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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on August 06, 2012, 01:05:17 PM
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Hardwick won't give up on finals
By Kim Hagdorn
SportsNewsFirst
6 August 2012 10:53AM EST
DESPITE confronting a forlorn hope a confident talking Richmond coach Damien Hardwick has refused to rule out playing a part in finals next month.
The Tigers revived slender finals prospects with a fighting eight-goal win over Brisbane at the Gabba on Saturday night after three consecutive gut-wrenching losses by a combined tally of 10 points.
Hardwick’s Tigers sit a precarious 12th on the league ladder with eight wins, but front the real possibility of winning their last four engagements with a late rush to potentially finish in eighth spot with 12 wins.
A non-negotiable component of that slim equation proving successful is to win all four remaining outings, including toppling other late-season top eight contenders Fremantle and Essendon in consecutive weeks of Round 21 and 22.
The Tigers should continue their late thrust toward a last week entry to the final eight with a Sunday afternoon engagement with struggling Western Bulldogs this week.
“Our destiny is in our own hands,” Hardwick said immediately after running out comfortable winners over the Lions.
“We just keep putting our best foot forward and who knows.”
Hardwick’s ambitious finals plan relies heavily on the Dockers, St Kilda, the Bombers and Carlton all stumbling heavily over the next month to fall from the finals race as the tigers scramble toward the bottom rung of the top eight.
The Tigers had to scramble to snuff out a brave late surge from Brisbane who clawed back to within 14 points early into the final term.
Much of the Lions spirited fight-back was triggered from champion play-maker Simon Black who had astonishingly started as the substitute and gathered 15 possessions after being introduced midway through the third term.
Hardwick confessed some reservation as the Lions threatened to inflict a fourth straight late loss onto the Tigers.
“Yeh, it was a funny one, because I thought surely this can’t happen again,” he said.
“We probably just went a little bit stagnant and we didn’t have any motion.
“But we started to that back up and running and the boys started to come into their own.
“We got the ball and got some momentum back and got some goals on the board.’
Hardwick conceded that an imbalance in his on-ball make-up allowed Brisbane to seize initiative around congestion at times when he had top play-makers Dustin Martin and Shane Tuck sitting up forward at the same time.
“At times we had Tuck and Martin in the forward line at the same time , which wasn’t meant to happen,” said the Tigers boss.
“So we lost a good clearance player around the scrimmages.
“So we rectified that and started to get the ball moving our way.”
http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2012/08/06/hardwick-won-t-give-up-on-finals/
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it almost sums up the guy
seriously he should get on with the big rebuild to save his butt :lol
try and work on a game plan to beat gcs dimmer
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Dimma believes in the tooth fairy as well ::)
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Trying to keep the supporters interested and the players focused, but honestly, stupid thing to say isn't it? ::)
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IS HE THE COACH
OR THE ME CENTRE COMEDIAN??
HIT THE EJECT BUTTON
:help
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it almost sums up the guy
seriously he should get on with the big rebuild to save his butt :lol
try and work on a game plan to beat gcs dimmer
::)
Dimma believes in the tooth fairy as well ::)
::) ::)
IS HE THE COACH
OR THE ME CENTRE COMEDIAN??
HIT THE EJECT BUTTON
:help
::) ::) ::)
Must be school holidays again :laugh:
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Just shows how despicable the GC loss was. If we had 1 more win we'd still be a serious chance.. Basically we need to win every game (Chance) and the following to occur.
Essendon:
Win no more than 1 game out of (North, Carl, Rich, Coll) - Won't beat North or Coll. Carl is a toss of the coin. Works in our favour if they win 1 game and it's against Carlton.
Possible: Loss, Win, Loss, Loss
= 1 win (12 wins for the year) and 48 points and % = Under 110%
Freo:
Win no more than 1 game out of (Lose to Adel away, North away, Rich away Melb home) Will beat Melbourne last game, and should beat us. Cant see them beating Crows or North away.
Possible: Loss, Loss, Loss, Win
= 1 win (12 wins for the year) and 48 points and % = Under 110%
Carl:
Win no more than 3 games, must beat St.Kilda (Lions at home, GC, Essendon, Saints) - Will win 2 easily, don't think they'll beat the Saints, season on the line who knows. If Essendon can knock them off that will be perfect and give us a chance at 8th spot if Blues beat Saints.
Possible: Win, Win, Loss, Win)
= 3 wins (12 wins for the year) and 48 points and % = Under 110%
Saints:
Win no more than 2 games (Melb, Geel, GWS, Carl) - Will win 2 easily. Won't beat Geelong, comes down to Carl vs Saints game. If Carl win after dropping 1 game from now we can take 8th spot.
Possible: Win, Loss, Win, Loss)
= 2 wins (11 wins for the year) and 44 points and % of around 118%
Rich - Need to win all 4 games (Dogs, Freo away, Ess, Port)...
Not impossible but bugger me...
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lunatics running the asylum again. :lol
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You wouldn't expect him to say anything else and surely he couldn't expect anyone else to believe it.
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What about no comment
And he was interviewed by that halfwit
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What about no comment
And he was interviewed by that halfwit
Yeah what a sensible and viable comment for a coach to make.
The one thing you could argue he missed was saying something like
"all we can do us win each week and hope others ahead of us stumble in the run home to the finals"
It's certainly not in our control anymore as we are 3 games out and there are 4 games left.
Apart from that, what else would you want him to say?
No comment? Yep no comment to that!
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Bloody hell. Every time I want to do the eye rolling smiley and I can't since there are none left as Jack always uses them all up :banghead
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What about no comment
And he was interviewed by that halfwit
That I agree with both of those comments Jack
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What about no comment
And he was interviewed by that halfwit
Interviewed?
One on one?
I think not :rollin
Ever heard of a press conference?
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Some idiots on here.
We have a very young list and the coach is aware that confidence has been rocked in recent weeks.
He knows finals are extremely unlikely but it's imperative that they take some confidence into pre season.
Winning culture. We desperately need to cultivate it.
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it almost sums up the guy
seriously he should get on with the big rebuild to save his butt :lol
try and work on a game plan to beat gcs dimmer
::)
Dimma believes in the tooth fairy as well ::)
::) ::)
IS HE THE COACH
OR THE ME CENTRE COMEDIAN??
HIT THE EJECT BUTTON
:help
::) ::) ::)
Must be school holidays again :laugh:
Just for the special ones
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it almost sums up the guy
seriously he should get on with the big rebuild to save his butt :lol
try and work on a game plan to beat gcs dimmer
::)
Dimma believes in the tooth fairy as well ::)
::) ::)
IS HE THE COACH
OR THE ME CENTRE COMEDIAN??
HIT THE EJECT BUTTON
:help
::) ::) ::)
Must be school holidays again :laugh:
Curriculum day I believe at Cranbourne Primary.
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Bloody hell. Every time I want to do the eye rolling smiley and I can't since there are none left as Jack always uses them all up :banghead
;) ;) ;)
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::)
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:lol :lol
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SPUD
""Yeah...we definitley can't make the finals...but we sure can shape them."
Dejavu?
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who would wanna play finals with the crap we produce.
All l wanna see is Carlscum have the Blues & not make the finals.
That will surely cover my year ;D
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i read somewhere today ;D that he is also trying to get Jamie Tape as an assistant coach
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i read somewhere today ;D that he is also trying to get Jamie Tape as an assistant coach
Shouldn't speak this way about our dearly departed...... :-[
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if i said Jack Dyer,nobody would give a stuff.......
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and clearly would have been a better illustration of the comedic side of the comment.
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rape