News Hardwick set to lift Tigers out of hole

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Dear IDGAF,

Although I am just as frustrated with what's happening at the club, I think you should cut the coach a bit of slack. Why? Because he is still learning his craft. Malthouse is a 1000 times better coach now than he was when he first started. The things we all like about Hardwick are that he has played the game at the highest level and won; he has good people skills as he certainly still has the players onside; he is genuine when confronting the media; he is still young and can grow with the team. At the moment the players aren't good enough to put in consistent performances. At least he continues to play big Griffiths. It would have been easy to drop him and reinstate Miller. I'd like to see Post given more games but there may be other reasons he is not being selected that we are not privy to. Guys like Reiwoldt, King, Martin are not playing anywhere near as well as earlier in the year. The loss of Grimes cannot be underestimated. He had become our rock down back in just a short space of time. A genuine ruckman has meant we have been smashed in our clearances. The young guys have tired as well. The media also quickly put us up on a pedestal when we didn't really deserve it (so too did many on this forum) and I felt the players started to think they were better than they were!

I hope we can finish the year off on a positive note and carry that confidence into the new year!

 

[Neen]

Truth is - Richmond have not had a GOOD coach for 20 years. The best of the lot was John Northey, and he earned the respect of the playing group. 1995 was the launching pad to a premiership tilt in 1996 - but he left.

Since then, the only finals success was with Danny Frawley. The rest of the coaches were more media personalities looking for a payrise.

Dimma has no choice but to pull the RFC out of the hole it is in. But the club have been in a hole for more than 10 years. Our current poor standing is inherited. I really fear for the club if Dimma cannot pull us out of the hole. But the reality is that it is the same hole regardless of who is coaching us. Malthouse took 10 years to win a flag. But he took Collingwood to the finals for 6 years after rebuilding the club. All those calling for Malthouse to coach would be in exactly the same predicament.

I'm just as upset as all other Richmond supporters, but we need to step back and let Dimma do his job.

The past 6 weeks have been horrible for the club. Yes - Dimma said we would not have any blowouts - and we did. But he can't control everything - it is a learning process for him as well. Since Dimma's appointment, the only criticism I have had is that we have not picked the best side to win the games over the last month.

Finals was always a pipe dream. The hard yards lay before us (draft concessions etc), but the club has shown resolve and not asked for any favors. If not Dimma, it would be someone else.

 

[1980GFVideo]

Dear IDGAF,

Although I am just as frustrated with what's happening at the club, I think you should cut the coach a bit of slack. Why? Because he is still learning his craft. Malthouse is a 1000 times better coach now than he was when he first started. The things we all like about Hardwick are that he has played the game at the highest level and won; he has good people skills as he certainly still has the players onside; he is genuine when confronting the media; he is still young and can grow with the team. At the moment the players aren't good enough to put in consistent performances. At least he continues to play big Griffiths. It would have been easy to drop him and reinstate Miller. I'd like to see Post given more games but there may be other reasons he is not being selected that we are not privy to. Guys like Reiwoldt, King, Martin are not playing anywhere near as well as earlier in the year. The loss of Grimes cannot be underestimated. He had become our rock down back in just a short space of time. A genuine ruckman has meant we have been smashed in our clearances. The young guys have tired as well. The media also quickly put us up on a pedestal when we didn't really deserve it (so too did many on this forum) and I felt the players started to think they were better than they were!

I hope we can finish the year off on a positive note and carry that confidence into the new year!

I like Hardwick also but..

Players thinking they were better than what they are does fall in the coaches department though dont you think.

If we are vulnerable to a bit of positive publicity in the paper then that is a worry.

Hardly courageous leaving Miller out. It would take guts to play him listening to supporters at the ground and on here.

 

[tigerfan1961]

Fair enough Iddy, with respect to your questioning of the coaching and tactics, but geez, the same things were being said and written about Clarkson in his second year at Hawthorn.

Dimma is on record as saying that he is modelling his coaching style mainly on Clarko, and I am sure he would be following the same methods he saw being put in place at Hawthorn.

Like the Hawks did, we are getting smashed a bit at present, but I am just as sure we will come out the better for it on the other side.

As many have posted on other forums on this site, patience in developing a young list is something us Tiger fans are usually not great at displaying and we attack all areas of the Club demanding the "quick fix". Thankfully, Dimma and Gale are not going to allow that to happen on this occasion, and I for one am quite happy with that.

Yes, we still have some plodders and unskilled types that have to go, but I am certain they will be weeded out and replaced.

