situations become more evident

Part of the deal would be enabling supposed hard decisions to be not so hard by creating win wins for stakeholders and players turning hard into easy as part of the brief.

Hardwick made leaving RFC easy for example

 

[TigerImposter]

You could argue that if Lynch hadn't been injured we could be contending this year. We are 2.5 wins off 4th position. If he wasn't injured in game v Bulldogs that is almost certainly 1.5 wins. We lost by 1 10 24 44 v teams who would have been very vulnerable to Lynch in Swans, Suns, Power, Bombers.

So it is easily arguable that Lynch injury alone has cost us being right in the mix for a top 4 berth, and given we seem to be improving as the season progresses, we would be likely contending for a flag.

If Lynch is right next year, given a season for Balta and Young to settle as a KPD pairing and Taranto and Hopper to be assimilated into the midfield, we should be as good a chance as any team to contend in 2024. We also have a load of young promising players who will only be improving, Gibcus, Clarke, Sonsie, Brown, Banks, Rioli Jnr, Ryan, Miller, Ross, Mansell, Bauer, Ralphsmith, Coulthard. And a couple we haven't really seen yet in Smith and Campbell. You would be disappointed if we don't see sharply improved output from this collective next season in our AFL team.

There is no good reason for us not to contend bar strategic injuries or other unforeseeable disasters.

Our fate is then tied to Meehan's hands and the size of the new coaches balls to start filtering out the usual suspects for those future stars you've mentioned.

 

[TigerImposter]

I'm with you. Nothing against what he has achieved so far he has done a good job.

I just think we need a new set of eyes over this group to give a clean break from past as there will be numerous tough decisions coming up where Premiership players need to be either dropped or moved on, and based on decisions this year not sure if Mini is capable. He may have too many existing long term relationships with players that compromises his thinking.

Well said SF

 

[SunshineBoy]

You could argue that if Lynch hadn't been injured we could be contending this year. We are 2.5 wins off 4th position. If he wasn't injured in game v Bulldogs that is almost certainly 1.5 wins. We lost by 1 10 24 44 v teams who would have been very vulnerable to Lynch in Swans, Suns, Power, Bombers.

So it is easily arguable that Lynch injury alone has cost us being right in the mix for a top 4 berth, and given we seem to be improving as the season progresses, we would be likely contending for a flag.

If Lynch is right next year, given a season for Balta and Young to settle as a KPD pairing and Taranto and Hopper to be assimilated into the midfield, we should be as good a chance as any team to contend in 2024. We also have a load of young promising players who will only be improving, Gibcus, Clarke, Sonsie, Brown, Banks, Rioli Jnr, Ryan, Miller, Ross, Mansell, Bauer, Ralphsmith, Coulthard. And a couple we haven't really seen yet in Smith and Campbell. You would be disappointed if we don't see sharply improved output from this collective next season in our AFL team.

There is no good reason for us not to contend bar strategic injuries or other unforeseeable disasters.

And we would still have Hardwick who said he was done

 

[Truetiger]

And we would still have Hardwick who said he was done

Best thing was Hardwick leaving. Now we can look into the future. Next season am already looking fwd to what’s coming.

 

[Tigeron]

If Mini cannot make some hard decisions that need to be made he can't get the job.

I would have thought part of the deal would include some hard decisions even if minor, a pivot of sorts will require some change.



There might be harder decisions later in the new coach's tenure if situations become more evident

Part of the deal would be enabling supposed hard decisions to be not so hard by creating win wins for stakeholders and players turning hard into easy as part of the brief.

Hardwick made leaving RFC easy for example

If he gets the job he can make the hard decisions most of the hard decisions will fall in place with retirements of the older blokes

 

[TigerImposter]

And we would still have Hardwick who said he was done

It's still a possibility he could be on our short list.

 

[TigerImposter]

Best thing was Hardwick leaving. Now we can look into the future. Next season am already looking fwd to what’s coming.

 

[Truetiger]

Carr lol

 

[Mr Magic]

If he gets the job he can make the hard decisions most of the hard decisions will fall in place with retirements of the older blokes

Nope, if that is his position he does not get the job if I was on the committee.

The hard decisions are not with retirements or with Cotch and JR.

I know some on here are pushing JR's retirement, Cotch retirement to because politically it is easy. The trouble is winning premierships is not about politics.

Winning premierships is about knowing where you list is at and making the right decisions.

So if I am Josh Carr, I come in and say Cotchin and JR stay for the moment and others need to go, if you do not agree with me, I am not the coach for you because we do not see eye to eye with the list.

In other words, Cotch and JR do not need pushing, Cotch and JR probably will be gone by 2026 anyway. It is others that will need pushing, find them a new home if possible, get replaced by youngsters coming up, and it you do not agree with that, we are wasting our time and the new coach job is not viable in my opinion

The bottom line is we can make the finals with the current list but they are not challenging the likes of Pies and others until they become buffalo, not cattle so they can find new ways to play better as a team and we really probably need to give otherselves a few years for the youngsters to come up and develop

In fact this is what makes it easy, if Cotch and JR retire end of year, the list remains pretty much the same, I know I can check out for ten years until by that stage others have been turfed, reality has hit them in the face, and knowing where we really are at is back in vogue so we might start to rise up again

On the contrary Cotch and JR helps with the clean out to a degree by providing leadership along with the likes of Taranto Hopper and others before eventually Cotch and JR will also go because they become too old like Buddy

 

[Profop]

I can understand why there hasn’t been a shift in game style; just a focus on performing a bit more cohesively and maybe a renewed buy in, an occasional positional change to get the result etc. but hopefully when McQualter presents he will have a revamped plan of his own.

Other applicants will have their own vision; I would hope that if Mini gets the job it’s because he did too.

Yeah this is spot on. People on here thinking that because we’ve been playing similarly if Mini got the job nothing would change

Now first that may not be a bad thing because the style does still hold up in my mind but second if he did have changes to make now mid season isn’t the time to make them

It’s just going to confuse the playing list, tank the season and rub his chances at getting the job. No team can change their game style mid year and still impact the season, would be dumb of him to try

 

[Daka]

O'Rourke provides Senior Coach update


O'Rourke is very level headed has anyone watched this?

 

[Roksman]

He can bring Mitch Georgiadis with him please....