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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on July 26, 2014, 05:29:10 PM
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Richmond's AFL training was poor: Maric
Greg Buckle
WWOS.ninemsn.com.au
15:31 AEST Sat Jul 26 2014
Richmond were prepared to accept a below-par training standard earlier this AFL season but the Tigers are back on track, ruckman Ivan Maric says.
Maric said the club's leadership group and coach Damien Hardwick had resolved to focus on driving the standards around the club.
"We had to take a good hard look in the mirror and identify those things," Maric said on Saturday.
But, for the Tigers, it's probably going to be too little, too late.
Richmond's fourth consecutive win on Friday night against West Coast in Perth has lifted Hardwick's side to a 7-10 record with five rounds remaining.
Maric said the club's 3-10 start to the season, after finishing in the top eight in 2013, had left him "really upset".
"But I feel like it has been good for us to go through that," Maric told radio 3AW.
"Our training standards and the standards around the footy club were so poor. The attention to detail for the little things were not up to the standards we set the season before.
"Our training standards in the last nine weeks have been improving every week and that's the reason why I think we've won four in a row.
"It started with the leadership group and 'Dimma' (Hardwick).
"We focused a lot on policing and driving the standards and making sure that everyone was doing it, no matter if you're a captain or a first-round draft pick or whatever.
"We've made sure that everyone is doing the little things correctly, attention to all the details, and it shows in games. We're doing it."
Richmond great Matthew Richardson praised Maric's straight-talking approach.
"It's good to hear players be honest because we always talk about cliches and players wheeling out the same lines," Richardson told 3AW.
"So, to hear Ivan say that eight or nine weeks ago they sat down and thought 'we're not living up to the standards we set; we need to change', I think it's refreshing to hear that."
http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8880864
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So how can the coaching staff be seen to be doing their job if they allowed this to occur. If I did similar in my job and just sat on my hands I would have lost my job weeks ago. It's an indictment of the RFC and it's reactive rather than proactive culture, needs to change quickly or otherwise it's a miserable time ahead.
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Richmond were prepared to accept a below-par training standard earlier this AFL season but the Tigers are back on track, ruckman Ivan Maric says.
yet all we heard about was how hard they trained, at the time.....
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say what?
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It's like Ivan runs the club.
LMAO.
I'd prefer someone with heart doing it, anyway. :thumbsup
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So would I :thumbsup Im still trying to work out why we weren't training well earlier this season :huh3 coming off an elim final thumping against the team that finished 9th, any sane person would assume that would fire you up to train harder and improve? - not this mob, obviously content with making up the numbers..
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So would I :thumbsup Im still trying to work out why we weren't training well earlier this season :huh3 coming off an elim final thumping against the team that finished 9th, any sane person would assume that would fire you up to train harder and improve? - not this mob, obviously content with making up the numbers..
New age thinking in regards to prep and recovery.
A double edged blade.
Take it too far and u breed poofters.
Just train ur idiot out and leave everything on the track, every night.
It's stuffn simple
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Don't the "sports science" department monitor how many shots on goal a player can practice when its not part of dedicated training? lmao softies
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It's Hrvatska time!!
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I heard that interview and was amazed at those comments I mean following a finals berth HTF would our training standards slide, they should have gone up a notch. At least pleased to hear leaders taking more responsibility for the bludgers :clapping
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to think we have only 2 or so years left with this bloke at his best and no one else coming through.
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Apart from his cousin :shh
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Great leader is big Ivan :clapping
That's what missed most when he wasn't on the ground for the first half of the season, his leadership.
So many things point to him being our most important player
to think we have only 2 or so years left with this bloke at his best and no one else coming through.
:yep :clapping
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Maric and miles into the side and our contested ball count has rocketed , :clapping
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All this article does for me is just re enforce what a stupid cultureless club we are,where we let standards slip and nobody notices nor does anything about it until our season is shot...just a truly amazing article.
might I just add that the coaching staff should wear most of the responsibility because they would I assume be the guardians of the football culture at the club
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It's like Ivan runs the club.
