Why do people always blame the coach

[tony_montana]

Hasn't the penny dropped for some of you blokes yet? sheesh...

 I think it runs a bit deeper than the coach. We have bigger fish to fry like getting a footy department up to scratch. No quality proven coach would touch us atm. Get the house in order with good football brains running the show ie not Craig Cameron! and then you can start looking at the coach head. Has 30 years of repetitive ineptness taught you nothing?

[10 FLAGS]

this is way to sensible a thread. what are you doin man we cant have threads like this. 

[The Big Richo]

Yeah I want a sack Craig Cameron thread.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Easy to blame the coach. Expendible after two three five years.
Players at the RFC are 10 year projects and they are superstars. Under a decent coach they would be premiers.
Hence we loved the romantic idea of getting Sheeds and now we want Malthouse.

IMHO Dimma needs to delist 10 and continue the journey he started in August two years ago.
The legacy of the previous coach who had 5 years has hamstrung this club and will do so for the next 2 years.
Can't blame Dimma for that.
By October 31 this year there should be about 10 players left who were on the list of 42 after our round 22 game in 2009 against West Coast.

Otherwise if Dimma doesn't bite the bullet and make a hard call on blokes like Jako and Edwards his senior coaching career will probably be over after one term.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Yeah I want a sack Craig Cameron thread.

That is a more appropriate thread.

[Jackstar is back again]

Hasn't the penny dropped for some of you blokes yet? sheesh...

 I think it runs a bit deeper than the coach. We have bigger fish to fry like getting a footy department up to scratch. No quality proven coach would touch us atm. Get the house in order with good football brains running the show ie not Craig Cameron! and then you can start looking at the coach head. Has 30 years of repetitive ineptness taught you nothing?

easy answer, as for the past 8 weeks we have played a very very poor brand of football. cant blame the players for going sideways backwards with short kicks and stupid handballs
also team selection has been poor , as per the inclusion of Tuck today and they continual playing of Jackson and Edwards

[tony_montana]

Hasn't the penny dropped for some of you blokes yet? sheesh...

 I think it runs a bit deeper than the coach. We have bigger fish to fry like getting a footy department up to scratch. No quality proven coach would touch us atm. Get the house in order with good football brains running the show ie not Craig Cameron! and then you can start looking at the coach head. Has 30 years of repetitive ineptness taught you nothing?

easy answer, as for the past 8 weeks we have played a very very poor brand of football. cant blame the players for going sideways backwards with short kicks and stupid handballs
also team selection has been poor , as per the inclusion of Tuck today and they continual playing of Jackson and Edwards

young more talented teams than us do that too jackstar, look at Melbourne, wce last season. Peaks and troughs within a season is perfectly natural for young sides. and injury exposed our lack of depth horribly.

[Ox]

Coach is accountable for coaching.

We blame him for poo coaching.

Last week was the worst display of game day coaching ive seen in modern footy.

That's why the coach is blamed.

[Penelope]

true ox, but i dont think hardwick was employed for his gameday coaching.his mantra is to provide a blueprint for success, and while the last month or so may not have shown it, most of his tenure we have seen improvements in the basic areas that we lacked for so long. we may have some players playing stupid, but we don't have anyone playing selfish.

it way well be that we need someone else to come in and put the icing on the cake, but hardwick needs to run his course.

[TigerTimeII]

hardwick is not the coach he bluffed us he was

he is lost and has no idea

want proof

look at how we play, we r back to square one, took spud and wallet 5 yrs to complete the full circle, its taken hardick less than 2 seasons

[Jackstar is back again]

club needs to bite the bullett and sack him at years end
Clearly not up to the task at hand.
Anybody who thinks he is ,wants the club to fail

[Penelope]

how long since you have seen a richmond side, that having lost the plot like we have for the last 6 weeks or so, be 10 goals down at half time and still have pretty much the same margin at the end of the game? any side under wallace or frawley would have capitulated from there to an absolute arse stuffing, without a change of coach,

[Jackstar is back again]

how long since you have seen a richmond side, that having lost the plot like we have for the last 6 weeks or so, be 10 goals down at half time and still have pretty much the same margin at the end of the game? any side under wallace or frawley would have capitulated from there to an absolute behind effing, without a change of coach,

IF you know anything about football and you went today ( which I doubt you did )
geelong were terrible.
There was a 5 minute period in the 3rd quarter that was the worse for the year.
Kicking 7 goals at Etihad isnt good either. Inside 50 were 45 by memory for 7 goals, you must be kidding

[Penelope]

they were'nt  that bad, at times the were not as clean as you would expect but they constantly worked hard to create options and get numbers to the pill, something we lacked in the last half.

in the second half we improved this.

no matter how much you want to the club and hardwick to fail, today they at least showed some spirit. in the 2nd 1/4 were were just worse than poo, but given our form over the last 6 weeks to not get our ring holes stretched even further in the 2nd half is a good effort after that.

it would never have happened under wallace or frawley, so that is an improvement.

[Jackstar is back again]

they were'nt  that bad, at times the were not as clean as you would expect but they constantly worked hard to create options and get numbers to the pill, something we lacked in the last half.

in the second half we improved this.

no matter how much you want to the club and hardwick to fail, today they at least showed some spirit. in the 2nd 1/4 were were just worse than poo, but given our form over the last 6 weeks to not get our ring holes stretched even further in the 2nd half is a good effort after that.

it would never have happened under wallace or frawley, so that is an improvement.

i want the club to be successful. the direction we are going in is towards total failure