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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on August 25, 2009, 06:10:10 PM
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Official media conference at 10.30 tomorrow morning.
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Official media conference at 10.30 tomorrow morning.
Good, i hope it ends all this speculation!
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Official media conference at 10.30 tomorrow morning.
Good, i hope it ends all this speculation!
Speculation = YEP
Coaching bagging = NOPE
I'll just be glad it's over
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Will they bring both candidates to Punt Rd and sit both at the table, just so no one else knows until the words are spoken?
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Channel 7 just announced in a news update that it's Hardwick.
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Channel 7 just announced in a news update that it's Hardwick.
Yes they did, will be interesting to see if they are right. It appears they may be :shh
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Hardwick named AFL coach at Tigers
August 25, 2009 - 7:24PM
Damien Hardwick is the new coach at Richmond, winning the job at the AFL club ahead of Ken Hinkley.
The Tigers will formally announce Hardwick's appointment on a three-year deal at a Wednesday morning media conference.
Richmond officials were unavailable for comment on Tuesday night.
It is understood that the Tigers told Hardwick and Hinkley of their decision on Tuesday afternoon.
Hardwick is a two-time premiership player who has been a highly-rated assistant coach at Hawthorn since 2005.
This is his first senior coaching appointment and he won the job a week after his 37th birthday.
Hardwick and Hinkley, an assistant coach at Geelong, made their final presentations to the Tigers over the weekend.
Richmond narrowed their selection down to the pair late last week, telling their caretaker coach Jade Rawlings and Essendon assistant Alan Richardson that they were out of the running.
Rawlings took over as coach in round 12 after the departure of Terry Wallace, who was in the last year of a five-year contract and had failed to lead the Tigers into the finals.
Hardwick faces a massive task to turn around the once-great club's on-field fortunes.
They have not won a premiership since 1980 and last made the grand final in 1982.
Richmond have since made the finals only twice, in 1995 and 2001.
One of Hardwick's first big tasks will be to decide on the playing future of Tigers great Matthew Richardson, who is the league's oldest player at 34.
He wants to keep playing, but his season was ruined by injuries.
Impressive recruit Ben Cousins, Nathan Brown and Troy Simmonds are also aged over 30.
Hardwick played 207 AFL matches for Essendon and Port Adelaide between 1994 and 2004.
He was at Essendon for 153 games until 2001, winning their 1998 best and fairest award and playing in their powerful 2000 premiership team.
Hardwick made his name as a fearless, ruthless defender and won All-Australian selection in 2000.
But, at the end of 2001, he had a painful departure from the Bombers and was traded to Port Adelaide.
Hardwick played 54 games for the Power and was a member of their first AFL premiership team in 2004.
He then retired and immediately started working under Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson, who had been an assistant at Port.
Hardwick played a key role in masterminding Hawthorn's surprise premiership last year, when they upset Geelong in the grand final.
http://news.realfooty.com.au/breaking-news-sport/hardwick-named-afl-coach-at-tigers-20090825-exzl.html
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oh no
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Damien Hardwick to coach Richmond Football Club
Mike Sheahan | August 25, 2009 07:35pm
BREAKING NEWS: DAMIEN Hardwick will be the new Richmond coach.
The appointment of the Essendon and Port Adelaide premiership player will be announced at Punt Rd tomorrow morning.
Hardwick, assistant to Alastair Clarkson at Hawthorn for the past five years, beat Geelong assistant Ken Hinkley for the last coaching vacancy in the AFL.
He will succeed Jade Rawlings, who has filled in since Terry Wallace stepped down mid-season and will complete his duties in Round 22.
Hardwick, just turned 37, is expected to be appointed for three years.
He and Hinkley were advised of the decision tonight.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25981494-19742,00.html
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SEN saying RFC hasn't officially confirmed it but they are running with it (Hardwick) because they have two independent sources (AAP and Herald-Sun). Candidates notified in last few hours ago and news released at 7.30pm tonight.
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Be hilarious if the media are wrong but you'd think once the losing candidate was notified and he notified people at his club that he's staying with them then word would spread.
Good luck Damien. You're going to need it.
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Ch 9 going with Hardwick as well....
http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=854205
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Welcome aboard Dimma. Now get that broom and start sweeping the place clean.
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BEWDY!! He was the one I wanted all along. He'll put the MONGREL back into the Tigers.
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Fantastic would add toghness and discipline to the list. :thumbsup
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Funny I don't feel as happy as I thought I would perhaps because the announcement was leaked after such a long time keeping it in-house. I think Harwick will do a good job as long as he doesn't do anything by halves.
Stripes
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I'll wait to see Hardwick's initial decisions before getting too excited as well Stripes. After this year it reminds you to judge actions rather than hype and expectations.
Fantastic would add toghness and discipline to the list. :thumbsup
Let's hope so as well as skill, talent and depth :pray.
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Funny I don't feel as happy as I thought I would perhaps because the announcement was leaked after such a long time keeping it in-house. I think Harwick will do a good job as long as he doesn't do anything by halves.
Stripes
Can't blame the club fully as if the club told Hinkley he was not successful he would have said he was staying at the Cats to Bomber and co. Same with Hardwick at Hawthorn on his success. So sources from those clubs would have leaked the info even if The Tiges are still remaining tight lipped.
What the club is at fault at is not waiting for March to return from O/S tomorrow to inform Hardwick and Hinkley and having a press conference late tomorrow or on Wednesday morning.
Kind of a catch 22.
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Funny I don't feel as happy as I thought I would perhaps because the announcement was leaked after such a long time keeping it in-house. I think Harwick will do a good job as long as he doesn't do anything by halves.
Stripes
stripes the announcement was leaked because there were other clubs involved.
The tigers should have told the guys this afternoon and announced it shortly after to the public
The Tigers since Terry has left have changed their ways. There are no more leaks and i put it down to one Terry Wallace leaving the club.
It is obvious now that he was the one who leaked all information out to his mates.
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ha and to think he played under my dad in springvale :thumbsup
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I understand what you are all saying but I would have preferred the news come from the club rather than the media. I think Tuckerbag had the best solution in retrospect - tel the candidates hours before the official announcement rather than days.
daniel - you could be right concerning leaks but its probably unlikely TW leaked the 'player mutiny' debacle.
Stripes
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ha and to think he played under my dad in springvale :thumbsup
Small world isn't it - I'm friends with his sister. :help
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Lets hope he starts by making decisions on the list straight away. Need to see 10 to 12 changes for it to be a good start. Needs to go heavy with youth in the National Draft. Also be interesting to see if the fitness and conditioning guys keep there jobs- probably a good idea to get new people in. I think the players are going to be in for a very heavy preseason If rumours of how it will pan out are true.
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Small world isn't it - I'm friends with his sister. :help
Well you'll know what to buy her brother as an early Christmas present lol
(http://www.cdbaby.com/Images/Album/loosecaboose2.jpg)
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Lets hope he starts by making decisions on the list straight away. Need to see 10 to 12 changes for it to be a good start. Needs to go heavy with youth in the National Draft. Also be interesting to see if the fitness and conditioning guys keep there jobs- probably a good idea to get new people in. I think the players are going to be in for a very heavy preseason If rumours of how it will pan out are true.
Yep Hardwick will need to cut hard into the list and pick the right assistants and staff from the beginning.
