Tigers' new tricks - Changes to game style on show against Hawthorn (H-S)

[one-eyed]

I couldn't find this on the net yet either so I scanned it in....


Tigers' new tricks
Changes to game style on show against Hawthorn
* By James Bresnehan
 * Herald-Sun
 * Thu 11 Feb 2010, Page 90


RICHMOND'S new game plan was so alien to the players that initially some didn't understand it.

The change was like going from primary school to high school, forward Jack Riewoldt said yesterday.

The Tigers will reveal their new playing style in the NAB Cup match against Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium in Launceston on Saturday night.

It will be the club's first official hitout under new coach Damien Hardwick.

For Riewoldt, 21, entering his fourth season in the AFL, it will be his time to shine with the departure of club legend, Matthew Richardson.

``From day one Damien kicked us off with the new game plan,'' Riewoldt said.

``We've been training it for the past three months. Saturday night will be the first chance to put it into play and hopefully it works as well as we would like.

``It's a complete change. The best way to describe it is going from primary school to high school, it's that big a change.

``A lot of guys didn't understand it at first, but it's been drilled into our heads on how to play.

``Damien has a philosophy that if one soldier goes down another one backs up and takes his place. It's a fresh approach, it is really revitalising.''

Having won only five games last season, Richmond is confident of a more productive season under Hardwick, an Essendon and Port Adelaide premiership defender, as well as Port and Hawthorn premiership assistant coach.

``He's very hard and has made us very disciplined about our roles on the field,'' Riewoldt said.

``The big focus has been getting the game plan right. He's very hard and strict on that and the way we play.

``Our hardness at the ball will be a big thing in terms of winning games this year. That's the big area for us and the area we will pride ourselves on.''

The retirement of Richardson puts extra pressure on Riewoldt, who now becomes one of Richmond's go-to talls up forward, along with Mitch Morton.

Riewoldt has increased his weight and strength, which will help him in battles with the AFL's biggest defenders.

``Matthew's a one-in-a-million player and that hole he has left will be filled by three or four of us playing an extra role for the side,'' Riewoldt said.

``Personally, I've been working in the gym on my strength and I've been lifting the heavier stuff to have that extra power in the arms and legs.''

[Ox]

``Damien has a philosophy that if one soldier goes down another one backs up and takes his place. It's a fresh approach, it is really revitalising.''


why wouldn't a team have that head-space anyway


``He's very hard and has made us very disciplined about our roles on the field,'' Riewoldt said.

Make ur stuffen ming up Jak,u big dud

[wayne]

"It's a complete change. The best way to describe it is going from primary school to high school, it's that big a change.

KB just mentioned this part on SEN with Denham.

He said he thinks Riewoldt should have maybe chosen his words a little more carefully, it's disrespectful to Terry Wallet.

[jackstar is back again]

my thoughts are whats been happening for the past 5 years .

We will know after sat night who really wants to put there hand up in year 2010.
If guys like Reiwoldt cant kick at least a bag of 4-5 in a game in the NAB series, they wasting there time and the clubs time.
Time to stand up and be counted.!

[tiga]

Who cares....Terry is gone and has zero influence around the club. I think Jack was trying to find an analogy that that would describe massive change....Maybe "night and day" or "chalk and cheese" might have been better but in all honesty he is just a kid who is a target for Journo's because he is outspoken.

Where is Frawley when we need him?? Maybe we could get him in as a specialist cliche coach.  

[Hellenic Tiger]

"It's a complete change. The best way to describe it is going from primary school to high school, it's that big a change.

KB just mentioned this part on SEN with Denham.

He said he thinks Riewoldt should have maybe chosen his words a little more carefully, it's disrespectful to Terry Wallet.

Cmon Wayne The Dried Sultana was a disgrace to us fans on SEN post match after the St Kilda game in rd 13. It just proved what he thought of us and and the fans let alone the type of game plan he was trying to implement let alone all the other media circuses he jumped on after announcing he was resigning. As far as I am concerned what is the problem? I didn't hear KB say that Lloyd was disrespectul to Sheeds in 2007. We all know what Wallace is and what he stands for. I have said it before and I'll say it once more KB needs to stop nit picking on everything Richmond and get on with his life as he like Wallace Walls Giesche Spud are totally insignificant.



Edited to correct quote

[Penelope]

"It's a complete change. The best way to describe it is going from primary school to high school, it's that big a change.

