Sack Hardwick [merged]

[The Big Richo]

Chaplin is a general down there and a key part of the backline.

And a good bloke.

Leave him alone. All of you.

All of you.

[the claw]

Carlton don't have a forward line.

Waite has his once a year cameo against us.
We can never stop any decent Indigenous player so all those fellows usually have a good 10 minute burst that kill us.
We are too soft and need to harden up.

And the one of our biggest problems to our team is the glaring lack of leaders that stand up to lead the team when things aren't going to plan.

gotta agree on all points.
what people have to realise is  they went in short of talls. our tall defenders werent going to get it much easier than it was.
all game malthouse was torn between playing rowe and henderson forward and back trying to find a decent balance.

my own point of view i thought chaplin pretty ordinary. my opinion of him he should be capable of playing 1v1 imo this is the only role he should be playing. go to and shut out of the game the oppositions monster key forward, if he cant do this he should not be getting a game. we were lucky last night in the fact carlton didnt have the personell on the park to take advantage.

on carlton i think they have some real serious issues with talls list wise. they are screaming out for two or 3 kpp size forwards and 2 or 3 kpp size defenders on their list. for both now and to develop.they could also do with a good junior ruckman or two.
as far as genuine kpp size players to come into their side they only have casboult,watson and kruezer. plus a couple of third tall flanker types in walker and mcinnes. id say when all is going right with them all 5 would probably be playing.

[Mr Magic]

Best Players were clearly Thomas, Martin, Griffiths, Hampson, Cotchin,

Ellis deserves to be there. Great job curtailing Gibbs and kicked a couple of brilliant goals of his own.

[eliminator]

The decision to play Ellis on Gibbs was a good one and should be applauded. Ellis did a good job. Astbury should have been included in the best

[Chuck17]

The decision to play Ellis on Gibbs was a good one and should be applauded. Ellis did a good job. Astbury should have been included in the best

Also the decision to have Dusty isolated in the goal square in the last few minutes of the game

[1980 I Was There]

Let's just keep a coach for more than 5 years hey.
All of our flags (except 1980) were won under coaches that served for more than 5 years.

Richmond and the majority of it's supporters, have always had the same attitude, oh crap we lost another game "SACK THE COACH, IT'S ALL THE COACHES FAULT S A C K  H I M".
A friggin disgrace for the past 30 years, and people still don't get it FFS 

Dimma's the best coach we've had in the past 30 years and people are saying sack him

[Coach]

Not even close to being the best coach we've had.

[🏅Dooks]

Let's just keep a coach for more than 5 years hey.
All of our flags (except 1980) were won under coaches that served for more than 5 years.

Richmond and the majority of it's supporters, have always had the same attitude, oh crap we lost another game "SACK THE COACH, IT'S ALL THE COACHES FAULT S A C K  H I M".
A friggin disgrace for the past 30 years, and people still don't get it FFS 

Dimma's the best coach we've had in the past 30 years and people are saying sack him

Swooper called. Pls call him back

[Coach]

About time you wrote something good, Dooks. I forgive you

[eliminator]

The decision to play Ellis on Gibbs was a good one and should be applauded. Ellis did a good job. Astbury should have been included in the best

Also the decision to have Dusty isolated in the goal square in the last few minutes of the game

totally Agree. Martin was the perfect choice to be left isolated in the forwardline. He has the x factor that we so badly need and showed it when it was most needed.

[1980 I Was There]

About time you wrote something good, Dooks. I forgive you

[🏅Dooks]

Id go so far as to say, tactically speaking, Wallace was better than hardwick is

[1980 I Was There]

Id go so far as to say, tactically speaking, Wallace was better than hardwick is

Yeah I truly agree, wallace was a great coach, but his style of coaching just didn't suit the players, and the personal side effects between him and the players wasn't real flash either. What ever issues there were between the players and himself is something that we will never know, but it just didn't work.

May have been the best coach, just not for Richmond at the time.

Mind you though and I didn't think when I was typing before, because I was a bit angry and don't want to change coaches anymore, that Jeff Gieschen was probably one of the best coaches in the past 30 years and what he tried to do for Richmond back in the mid nineties (I think it was). When he sacked a heap of Tiger officials (board members I think?) because they were all drunk in the members box during a game, something like that anyway.
This was what I thought was going to be a defining moment at Tigerland and that we might start winning games, especially when he was appointed coach.

So I do apologise for saying Dimma was the best coach in the past 30 years, I wasn't trolling or any dumb crap like that, but as I said we just need to keep a good coach and Dimma is just that, a good coach.

[Mr Magic]

wallace was a great coach

 

[Chuck17]

Champagne comedy guys keep up the laughs