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Well done to Hardy if it is true, again I wanted him in the role the day Tery left, congratulations.
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great signing if true. james hird has given us great compliments on fox for the past few weeks when sheahan and healy have bagged us. anyone think it's possible hardwick would be able to get his old teammate hirdy to come be our assistant coach?
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Confirmed , 3 year deal :thumbsup
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we can only dream peggles.
hope chocco and kingy are packing their bags after training tomorrow, get the cleaning lady in and clean out the whole offices, I'd also get the IT dude in and wipe their computers clean of any imprint they have left on them.
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Confirmed , 3 year deal :thumbsup
Happy with the appointment?
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Confirmed , 3 year deal :thumbsup
Happy with the appointment?
Well no , untried coach, should be 2 years. They could always revisit after 18 months into contract for an extension. If the coach is doing a good job, he wouldnt want to leave anyway
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Confirmed , 3 year deal :thumbsup
Happy with the appointment?
Well no , untried coach, should be 2 years. They could always revisit after 18 months into contract for an extension. If the coach is doing a good job, he wouldnt want to leave anyway
Needs to cut 20 to 22 players over the next 2 years ... so he will need 3. Personally I think he should have been offered 2 years + 1 year option (club)
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Perhaps they went for 3 years to match North's offer so they didn't poach our candidates. Didn't the Roos offer Scott a 3 year deal?
At least it's not 5 years again :P.
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Richmond Tigers hand their reins to Damien Hardwick
Greg Denham | August 26, 2009
THE AFL's coaching merry-go-round will finally be settled today when Richmond announces Damien Hardwick as its new senior coach.
It is believed Hardwick will be appointed for three years.
The announcement will finalise all club coaching positions beyond this year after seven clubs started the season with experienced coaches who were coming off contract this year.
Runner-up for the Richmond coaching job, Geelong assistant Ken Hinkley, was told of his fate by the Tigers last night.
After an extensive search that took more than a month, Richmond chose the Hawthorn assistant, who played in premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide.
Richmond president Gary March, who has been overseas on business for two days, arrives back in Melbourne today, and will make Hardwick's appointment public at a press conference.
Hardwick, who turned 37 last week, faces one of the toughest gigs in the competition at one of the league's worst-performed clubs in recent years.
Richmond has not played in finals since making a preliminary final in 2001, and has played in just three finals series since its most recent premiership in 1980 - its 10th since joining the AFL in 1908.
Over the past five years, including 4 1/2 under previous full-time coach Terry Wallace, the Tigers have won just 40 of 109 games.
Richmond is 15th with five wins this season and will be eligible for the third selection in the national draft. When the Richmond board met the final two candidates last Sunday, it was the fourth time Hardwick had won his way down to the final two, having missed the senior job at Essendon, which appointed Matthew Knights, and Melbourne (Dean Bailey) almost two years ago, before being pipped by Brad Scott at North Melbourne last week.
Despite conjecture during the season, especially at Port Adelaide and West Coast, five current coaches were re-signed, including premiership coaches Mark Williams by the Power, and John Worsfold by the Eagles, both for two more years.
Geelong extended the coaching contract of Mark Thompson, as did Collingwood with Mick Malthouse and the Western Bulldogs with Rodney Eade.
North Melbourne last week replaced Dean Laidley with Scott on a three-year term.
The Richmond interview process started with 11 assistant coaches, which was narrowed to four this month.
Essendon assistant Alan Richardson, who had support from several of the Richmond sub-committee to appoint the new coach, missed out on a final interview, as did caretaker coach Jade Rawlings, who despite being contracted at Punt Road next year, will not know his fate after this weekend until he meets Hardwick.
Richmond did not interview four-time premiership coach Kevin Sheedy, who originally wanted the job before controversially withdrawing, nor did the Tigers interview Nathan Buckley following several early discussions. Buckley chose to stick with Collingwood and agreed to a plan to succeed Mick Malthouse at the end of 2011.
Laidley withdrew his interest in Richmond last Sunday week even though the Tigers were willing to include him in their comprehensive interview process.
However, he may revisit discussions with Hawthorn over a coaching role, as the Hawks will be one short due to Hardwick's departure after five years under coach Alastair Clarkson.
Hardwick was the first candidate to have his second interview, while Hinkley was the last to present, last Thursday night.
After Hinkley's interview, the Tigers' eight-man coaching panel slept on their decisions before voting on Friday.
During the second interview stage with the four candidates, Richmond's panel consisted of general manager of football operations Craig Cameron, club psychologist Jeff Bond, former players Greg Stafford and Emmett Dunne, March and directors Tony Free, Rob Dalton and Don Lord.
New chief executive Brendon Gale, who started on Monday, was an observer at all four interviews, and was present on Sunday when Hardwick and Hinkley presented to the board.
Hardwick's preference last week was to win the Richmond position over a role offered to him by Port Adelaide, which presented him with a succession plan to replace long-standing coach Williams.
The Power interviewed the 2004 premiership player two weeks ago about its proposition, but made its offer more attractive last week at a presentation in front of president Brett Duncanson, chief executive Mark Haysman and general manager of football operations Peter Rohde.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25981830-2722,00.html
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Tigers punt on Hardwick
Caroline Wilson | August 26, 2009
RICHMOND has turned to an uncompromising 37-year-old former defender and Kevin Sheedy protege in a bid to redefine itself and rebuild the AFL's least successful club.
Damien Hardwick learnt last night he had beaten Geelong's highly-rated assistant coach Ken Hinkley to a three-year contract with the Tigers in a deal to be announced at Punt Road early today.
The Tigers' exhaustive process, which began in early July and was completed with Hardwick's and Hinkley's final presentations three days ago, unearthed the early favourite who was also interviewed in recent weeks by North Melbourne and Port Adelaide.
The Hawks, attempting a final roll-of-the-dice against Essendon at the MCG on Saturday in a bid to make the finals, are expected to farewell Hardwick today, with the club's blessing.
Hardwick's assistant in overseeing the Hawks backline, Rick Macgowan, will take over his duties for the remainder of the season.
Although Richmond refused to comment on the appointment last night, Hardwick and Hinkley were told of their coaching fates shortly after 6pm ,with Hinkley reportedly disappointed but philosophical at losing out to the former Essendon and Port Adelaide premiership player, who has been regarded as one of the AFL's most impressive assistant coaches in recent years.
The Hardwick appointment is the final piece of the coaching jigsaw, which saw seven coaches coming out of contract at the end of the 2009 season. His move to Richmond has left Port Adelaide still searching for a successor to Mark Williams in two years' time. Hardwick had been unofficially offered a five-year deal with the troubled Port - the first two seasons as an assistant to Williams before succeeding him in 2012.
Tigers president Gary March was scheduled to arrive back in Melbourne early today from a business trip, with Hardwick to be officially announced as the coach at 10am.
While the Tigers board reached a decision on Sunday, it is understood various contractual details were being sorted and the club was keen to wait until March's return, and after the funeral of Kayne Pettifer's father, to announce their new coach who will now begin the massive task of rebuilding the club's underperforming list.
Jade Rawlings will coach his final game against West Coast on Friday night and, while contracted, appears unlikely to remain next season.