Patience required, unfortunately we just have to cop what we are receiving at present.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Fair enough Iddy, with respect to your questioning of the coaching and tactics, but geez, the same things were being said and written about Clarkson in his second year at Hawthorn.

Dimma is on record as saying that he is modelling his coaching style mainly on Clarko, and I am sure he would be following the same methods he saw being put in place at Hawthorn.

Like the Hawks did, we are getting smashed a bit at present, but I am just as sure we will come out the better for it on the other side.

As many have posted on other forums on this site, patience in developing a young list is something us Tiger fans are usually not great at displaying and we attack all areas of the Club demanding the "quick fix". Thankfully, Dimma and Gale are not going to allow that to happen on this occasion, and I for one am quite happy with that.

Yes, we still have some plodders and unskilled types that have to go, but I am certain they will be weeded out and replaced.

Patience required, unfortunately we just have to cop what we are receiving at present.

Now thats a fair call... ...

Guess we are all...and by that i mean...

...supporters...players...coaches...admin...sponsors...club....members...

Together all aboard the tiger bandwagon driven by head coach dimma...

Leaving Premiership number '10' behind and heading straight towards Premiership number '11'...

Hang on for the ride cause we are either going to...

Crash on through spectacularly and get to '11'...or we will become another sad footnote in the saga and drama of the RFC...

Hopefully we will get there...right dimma...?!?!...right...?!?!...

 

[IDGAF]

Fair enough Iddy, with respect to your questioning of the coaching and tactics, but geez, the same things were being said and written about Clarkson in his second year at Hawthorn.

Dimma is on record as saying that he is modelling his coaching style mainly on Clarko, and I am sure he would be following the same methods he saw being put in place at Hawthorn.

Like the Hawks did, we are getting smashed a bit at present, but I am just as sure we will come out the better for it on the other side.

As many have posted on other forums on this site, patience in developing a young list is something us Tiger fans are usually not great at displaying and we attack all areas of the Club demanding the "quick fix". Thankfully, Dimma and Gale are not going to allow that to happen on this occasion, and I for one am quite happy with that.

Yes, we still have some plodders and unskilled types that have to go, but I am certain they will be weeded out and replaced.

Patience required, unfortunately we just have to cop what we are receiving at present.

I'm not saying Hardwick is no good at all (yet) ... i'm not throwing the baby out with the bath water (just yet)

From round 10 .. 2010 to the Dreamtime game this year i reckon Hardwick had done a great job up until that point .... all that could have been asked of him , how he recovers from this will define the rest of his coaching career because ...IMHO ... in the last 5 weeks he has lost the plot .

This is debateable and i hope i'm wrong .

Just my observation and opinion

 

[TJTIGER]

Don't know if someone else has said this but are we Tanking for picks ?? I would'nt have thought so but would it be the best thing in the long run??

 

[Bird Man]

Don't know if someone else has said this but are we Tanking for picks ?? I would'nt have thought so but would it be the best thing in the long run??

Yours truely

 

[YellowandBlackBlood]

I'm not saying Hardwick is no good at all (yet) ... i'm not throwing the baby out with the bath water (just yet)

From round 10 .. 2010 to the Dreamtime game this year i reckon Hardwick had done a great job up until that point .... all that could have been asked of him , how he recovers from this will define the rest of his coaching career because ...IMHO ... in the last 5 weeks he has lost the plot .

This is debateable and i hope i'm wrong .

Just my observation and opinion

Do you really think he has changed his coaching that much in the last 6 weeks? I think the game plan he asks the players to carry out is the EXACTLY the same. The players are just not playing well enough now to execute it. The big question is why have our players form dropped off so severely? I cannot believe the skills of our players now versus earlier in the year. I really doubt the coach has anything to do with the execution of skills. It's as if the players have put up the shutters for the year and have called it a day!
It's like they have decided to TANK! Go figure!

 

[tigerfan1961]

Agree- it is all part of the learning and development process that young sides go through. Dimma said at the start of last year that he wanted to get 500 games into the younger players, and he is on track to achieve that goal. As they play more games together, their execution of his game plan will improve, and our ability to run out games, and indeed the season, will also get better as they also get more pre-seasons into their young bodies.

This pain we are going through is part of the development phase- we will get better next year, and better the year after.

The ONLY concern I have is what players he intends on keeping. Will not name the ones I reckon should be easy trade/delist types, as it is unfair to them on a public forum, but I am sure we all know which players are butchers by foot and lack in the footy smarts area.