Not at all but he's the stable figurehead with a strong core of off-field professionals behind him. Until we start to see the effectiveness wane indicating March has done all he can, which may be at the end of his term next year, then yeah move on, but don't sledgehammer a man while all he is supposed to worry about is going so well. THat would be ridiculous.
TA not being rude but l dont like the man. He talks to much & delivers nothing. Too quick to get on TV or Radio for my liking
Losing cultures dont make a club. Winning cultures do
March if he knew anything about football would have seen the developement of the players was not good.
He should have stamped down on Wallace & pushed him to the limit & that meant his media committments like Tuesdays with Terry
Terry should have been out on the park pushing them players harder & to the next level & pushing his coaching staff to the limit or out the door
& just to keep it on Topic which l was getting too
March shouldnot be saying out in the media that Richo will playon & is required
Hey l would love Richo to playon next year myself, His a great servant of the club & would love nothing more than see him reach 300 games & play finals
But like many champions who have gone before him at any club, The game is too fast for the big fella & missing so much game time this year he will struggle if not re-injure himself
In saying that l dont think he would play 15 games which would be the minimum required for him to have a impact.
But here is another feeling l have deep down that l would hate to see Richo just come out & say he will retire & then that robs everyone of giving him a big sendoff he deserves
So Richo better get his kicking action fixed for 1 more huge season at FF cause l'm afraid thats the only posistion l see him playing.
Would love to see him kick 100 goals & have a huge season & play finals
The other thing we require to go forward, We need a FF & CHF who are going to dominate in kicking goal or we aint going to get off the bottom.
We need goal kickers in the ranges of 80, 65, 45, from 3 players to help win games & boost percentages up
We need a Roach, Cloke, Bartlett combination that will score goals & this is where the club has failed.
Richmond have been trying to build the side around midfielders & it dont work like that. its no good having Brownlow medalists pounding out of the centre if the guy your kicking too cant kick goals when required & he dont have the knowledge that if he cant mark the ball then knock it down to the hands of his crumbers who must be at his feet & not waiting 20 metres to receive the easy ball.
Crumbers must work hard & read the play & thats why we need a Bartlett type player & Nahas has what it takes & Jake King would make another
We need to structure up the forward line & then build around that. Forwards bring confidence & force players to kick long & quick.
Can Richo be this type of player & also work in the role of teaching a player like Hughes who l think has the good & needs to be thrown to the wolves & let him build confidence again
Hughes & Richo swapping roles between CHF/FF & then resting your Ruckman in the forward line like Benny Gale used to play. It works
all other clubs have built teams like this like Carlton, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hawthorn, St-Kilda, Essendon, all who are playing finals
Richmond bring in forwards & instead of letting them fit in they drop them after a few games which does nothing but damage the player & hurts the team structure cause its constantly changing.
be interesting to watch how Hardwick will go & l bet my dollars he will build a structure around 2 key forawrds & a ruckman with Nahas, Tuck & Rewoldt
He will place Thursfield & McGuane at FB/CHB & build around them without the soft players & the midfield needs to be restructured with THINKERS not power athletics but strong smart players who dont use the same actions every bounce
but to keep Richo we must keep him in the goal square as we know 1 on 1 not many can outmark or overpower him, but his kicking must improve if he is even making a trip to CHF to let Hughes in at FF
l bet this will be the first thing on Hardwicks plans, you will never see Richo running downfield again unless of course your in dire need to save a game with a telling gutwrenching saving mark like Richo.