Hardwick played 153 games over eight years with Essendon, winning the Bombers' best and fairest in 1998 and winning All-Australian selection in the club's last premiership year, 2000.
Traded at the end of 2001 to Port Adelaide largely due to salary-cap restrictions at Windy Hill, the disappointed defender went on to achieve his 200th game in his last season at Alberton and also his second flag - Port Adelaide's first in the AFL.
An assistant coach at both Port and more recently Hawthorn, Hardwick was in line for the Essendon and Melbourne positions two years ago, narrowly missing out to Matthew Knights in the Bombers' final selection due to a poor presentation to the board.
While club chief executive Peter Jackson said the former Bomber's presentation was hurt by poor preparation and a computer malfunction, Hardwick was seen as less flexible when questioned by the board regarding his attitude to various playing groups within the club, including indigenous footballers.
Although he was seen to have lost out to Brad Scott last week for the North coaching job, the Kangaroos did not thoroughly examine Hardwick's candidature in the belief he was less hungry for the position.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/tigers-punt-on-hardwick/2009/08/25/1251001901711.html
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Forgive the dodgy photoshop job .....
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/richmond/hardwick.jpg)
We might need a different coaches sponsor now too lol
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DAMIEN Hardwick has arrived at Punt Rd ahead of today's announcement that he is the new Richmond coach. The Essendon and Port Adelaide premiership player arrived at the Tigers' training facility at 9.15 this morning.
He will be officially appointed coach at a 10.30am press conference. Follow it live at SuperFooty.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25981494-19742,00.html
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Just a coach people - Find it a bit hard to get excited about myself. "Seems" like a goodish pick .... here's hoping - Good luck to the man he's gunna need it, just like we do for once! :gotigers
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DAMIEN Hardwick has arrived at Punt Rd ahead of today's announcement that he is the new Richmond coach. The Essendon and Port Adelaide premiership player arrived at the Tigers' training facility at 9.15 this morning.
He will be officially appointed coach at a 10.30am press conference. Follow it live at SuperFooty.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25981494-19742,00.html
A bit too much Elvis has entered the building hype from the Herald-Sun :P. Anything at the RFC is always massive for the media.
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Good start, straight to the point but holding back where necessary. Making all the right noises.
Welcome Dimmer! :)
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Just finished Spoke stupidly well.
- Very excited wants to start right away.
- His jumper is now 100% Richmond and he'll never let it hit the floor
- Seemed to get on really well with March, Gale and Cameron
- Said right now he's the worst coach he'll ever be, he'll continue to learn and get better
Really impressed with him
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Never ever heard the man speak before and I must say he was very impressive.
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I did a summary as well ...
March...
* Please to announce Damien Hardwick as coach of the RFC for 3 years.
* Like to consider the Process as thorough rather than exhaustive
* Damien has outstanding leadership qualities. Experienced successful cultures at 3 clubs which was very improitant to us. Teaching and coaching style was impressive. A great student of the game and other codes, gamestyles. From the very first interview he had a great desire to coach Richmond which was important to us.
* A great new structure at the club - Gale as CEO, Cameron as Football manager, Hardwick as senior coach.
* The new facilities have finally started being built and we've got a new structure in place but we're still aware there's a lot of work
Cameron
* Damien's innovation stood out. Hinkley will make an outstanding coach as well. Doesn't was to denegrate other candidates.
Hardwick
* Starting ASAP. Can't wait to get my teeth into it.
* Every club he's gone to has a great team first culture. It's something he strongly believes in. Easy to say but not easy to live. Believes he has the blueprint to win Richmond's 11th premiership.
* He's had many kicks in the backside along the way. But hardwork gets to where you want he believes.
* Want to give the players every opportunity to be better players - both on and off-field. If he can improve the list 10% every year we'll get to where we want to very quickly.
* List - will take a little time. Sit down with Gale and Craig.
* Staff/List - check their principles and see if they fit his. Looking from outside I'm not sure they all do. If they do want the best and have good principles then they stay.
* Awesome big 4 club.
* Port - has discussions but just rapt to be at Richmond now. Wanted to coach now.
* Not interested in the past. We have the best culture in the AFL until he sees otherwise.
* Motto - Go the hard ball when it's your turn. Players have to find it in themselves. if they're not competitive they'll soon find themselves out the door.
* Coached by his old man at Tecoma. Never got a B&F vote. Went to North under Pagan but got delisted. Went to Springvale and got his jaw broken in his first game. Brought across to Essendon and the rest is history.
* Wants to start a process to win our 11th premiership.
* Supporters - As long as we show them a plan then he's sure they'll be happy to come along for the ride.
* it's not about Damien Hardwick. It's about Richmond and achieving that 11th flag. If I'm apart of it then great if not then at least I want to be apart of starting that process.
* Got the call at 5pm. Saw the number first and thought it was the media so didn't answer it lol. First response was bloody bewdy.
* Cousins - Wasn't sure at first until he saw Cuz play against Hawthorn before Buddy ironed him out. A very good player for this club.
* Has a lot time for Clarkson. Could see me as a coach before even I could. Chris limpan and ? as well.
* People themselves make the footy clubs. So I'm a Richmond person now. I see the jumper and it's Richmond.
* Can't wait to get started. Excited.
* Had a huge desire to coach his own club. The day I stop learning I stop coaching. I want to perfect my craft. Day 1 will be the worst I am as coach. A lot of good people like Brendan, Craig around me.
* Assistants - no point having them if you don't have the greatest faith in them. Something I learnt from Clarkson.
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I think our players will be scared in what he (Harwick) will put them through.
I like what has just happened and think it was the right move.
But I thought that to when we got Wallace. :gotigers
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Good start, straight to the point but holding back where necessary. Making all the right noises.
Welcome Dimmer! :)
Great start.
You can tell hes doing the groundwork before he pulls out the axe and swings it. Seems a very switched on operator. Good start I reckon.
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Gee some of you already whinging..... the contract is too long, the hype is too much, the typical words are being said.... ra ra ra. Shut the stuff up and be happy for a change, back the new coach in and the club. :banghead
WELL DONE RICHMOND AND CONGRATULATIONS HARDWICK, welcome to the biggest club in the AFL!!!!!
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He also said that he was disappointed in the players getting 8 weeks off post-season. He wanted to start now.
Surely the coach has some say in this. They could start the pre-season after a 3 week break so that he can be 100% certain which players he wants to delist.
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speaks really well. Very Happy with the decision. 3 years is fine he will need it thanks to Terry.
love the the bit about players not putting in will quickly find themselves out of the side.
Just reading between the lines id say the over 30's are gone bar Cuz. He was saying he was enjoying the watching him play this year
he pretty much said its about the RFC and as quoted by Kennedy SNR its not about sentiment so make of that what you will.
That being said talk is cheap i have learnt not to get excited till the proof is in the pudding and touch calls are made on our list cloggers.
I think he will clean out the list.
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Gee some of you already whinging..... the contract is too long, the hype is too much, the typical words are being said.... ra ra ra. Shut the eff up and be happy for a change, back the new coach in and the club. :banghead
WELL DONE RICHMOND AND CONGRATULATIONS HARDWICK, welcome to the biggest club in the AFL!!!!!
I was having a go at the media not the club WAT :thumbsup. Hardwick spoke very well. If he can implement and install what he wants into the team then we'll be very happy. He's got a big job ahead of him.
