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yep, looks like he is enjoying not playingSomething is not right with the Martin situation gut feeling.
If you were injured and had to front up to Louie the Butcher you wouldnāt enjoy it eitherSomething is not right with the Martin situation gut feeling.
Ask for a refundArrived today#nu#nuffy
As much as I am turning it off at half timeyep, looks like he is enjoying not playing
Ringo drummed in the Beatles forever. But i reckon he got pretty lucky to join a band with John Lennon & Paul.
Doesn't mean Ringo didn't have the chops to do the job, but he certainly would not have been in the greatest band of all time otherwise.
So was Ringo equally as important in the Beatles success than the other 2? Or was he perhaps lucky to team-up with TWO once in a lifetime talents? I reckon Ringo would even agree with the latter.
Dimma played a role in our rise, but played a much bigger role IMO with the fall. He destroyed the culture with his personal choices. He destroyed the entire small forward division by refusing to zag the game style when it was clear as day it needed it. He destroyed the list with his insistence that the club just were "1 or 2" players short of competing again when it was clear as day it was over. And then the second reality set in, he broke contract, without warning, lied to the club about "exhaustion" and took another job a couple of months later & left the club completely in the crapper with no options to replace him. He was contracted ffs. Benny thought he had "locked in" our guy for the long-term and all of a sudden, he was gone - 8 games after he traded 2 years of our best picks for 2 players who played the same bloody position. He didn't even trade the 2 years of picks for pieces that are hard to obtain (ie Full Back, Full Forward). Talented mids are available everywhere in the first 2 rounds of a draft.
Since leaving he has poached our players and former players to join him. We can appreciate his past with us, but there is absolutely no reason we should respect this bloke "today".
Meanwhile, members here are slagging supporters off for not wasting their Sunday at the MCG. unbelievable
all good if he is, his career and life.yep, looks like he is enjoying not playing
Loool texas chain saw massacreIf you were injured and had to front up to Louie the Butcher you wouldnāt enjoy it either
Way too much focus is placed on only 2017-2020. FFS he took over a complete basketcase of a club in 2010, who had not made finals since 2001. GWS and GC had the Lionās share of top picks. His first 9-games were were 0-9 with a percentage of under 50%. We were being called the worst team since the Fitzroy days and there were calls for special AFL assistance.
Just 3-years later in 2013 we finished 5th with a 15-7 record and percentage of 122%. That in itself is an extraordinary coaching performance. Then we were 3-10 in 2014 before a miraculous 9-game winning streak to make finalsā¦. again, amazing coaching to turn that season around. Then in 2015 we again finished 15-7 with a percentage of 123%.
Do you realise 2013-14 was the first time since 1974-75 weād made back-to-back finals series ā¦. yep, 40 bloody years !!
Of course each season ended with a disappointing finals exit, but any suggestion Dimma wasnāt a great coach and relied on his assistant is put to bed by going 42-24 in H&A across 2013-15, just 3-years after being compared to Fitzroy.
And if you need some context:
Nicks started a rebuild 5-years ago and Crows havenāt made finals and are currently 14th.
North got LDU in 2017, and 7-years and a gazillion top-5 picks later they havenāt made finals and are 2-15 and 17th.
GC have had a gazillion top draft picks and still havenāt made finals in 14-years.
Saints made finals in 2023 with a 13-10 record with one of the gameās āgreatā coaches. Now theyāre 15th.
So even if Dimma was shown the door end of 2016, he had done some amazing things to get the club into 3 consecutive finals series from 2013-15.
The 2017-20 rubber stamped him as a truly brilliant coach. Iāll be staggered if GC donāt achieve some great things during his tenure. And when they do itāll be because he got all these academy kids etcā¦.and he probably wonāt be given due recognition. Just like at Richmond it was because of his assistants and Dusty.
But bringing sustained success to a club requires a truly great senior coach, no matter what āassistanceā they get along the way. History tells you this.
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No doubt Hardwick is a good coach. He was there from the start when the club had to rebuild and then he got multiple Premiership success. But a good coach needs a good team around him also.....good assistants, good footy department, good staff, good President and good CEO and the culture needs to be good as well.
Hardwick did a lot for Richmond but there were other contributors, on the field and off the field. Rightly it should be deemed a "team effort".
I tell you now those highlighted in bold Yze doesn't have alot of them.
After the late preseason calf injury now a back injury means we aren't seeing much good football from the boy. Hit the wall badly. Crook backs can painful and hard to heal. I doubt he's faking it.. the end is starting to feel a little sour, for whatever reason, whether he goes or just cbf. Regardless, would be nice to see him not give up on us entirely.
I'm starting to think that maybe it would have been better for him to finish up after the 300th. It was the perfect way for him and the tiger army to farewell each other.
No doubt Hardwick is a good coach. He was there from the start when the club had to rebuild and then he got multiple Premiership success. But a good coach needs a good team around him also.....good assistants, good footy department, good staff, good President and good CEO and the culture needs to be good as well.
Hardwick did a lot for Richmond but there were other contributors, on the field and off the field. Rightly it should be deemed a "team effort".
As good Dusty has been, as much as he has contributed to the RFC and he really has contributed so much....the end to me seems to be turning sour to the point of..."lets just be over it ajd done with" type of feeling. The constant media attention and speculation must annoy him at times and annoy the RFC, as a supporter, I'm annoyed by it.
If he wants to leave the RFC and go elsewhere, then fine and that's his choice, he owes the RFC nothing. If he wants to stay then that's fine too but he has shown up and the injures have piled on.
If he does go and play elsewhere, he is still a RFC champion. Dusty won't be the last high profile player to leave a club. It happens all the time. Ablett JNR did it...left Geelong and headed to Gold Coast (and returned to Geelong), Judd left the WCE and headed to Carlton.
As I said it happens all the time. I'm glad he played for the RFC when he was at his best.
He is a liability on our list with where we are at.
Remember the talk pre-season & the year before "He is flying he never misses a session" than it comes to the season & he misses several games.
I honestly didn't believe the hype at the start of the year & let it be a warning for another club thinking about picking him up, he can barely train anymore.
How can you play golf with a bad back?? You canātAfter the late preseason calf injury now a back injury means we aren't seeing much good football from the boy. Hit the wall badly. Crook backs can painful and hard to heal. I doubt he's faking it.
Barely worthy of another contract anyhow, his best has passed him. 5 weeks to go & we will start seeing our player retirements.