KB just mentioned this part on SEN with Denham.

He said he thinks Riewoldt should have maybe chosen his words a little more carefully, it's disrespectful to Terry Wallet.

What is there about T Wallet not to be disrespectful about?  ??? 

[tony_montana]

3 years down the track, if,(who am i kidding, when) we are scratching our chins thinking WTF not another new start, i hope some posters will remember all these articles and snide remarks towards Wallace and his lack of structure. By continually having a bit of a dig at the former coach numerous times over this preseason, I do wonder who will cop the blame if/when in 3 years we are no better off under dimma. Will it be dimma and his regimented albeit "poo" gameplan or will the players take the responsibility?

I wait with bated breath 

just shutup and prove yourselves, enough with the digs atwallace, start to look like a petulant bunch of fairies

[Penelope]

So you believe that Wallace takes no responsability for 4 1/2 years as coach and has left with the club in no better shape than when he took it over?

[tony_montana]

So you believe that Wallace takes no responsability for 4 1/2 years as coach and has left with the club in no better shape than when he took it over?

of course not, but it takes 2 to tango and I don't like that the players are held blameless here. Typically of richmond in recent history the club is king at passing the buck and laying it all at the scapegoats feet, thus allowing them to move on to a 'fresh' start with supporters appeased. It's always 'someone elses fault' and 'things will be ok now with a new start' at richmond. Happens every several years and supporters keep buying it 

[Loui Tufga]

Wallace spent 4 and a half years baging Frawley and the state he left the club in and I wouldn't say we were in a much better condition now than we were then..........

[Penelope]

Of course the players have to take some of the blame, but the buck stops somewhere, and that somewhere is with the coach. No single individual involved with the football department takes more responsibility than the coach. If Wallet had led us to the promised land he would be reveling in the adulation as the masses treated him like the messiah. The only place he led us though, was up the garden path. He sold the club the dream in convincing them to give him a five year contract and continued throughout his time to sell the dream to the supporters but all he delivered was a nightmare. Any critism or blame laid at his feet has been earned on his behalf.

I cant speak for anyone else, but just because I see an opening to take a snipe at Terry and his lack of performance doesn't mean that I blame him and him only. Of course others have to take responsability, including those that appointed him (something the club seems to have learned from given the process they went through in appointing Hardwick.) but he must shoulder a large portion of the burden.

If in a few years time we start to have some success and he tries to take any credit for it, I will be violently ill 

[tiga]

Of course the players have to take some of the blame, but the buck stops somewhere, and that somewhere is with the coach. No single individual involved with the football department takes more responsibility than the coach. If Wallet had led us to the promised land he would be reveling in the adulation as the masses treated him like the messiah. The only place he led us though, was up the garden path. He sold the club the dream in convincing them to give him a five year contract and continued throughout his time to sell the dream to the supporters but all he delivered was a nightmare. Any critism or blame laid at his feet has been earned on his behalf.

I cant speak for anyone else, but just because I see an opening to take a snipe at Terry and his lack of performance doesn't mean that I blame him and him only. Of course others have to take responsability, including those that appointed him (something the club seems to have learned from given the process they went through in appointing Hardwick.) but he must shoulder a large portion of the burden.

If in a few years time we start to have some success and he tries to take any credit for it, I will be violently ill 

Well said al!! 

[Stripes]

I believe that after 5 years you have to take the majority of the blame for a poor list because, lets face it, it is your responsibility to get rid of unrequired players and develop the rest. If you find you have a young list by the end of that 5 years that lacks potential and hasn't developed then you need to look long and hard in the mirror. When it comes to game plan, strategy and skills their is a much smaller time frame as you can start bringing that in from day one. Sure it may take time to develop but for Jack to spruce that it it like 'going form primary school to high school' says that Wallace did not have a concrete plan or at least one that was regimented and consistent as Hardwicks appears to be.

Wallace embarrassed himself as he left and embarrassed those few of us who backed him in the effort - I have little belief or sympathy for him now at all. 

Stripes

[tony_montana]

Fair enough all I'm saying is, that if after 3 years under hardwick we are still poo, will the club lump it all on him like his predecesors? or will the players have to put their hands up and take the heat after bitching all preseason about how bad it was under wallace. For mine, they've dug a hole, and they better be performing in a couple of years....