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Do you think he will keep Richo on as an assistant coach if a lot over the over 30'S are gone.
It will keep all us natives happy to see him still a Tiger.
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He also said that he was disappointed in the players getting 8 weeks off post-season. He wanted to start now.
Surely the coach has some say in this. They could start the pre-season after a 3 week break so that he can be 100% certain which players he wants to delist.
He had a dig at Brendan Gale about the 8 week break the players MUST take...
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Is that mandatory break imposed by the AFL or the RFC?
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Is that mandatory break imposed by the AFL or the RFC?
The AFL Players Association.
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Well I hope he is given the chance to build the list. I am confident he will do this and not revert to the stop-gap measures implemented by Frawley and Wallace.
A new era has dawned fellow Tigers. It will take a couple of years, but change starts now. :gotigers
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Is there any audio of the press conference on-line?
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good to see some positive vibes back at the club again.
Pretty happy with Hardwick - He has a mammoth job, but from what i've seen he could be the tough solid rock this club needs.
Good Luck mate - You've got alot of people counting on you! :gotigers
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Is there any audio of the press conference on-line?
It should be up on the sportsentral site shortly.
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Hardwick may make a few jump ship from the Bombers just like Cousins did when he signed up.
I see this as a good move for us.
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http://www.afl.com.au/video/tabid/76/videoid/50160/new+richmond+coach/default.aspx
This is the link to the announcement of Hardick.
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Sportal has audio of press conference:
(http://sportal.com.au/mediaplayer/audio/AFL/new-tigers-coach-hardwick-ready-stuff-ready-for-the-chall-6224[/url)
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I have to say, remembering I was not sold on him that I was very impressed with what he had to say
there were 3 things during the press conference that really impressed me and are important to me
1/ Was the president saying that Hardwick clearly wanted to coach the RFC as opposed to just wanting to be a senior coach. They way Hardwick spoke it came across that way
2/ That one of Hardwick's key rules is a TEAM FIRST MENTALITY - Hell-lay-loo-ya I say
3/ That he sees a RFC jumper now and while he is there that jumper wont be thrown on the floor, which I took to mean that will respect our great jumper (which = club) - double Hell-lay-loo-ya I say
He's talked the talk now obviously he will have to walk the walk but for now alot of the doubts I had have been addressed
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Full conference now up on SEN's sportsentral....
http://podsentral.com/node/2303 (http://podsentral.com/node/2303)
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I have to say, remembering I was not sold on him that I was very impressed with what he had to say
there were 3 things during the press conference that really impressed me and are important to me
1/ Was the president saying that Hardwick clearly wanted to coach the RFC as opposed to just wanting to be a senior coach. They way Hardwick spoke it came across that way
2/ That one of Hardwick's key rules is a TEAM FIRST MENTALITY - Hell-lay-loo-ya I say
3/ That he sees a RFC jumper now and while he is there that jumper wont be thrown on the floor, which I took to mean that will respect our great jumper (which = club) - double Hell-lay-loo-ya I say
He's talked the talk now obviously he will have to walk the walk but for now alot of the doubts I had have been addressed
yep they stick in my mind to, in addition to saying the cululture is the BEST until proved otherwise...good balnce aproach...sounds like a real footy person...without the cliches or the sugarcoated spin...good start...tommy hafey would be so proud :thumbsup
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Some photos from today
http://images.slatterymedia.com/photography/results/?q=collection:AFL%202009%20Media%20-%20Richmond%20Press%20Conference%20260809&sub_code=all
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Some photos from today
http://images.slatterymedia.com/photography/results/?q=collection:AFL%202009%20Media%20-%20Richmond%20Press%20Conference%20260809&sub_code=all
No pic with the tiger skin or in front of the JD statue this time.
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Very positive stuff from Hardwick.
When asked what he thought about Richmond as a player he could have laid into the club as many other new coaches have.
"We have the best culture in the AFL until I see otherwise"
Clean slate for everyone. No negativity. Well done Hardwick.
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Interesting he agreed with Mike that hard players doesn't necessarily make hard coaches and mentioned his coaching depends the "recruiting model" a couple of times. Obviously something he learnt at Hawthorn from Pelchen's model. Footy keeps changing and evolving and you need to keep changing personnel to keep up with that evolution. Seems there'll be a few nervous players who no longer suit footy as it is now.
LOL at the woman standing with Hardwick outside the door in those pics telling the media "and all you lot leave him alone" :lol. Well said :thumbsup.
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Hard by name and harder by nature
By Mic Cullen Wed 26 August, 2009
SOME people mellow with time – Damien Hardwick doesn't appear to be one of them.
The new Tigers coach forged a 207-game career, with premierships at two clubs, on the back of being one of the hardest and most ruthless defenders in the game, and he's bringing that to Punt Rd.
"If blokes aren't competitive, or they haven't got a strong determination to succeed, they won't be coming to this footy club."
That was one quote.
"I love the sides that I've been involved with, because they are tough and ruthless.
"At the end of the day, my number-one team rule is 'win the hard-ball when it's your turn'.
"If your players do that, you're a fair chance you're going to be on top more times than down below, so I hope to bring that to the Richmond footy club.
"But the players have got to find it with in themselves – if they're not competitive, I reckon they'll find themselves very quickly out the door."
That was another.
Club president Gary March said leadership and teaching ability were a couple of the things that impressed the selection panel about Hardwick, and the 37-year-old said he had strong ideas on what needed to be done.
"Every club I've gone to has had a great team-first culture, and that's something I believe very strongly in," he said.
"I know it's easy to say but it's not easy to live, but I think I can deliver a blueprint for success, that's going to take the Richmond Football Club to their 11th premiership in the not-too-distant future.
"I want to give the players every opportunity, when they come to this club, to strive to be better players.
"If a player is going to leave this club, I want them to say they've had every opportunity to improve as a player, and they've actually improved not only on-field but off-field.
"So from that point of view, if I improve the list 10 per cent every year, we're going to get to where we need to go relatively quickly."
Hardwick said the time was right for him to step up to a senior role.
"I just want to be a senior coach now – I think I'm ready to coach and I think I'm ready to lead.
"More importantly, I think it's an outstanding footy club just teetering on the edge.
"With the right culture we can strive for great things.
"There are some similar traits here as when I first arrived at Hawthorn, and there's no doubt that will hold me in good stead."
The Richmond fans are notoriously fickle and extreme, either loving or hating, but Hardwick said he expected them to get on board.
"I don't think you can harness passion," he said.
"Our supporters, they are a passionate bunch, they love the Richmond Football Club, and their hearts are in the right place.
"I think as long as we can show them a plan, a blueprint for success, then they'll be riding with us all the way.
"There's going to be some ups and downs, there's no doubt about that, but at the end of the day, if they can see the way we're headed, I think they'll be happy to come along for the ride."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/83534/default.aspx
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Hardwick on SEN with Ox and Francis
* He thinks his experience at 3 clubs which had success provides him with the blueprint for success. He might not finish the process but he wants to start it.
* List - Haven't made any decisions so far. Next week start that process with Cameron. Get the inside word from them on who's worth staying and going.
* Assistants - sit down with current assistant and see who is worth going forward with and who share the same principles. Hardwick sat down the Cambo today and thinks he is very good. Next week will make decisions on assistants.
