Has Dimma lost the playing group.

[Golfprotiger]

It's the attitude, it shi,tes me that every time there are cameras at training we look like we are mucking around, you just don't see that at other clubs.......

[tony_montana]

I actually feel sorry for him. He is a very decent and honorable man whose coaching aspirations have been destroyed by the Richmond FC. He isnt the first victim nor will he be the last. Our club is like the twilight zone for coaches. Thats why no one decent will want to coach us only someone who is desperate enough for the job will do it.

You reap what you sow..... he doesn't have to play the same blokes over and over again gifting games when clearly they aren't deserved. It promotes a cheats culture. If he didn't rate the duds that were picked up he wouldn't play them, he does and he does

[Rampstar]

YEP and eventually it will cost him his coaching career.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Miles would not have made a difference tonight. We still would have lost but FFS get the games into the kids instead of persisting/Playing with the same failed blokes over and over again.

Tell you all what if Newman comes back as soon as he is fit then he should be sacked on that Thursday night after selection.

Says a lot about our club, playing culture and club culture.

The Skata Cycle. 32 Years and still counting. Plop Plop Plop.

[MintOnLamb]

What playing group, its just totally sh1tful, the season is GONE, no game plan, jackson clearly injured, FFS they should have at least played Miles, WTF and i mean WTF

[tony_montana]

They all deserve to go, they all have nfi, blair, FJ, dimma stuff them all off they have had a chance - 4 years worth..... - pay them out and bring in replacements. Yeah we'll pay out over a million dollars but we'll lose a hell of a lot more in membership revenue if we don't.

[Rampstar]

They all deserve to go, they all have nfi, blair, FJ, dimma stuff them all off they have had a chance - 4 years worth..... - pay them out and bring in replacements. Yeah we'll pay out over a million dollars but we'll lose a hell of a lot more in membership revenue if we don't.

i would terminate the employment of the list manager, the recruiting team en masse and the fitness guys first. Hardwick should be put on notice until the end of the year that the team must improve or he will get the arse as well.

[the claw]

blame the coach for everything is a crock of poo. yeah hardwick has got things wrong and may not be good enough to take us forward but the real problem does not lie with hardwick alone.

to get anywhere we first have to acknowledge where the list is at. and we have to acknowledge key off field areas have been poor. seems the club and far too many others have their heads in the sand when this is raised.

without a doubt its a middling list with too many players who have been around for too long who make the same mistakes over and over they are incapable of learning.

perhaps we will now  finally do what needs to be done but ffs first they have to acknowledge what is wrong.

whats the point of sacking the coach if we dont address recruiting list management and development. they all come first. get anew coach or even a whole new coaching team and fail to fix these things and those coaches will fail just like hardwick.

i dunno about everyone but i for one have never at any stage felt we have built a good finals side list capable of firstly playing consistent finals and then maybe challenge.
its a middling list it has always been a middling list.

[Rampstar]

The administration is incapable of doing what you ask. The crap they come out with to defend their dismal performance is simply astonishing. With the current administration Richmond will never improve. Its just a place where its jobs for the boys or jobs for your mates. Thats it in a nutshell.

[The Machine]

blame the coach for everything is a crock of poo. yeah hardwick has got things wrong and may not be good enough to take us forward but the real problem does not lie with hardwick alone.

to get anywhere we first have to acknowledge where the list is at. and we have to acknowledge key off field areas have been poor. seems the club and far too many others have their heads in the sand when this is raised.

without a doubt its a middling list with too many players who have been around for too long who make the same mistakes over and over they are incapable of learning.

perhaps we will now  finally do what needs to be done but ffs first they have to acknowledge what is wrong.

whats the point of sacking the coach if we dont address recruiting list management and development. they all come first. get anew coach or even a whole new coaching team and fail to fix these things and those coaches will fail just like hardwick.

i dunno about everyone but i for one have never at any stage felt we have built a good finals side list capable of firstly playing consistent finals and then maybe challenge.
its a middling list it has always been a middling list.

Well said

[tdy]

blame the coach for everything is a crock of poo. yeah hardwick has got things wrong and may not be good enough to take us forward but the real problem does not lie with hardwick alone.

to get anywhere we first have to acknowledge where the list is at. and we have to acknowledge key off field areas have been poor. seems the club and far too many others have their heads in the sand when this is raised.

without a doubt its a middling list with too many players who have been around for too long who make the same mistakes over and over they are incapable of learning.

perhaps we will now  finally do what needs to be done but ffs first they have to acknowledge what is wrong.

whats the point of sacking the coach if we dont address recruiting list management and development. they all come first. get anew coach or even a whole new coaching team and fail to fix these things and those coaches will fail just like hardwick.

i dunno about everyone but i for one have never at any stage felt we have built a good finals side list capable of firstly playing consistent finals and then maybe challenge.
its a middling list it has always been a middling list.

I disagree its always been a middling list, when Hardwick first started it was a poor list, its become middling and clearly has a long way to go.  14 players going in Hardwicks first year said it all.

[Rampstar]

needs to get rid of 14 players again at the end of this year again

[Hellenic Tiger]

The administration is incapable of doing what you ask. The crap they come out with to defend their dismal performance is simply astonishing. With the current administration Richmond will never improve. Its just a place where its jobs for the boys or jobs for your mates. Thats it in a nutshell.

That's been the disease at RFC for too long.
The admin does not recognise this until its far too late and the partrial rebuild under the new coaching admin needs to take place.
What the admin need to do is very quickly sum up whether Dimma is the right man for the job and the get the "best" around him and give him every chance to succeed, ie footy ops manager, list manager, assistant coaches, recruiters etc etc etc spend the FTF money and take the punt or sack him and spend FTF money and get the best not the best available or the cheapest but the best.
A financial loss be turned around quickly. The problem with RFC for far too long, bottom line is what they have to lose rather than what they have to win.
That mentality breeds failure breeds ineptness and reaks of poor culture. Hence we have been crap for so long with only fleeting token success rather than consistent long lasting and sustained success. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

The Skata Cycle. 32 Years and still counting. Plop Plop Plop

[Tigershark]

I actually feel sorry for him. He is a very decent and honorable man whose coaching aspirations have been destroyed by the Richmond FC. He isnt the first victim nor will he be the last. Our club is like the twilight zone for coaches. Thats why no one decent will want to coach us only someone who is desperate enough for the job will do it.

i would take $600k per year.......I don't feel sorry for him......I feel sorry for us and our children

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So its not just a football thing.
The wheels have fallen off the whole caboose.
A faceless president.
Recycled duds like Thomas, Hampson, Chaplin,Morris, Grigg. Midfielders like Conca and Ellis, who are as weak as pee mentally.
Griff gone backwards A game plan that relies on capitalising from run generated off half back ....and that's it !! stuff me dead but sorry, LMAO.
A coach who has been exposed for his inability to achieve both assembling and structuring a competitive unit at the competition level.
Another responsibility that falls on him is the psychological state of the players.
It's his environment. He created it and they're his standards.
The confidence and level of self belief was higher in a Nazi prison camp.
Cotchin and Deledeo have given up and gone backwards.
There's no soul at Punt rd..... And that's because dimmer has no soul.
A stuffn Mercenary coach in a field of many.
His problem is he never had what it took to make Richmond work.... Probably any team.