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Don’t know any Albanians but a family moved in next door a few months ago - seem like nice folks.
& their BBQ’s smell great!
Universal Love Welcome to Richmond Adem Yze
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& their BBQ’s smell great!
I think some of us myself included thought this quote was from Gale but reading The Herald Sun today and thinking didnt Gale say that so I listened to the Yze presser again and Gale actually says this>>>> here's a saying that I'll pinch from him. ‘If you get stuck in the past, you die in the present’
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Afijet Yze called husband Adem on Thursday to ask whether he would be bringing pizzas home for his 46th birthday dinner.
The response was along the lines of: “I can’t, I’m in a Richmond polo!”
The timing came as a surprise. Yze had driven to Richmond preparing for what he thought would be another presentation.
But he had already won the senior coaching job.
All that was left to do was meet the board, who were immediately taken by his presence and rapt with the rapport he had built with staff at other clubs.
The board unanimously endorsed him as the Tigers’ main man.
While there was no birthday cake at home, unwrapping that polo shirt was the best gift possible and by Thursday night Yze’s house was covered in yellow and black.
The killer line in Yze’s pitch was: “If you get stuck in the past, you die in the present”.
The Tigers agreed they needed a fresh voice.
They had drifted from marvellous to mediocre over the past three seasons and that had worked up an appetite for change.
After getting pipped for senior jobs at Adelaide (2019, won by Matthew Nicks), Greater Western Sydney (2022, Adam Kingsley) and Essendon (2022, Brad Scott), Yze toasted his appointment with a quiet birthday beer.
![[PLAYERCARD]Adem Yze[/PLAYERCARD] will take on the top job at Richmond. Picture: Getty Images](/forum/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.api.news%2Fv3%2Fimages%2Fbin%2Fb79fc57cc68c665bb08dc5b4d4ea9089&hash=29ddbe856cb57afb227fc765ed3937be "[PLAYERCARD]Adem Yze[/PLAYERCARD] will take on the top job at Richmond. Picture: Getty Images")
Adem Yze will take on the top job at Richmond. Picture: Getty Images
His phone quickly lit up like a Christmas tree. By Friday morning he had more than 400 messages, and Yze joked about 280 were from cousins.
But that should be no surprise. His mother, Vicki, is one of 10 children and his father, Sam, is one of eight.
Vicki is an Australian-born Yugoslav-Albanian while Sam relocated to Werribee from a European refugee camp in 1954.
One of those first cousins, Nick Diker, coached Yze and his gun-for-hire brother Damien at Glen Orden in the Western Region Football League in 2013.
They won the premiership, with Damien slotting 136 goals from 20 games to top the Division 2 tally.
But it was Adem’s bag of 20 goals in an under-16s game that foreshadowed his footballing future.
Wearing what has been described as “long, daggy board shorts” he was heckled by opposition spectators who were soon silenced by his lethal left foot.
Like Richmond legend Tom Hafey, Yze hails from Shepparton. And like another Richmond legend Kevin Bartlett, Yze rarely handballed.
In 2001 Yze led the AFL with 417 kicks and dished off only 72 handballs. He won Melbourne’s best-and-fairest and then, Carlton came hard.
The Blues offered $1.2 million over three years – an average wage these days – but Yze sacrificed $200,000 to stay a Demon.
In 2002 he finished third in the Brownlow Medal and was named All-Australian.
But his run of 226 consecutive games ended when coach Neale Daniher dropped Yze after round 1 in 2007.
Yze in action for Western Region Football League club Glen Orden.
“In the end, I got the call on Thursday and they thought it was better to not play me ... which looking at it now as a coach, it was the right thing to do,” Yze has said.
“I would rather miss a game than people think that I was backing out of the contest to reach a record that I didn’t really care about.”
Perhaps Yze’s “If you get stuck in the past, you die in the present” was born out of his own experience.
In 2008 the Demons delisted Yze to prioritise their rebuild under the late Dean Bailey.
Yze nominated for the 2009 draft but he was overlooked.
But Yze caught the coaching bug when he joined Melbourne’s leadership group and worked with the club’s kids.
He joined Hawthorn’s development team part-time in 2012 while at the end of 2014 the Hawks lost defensive coach Luke Beveridge, who signed as director of coaching at St Kilda but instead won the senior job at Western Bulldogs.
Yze replaced Beveridge in charge of Hawthorn’s backline and Rob McCartney replaced Yze in charge of development.
The changes were announced by Hawks footy boss Chris Fagan. Now Yze is coach of Richmond, Fagan is coach of Brisbane, McCartney is football boss at Hawthorn and Beveridge remains at the Bulldogs.
