Hardwick is replacing under-developed players who are far behind in development with more developed bodies to help bridge the gap with other clubs, caused by the terrible mistakes of the Richmond board & previous coaching staff under the Casey, March & Wallace era.
Hardwick knows exactly what he is doing & what is required at Tigerland to build a competitive side. Something Wallace had no idea how to go about, to get ahead of his past mistakes. Instead prolonged our under-develeopment & kept us behind other clubs who had maturing players the same age.
Has nothing to do with replacing players like Tuck 
ah so that would be a quick fix then.
just in a purely physical sense which has more up side. a 190 88 kg 22 yr old or a 186 80 kg 21 yr old. i actually thought we were about development.
i reckon the debate has degenerated into griig v collins where i reckon we should be discussing the merits of having both grigg and collins.
and to the wankers out there ridiculing collins size aqnd pidgeon holing him nothing but a forward how times change and attitude your opinion is worth poo if you bag a player based solely on the club he plays for
suddenly collins is at carlton and he has no strengths or upside all that appear visible is his deficiencies. talk about bloody hypocrites.
collins said it himself one reason he left was because they pidgeon holed him as a forward when if any took the time to look they would see one of the most natural mids going around.
im dirty on this trade not because we have grigg he will be a good get but because we should have both players in our system.