* Plenty of work to do no doubt but as long as we stick to the process and people can see we are moving forward then we'll be right.
* Richmond job was his No.1 priority compared to the other offers.
* Two fold improvement:
1) development - wants 10% increase in ability in each player each year.
2) recruitment - has faith in the recruiting team. Find gems along the way.
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Very impressive press conference by the Hard Man!! :clapping :clapping :clapping Welcome to Tigerland Damien. :thumbsup :thumbsup
Really liked his no nonsense and intelligent responses. :thumbsup
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Hardwick now on 3aw
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Hardwick on 3aw with Healy and Russell @ 6.10pm
* Very happy the Board has given him the opportunity. It'll be a bumpy road but if we stick to the process we'll be fine.
* List - Cameron will be away in perth this week so we'll wait till next. Always a tough job but we'll make decisions to take the list forward.
* You need to stick with a gameplan that you believe will perform on the last day in September. A gameplan that will stand up in finals footy. Look at Brisbane, Hawthorn, etc premiership sides - they stuck to their gameplan and stood up in finals. You need players that will perform that gameplan.
* Will always be looking for the next big thing and always keep learning. Going overseas (learning from other codes and organisation etc). Something he learnt from Clarkson.
* Richo - next week sit down with him, Cameron and the meds. Russell replied that it sounds that Richo is safe if he can show his body can stand up. Hardwick said that's yet to be seen and will discuss it next week as he said.
* Slightly compromised draft this year and severely next year. Very lucky to have Cameron running that side of things and he's very astute. He'll be taking a lot of advice from him.
* Put the plan in place and stick to that plan and despite a few bumps along the way we'll get there (premiership).
* There's a couple of people he'd like to bring to Punt Rd. He'll speak to them next week. Impressed by Cambo as he told SEN.
Whispers says we may poach Andrew Russell and Peter Burge from Hawthorn (basically their fitness staff). Hardwick said he's got Clarkson over at his place so hopefully he didn't hear that lol.
* Jade has done a very good job playing the youngsters. He's had a difficult job to do and Hardwick appreciates what he has done.
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Well Mike Sheahan liked Hardwick and thought he was very impressive today. Positive, forthright when needed to, and a touch of humour thrown in which he hasn't seen from Damien before. We might not see that humour too much from now on but he hopes DH sees how much he gains from being himself.
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* He thinks his experience at 3 clubs which had success provides him with the blueprint for success. He might not finish the process but he wants to start it.
* Plenty of work to do no doubt but as long as we stick to the process and people can see we are moving forward then we'll be right.
* Very happy the Board has given him the opportunity. It'll be a bumpy road but if we stick to the process we'll be fine.
Looks like we're gonna be hearing a lot more about processes!
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* You need to stick with a gameplan that you believe will perform on the last Saturday in September. A gameplan that will stand up in finals footy. Look at Brisbane, Hawthorn, etc premiership sides - they stuck to their gameplan and stood up in finals. You need players that will perform that gameplan.
Interesting Hardwick said you need players capable of playing the gameplan rather than coming up with a gameplan to fit the players. Right now we don't have a list capable of playing a finals gameplan. We're too small and of course lack accountability and skills. If he wants a group that will play the sort of footy he wants he's going to have to heavily turnover the list.
Good on him for thanking Rawlings. Jade has helped accelerate the judging of the list before Hardwick arrived so Damien doesn't have to waste time in his first year analysing the list.
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Gee some of you already whinging..... the contract is too long, the hype is too much, the typical words are being said.... ra ra ra. Shut the eff up and be happy for a change, back the new coach in and the club. :banghead
WELL DONE RICHMOND AND CONGRATULATIONS HARDWICK, welcome to the biggest club in the AFL!!!!!
I was having a go at the media not the club WAT :thumbsup. Hardwick spoke very well. If he can implement and install what he wants into the team then we'll be very happy. He's got a big job ahead of him.
No offence mate I was just generalising, you know how it can go.. back at you.. :thumbsup
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Looks like we're gonna be hearing a lot more about processes!
Bug_ger :-\ ;D
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how many games in before usual suspects will wanting his head. :rollin
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Just finished watching the 18 minute interview with Hardwick and he did not let me down!! Very impressive, very honest and straight to the point, he knows where this club needs to go and the players should expect and will recieve no mercy and about bloody time!!
He actually blew me away by embracing the club immediately and passionately. Loved it when he said a Richmond football club jumper will not be thrown on the floor while he is at the club, I also love his confidence.
Bring on 2010, judjing by his enthusiasm I reckon he can't wait either.. :thumbsup
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how many games in before usual suspects will wanting his head. :rollin
Training during the pre-season should hark them up... :thumbsup
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Old Richmond champs give new man thumbs-up
Jon Ralph | August 27, 2009
RICHMOND greats have lauded the appointment of Damien Hardwick, with Kevin Sheedy labelling him the ideal candidate.
Sheedy was at one stage a candidate for the role, but pulled out well before Hardwick was appointed.
Hardwick won the first of his two flags under Sheedy, and the Essendon coaching legend encouraged him to be true to his personality as a player.
"If he can get a team to play footy the way he played himself, it will be a great start," Sheedy told the Herald Sun.
"I am really pleased Damien had got an opportunity. Obviously his time at Essendon, Port Adelaide and Hawthorn has given him nearly two decades in successful clubs."
Tony Jewell, the club's last premiership coach in 1980, said the task was massive.
"It will be a tough gig for him but he's got a good pedigree. He was a terrific player, and the ultimate team player," he said.
Four-time Richmond premiership coach Tom Hafey and club legend Francis Bourke said the club had made a smart decision.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25986886-19742,00.html
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Hard man now the head man
Mark Robinson | August 27, 2009
THE Essendon half-back line of 2000 was Hardwick, Wallis, Solomon. Tough, uncompromising, snipey, all of them.
The first bloke particularly was thought to have white line fever.
As for him being an AFL coach, Dean Wallis, assistant coach of Fremantle, thinks it bizarre.
"Amazing and bizarre," Wallis said yesterday. "For someone who hated training, who hated meetings, who hated all things other than playing the game, gone a full circle to be now a senior AFL coach, and all my teammates and anyone who knows Damien Hardwick would've thought, 'S..t'.
"He was bizarre when it came to training, he hated hot and colds, hated recovery, 'this is bulls..t, why are we doing this for, bloody hell, this is crap, what are we doing'.
"He just wanted to play the game, he was anal. He crossed that white line and all he worried about was playing footy - just give me a jumper, give me a footy and let me go and beat up the opposition."
He was good at that, Hardwick, the beating up and the aggression, but that undersells him as a player.
He played 207 games, kicked 14 goals, is a two-time premiership player with Essendon (2000) and Port Adelaide (2004) and was an assistant coach when Hawthorn won last year's flag.
He is an Essendon best-and-fairest winner ('98) and All-Australian (2000).
In the Bombers' premiership campaign, Hardwick was an inspirational, fearless competitor.
"I don't know what Dimma was on but as soon as he stepped over that white line, he was a different cookie. I suppose we all knew what each of us was doing, we just looked at each other gave a wink and a nod, and our philosophy back there was junkyard dogs," Wallis said.
"Anyone who came into our backyard, we'd attack them, and we did it better than most."