Yze got a taste in the “passenger’s seat” in 2014 when Alastair Clarkson was hospitalised with Guillain – Barre syndrome.
Yze’s work at Melbourne was highly regarded. Picture: Getty Images
Assistant Brendon Bolton was given the keys for five weeks and Yze replaced Bolton as a line coach.
Suddenly he was in the AFL coaches’ box, and he loved it. Yze was in the driver’s seat at Melbourne, coaching from the box with Simon Goodwin on the boundary line.
Yze has not been a line coach since 2018. When Sam Mitchell returned to the Hawks in 2019 he was promoted to the new position of head of match day strategy and opposition.
Then, at the Demons, he was calling a lot of the shots on game day.
“If you’re going to make any change in a game it’s around structure and the way you’re moving the ball, and I was in control of that,” Yze said.
“I feel like I’m ready.”
Hawks champion Jordan Lewis said Yze was at home operating the box.
“The way that he sees the game and the way that he sees the trends that are unfolding within a game I think is one of the best that I’ve seen in that area,” Lewis said on Friday.
“I can remember sitting in the box and going, ‘Yeah, that was well picked up’.”
Lewis interviewed Yze – a childhood Essendon fan – for the Bombers job last year.
“He presented with great confidence and that just comes through years in the coaches’ box and overseeing programs,” Lewis said.
“People have made mention that this was his third or fourth time – from what we witnessed with the presentation at Essendon that was a culmination of going through the process and refining it and fixing the parts you might have needed to work on.
The Yze family at Punt Road. Adem’s children Jasmine and Noah and his wide Afijet.
“He came across with great confidence and great surety that he’s got belief in himself as a coach.
“He’s at the age now where he’s got great experience, great stability off the field with family and work-life balance and that gives you the opportunity to approach the job with great clarity.
“He’s one of those guys that you’d be happy to call up and have a beer with if it’s one-out or in a group situation.
“He’s got great energy, he’s just genuine in everything that he does.”
Yze is also an AFLW believer. Last year he mentored Demons AFLW assistant coach Tamara Hyett.
Yze is a Demons’ life member and while they have lost an important member of Goodwin’s team there might be a parting gift to come.
His boy Noah Yze, whose Instagram bio proudly displays Albania and Australia flags, is a talented goalkicker who shapes as a father-son prospect next year.
But the wait for dad is finally over. At Tigerland it is Adem’s time.
HERALD SUN TITLE:
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‘If you get stuck in the past, you die in the present’: Killer line in Adem Yze’s coaching presentation that won over Richmond
Adem Yze had three near coaching misses before winning Richmond’s job. It was obvious since an under-16s game he was destined for big things. Go inside his footballing journey.Afijet Yze called husband Adem on Thursday to ask whether he would be bringing pizzas home for his 46th birthday dinner.
The response was along the lines of: “I can’t, I’m in a Richmond polo!”
The timing came as a surprise. Yze had driven to Richmond preparing for what he thought would be another presentation.
But he had already won the senior coaching job.
All that was left to do was meet the board, who were immediately taken by his presence and rapt with the rapport he had built with staff at other clubs.
The board unanimously endorsed him as the Tigers’ main man.
While there was no birthday cake at home, unwrapping that polo shirt was the best gift possible and by Thursday night Yze’s house was covered in yellow and black.
The killer line in Yze’s pitch was: “If you get stuck in the past, you die in the present”.
The Tigers agreed they needed a fresh voice.
They had drifted from marvellous to mediocre over the past three seasons and that had worked up an appetite for change.
After getting pipped for senior jobs at Adelaide (2019, won by Matthew Nicks), Greater Western Sydney (2022, Adam Kingsley) and Essendon (2022, Brad Scott), Yze toasted his appointment with a quiet birthday beer.
Adem Yze will take on the top job at Richmond. Picture: Getty Images
His phone quickly lit up like a Christmas tree. By Friday morning he had more than 400 messages, and Yze joked about 280 were from cousins.
But that should be no surprise. His mother, Vicki, is one of 10 children and his father, Sam, is one of eight.
Vicki is an Australian-born Yugoslav-Albanian while Sam relocated to Werribee from a European refugee camp in 1954.
One of those first cousins, Nick Diker, coached Yze and his gun-for-hire brother Damien at Glen Orden in the Western Region Football League in 2013.
They won the premiership, with Damien slotting 136 goals from 20 games to top the Division 2 tally.
But it was Adem’s bag of 20 goals in an under-16s game that foreshadowed his footballing future.
