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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on October 08, 2017, 04:52:08 AM
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Blake Caracella says Richmond must evolve to stay at the pinnacle of AFL
GLENN McFARLANE,
Herald Sun
7 October 2017
BLAKE Caracella, the man credited as one of the architects of Richmond’s drought-breaking premiership game plan, says the Tigers players taught him as much as he helped them out.
The highly-rated assistant coach, who won flags as a player at Essendon and the Brisbane Lions, as well as premierships as an assistant coach at Geelong and now Richmond, said the honesty of the Tigers’ playing group made him open up more as a person.
He is convinced that change will help him long into the future, as he is considered an AFL coach-in-waiting.
“I loved my time at Geelong and I’ve loved my time here at Richmond,” Caracella said.
“This year has taught me a lot.
“I tried to impart what knowledge I had with the players, but they have actually taught me this year.
“I am private person and I’m quite reserved.
“But they have taught me to open up and to be yourself, and to not be scared about being that way.
“To be a part of that, and to develop that connection ... they are an unbelievable group of players.”
Caracella, who joined the club at the end of last season as part of a shake-up to assist senior coach Damien Hardwick, was recently lauded by Brandon Ellis as “a tactical genius”.
But he said Hardwick had made for a great learning environment, and that the players deserved so much of the credit for their approach.
“To be where they were last year and where they are now, it’s just unbelievable,” he said.
“They have got a really special connection this team. They play for each other. Going through what they went through last year tends to develop a real bond.
“They had to go through a lot of s*** (last year). They are an amazing group.”
He said the club learnt from the narrow losses earlier in the season which prompted some jokes.
“Some people like to laugh at other people, (but) the boys had the last laugh,” he said.
Caracella said the team needed to evolve next year to remain at the competitive edge of the AFL.
“You can always improve, but the competition improves as well, so we will need to,” he said.
“It doesn’t improve in a linear way, the game is going to adapt and what we got away with (this year), you won’t get away with next year.”
Asked about his desire to one day take on a senior gig, Caracella said he was happy with his position at Richmond, and looking forward to next year and beyond at Punt Rd.
“Who knows what happens in the future,” he said.
“I’m just happy that I have been able to develop a great bond with the players, and that’s something that will be there forever.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/blake-caracella-says-richmond-must-evolve-to-stay-at-the-pinnacle-of-afl/news-story/59fa92268e97d0724873484c175e87a9
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#insaneconnection :clapping
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Spot on. We need to keep challenging the curve. Cant win a bag of flags off the back of just having ticker. Or maybe you can? I dont know, go tiges!
Also, can someone explain the #hashtag insane connection. Is this a clawism?
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:shh
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In all of this nobody says dimmer was a good coach.
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might be because it was talking about caracella
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The big picture, genius
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In all of this nobody says dimmer was a good coach.
Define good coach
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One who in his eighth year doesn't take the side to 13th for a start.
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One who in his eighth year doesn't take the side to 13th for a start.
Why don't you blame the then assistants for that? :shh
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Also, can someone explain the #hashtag insane connection. Is this a clawism?
It is a dooksism. :shh
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#insaneerection
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:shh
:shh :shh
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Blake the visionary, Damien the figurehead.... :shh
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One who in his eighth year doesn't take the side to 13th for a start.
Why don't you blame the then assistants for that? :shh
And in doing so, lay the blame at Dimmer,'s feet who hand picked them.
There's nowhere to go on this, Y&B.
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One who in his eighth year doesn't take the side to 13th for a start.
Why don't you blame the then assistants for that? :shh
And in doing so, lay the blame at Dimmer,'s feet who hand picked them.
There's nowhere to go on this, Y&B.
We all make mistakes. The point is correcting them and that's what happened. Where to now Ox?
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Without the assistance he currently has, he couldn't sustain the success.
People are applauding the fact he was " man enough to change"
For stuffs sake.
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Without the assistance he currently has, he couldn't sustain the success.
People are applauding the fact he was " man enough to change"
For stuffs sake.
The players love him. He is the best man to manage the team. Caracella and Leppitch are great tacticians and line coaches. They complement him in his areas of weakness.
Do you really think that one man can possess all qualities? I have a few friends that are Hawthorn supporters and always tell me how poor a match day coach Clarkson is. The days of one man doing it all are long gone.
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It would be good if the club would acknowledge the role of the assistants this season or would that be tantamount to admitting Hardwick stuffed up the entire 2016 season.
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It would be good if the club would acknowledge the role of the assistants this season or would that be tantamount to admitting Hardwick stuffed up the entire 2016 season.
Thr club has acknowledged 2016 was a disaster and the blame has been firmly put on Harwick.
Honestly, what more do you people want?
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It would be good if the club would acknowledge the role of the assistants this season or would that be tantamount to admitting Hardwick stuffed up the entire 2016 season.
Don't you mean the assistants stuffed up the entire 2016 season?
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It would be good if the club would acknowledge the role of the assistants this season or would that be tantamount to admitting Hardwick stuffed up the entire 2016 season.
Don't you mean the assistants stuffed up the entire 2016 season?
Good point, I think we need clarification on when Dimma was/is the figurehead and when he wasn't/isn't
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HAHAH so it was all Dimma's fault when we were losing but the assistants fault when we win. Interesting logic.
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I think in the future, it would be great to set Caracella up to take the reigns. Keep Dimma in an admin role, he is now a legend of the club, he broke the curse. But rignt now, we just got the chemistry right to get a flag, comprehensively. Milk it while it is still working then change when it is going off the boil. Caracella is obviously has something special to bring and we would be mugs not to try and keep him in the fold for the future.