What's the definition of madness - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Just having a quick scan over the current topics there are multiple threads calling for the coaches head. After 30 years, why is it that so many Tigers supporters still feel that by sacking the coach it will fix up all our problems?! Dimma is only a small part of our problems - he's made a few tactical errors - but getting rid of him now would only cause us more pain rather than less.
Our on-field and off-field woes are the result of countless such rash decisions. Every coach we have hired until Dimma has felt the pressure to appease fans such as you, and therefore traded away picks and never tried the full rebuild through fear of premature termination of their job.
The problems we now face is because of the sins of the past - we are to blame as much as any coach, any recruiter, any board member, any player. Our demand for immediate success has p1ssed away our future. The pressure we have exerted on the club which in turn helped fuel the media to escalate the frenzy, has never given the club time to do the hard yards.
We finally have a CEO and board willing to completely support the head coach with the support staff, recruiters, specialist coaches, trade 'experts' etc Mistakes are going to be made but the coaches role is not to tactically win each and every game but instead to develop the players individually firstly, minor teams (defence/forwards/midfielders etc) secondly and full team last. We are still at the individual stage at present, step one.
Malthouse will not come to our club any time soon if ever. The board are committed to Dimma whether some people on here like it or not. So rather than always point the finger at the coach understand that our problems are not tactical but rather the state of development our players are at and the glaring holes we have in personale.
There are not quick fixes so stop the finger pointing and learn from the mistakes of the past.
here here well said.
i for one dont know if hardwick is the man for the job or not. but im more than prepared to give him a decent amont of time to show he can improve us long term.
i will happily point out his errors and there have been a few to now but i will also balance it out with many other thinhgs.
its pretty simple for me atm i dont believe for a second that onfield success is the no1 priority for our club atm. i dont expect long term onfield success until we get our house in order and actually put the horse in front of the cart.
this does not mean that anyone at the club should be exempt from criticism when they get things wrong or show over a period of time they are not up to the task at hand.i truly think our supporters are very reactionary they never ever weigh up the pros and cons of where the club off field is at or what the talent at the club is capable of.what it always amounts to is people over rating the list the clubs ability to recruit and develop players and when we start to lose they have literally feral views based solely on what their own expectations are while ignoring the facts.
an example is i think most would agree we are close to a bottom 4 side yet when a fellow bottom 4 side beats us its the end of the world, sheesh the knives come out when sides higher on the ladder beat us and its all based on, bloody hell we are better than them or we should be but the actual truth is is and all the indicators say we are only on a par or probably worse.
i dont get it how anyone can expect decent results and good ladder position with the list we have and the lack of experience quality size etc etc amazes me.and how people expect us to improve the situation when we are broke and we recruit on a shoe string budget is mind boggling.
to me most have unrealistic expectaions of the players and are unrealistic about time frames. simply put the players fall into two groups. most of the youinger ones are truly in development. most of the older ones above 22 fall into the mediocre category. this alone should be lowering expectations but does it oh no were gunna make finals. bloody ferals the bane of all sensible common sense supporters.