Wallis said Hardwick was a smiling assassin. "He'd punch you in the gob with a smile on his face," he laughed.
As a footballer, Wallis was in awe.
"We got a DVD of us about that time, around '99 and 2000, and some of the amazing work he did, just putting his body on the line, the great chase and tackles, going back with the flight of the ball and getting crunched," Wallis said.
"I remember one day in the showers after the game, Jason Johnson and Dimma were standing side by side and comparing battle scars and bruises," Wallis said. "That's how they got off on footy, seeing how beat up they could get."
Hardwick was always a "tough" footballer but he also could play.
As a youngster at Upwey-Tecoma in the Dandenongs, he used to play in the centre.
"I was coached by my old man, who was a good coach but he was very harsh," Hardwick said yesterday. "I don't think he ever gave me a best-and-fairest vote throughout my whole career.
"I think when I first started I was a centreman but I was just a bit ... the skills weren't up to it, so you always went down back if you didn't have great skills.
"Then obviously I went and learned under Denis Pagan and spent a couple of years there, got delisted at North Melbourne, went to Springvale, had my jaw broken in my first game there in three places.
"Then I was very fortunate that Denis took me across to Essendon with him, at the highly-regarded pick of 87, I was that year in the draft."
His old man and Pagan were influential figures in his career.
He told his dad on Tuesday night he had won the Richmond job. "(Dad said) "I think 'you bloody ripper' was his first one."
Pagan yesterday said he was surprised Hardwick wasn't a senior coach already.
"He was very hard and tough, uncompromising the way he played his football," he said.
"In 1992, I got the tip-toe, there were no under-19s then and I think Damien did, too.
"I went to Essendon and I rang Damien up - there were supplementary lists then.
"There wasn't a lot of interest at the start, but he played a few games in the reserves and he was outstanding, he won everyone over with his approach and desire."
After Pagan returned home to North Melbourne to start his dynasty, Hardwick was one of the foundations of which Kevin Sheedy built his.
Sheedy simplified his approach: To beat the best, you had to be tougher than the best and the best and toughest was North Melbourne. Sheedy used Hardwick, Solomon, Long, Wallis, the Johnsons, Barnard and others as, as one person put it, natural born killers.
Hardwick ended with the Bombers in 2001 and said at the time to being "disillisioned" with his transfer to Port Adelaide.
The Bombers were in salary cap strife but, later in the same year, broke with tradition and awarded Hardwick life membership after nine years service and not 10.
Hardwick said he loved the Bombers, but playing against them in a final in 2002, he got fined $8000 for starting a blue before the siren.
No one would've expected any different.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25986824-19742,00.html
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Back to the future for Tigers' new man
Rohan Connolly | August 27, 2009
Damien Hardwick's Hawthorn stint will be invaluable.
PERHAPS the most significant moment of Damien Hardwick's first public appearance as Richmond coach yesterday came when he was asked how his five years as an assistant at Hawthorn had prepared him for the task.
''It gives you a fair blueprint of what needs to be done,'' he said. ''There are some similar traits here to when I first arrived at Hawthorn, and there's no doubt that will hold me in good stead.''
As the football world ponders just what sort of coach the 13th man to hold the Richmond job since the club won its last premiership in 1980 will be, that remark said plenty. Both in a practical and cultural sense.
Like the Tigers have been for a long time now, Hawthorn, when Hardwick arrived as an assistant to Alastair Clarkson in 2005, was a club at which its golden era, via the sheer weight of powerful and influential football figures it created around the place, was beginning to become as much a millstone as a happy memory.
Hardwick played an active role in clearing out those cultural cobwebs, allowing the latter-day Hawks to create their own aura. And, says a close football confidant of his, he'll have no problem taking the same tack at Punt Road. ''I've got no doubt he'll really try to create a new culture there,'' says the friend. ''That's the biggest issue he's got, and he'll address it. Making sure the type of people around the footy club are the right ones, the ones you really do want around the place.''
That is the bigger-picture stuff. The more immediate and obvious impact Hardwick will have on Richmond is in the type of player he introduces to the list and the sort of football the Tigers will play, another area in which he has had a big impact at Hawthorn. Already, he's indicated that a player's ability to ''win the hard ball when it's your turn'' will be a non-negotiable, hardly surprising given his own reputation as a hard-nosed defender in his 207 games and two premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide.
Even before the ''kicks in the arse'' he received on his way to forging an AFL career, like being delisted by North Melbourne after two years in the under 19s, then having his jaw broken in his first game with VFA club Springvale, Hardwick did it hard. As a youngster, he was coached by his father at Upwey-Tecoma. ''He was a good coach, but he was very harsh,'' Hardwick reflected with a smile yesterday. ''I don't think he ever gave me a best-and-fairest vote throughout my whole career.''
The young Richmond line-ups over which he'll preside can expect a little more largesse, provided they stick to the Hardwick plan.
But the stereotyping of personality that can often go with the profile of the crusty half-back flanker would in his case also be a gross simplification. An intelligent man with a waspish sense of humour, Hardwick is by no means dour, and nor will his football team be.
Those who have worked alongside him during his coaching apprenticeship believe he will give the young faces likely to dominate on the Richmond list over the next three years every chance. ''He'd rather play a kid and lose and at least know there's some direction there than go for the same old," said one former colleague. ''He's a bit left-of-centre in a lot of ways, not afraid to experiment, definitely not just straight down the line.''
The former colleague said Hardwick wasn't afraid to give his players plenty of input. ''He's very good at running meetings and getting player input. He'll keep asking them questions and getting them involved.''
The most obvious similarity Richmond supporters might see with the Hawthorn of today is in the application of the defensive zone, which caught so many of the Hawks' opponents on the hop when they won their unexpected premiership last year. While as senior coach, Clarkson was the most obvious face of one of football's most radical and successful strategies of the modern era, Hardwick played an enormous part in its implementation. As at Hawthorn, when it comes to recruitment, kicking skills will also be at a premium for Hardwick's Tigers.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/back-to-the-future-for-tigers-new-man/2009/08/26/1251001942730.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
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sometimes it takes something small to make someone change their minds, at first hinkley was my preferred option
but as soon as i heard hardwick say that our jumper will never hit the ground while he is coach , he won me over big time
Ramps shut up!!!!
and put that boner away!
:lol :lol
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Well, now that we have named our coach it already feels much more 'calm' around the place. It's much easier to deal in knowns. :thumbsup
My first choice didn't make it to the last 2 and my second choice lost out to Hardwick but I have no great concerns with that - I am happy that the process was thorough and exhaustive and threw up the best possible candidates for us to make a final choice. Now that Hardwick is our coach he has my total and unqualified support and like others on here I have been impressed thus far with his words and demeanor. Like any new coach he will have a honeymoon or grace period before the expectations of the masses will begin to judge him and that time won't be until well into next season at the earliest. Until then he brings a breath of fresh air and hope that had been killed off in the latter stages of the Wallace era. I don't care so much if he plans to cull savagely or if he decides to give a few a last crack - what will matter far more importantly to me is how he goes about changing and developing a winning mindset and strength of character in the playing list, regardless of who that might consist of. That's the stuff that will have much more long term positive impact on our club. So welcome aboard Damien, thank you for accepting the challenge that we present, and good luck. I won't say you will need the luck, I'm a believer in making your own.
