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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2012, 08:52:09 PM »
DIMMA - You will be held ACCOUNTABLE...

“We are really excited about what we have brought in. We have got great depth of players that can take us where we need to go. We are just putting some cream on the top at the moment,” he said.

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Re: Hardwick Coach until 2014
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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2012, 08:53:19 PM »
nice work, becoming pretty apparent he's the man, wouldnt serve anyone well with a cloud over our 2012 campaign...we should have serious designs on a finals berth and dont need any distractions :gotigers
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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2012, 08:53:35 PM »
In Dimma we trust. Dimma knows. Poach the Coach etc

was always going to happen. good luck Dimma.

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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2012, 10:58:16 PM »
For Gods sake don't tell WP about my sig.... :outtahere

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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2012, 01:50:58 AM »
Absolute farce. Why sign him now? Joke decision. It isnt Dimmas fault but club is not thinking straight.
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“I find it nearly impossible to make those judgments, but he is certainly up there with the really important ones, he is certainly up there with the Francis Bourkes and the Royce Harts and the Kevin Bartlett and the Kevin Sheedys, there is no doubt about that,” Balme said.

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Richmond re-sign Hardwick (The Age)
« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2012, 03:32:58 AM »
Richmond re-sign Hardwick
Jake Niall
The Age
March 16, 2012


RECOGNITION of the time required to build a premiership contender was behind the decision to grant senior Richmond coach Damien Hardwick a two-year contract extension.

The Richmond board announced yesterday it had agreed to extend Hardwick’s contract, which was due to expire at the end of this year, tying him to the club until the end of the 2014 season.

In opting for the extension — in effect, giving Hardwick five years from the start of his term at Tigerland — the club was convinced he was the man to lift the Tigers to premiership contention.

It also acknowledged the youth of the playing list — Richmond has one of the youngest lists, with only six players with 100-plus games — and Hardwick’s willingness to embrace an uncompromising youth policy, having removed many senior players when he took over at the end of 2009.

The decision ends speculation about former Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse returning to his old club.

The board unanimously endorsed a recommendation by Richmond’s coaching subcommittee, which comprised chief executive Brendon Gale, head of football Craig Cameron and football director on the board Tony Free. The club has been discussing Hardwick’s contract quietly for some time, but his renewal was never in doubt. The only question was whether he was granted a one or two-year extension.
The club recognised the difficulties Hardwick  faced in lifting the Tigers from near  bottom, given the loss of experienced players and the fact that drafts would be heavily compromised by the introduction of Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney.

In his first season, the Tigers lost their first nine games, but recovered and have improved steadily. They remain outsiders to make the eight this season.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/richmond-resign-hardwick-20120315-1v84j.html#ixzz1pChZg51P

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Richmond to be applauded for faith in Hardwick (Roar)
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2012, 03:34:49 AM »
Richmond to be applauded for faith in Hardwick
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16 Mar 2012


Richmond have re-signed Damien Hardwick for a further two years. This ties him to the club until the end of 2014 and is unquestionably the right move for a variety of reasons.

Of course there will be knockers. As usual, there will probably be a stream of Richmond jokes at the ready, even more so if they happen to finish in that infamous ninth position this year.

Some will argue that it’s ‘classic Tigers’, and that if a coach can get his contract renewed after two years of missing the finals, what message does it send? Critics will point to Essendon giving the exact same contract extension to Matthew Knights before 2010, only to sack him at the end of the very season they made the announcement.

Any such gripes will go down as pot-stirring at best, and uneducated nonsense at worst.

One of the unimaginative aspects of modern football opinion is to dredge up past mistakes as if the future will also be set in the same concrete. It is true that this will be the third coach to have a five-year run at Tigerland, with only one set of finals in this time (so far). And it is a fact that the Bombers were made to pay dearly for their exuberance in re-appointing Knights.

But each decision can only be made on its merits, based on fresh factors and circumstances. What difference does it make to CEO Brendan Gale, President Gary March and coach Damien Hardwick what happened in 2008, 2005 or 2002?