Wearing what has been described as “long, daggy board shorts” he was heckled by opposition spectators who were soon silenced by his lethal left foot.
Like Richmond legend Tom Hafey, Yze hails from Shepparton. And like another Richmond legend Kevin Bartlett, Yze rarely handballed.
In 2001 Yze led the AFL with 417 kicks and dished off only 72 handballs. He won Melbourne’s best-and-fairest and then, Carlton came hard.
The Blues offered $1.2 million over three years – an average wage these days – but Yze sacrificed $200,000 to stay a Demon.
In 2002 he finished third in the Brownlow Medal and was named All-Australian.
But his run of 226 consecutive games ended when coach Neale Daniher dropped Yze after round 1 in 2007.
Yze in action for Western Region Football League club Glen Orden.
“In the end, I got the call on Thursday and they thought it was better to not play me ... which looking at it now as a coach, it was the right thing to do,” Yze has said.
“I would rather miss a game than people think that I was backing out of the contest to reach a record that I didn’t really care about.”
Perhaps Yze’s “If you get stuck in the past, you die in the present” was born out of his own experience.
In 2008 the Demons delisted Yze to prioritise their rebuild under the late Dean Bailey.
Yze nominated for the 2009 draft but he was overlooked.
But Yze caught the coaching bug when he joined Melbourne’s leadership group and worked with the club’s kids.
He joined Hawthorn’s development team part-time in 2012 while at the end of 2014 the Hawks lost defensive coach Luke Beveridge, who signed as director of coaching at St Kilda but instead won the senior job at Western Bulldogs.
Yze replaced Beveridge in charge of Hawthorn’s backline and Rob McCartney replaced Yze in charge of development.
The changes were announced by Hawks footy boss Chris Fagan. Now Yze is coach of Richmond, Fagan is coach of Brisbane, McCartney is football boss at Hawthorn and Beveridge remains at the Bulldogs.
Yze got a taste in the “passenger’s seat” in 2014 when Alastair Clarkson was hospitalised with Guillain – Barre syndrome.
Yze’s work at Melbourne was highly regarded. Picture: Getty Images
Assistant Brendon Bolton was given the keys for five weeks and Yze replaced Bolton as a line coach.
Suddenly he was in the AFL coaches’ box, and he loved it. Yze was in the driver’s seat at Melbourne, coaching from the box with Simon Goodwin on the boundary line.
Yze has not been a line coach since 2018. When Sam Mitchell returned to the Hawks in 2019 he was promoted to the new position of head of match day strategy and opposition.
Then, at the Demons, he was calling a lot of the shots on game day.
“If you’re going to make any change in a game it’s around structure and the way you’re moving the ball, and I was in control of that,” Yze said.
“I feel like I’m ready.”
Hawks champion Jordan Lewis said Yze was at home operating the box.
“The way that he sees the game and the way that he sees the trends that are unfolding within a game I think is one of the best that I’ve seen in that area,” Lewis said on Friday.
“I can remember sitting in the box and going, ‘Yeah, that was well picked up’.”
Lewis interviewed Yze – a childhood Essendon fan – for the Bombers job last year.
“He presented with great confidence and that just comes through years in the coaches’ box and overseeing programs,” Lewis said.
“People have made mention that this was his third or fourth time – from what we witnessed with the presentation at Essendon that was a culmination of going through the process and refining it and fixing the parts you might have needed to work on.
The Yze family at Punt Road. Adem’s children Jasmine and Noah and his wide Afijet.
“He came across with great confidence and great surety that he’s got belief in himself as a coach.
“He’s at the age now where he’s got great experience, great stability off the field with family and work-life balance and that gives you the opportunity to approach the job with great clarity.
“He’s one of those guys that you’d be happy to call up and have a beer with if it’s one-out or in a group situation.
“He’s got great energy, he’s just genuine in everything that he does.”
Yze is also an AFLW believer. Last year he mentored Demons AFLW assistant coach Tamara Hyett.
Yze is a Demons’ life member and while they have lost an important member of Goodwin’s team there might be a parting gift to come.
His boy Noah Yze, whose Instagram bio proudly displays Albania and Australia flags, is a talented goalkicker who shapes as a father-son prospect next year.
But the wait for dad is finally over. At Tigerland it is Adem’s time.
Fantastic choice by the club.
He just comes across as a genuine person.
He also seems realistic about where we are at as a club and what has to be done.
Go tiges!
He just comes across as a genuine person.
He also seems realistic about where we are at as a club and what has to be done.
Go tiges!