LMAO.
I'd prefer someone with heart doing it, anyway. :thumbsup
Player-coach
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All this article does for me is just re enforce what a stupid cultureless club we are,where we let standards slip and nobody notices nor does anything about it until our season is shot...just a truly amazing article
does it surprise you though mate? the place is run like the blue oyster bar
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Angus I thought that we had changed,but we haven't..theres something in the makeup of this place that drives this but stuffed if I know what it is
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I'm not surprised Ivan brings better work ethic into the club. The guy is of Croatian descent ie.communist blood ie. will run until his feet are bleeding.
really need more like him. I hope his cousin brings the same attitude to the club.
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you want more Croatian communists?
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Great leader is big Ivan :clapping
That's what missed most when he wasn't on the ground for the first half of the season, his leadership.
So many things point to him being our most important player
to think we have only 2 or so years left with this bloke at his best and no one else coming through.
:yep :clapping
im with u there, ol willy.
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I'm not surprised Ivan brings better work ethic into the club. The guy is of Croatian descent ie.communist blood ie. will run until his feet are bleeding.
really need more like him. I hope his cousin brings the same attitude to the club.
Apart from Tito, Croats generally despised Communism and were among the most enthusiastic of the Nazi collaborators in Europe during the war.
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Angus I thought that we had changed,but we haven't..theres something in the makeup of this place that drives this but stuffed if I know what it is
The place lacks mental toughness but above that it's getting ahead of yourself as we so often do.
The problem is they believed their own poo instead of coming out hurting in round 1 they thought they were going to stroll into finals
The club is stuffed and these wins and this article just prove it more and more
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Im glad to hear that our standards have lifted.. but i recall dimma saying earlier in the year when we were losing that we were training really well, just couldnt perform on game day. lies lies lies
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Only wogs understand standards of excellence. Richmond needs more wogs. ;D
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yep that's the one worrying part..the coaches and managers didnt notice that standards had slipped...its their job to notice
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Only wogs understand standards of excellence. Richmond needs more wogs. ;D
:thumbsup they did build tje hydro electric dam after all
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Angus I thought that we had changed,but we haven't..theres something in the makeup of this place that drives this but stuffed if I know what it is
The place lacks mental toughness but above that it's getting ahead of yourself as we so often do.
The problem is they believed their own poo instead of coming out hurting in round 1 they thought they were going to stroll into finals
The club is stuffed and these wins and this article just prove it more and more
It's what happens when your official policy is to only listen to people "within these four walls" at the club.
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Richmond were prepared to accept a below-par training standard earlier this AFL season but the Tigers are back on track, ruckman Ivan Maric says.
yet all we heard about was how hard they trained, at the time.....
Deledio said it was the hardest training they've ever done.... :shh
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Richmond were prepared to accept a below-par training standard earlier this AFL season but the Tigers are back on track, ruckman Ivan Maric says.
yet all we heard about was how hard they trained, at the time.....
Deledio said it was the hardest training they've ever done.... :shh
Maybe for him but what has Grigg, Thomas, and to a lesser extent Ellis been doing?
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Deledio talks a lot of poo - pays lip service to everyone bc they are team mates. Each week on the rfc website he's talking up someone. Remember his Tambling call - does things in training no one in the afl could do
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That sounds about right , fumbling the ball like its a cake of soap when under no pressure , no one else does that :-\
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That sounds about right , fumbling the ball like its a cake of soap when under no pressure , no one else does that :-\
As if you wouldn't have been talking him up as the next big thing when he was still on our list.
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Richmond's AFL training was poor: Maric
Greg Buckle
WWOS.ninemsn.com.au
15:31 AEST Sat Jul 26 2014
Richmond were prepared to accept a below-par training standard earlier this AFL season but the Tigers are back on track, ruckman Ivan Maric says.
Maric said the club's leadership group and coach Damien Hardwick had resolved to focus on driving the standards around the club.