People in footy have short memories, and it was only the middle of 2010 when Richmond was 0-9 and many were wondering if this was the worst team since Fitzroy. One online bookmaker even paid out early on the Tigers for the wooden spoon, which was eventually ‘won’ by West Coast.

Hardwick had inherited a playing list that could kindly be described as a train wreck and a side that had finished no higher than ninth in the previous eight seasons, with six of those being 12th or lower. A winning record of over 40 percent from that 0-9 position is suddenly looking a lot better isn’t it?

Richmond had 21 players who played senior football in 2009 that are no longer at the club, which is the kind of turnover required by a team that is searching for the next squad of quality to take them up the ladder in the quest for premiership glory.

The Geelong v St Kilda grand final in 2009 contained sides that were built from the 2000-2002 draft period, and the Cats in particular had the wisdom to exercise patience with their coach Mark Thompson. It was hard to argue that they planned poorly when he delivered a flag in his eighth year at the helm.

Alistair Clarkson was ‘On the Couch’ on Foxtel a few weeks ago, preaching about the benefits of stability at a football club, and in particular about the disruptive media speculation that surrounds any coach out of contract. While this should never be a reason to re-appoint a coach early, it is a pleasing side benefit that shouldn’t be underestimated.

Much has been made of Richmond’s tough start to this season. With matches against Carlton, Collingwood, Melbourne, Geelong and West Coast, at best they’ll start favourite in only one. There is a very real possibility that the Tigers could be 0-5 after this stretch of games, and if so, we will doubtless see some muckrakers trying to paint Hardwick’s extension as premature and planting the seeds of complacency.

Disregard any such statements as the ramblings of fools.

Any team containing Dustin Martin, Trent Cotchin, Jack Riewoldt, Brett Deledio and Tyrone Vickery as the blocks to build a side around is entitled to think they are at the beginning of an upward curve. Everything Damien Hardwick has said and done to this stage of his coaching career has been impressive to most educated observers.

Does this mean that the Tigers are going to make the finals this year? Unlikely. Does it mean they’re going to finish top four by the end of 2014? No one could know. Are they guaranteed a flag during Hardwick’s tenure? Absolutely not.

Making a key decision such as a coaching appointment is about confidence, sound judgement, and faith. You draw confidence from your process, back the judgement of your instincts, and tie it all together with the faith that you’re on the right path.

The Richmond power-brokers have done exactly that, so let’s judge them all in three years, not three days, three weeks, or three months.

http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/03/16/richmond-to-be-applauded-for-faith-in-hardwick/

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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2012, 06:54:28 AM »
Absolute farce. Why sign him now? Joke decision. It isnt Dimmas fault but club is not thinking straight.
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I think this is the straightest the club has been thinking for some time. Three years and an extension soon after is better than five straight out!

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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2012, 06:59:13 AM »
Well done to the Club. Congrats to Hardwick. I saw Hardwick with other members of coaching staff do a tan yesterday at 10:30am in the rain. Hardwick is committed and hope that leads to the club becoming successful

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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2012, 08:38:04 AM »
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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2012, 09:02:38 AM »
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Well done RFC on Dimma's extension. Can someone tell me if we have we had a contract extension for a coach in recent times?

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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2012, 10:39:03 AM »
 :lol

Some guy just rang SEN and said he's heard around the traps that the Hardwick re-signing is a smoke screen and Malthouse will be coaching next year!!  :rollin

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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2012, 10:39:40 AM »
Well done RFC on Dimma's extension. Can someone tell me if we have we had a contract extension for a coach in recent times?

last coach at the Tiges to get an extension was Frawley
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Re: Hardwick coach until 2014
« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2012, 11:12:53 AM »
Well done RFC on Dimma's extension. Can someone tell me if we have we had a contract extension for a coach in recent times?

last coach at the Tiges to get an extension was Frawley
Thanks WP. Wow what a sad indictment on the club that was.  :banghead :scream How times have changed