Watching Luke Beveridge on Footy Classified the other night a couple of thoughts occurred to me.
We posters seem to have always had a problem with coming up with alternative senior coaches. Since Hardwick was appointed there have been a few other coaches appointed - Pyke, Bolton, Cameron, Hinkley, Richardson, Simpson and Beveridge. The thing that seems to jump out at me is that they all seem to possess the ability that I consider essential to a good coach - being able to instill their players with the confidence to take the game on. They are all attacking coaches which seems to be exactly what we Tiger fans really want to see. There are some players at their teams that to me were very ordinary but have boomed under their coaching while our good players seem to go backwards.
Unfortunately with a board dominated by accountants and lawyers, I fear Richmond is going to be the last place where a risk is taken in getting any new coaches.
It seems to be a basic rule that it is preferable to wait until there is NO alternative to making a change rather than make a change and be blamed if it does not work.