AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Playing Coach of the Bullants, assistant to Ratten at Blues for 3 years, assistant to Worsfold at eagles for 3 years, 1 year under Lyon at the saints, 4 years at crows under Sanderson, Walsh and Pyke then a couple years under Bolton.What was teagues apprenticeship like by comparison , he learnt off Brendan Bolton lspare me
Hardwick was lucky not to be sacked in 2016. I couldn't believe Peggy and Gale didn't sack him but whatever they spent on that review, sending Hardwick to USA, bringing in Balme and good assistants was worth every cent. The club winning another final was difficult, winning a flag was beyond my wildest expectations. We didn't do a Footscray we backed it up with 2 more.Hardwick isn't smart and never has been. He worked with a great team and FD in our success. That’s why a review was done in 2016 bc he’d run the joint down with a quality list. His strength was he was able to work and operate better with smarter assistants. In the end they were diminished bc he was arrogant , naive and foolish by taking the lump of the soft cap.
He was then back to 2016 and even worse off bc he became a tyrant . He was then found out to be totally clueless bc he’d lost the brains and support around him. In the end he was also losing the players with bad press conferences relating to them.
Don’t get me wrong I appreciate everything he did, but up until 2016 he was clueless and after 2021 he was hanging onto what everyone had taught him, but as things deteriorated he then went back to 2016 mode by playing players out of position, but even worse refusing to make team changes.
There were two games lost where we should’ve won. Subbing Miller off against Melbourne in the last quarter leaving a fatigued Ryan to ruck and moving Balta who was holding up the BL into the ruck. Undies and Gawn got off the chain, Young was exposed in the BL and JVR ripped him apart. The second game was dropping Miller for the Essendon game. Miller kills it in the VFL and kicks the winning goal on the run 50m out. Jack is destroyed all night. Plays an unfit Nankervis instead of Miller to ruck with Ryan against Draper. Draper has a field day and Nankervis coughs up multiple goals. We lose the unlosable
Dimma unfortunately without support was more stubborn and ignorant when challenged and would make incompetent decisions which was his downfall.
He quit bc he was back to his true self and found out and in the end he couldn’t go through 2016 where he had a strong list and couldn’t get the players up. All in his own admission, not that we needed it bc it was so bloody obvious.
The RFC was becoming like the fall of the Roman Empire:
As Nero fiddled Rome burnt
As Dimma fiddled the RFC burnt.
Dimma forgot his greatest strength which made him a triple premiership coach and that was humility.
In 2016 he admitted after losses he would go to his man cave and sit on the rocking chair stressing how to improve the team. He was given a lifeline with millions spent on a review, new FD , fitness staff and technology. They sent him to Harvard to learn about PR and communication and when he arrived back he came to a team that was more positive, fitter and hungrier for success. He humbled himself and worked with everyone and success came. In the end he forgot all this and started to believe he was the emperor of the RFC and was indestructible. He cooked his own goose by forgetting his true qualities.
Not bad , thats why he’s an assistant at tigerland , it doesnt beat being an asst throughout one of the most successful periods this century with 3 flags , further to that the leading flag contenders have leveraged the tigers game plan into theirs which says plentyPlaying Coach of the Bullants, assistant to Ratten at Blues for 3 years, assistant to Worsfold at eagles for 3 years, 1 year under Lyon at the saints, 4 years at crows under Sanderson, Walsh and Pyke then a couple years under Bolton.
Pretty bloody good apprenticeship
I reckon it's pretty important to do an apprenticeship under at least a couple of different coaches. That's my only real reservation about Mini.
Yeah I'm not too concerned about who is going to be the next coach of the RFC...let the review/process take care of that...
Yeah. Get rid of all of them except Lambert, Rutten and X I reckon. Target a couple of Leppitsch, Chaplin, Carr, Yze, Newman, Grigg, Caracella, Hansen etc.
I still think Teague was a bit stiff, he had no clear run with injuries to his key players
Coaching is very much a black art , oft the perfect cardboard cutouts don’t turn out to be much good ,,,eg Dew or Cameron and the most successful ones are almost a surprise ,,,no one would have guessed both clarko and dimma win 7 between them . Mini is in succession , in a very very successful environment . There’s no need to make a decision right now ,,,,that said it would be a brave decision to award the job to a experienced asst that hasnt coached before over mini , that called unchartered waters
after the flag
With dimma on the loose , I’d doubt mini would be poached to be big cohuna , no doubt will walk into a key asst somewhere if not successful …..this next 3w block is pivotal to our season ,,,let’s see how we go , I wouldn’t be bothering mini with contractuals right now either
Don’t be so gullible as Fly hadn’t coached a game and was poached to the media AFL glamour side. only fools will go for KDH as he admitted he was basically cooked. That’s like taking on Malthouse, Pagan, Sheedy or Clarko and taunted with danger and high risk.
Hinkley or dew ain’t gonna be sacked for a rookie , put your hatred of dimma aside , at 50yo he has plenty in the tank in a new environment,,, I will say tho PA would be fools to sack hinkley for dimma ,,that’d be a very dangerous game ,,,GC would be a positive move and if I was advising him ,,,that’s role I’d take
Mate no hatred. The blokes on medicinal grass. He’s cooked and any club who takes him I’ll be happy as it’s one less contender.
Go ahead Suns make my day at least I’ll be one hundred percent confident we’ll kick their arses.
Cubs aren't allowed to make offers for McQualter until the season ends, the only exception is if another club was to sack their coach. Even then no club would simply go out and make an offer without going through their own complete process to ensure that he was their next head coach. So there is no rush to make a decision.
Fair enough mate, but surely managers are having small words to people within.
Yep , if I was dimma, I’d say gimmee a 5y contract x 1.1m and I’m there
I think livo is in the box isnt he or is he on the ground , the powerbrokers would be watching him like a hawk , I like what I’m seeing , we have a challenge in front of us that we can really get our teeth into, let’s see it unfold over next month
Bc Dimma was coaching.