"We had to take a good hard look in the mirror and identify those things," Maric said on Saturday.
But, for the Tigers, it's probably going to be too little, too late.
Richmond's fourth consecutive win on Friday night against West Coast in Perth has lifted Hardwick's side to a 7-10 record with five rounds remaining.
Maric said the club's 3-10 start to the season, after finishing in the top eight in 2013, had left him "really upset".
"But I feel like it has been good for us to go through that," Maric told radio 3AW.
"Our training standards and the standards around the footy club were so poor. The attention to detail for the little things were not up to the standards we set the season before.
"Our training standards in the last nine weeks have been improving every week and that's the reason why I think we've won four in a row.
"It started with the leadership group and 'Dimma' (Hardwick).
"We focused a lot on policing and driving the standards and making sure that everyone was doing it, no matter if you're a captain or a first-round draft pick or whatever.
"We've made sure that everyone is doing the little things correctly, attention to all the details, and it shows in games. We're doing it."
Richmond great Matthew Richardson praised Maric's straight-talking approach.
"It's good to hear players be honest because we always talk about cliches and players wheeling out the same lines," Richardson told 3AW.
"So, to hear Ivan say that eight or nine weeks ago they sat down and thought 'we're not living up to the standards we set; we need to change', I think it's refreshing to hear that."
http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8880864
:cheers :thumbsup
:clapping :clapping :clapping
I've been waiting for years to hear this.
Maybe just maybe finally the club is addressing the disease.
Let's hope this is the genesis of the end of Tigeritis™®© once and for all.
I really really hope so.
:pray
:gotigers
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How could anyone read that and still think Hardwick is the right coach?
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How could anyone read that and still think Hardwick is the right coach?
Good point. The only redeeming feature of this is that he at least has learnt from his mistakes.....
Some guys don't ever learn.....
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How could anyone read that and still think Hardwick is the right coach?
Agree TBR. This just confirms what most of us already knew. He's not a coach's bootlace. Unfortunately we're stuck with him for another year coz the heirarchy are too weak to get rid of him. By the time we do , Bomber Thompson will be off the list of good available coaches.
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I'm starting to warm to Voss, after watching him in the recruit I reckon he has a hard streak that would be just right.
I always thought he was a little unlucky in Brisbane.
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I'm starting to warm to Voss, after watching him in the recruit I reckon he has a hard streak that would be just right.
I always thought he was a little unlucky in Brisbane.
He certianly is ruthless at the trade table, unofrtunately that is paired with being poohouse at it as well
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Why isn't the coach lambasting him in the media. Its ok for Maric but not for Jack to tell the truth.
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Why isn't the coach lambasting him in the media. Its ok for Maric but not for Jack to tell the truth.
You dont mess with the mullet
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Why isn't the coach lambasting him in the media. Its ok for Maric but not for Jack to tell the truth.
You dont mess with the mullet
(http://dreamteamtalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/maric-mullet.jpg)
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Why isn't the coach lambasting him in the media. Its ok for Maric but not for Jack to tell the truth.
You dont mess with the mullet
(http://dreamteamtalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/maric-mullet.jpg)
:lol
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Barrett in his latest 'Sliding Doors' article:
Richmond
IF ....... it took until this week for big Ivan to admit why Richmond was a slow starter this year - because it was below par in training standards early in the year..
THEN ... you just have to wonder how complacency could have been allowed to be tolerated.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-08-01/sliding-doors-round-19
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“You don’t get six wins in-a-row, when you’re sitting equal bottom, if you’re not training well,” Maric said.
“So, we’ve improved them, set new standards every week, and that’s what we’ve got to keep doing.”
Full article at: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2014-08-11/marics-massive-boost-for-tigers
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Ivan's emerged as our strongest leader on and off the field of late. I rate him as our most important player too
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No Ivan means No heart or leadership.
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Rance>ivan
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Ivan captain and Rance vice?
Would have no problem with this if the big man was sure to stay on the park. Average players with proper attitudes like Egghead Maxwell have made good captains.