Blues supporters are speechless.
Listening to SEN after the game and they're are praising Ratten.
Playing 8 youngters in the team, many Carlscum supporters didn't even bother turning up because they didn't think they'd win.
But like many coaches before him Hardwick has failed to do the one thing that he shouldve already done. It was evident with the loss to Fremantle and stuck out like dogs balls in losing the unlosable against Gold Coast up in Cairns. He has failed to rid the club of the disease that's plagued it for so many years.
Mediocrity!
I know what many will say....
We have no depth, too many poo players, too many passengers, dumb players etc. Which may well be true.
But if you raise the standard to a very high level. Demand excellence in every department. Expect perfection at training........
..... then the whole perspective changes.
Players improve, the fringe dwellers lift to a greater height and the expectation is to win and never to be beaten.
I hoped Frawley could do it but I was wrong. I hoped Wallace could do it but I was wrong again. And after 3 years it's obvious that Hardwick hasn't done it.
Rid the club of this disease once and for all.
I attended tonights game in the hope that we'd beat that cheating scum and end their finals dream. But once again after being in front we find a way to lose. Even the most basic of rules that are taught in junior footy, we fail to execute.
It looks as though we have very dumb football players playing for us but I ask would those players made the same fundamental errors if playing at Collingwood or Hawthorn or the Swans.
Its no coincidence that so many promising youngsters with dreams of playing regular finals with an AFL team get ruined by coming to this club. Skill, poise, balance, footy smarts etc. seem to leave when pulling on a Richmond jumper.
It's unfortunate. But facts are facts.
