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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on May 12, 2016, 11:55:18 AM
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Dimma's presser today:
VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2016-05-12/hardwick-press-conference-may-12
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In other selection news, the Tigers have all but ruled out ruckman Ivan Maric, who was dropped for last week's clash against Hawthorn and struggled to have an impact around the ground at VFL level.
Hardwick said the vice-captain, who suffered a pre-season back injury, was an important player for the Tigers but needed to play more minutes before breaking back into the senior team.
"He's a bit of a work horse … he needs the games under his belt to play to the level we know he can and he's a warrior by nature," the coach said.
"He just hasn't had the workload he requires. Plus we think Shaun (Hampson) is giving us some good dominance around the clearances."
Gun defender Alex Rance returns for the Tigers just in time for a head-to-head battle with Swans superstar Lance Franklin, who has kicked 29 goals this season, including 11 in his past two matches.
The Tigers will also consider selecting Dylan Grimes after putting the defender through a rigorous training block in the past fortnight, while half-back Reece Conca will play three quarters in the VFL.
Grimes has missed five matches with a hamstring injury, while Conca has not played since suffering a serious hamstring injury in the Tigers' final NAB Challenge clash against Port Adelaide.
Hardwick reiterated his belief that the Tigers were on the verge of a drought-breaking win, which would make their finals dream possible despite a horror start to the season.
When asked if he had put a line through finals, the coach said: "Absolutely not, not from my point of view".
"We have done it (revived our season) previously. We're further back than we would have liked, but it's a very even competition," he said.
"At this stage though that's all words, that's all talk, so we look forward to some actions on the weekend from our boys.
"I have got enormous faith in this group. They've delivered for me before and I've got no doubt they'll deliver for me again.
"A win would do great things for this footy club."
Hardwick said recruit Chris Yarran was progressing through his rehab from the foot surgery he underwent in March, but the club was unsure when he would return.
"It can turn quickly or it can take a bit of time," Hardwick said.
"We're not sure at this stage when that will happen but he's progressing through his rehab."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-05-12/star-tiger-out-for-doordie-clash-against-swans
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Inb4 The Sook
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not in before the delusional
keep poddering along in the belief megan is an afl standard ruck option
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He's better than Maric at the moment. That's not saying a whole lot though.
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Hardwick said recruit Chris Yarran was progressing through his rehab from the foot surgery he underwent in March, but the club was unsure when he would return.
"It can turn quickly or it can take a bit of time," Hardwick said.
"We're not sure at this stage when that will happen but he's progressing through his rehab."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-05-12/star-tiger-out-for-doordie-clash-against-swans
Would have preferred Trengove with his dodgy foot than Yarran
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Plus we think Shaun (Hampson) is giving us some good dominance around the clearances."
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Hardwick said recruit Chris Yarran was progressing through his rehab from the foot surgery he underwent in March, but the club was unsure when he would return.
"It can turn quickly or it can take a bit of time," Hardwick said.
"We're not sure at this stage when that will happen but he's progressing through his rehab."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-05-12/star-tiger-out-for-doordie-clash-against-swans
Would have preferred Trengove with his dodgy foot than Yarran
Yarran will be good when he gets going. We should just put him on ice (no pun intended) til next year.
It's tank time babeh!
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:sleep
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:lol
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It appears Hardwick's views are becoming more and more irrelevant.
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....as is the man himself....
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i cant believe this Muppet is dragging us through poo week after week.....
i hope they all go...him benny penny...all of them!!
does this idiot really think that us members believe the crap he is spewing out about the list being full of quality and still capable of finals this year???/
Geez he gets an easy ride from the media....
the fool should be leaving the pressa in tears....
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i cant believe this Muppet is dragging us through pooe week after week.....
i hope they all go...him benny penny...all of them!!
does this idiot really think that us members believe the crap he is spewing out about the list being full of quality and still capable of finals this year???/
Geez he gets an easy ride from the media....
the fool should be leaving the pressa in tears....
they obviously do believe hampson, chaplin and co. are good enough to win a flag.
as proven by the stuff he says every week
and hearing the list manager people talk, recently, around trade week
scary stuff
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Richmond coach Damien Hardwick believes Tigers can play AFL finals this season
Ronny Lerner
The Age
13 May 2016
Despite sitting in 15th spot on the ladder with a 1-6 record, Richmond coach Damien Hardwick is not giving up hope of finals this year and believes suggestions that his team requires a rebuild are premature.
After three consecutive elimination final losses, Richmond headed into this season with high expectations.
However, 2016 has been nothing short of a disaster with the Tigers losing their last six matches after an unconvincing first-round victory against a developing Carlton team.
Speaking ahead of their daunting task against Sydney this weekend, Hardwick admitted he was going through one of the toughest periods of his seven-year coaching career but insisted he still had a playing list at his disposal that could make the top eight and drew confidence from the fact that his side had started the last three seasons in similarly slow fashion.