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Yze is here at the footy with his family watching our woman's team fantastic
Yze is here at the footy with his family watching our woman's team fantastic
Full disclosure, I am a Croatian born Albanian. I wold like to think we are a nice “people”. There are good and bad eggs in every culture. One thing i can guarantee is that in our culture, as per my previous post, our word and a promise is “sacred”. When a “Besa” is made you know it means something. I am glad you have nice neighbors regardless of race, color or religion. As for Adem, the way he treats his family and friends tells you about him as a person. Seems like he is genuinely respected and loved.
Regarding that quote
This comes from an old turkish / Ottoman saying (albanians , Turks etc were all part of the ottomans)
i used to hear it often growing up in turkish
‘If you get stuck in the past, you die in the present’: Killer line
This comes from an old turkish / Ottoman saying (albanians , Turks etc were all part of the ottomans)
i used to hear it often growing up in turkish
Baths?!?!!?
Excellent really clear why he got the job
Showers were not invented back then
Sorry ... I must have missed something ... did we actually appoint Mini head coach?
And I was delerious locked in Groupie basement hallucinating that Yze was the man?
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Pretty well what a few of us have been saying , but been constantly told by the Richmond cheerleaders on here it was all ok. im hoping it’s a broom job like 2016.
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He would need to do a massive act of forgiveness as I spoke to him around four years ago and he was a bitter nasty man towards the club. I couldn’t run away from him fast enough. He did some great work with the younger guys at our club and he was unlucky to not renewed be a contract after 2016. The club review basically stated A fresh lot of assistants and Dimma was retained bc he was still under contract. We have a clean slate to work with now and I’m looking forward to new ideas, game plan, kids getting an equal go, best 22 being played, players playing in correct positions and hopefully fitness standards being lifted.
Benjamin Miller won’t know himself playing full back or CHB. Probably with Balta the two most screwed around players on the list.
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Chocco wasn’t toxic until after he wasn’t renewed a contract and Dimma was kept on. He was great with the kids, but was almost too overpowering on the coaches and assistants. He had his good moments and bad moments and bc he was out of contract the review identified him as being someone that needed replacing. He then became nasty and toxic as I spoke to him in 2019 and he was holding a massive grudge against the club for being sacked. He technically wasn’t sacked, but didn’t get his contract renewed. I wasn’t brave enough to tell him this.
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Well said TB. I’ve been through nearly 30 pages and Dimma’s two major fans who constantly argued against us are yet to be seen in here.
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Williams seems happy at Melbourne, doubt he will return to Richmond. Plus, Yze mention Ratten as his mentor so he would most likely join Richmond in some capacity.
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Hardwick is seemingly leaving a trail of destruction based on deceit on quite a few aspects of his life. Being fawned upon by our supporters at Cotch's 300th made me puke ! He lied to us and then the classlessness comes to the fore when he starts interfering in our club, talking about our list and poaching our staff. I hope Dusty is not gullible. Member, it was Dusty who made Hardwick, not the other way around. Sorry but he can FRO.
I've lost complete respect for him.
Welcome Yze, got a good feeling about you, you appear to be very genuine. I like that.
Hardwick, GFY.
Tzatziki_Man where’d you hear that Yze wasn’t keen on how we shifted our players around to different roles?
If true I’d be stoked to get a coach playing midfielders as midfielders (eg get Ross back in the guts), have maybe one or two mids who play forward in stints (Dusty, Bolton), but then play actual forwards there. Get players back into their natural positions.
Maybe that’s also what he was alluding to when he said he wants the game to be easy to play/understand.
If true I’d be stoked to get a coach playing midfielders as midfielders (eg get Ross back in the guts), have maybe one or two mids who play forward in stints (Dusty, Bolton), but then play actual forwards there. Get players back into their natural positions.
Maybe that’s also what he was alluding to when he said he wants the game to be easy to play/understand.
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Curious to see how Yze manages Cumberland and if he will get opportunities in the afl team
Read it how you want . So if Dimma agrees with it and Gale mentions it what is it then ?.The problem here on this board you can't be critical of Dimma because of the 3 flags which is bs far from it people sit on the fence to much.Caro reported it some of our hierarchy weren't happy. Like I said great full for the flags ,but his seasons since our last flag alot to be desired. No one wants bad blood just saying it how it is.
There are bad takes, then there's this
Dimma could shit in my breakfast and I wouldn't care. How quickly we forget how glorious 2017-2020 were and the majority of sport fans will NEVER experience that in their entire life.
Who cares if he's decided to leave? The reason is irrelevant and trivial - he delivered more than we could have ever asked of him.
Life goes on now and so will we - as will he.
Dimma will always be a Tiger immortal.
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