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sometimes it takes something small to make someone change their minds, at first hinkley was my preferred option
but as soon as i heard hardwick say that our jumper will never hit the ground while he is coach , he won me over big time
Ramps shut up!!!!
and put that boner away!
:lol :lol
Ramps Public Relations NL is very pleased with the result. Anyone needing Electronic Public Relations strategies can contact me on here and I will personally turn the tide of Public Opinion in your favor :D.
As for TT your stupidity never ceases to amaze but if your prepared to pay my PR fee then I am willing to exercise my new found PR strategies and knowledge to ensure that you become a well respected member of this forum ;D
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sometimes it takes something small to make someone change their minds, at first hinkley was my preferred option
but as soon as i heard hardwick say that our jumper will never hit the ground while he is coach , he won me over big time
Ramps shut up!!!!
and put that boner away!
:lol :lol
Ramps Public Relations NL is very pleased with the result. Anyone needing Electronic Public Relations strategies can contact me on here and I will personally turn the tide of Public Opinion in your favor :D.
As for TT your stupidity never ceases to amaze but if your prepared to pay my PR fee then I am willing to exercise my new found PR strategies and knowledge to ensure that you become a well respected member of this forum ;D
ur welcome ramps but its all good
as im not here to prove my intelligence or gain respect as the ppl that matter know who i am and what i am
on here , i can be many different people lol, depending on what mood im in , but as u know i love to stir the pot a bit lol
the more ppl that hate me on here the better
anyway lets hope that our new coach gets all our wicks hard over the next 3 yrs and beyond
if not , we will be sending viagra to punt rd not chicken poo!!!
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Rohan Connolly on 3aw reckons not only will Hardwick cut hard into the list but will be big on only bringing in players with good footskills as he saw that at Hawthorn. Hellalujah if true!
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For your reference, Damien Hardwick becomes the 38th known person to coach the Richmond Football Club.
http://www.rhettrospective.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Richmond%20Football%20Club%20senior%20coach
- Rhett Bartlett
rhettrospective.com
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Ta Rhett.
Our 38th coach will be under no illusions to the massive task ahead of him after last night. Shame the AFLPA says the players get 8 weeks off. If ever a club deserves to start preseason training early it's us after this season and especially the pathetic and embarrassing performances of the past month.
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Doesnt matter when we start preseason with this group of players it wont make any difference.
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The more I think about it the more stuffed we are.
I think our next two years will be so similar to Melbourne in the last two. Only difference the priority pick will be gawn and the draft will be compromised so the help at the draft table will not be as readily available.
So typical of Richmond to finally go down the path of picking up players from the draft when it will be compromised and thus will take a rebuild much much much longer. :banghead
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Surely Damien can tell the boys that they better keep up their fittness and the AFLPA can do nothing about that.
This way they will be ready for a hard time when they come back.
So they can keep training while they are supposed to be off on their own or as groups.
As I can see a lot of hard work being dished out to them.
And last night did them no good, would have only sparked Damien on to train them harder.
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Thanks Terry Wallace and thanks for the people who appointed Terry, what a mess our club is in.. God help Hardwick
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I wonder if Hardwick can argue that they've already had 22 days off throughout the year, generally on match day.
That would at least take up half of the 8 weeks.
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Thanks Terry Wallace and thanks for the people who appointed Terry, what a mess our club is in.. God help Hardwick
we have copped heaps on here telling everyone how crap wallet is and he has totally destroyed us, now finally all the knuckleheads who loved terry can see how much of a bastard theiving prick wallet was and is
we have 2-3 yrs of hell coming up thanks to terrys master plan to get us competitve
god i woud love to mess up his already messed up jaw
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Denis Pagan thrilled
Sunday Herald-Sun Punchlines - Scot Palmer
30 AUG 2009, Page S21
FORMER North Melbourne coach Denis Pagan was witness back in 1991 to the unrelenting approach of Upwey-Tecoma recruit Damien Hardwick, who played in his 1991 under-19 premiership side. So much so that when the competition was suspended in 1992 and Pagan joined Essendon's reserves he recommended senior coach Kevin Sheedy look at the determined Hardwick, then at Springvale, with a view to listing him as a supplementary player. The rest is history, with Hardwick this week being appointed senior coach of Richmond, pleasing Pagan, currently with the Northern Knights, no end. "He's a man's man who both deserves and has earned this opportunity,'' he said. .
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The facts about Hardwick
richmondfc.com.au
1:38 PM Mon 31 August, 2009
New Richmond coach Damien Hardwick this week begins the job of leading the Tigers back up the ladder. Here are some facts about his playing and coaching career:
1. He made his AFL playing debut with Essendon in Round 5 of the 1994 season against Collingwood at the MCG at age 21 years and 248 days, gathering 18 possessions in the Bombers’ four-point win.
2. He played his first game against Richmond in Round 11, 1994 at Princes Park and was one of the Bombers’ best with 26 possessions in their 46-point victory. New Richmond CEO Brendon Gale, Club football director Tony Free and current assistant coach Wayne Campbell were members of the Tiger side that day.
3. He had a 69% winning ratio throughout his 207-game league playing career at Essendon and Port Adelaide (144 wins, 1 draw, 62 losses).
4. He had an 82% winning ratio as a player in 17 games against Richmond (14 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses).
5. He polled a combined total of 15 Brownlow Medal votes throughout his league career, with nine of those coming in the 1998 season, when he was best-on-ground in matches against St Kilda, Brisbane and Richmond.
6. He started his career at Essendon in the No. 39 guernsey and wore that for four seasons, before changing to the No. 11 guernsey for a further four seasons. His three seasons at Port Adelaide were spent in the No. 11 jumper.
7. He had 16 possessions in Essendon’s 2000 Grand Final victory over Melbourne (11 kicks, 5 handballs and 4 marks) and 12 possessions in Port Adelaide’s 2004 premiership triumph against Brisbane (7 kicks, 5 handballs, 3 marks).
8. He becomes the 37th coach in Richmond’s league football history.
9. He is just the third man to play for Essendon and then go on to coach Richmond, joining Alex Hall (19 VFL games with the Dons 1898-1900, and Tiger coach in 1910) and Paul Sproule (60 games with the Bombers 1968-71, and Tiger coach in 1985).
10. He is the first man to take over the coaching reins at Tigerland having experienced premiership success with three different league clubs – Essendon and Port Adelaide as a player, and Hawthorn as an assistant coach.
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/83879/default.aspx
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8. He becomes the 37th coach in Richmond’s league football history.
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37th coach ? My records indicate he will be the 38th coach (http://tinyurl.com/l2f9mm) , same with AFL Stats site.
- Rhett Bartlett
www.rhettrospective.com
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Maybe they don't count Rawlings
Anyone seen the board at the club with the names to see if he's up there?
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Good point Infamy
They may have forgotten to count the most recent coach.
They would have to had counted Verdun Howell for eample, who coached 1 game while Hafey was away coaching Victoria.
cheers
rhett bartlett.
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Lindsay Gaze who was part of our coaching selection committee was just on SEN and he said Richmond were very lucky to have such a good list of candidates to choose from. He said he couldn't see the club making a mistake with whichever candidate they went for. He was very impressed with Damien Hardwick.
