Dimma's presser today:
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Hardwick turns to old mate for tips on beating CrowsBy AAP
23 March 2023SEVEN months after Adam Kingsley departed Richmond to lead Greater Western Sydney, Tigers coach Damien Hardwick has turned to his former assistant for tips.
GWS fought past Adelaide to win Kingsley's first match as coach of the Giants on Sunday and a jovial Hardwick said he'd already spoken him about how to handle the Crows on Saturday.
"Yeah, no question (I spoke to Kingsley.) We had a hard time finding him to be honest, he was still painting the town red after," Hardwick told reporters.
"He's very diligent, Adam, he gave us some good things.
"Obviously, we worked together for a long time and some of the things they're doing and we're doing are quite similar. So we'll look at that.
"(Adelaide's) first half versus GWS was quite exhilarating.
"Speaking to 'Kingers', he used the term 'GWS killing GWS' ... all of a sudden GWS ramped up their pressure and they got the game back on their terms."
"We know when Adelaide plays their best, their ground (Adelaide Oval) lends to high-pressure [and] high-contest, they've got really dangerous forwards, and stoppage strength is an area of theirs that they didn't capitalise on last week (against the Giants), but they have previously, it's one of their strengths.
"We have a good understanding of what they bring and how they play and [Matthew Nicks has] got them going well and certainly got them going in the right direction, and they touched us up last year, so we've got to make sure we go over there and understand that this is a good side that have troubled us, and we've got to make sure we play our very best footy."
The Tigers will again be without Robbie Tarrant (hip), likely leaving Dylan Grimes and Noah Balta to handle Darcy Fogarty and Taylor Walker, while their smaller defenders will have to deal with livewires Izak Rankine and Josh Rachele.
"We're certainly going to have our hands full with that," Hardwick said.
"Once again, if we rely on players to individually compete against those guys one-on-one, we, like most, are going to be in trouble. So it'll be a team defence philosophy."
Hardwick was happy with "80 per cent" of the Tigers' efforts in their opening-round draw with Carlton but wanted better polish and execution.
He expected his midfielders' chemistry with boom recruits Tim Taranto and Jacob Hopper to grow as the season progressed.
"Those boys, we've started calling them 7-Eleven - they were open 24 hours," he quipped.
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