Hardwick won't nominate individuals flying this preseason (Herald-Sun)

[mightytiges]

It's definitely the honeymoon period for Hardwick. Interesting to see how patient Tiger supporters will be with him. I guess we'll find out by round 8 lol. Seriously it's in his first year that he needs to make the tough and right decisions to survive long term as he'll have 100% club support initially at least. He's made Next year's draft he'll need to be just as firm with who stays and goes.

[tdy]

What's all this talk about judging him after one game?  C'mon we're tiger fans we should give him at least three games

ROTFLOL.

3 whole games is a bit much!  This is richmond, we have standards to maintain.  Give him 2 quarters of footy at most then lets sack him if we're not say 50 pts up.

Though the quarters could be during the pre season competition, or maybe even a practice match

[tiga]

After the severe hype at the start of last year, I'm kind of pleased with the the "sounds of silence" approach Hardwick is taking. I'm sure that amongst the players and coaching staff things are far from silent during the pre-season. For mine, quiet praise is far more effective than public announcements of adulation.
For me this is very much a wait and see season with no high expectations for the coaching staff or players. All I want to see is improvement in the basic fundamentals of disposal by foot and by hand.

[Ox]

Let me pre judge DH.

As a coach - NFI - How could he if he's never coached before.
As a bloke - Standby for Spud MK II,except for a few extra words in the vocab.

[mightytiges]

Though the quarters could be during the pre season competition, or maybe even a practice match

Well Hardwick couldn't do any worse than Spud whose first quarter in charge was in the 2000 preseason comp and we went scoreless .