North to jump on Hardwick

[Drewfactor]

• NORTH Melbourne is expected to offer its coaching job to Damien Hardwick within days.

With Richmond committed to a continuing process in search of a new coach, North can swoop on the highly rated Hawthorn assistant.
Hardwick has generated strong interest at both clubs, but Richmond is locked into further interviews.
North will wrap up its interviews tonight.
The Roos know they must move swiftly if they are to avoid the risk of being seen as rejected for a third time. They were unsuccessful in their audacious bid to secure Nathan Buckley and learned yesterday John Longmire would stay with the Swans.
Longmire, a North premiership player, will succeed Paul Roos in Sydney in 2011.
The Swans swung into action as soon as they learned Longmire was to be interviewed by the North coaching sub-committee last night.
He has been second in charge to Roos since 2007 after joining the Swans in 2002.
Roos is expected to remain with the Swans post-2010 in a mentoring/marketing/development/recruiting role, although he said on 3AW last night the family would consider a move to the United States, home for his wife, Tami, in two or three years.

Hardwick, soon to turn 37, probably is favourite at Richmond, but there are three other contenders - Ken Hinkley, Alan Richardson and caretaker Jade Rawlings - with the possibility former North coach Dean Laidley could be another.
At North, it is a three-way race between Hardwick, caretaker coach Darren Crocker and Collingwood assistant coach Brad Scott, who is highly regarded at Lexus Centre, but is in only his second year in the system.

His time will come.

Crocker is expected to miss out. He will get his last roll of the dice in an interview tonight.

Hardwick is in his fifth season at Hawthorn and was the last man eliminated at Essendon when Matthew Knights replaced Kevin Sheedy after the 2007 season. He played in premiership teams at Essendon and Port Adelaide in 207 matches from 1994-2004 and was part of Alastair Clarkson's premiership coaching panel at Hawthorn last year.

Oddly, he seems to fit the bill for those at North Melbourne divided on whether the new coach needs to be "a North man" or an outsider.

Hardwick started in the AFL system in North's under-19 team under Denis Pagan before being let go. Essendon took him at No. 87 in the 1992 national draft.

Hopefully the whole merry go round is over sooner rather than later- it's consuming my thoughts when i should be 100% conentrating on my pure hatred of Collingwood,Carlton ect

 

[budge11]

The media has made us seem quite desperate in this search for a coach.

 

[Roscoe_G]

Atrocious news!

 

[Drewfactor]

We are starting to look like the ugly one at the dance praying for someone to ask us for a dance and there is only half an hour to go until closing!!

 

[Roscoe_G]

We are starting to look like the ugly one at the dance praying for someone to ask us for a dance and there is only half an hour to go until closing!!

Hee hee .. too true!

This is simply unbelievable. A mediocre ex-thug in Hardwick is supposedly our best roll of the dice? Such a proud club, such a proud history ... now here we are re-signing David Hale, and now apparently clamouring to sign Damian Hardwick.

Attention: Brayshaw and Arocca .. you are making this bed, and you will indeed lie in it!

 

[Drewfactor]

Ummm Errrrrr get me some medication!!!

 

[Kimbo]

Let's face facts. Even if we went through a process from the start, if Buckley had been a main contender, the Collingwood deal would have still happened to prevent us (or Richmond) recruiting him. To suggest we look bad because we went for him is ridiculous. More about Collingwood than our process. More about club loyalty than any slur on us.

Similar with Horse. He's living in Sydney, has relationships and history there with the club and has been assured the senior coach role. It seems he may not have even been our first choice, or at best not assured of the role. What would you do in his position? Besides, the only club Horse 'rejected' was Richmond.

In fact, you could easily spin it our way; that the Pies and Swans had to do something pretty novel in order to prevent us recruiting these guys.

And, at the end of the day, we're no worse off than Richmond who are going through a process too. Ours is just shorter and more 'intuitive', or selective from the outset. If Hardwick (or anyone else) ends up (or would have ended up) on top in both sets of interviews, we are better positioned to get him, other things being equal. How is being best placed to snare the best available coach a bad thing?

In short, stop with the whining and back Euge and the Board to make a good decision, based on the available talent. Like all of us, they aren't perfect, but geez, we've been pretty blessed so far with this administration's initiatives and decisions.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

What Kimbo said. Buckley was a special case and Longmire was always earmarked for Roos' job. That leaves us with what we would normally have started with - a crop of highly-regarded, experienced assistants to choose from.

I am however sure of one thing - RJ, Euge and the recruitment team can be trusted to make a decision based on who seems to have the best skills, character and philosophy for the North job, NOT based on reassuring the media that we "didn't get rejected" by anyone. By the time the new coach has a season under his belt, no-one will care what the pecking order looked like during interviews.