"The great thing about our footy club is we've been in this situation before. We've been resilient by nature and we'll get ourselves out of it," Hardwick said at Punt Road Oval on Thursday.
"The hard thing is sometimes it's really difficult to see where the next win comes but it can quite easily turn at the stuff of the switch and we're hoping it's this week versus Sydney.
"I can feel it's coming, we've just got to make sure we believe in ourselves, have the confidence to play to the best of our ability and we'll get the result we're after.
"I have got enormous faith in this group and they've delivered for me before and I've got no doubt they'll deliver for me again.
"I've got no doubt our form will turn, we've got some good players playing well.
"We've been doing a lot of talking, now we need to start delivering some results because we're well short of where we need to be. We're not giving up on the season.
"We have done it previously, we're probably a little bit further back than what we'd like, there's no doubt about that, but it's a very even competition, sides can go up and down and injuries can come and go so we're looking forward to having a really good challenge over the next stuff block."
Club president Peggy O'Neal was recently forced to deny a comprehensive review of the football department was taking place and Hardwick insisted his team was not in rebuild mode despite seemingly going as far as it could go following three failed finals campaigns and a horrid start to 2016.
"From our point of view, our list management happens all the time," Hardwick said.
"We're really happy with our list. We've got some great quality players there, we've got some great emerging young talent as well. So from that point of view, I'm very, very happy with where we are at the moment.
"I've got a capable playing list, capable of playing finals. We're not playing anywhere near the level of expectation I know and the players believe they can.
"We're way off it at the moment but no doubt we've got the cattle to get us where we need to go."
Richmond's task of ending their run of outs won't get any easier this week as they attempt to knock off the red-hot Swans and Hardwick predicted the game would be like "trench warfare".
"We need to win the midfield battle and get the ball in our front half to give our forwards the chance of kicking a winning score and on the offset we need to deny them those entries going the other way because they've got some quality forwards there," Hardwick said.
"You look at the quality and the depth of their midfield, they're the envy of most other clubs in the AFL. We've got to give ourselves every chance of matching that and looking forward to the challenge of playing such a quality outfit."
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/richmond-coach-damien-hardwick-believes-tigers-can-play-afl-finals-this-season-20160512-gotdhb.html
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IF we beat Sydney it is possible.
We follow that with games against Freo and Essendon.
From 4-6 it's not unrealistic.
In saying that, I don't think it will happen. Complete rabble.
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I would love us to beat Sydney more than anything,but over the course of time I have come to the conclusion that we play a very ugly brand of football,a style that to be perfectly honest I don't like watching.
Most teams have a style that we can identify them with eg the dogs and their sling shot game,the hawks and their precision delivery...yet we just labour along constantly trying new ways for a few weeks and then dispensing with it when the rest of the competition wises up...
Unfortunately Leigh Mathews saying of many years ago of....tap,tap,tapping the egg until it cracks still applies to us and that more than anything makes me so angry especially for someone who grew up in the 60s and 70s on a Richmond team that was absolutely ruthless and tuff...I think its that old chestnut that rears its head ,the culture of the place..All teams go through slumps when they are rebuilding but then they get going eg dogs,north,even the blues,,yet we achieve mediocrity and then wallow back into obscurity..............This is what the brains at Tigerland need to address I feel
As an aside I feel Dan Richo was wrong when he said Richmond supporters wouldn't be prepared to cop an 8 year re build ..At that stage we the supporter base had a gutfull of half assed rebuilds and were praying for someone to come in and do a proper one...All the club had to do was pull the supporter base in and sell it to us....LOL further to this WW2 only took 5 years to fight and win ,surely the rebuild of a football team woudnt take 8 years ,what a crock of poo
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8 years - what a load of manure.
Go back in time when Hardwick took over in 2010 . Bulldogs and Saints were top 4.
Now the Dogs are pushing top 4 again , Saints look on track to play finals again next year.
No 8 year rebuilds for them .
There is something fundamentally wrong at Richmond.
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8 years - what a load of manure.
Go back in time when Hardwick took over in 2010 . Bulldogs and Saints were top 4.
Now the Dogs are pushing top 4 again , Saints look on track to play finals again next year.
No 8 year rebuilds for them .
There is something fundamentally wrong at Richmond.
Not that I'm defending an 8 year rebuild but the thing about those teams is (outside of their better recruiting and developing) they had a decent mature crop that are still around. How many from our group played finals before our 3 consecutive losses? Hell, we barely had finals players while we were developing our current group
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8 years - what a load of manure.
Go back in time when Hardwick took over in 2010 . Bulldogs and Saints were top 4.
Now the Dogs are pushing top 4 again , Saints look on track to play finals again next year.
No 8 year rebuilds for them .
There is something fundamentally wrong at Richmond.
dan richardson said himself .....
we did a 4 years, list blocker rebuild instead