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Hardwick at the 'G with his son(?) sitting next to Tony Shaw. I hope a few Tigers are watching. Our boys might learn a thing or two about being on the move at stoppages rather than under the ball flatfooted and also the idea of spreading to offer multiple free options on the fat side.
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The only thing he will learn from Tony Shaw is "Imbecile 101".
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The only thing he will learn from Tony Shaw is "Imbecile 101".
He (Shaw) might be trying to get the nephew back to Victoria.
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The only thing he will learn from Tony Shaw is "Imbecile 101".
He (Shaw) might be trying to get the nephew back to Victoria.
He went ok in their B & F I see. Not that I would want him but the change certainly seems to have helped his career - as it seems to do for a lot of 'wayward souls'. Bit like the Boags ad - there must be something in the water up there, things come out different. I wouldn't mind being able to bottle some of their club culture.
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Hardwick preaches Hafey gospel
richmondfc.com.au
By Tony Greenberg | Tue 22 September, 2009
New Richmond coach Damien Hardwick wants to instill the spirit of the triumphant Tiger teams of the 1960s and 70s into the current playing group.
Speaking at last week’s Jack Dyer Medal night, Hardwick told the audience he was hoping the special qualities that defined those Tommy Hafey-coached Tigers, could be transplanted into the Club’s modern-day players.
“I look back with envy at the Hafey era, the period between 1967 and ’74, and the four premierships that go with it – the most successful era of this club,” he said.
“Ruthless, relentless and, most importantly, uncompromising. These are the words used to describe those great teams.
“The sooner these words become associated with our current group, the closer we will be to that elusive 11th premiership.”
Hardwick advised the Yellow and Black faithful that the road to the Tigers’ next successful would be long, but short-cuts were definitely not on their map.
“The Richmond Football Club, from this point on, will take no short-cuts,” he said.
“We’ll make brave decisions – and make no apologies for them because, you know from our proud history, that a period of sustained success is built on the back of hard work and exceptional teamwork.
“You’ll hear the term “team first” a lot about Richmond from here on in. We won’t just pay it lip-service, we’ll absolutely live it. It will become the fundamental plank in restoring the Club to its rightful position as a power of the AFL.”
Hardwick finished his speech with a strong message to the Tiger players . . .
“There will no longer be a reliance on hope at the Richmond Football Club. We will believe,” he said.
“Over summer, you will start that belief by rehearsing, rehearsing and rehearsing an offensive and defensive game plan that will keep you in good stead for the 2010 season.
“Belief comes when you are properly prepared. Finally, we have a blueprint for success – and we will not deviate from that blueprint.
“Every decision we make will be around how this can help the Richmond Football Club win the 11th premiership cup, and develop a period of sustained success . . .”
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/85122/default.aspx
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i hope actions speak louder then words.
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i hope actions speak louder then words.
i would be happy with a volume somewhat near those words at this point... he is saying and mostly doing the right things so far!
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Hardwick is saying what people want to hear but the proof of course will be in the pudding. Even if he does all the right things and they pay off long-term, next year and maybe also 2011 will be tough until the list matures. Hardwick will have his knockers from impatient supporters as his honeymoon period wears off. By 2012 the Club will want to see the team starting to click and pushing up the ladder. The media of course will be on our back if they can smell Tiger coach's blood in the final year of his contract. If Hardwick succeeds in the long run he is going to earn it these three upcoming years.
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I have got a good feeling about Hardwick.
I think he will deliver, and I think it may just take a little longer than we all want but he will get us there.
I know all about wanting success and quick. But here I know we all hve to wait and let his game plan take effect.
As they have been a a big blood round about for so many years.
And now we have got a good weapon so lets all take a long breath and let him get the job done.
We soon will be feared once more under him.
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Hardwick will have his knockers from impatient supporters as his honeymoon period wears off.
I cant wait for this MT ::) , I reckon after our first pumping which will probably be round 1 next year we will hear the nutters come out in full force.
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i think Hardwick knows what is expected of him ...
2010: 13th - 16th (3 - 6 wins)
2011: 9th - 12th (7 - 10 wins)
2012: 5th - 8th (11 - 14 wins)
:)
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i think Hardwick knows what is expected of him ...
2010: 13th - 16th (3 - 6 wins)
2011: 9th - 12th (7 - 10 wins)
2012: 5th - 8th (11 - 14 wins)
:)
More or less a carbon copy of Hawthorn in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Looking at our list I think it is an optimistic goal and I would be rapt if we got anywhere near it.
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After all its going to a few tough years for clubs trying to rebuild through the draft
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Maybe we may hear from Dimma once training gets into full gear but one thing that stands out so far is Hardwick isn't expected to be the face of the Club and comment on everything that happens as we expected from our past coaches. Even with the club complaining to Demetriou about the draft fixture we still haven't heard boo from him. Looks like he is being allowed to focus solely on preparing and coaching the side in his debut year as a senior coach.
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Maybe we may hear from Dimma once training gets into full gear but one thing that stands out so far is Hardwick isn't expected to be the face of the Club and comment on everything that happens as we expected from our past coaches. Even with the club complaining to Demetriou about the draft fixture we still haven't heard boo from him. Looks like he is being allowed to focus solely on preparing and coaching the side in his debut year as a senior coach.
and a big :thumbsup to that!!!
he really has said the bare minimum so far, but im all for the actions more than words vibe.
we really have ages to go but im pretty excited to see what our sides rolls out in the NAB cup and more importantly Rd 1 (my tip is an expensive melee fine).
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I'd much rather the silence than what the Demons are doing. :thumbsup
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he really has said the bare minimum so far, but im all for the actions more than words vibe.
So true. I used to cringe every time Spud, when interviewed before a game would go on about respect and how they were not respected.
He obviously didn't understand that you earned respect through actions, not connived through words. King size pin head.
“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.” Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
You could add to that " A football club is not a good side because their coach talks them up"
:shh :shh :shh
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he really has said the bare minimum so far, but im all for the actions more than words vibe.
So true. I used to cringe every time Spud, when interviewed before a game would go on about respect and how they were not respected.
He obviously didn't understand that you earned respect through actions, not connived through words. King size pin head.
“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.” Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
You could add to that " A football club is not a good side because their coach talks them up"
:shh :shh :shh
And Rodney Eade has just committed that same fateful sin.
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Im amazed weve nearly hit november and we havent heard any crap coming from a Richmond coach. Hes going about it the right way IMHO.
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Im amazed weve nearly hit november and we havent heard any crap coming from a Richmond coach. Hes going about it the right way IMHO.
:lol Never have crickets sounded so sweet!
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Im amazed weve nearly hit november and we havent heard any crap coming from a Richmond coach. Hes going about it the right way IMHO.
:lol Never have crickets sounded so sweet!
& thats the way it should be kept.
Less talk the better for everyone at the club & its supporters
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Im amazed weve nearly hit november and we havent heard any crap coming from a Richmond coach. Hes going about it the right way IMHO.
Nothing to growl about which is fine by me. Actions speak louder than words. Enough is enough with the Tiges. Can't keep telling the fans how loyal they are in the annual report from March or in Gale's letters to the fans. Time to put plans in place with substance. Keep it up boys stay quiet and let our actions talk and reward us fans who have stuck by the club and shown loyalty.