 

[Horace]

Let's face facts. Even if we went through a process from the start, if Buckley had been a main contender, the Collingwood deal would have still happened to prevent us (or Richmond) recruiting him. To suggest we look bad because we went for him is ridiculous. More about Collingwood than our process. More about club loyalty than any slur on us.

Similar with Horse. He's living in Sydney, has relationships and history there with the club and has been assured the senior coach role. It seems he may not have even been our first choice, or at best not assured of the role. What would you do in his position? Besides, the only club Horse 'rejected' was Richmond.

In fact, you could easily spin it our way; that the Pies and Swans had to do something pretty novel in order to prevent us recruiting these guys.

And, at the end of the day, we're no worse off than Richmond who are going through a process too. Ours is just shorter and more 'intuitive', or selective from the outset. If Hardwick (or anyone else) ends up (or would have ended up) on top in both sets of interviews, we are better positioned to get him, other things being equal. How is being best placed to snare the best available coach a bad thing?

In short, stop with the whining and back Euge and the Board to make a good decision, based on the available talent. Like all of us, they aren't perfect, but geez, we've been pretty blessed so far with this administration's initiatives and decisions.

Absolutely.

Time for some Big Footy stress heads to get back on their medication.

 

[see see]

Sounds painful

 

[Event Horizon]

Hardwick's credentials are way above Crocker's. Hard to argue against that.
Given how few people are left in the running, I think offering him a role right now would be a good move.

 

[muttley45]

Ummm Errrrrr get me some medication!!!

mrs tredrea is that you

 

[Drewfactor]

mrs tredrea is that you

Is it Anthony Rocca on Prom night

 

[Cadda]

I'm a big fan of Damien's and have always said that should Bucks not want the job then he should be our man. If it turns out that we bag him then I would be most happy fresh ideas and a fresh start. the last thing our club needs it someone that has been hanging around under past regimes with the same old ideas. Hardwick has seen premierships won at other clubs and will bring a wealth of new knowledge and furthermore has no pre-conceived ideas about our list!

 

[Twinkletoes]

Let's face facts. Even if we went through a process from the start, if Buckley had been a main contender, the Collingwood deal would have still happened to prevent us (or Richmond) recruiting him. To suggest we look bad because we went for him is ridiculous. More about Collingwood than our process. More about club loyalty than any slur on us.

Similar with Horse. He's living in Sydney, has relationships and history there with the club and has been assured the senior coach role. It seems he may not have even been our first choice, or at best not assured of the role. What would you do in his position? Besides, the only club Horse 'rejected' was Richmond.

In fact, you could easily spin it our way; that the Pies and Swans had to do something pretty novel in order to prevent us recruiting these guys.

And, at the end of the day, we're no worse off than Richmond who are going through a process too. Ours is just shorter and more 'intuitive', or selective from the outset. If Hardwick (or anyone else) ends up (or would have ended up) on top in both sets of interviews, we are better positioned to get him, other things being equal. How is being best placed to snare the best available coach a bad thing?

In short, stop with the whining and back Euge and the Board to make a good decision, based on the available talent. Like all of us, they aren't perfect, but geez, we've been pretty blessed so far with this administration's initiatives and decisions.

You can't top this ^^^^^.

Spot on Kimbo.

I can't believe the negativity. The facts are as you stated, and the rest is media driven speculation. We spend countless hours here shooting down the media as being "full of shit" yet suddenly we believe every word they print?

O'Hoy, RJ, Euge and Donald Duck will be far better placed than any of us to make assessments on the prospects, and a final decision based on their assessments.

I don't have a problem with any of this at all.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Ummm Errrrrr get me some medication!!!

SHE......................................IS.........................................HOT!

lol

 

[gokangas]

SHE......................................IS.........................................HOT!

lol

Cue the banjos.

 

[Mr Reliable]

Is it Anthony Rocca on Prom night

Or Clarko?

 

[Twinkletoes]

Cue the banjos.

Time for this dude to play an encore and get the party started:

 

[Drewfactor]

SHE......................................IS.........................................HOT!

lol

Um er I'm hoping that she is your last chance at the end of prom night Tt's and not at the top of your list at the start lol

 

[Twinkletoes]

Um er I'm hoping that she is your last chance at the end of prom night Tt's and not at the top of your list at the start lol

Each to their own Df. Beauty's in the eye of the beholder. You don't reckon we'd look good together?

 

[Drewfactor]

Maybe this is the offspring from that fateful night!!!!!!!! and shebang you have a little Trev Marmelaide.... lol

 

[Jonnoo]

this thread has taken a turn for the decidedly weird..

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Long as its not Crocker im happy

 

[Manbearpig]

Long as its not Crocker-shit im happy

Geez people were so excited when he got to coach a match in pre season and its come to now being called Crocker-shit.

A great North Melbourne person, who's done more for the club than any of us on this forum, who deserves better than being called that.