Richmond's training was poor: Ivan Maric (Ninemsn)

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Richmond's AFL training was poor: Maric
Greg Buckle
WWOS.ninemsn.com.au
15:31 AEST Sat Jul 26 2014

Richmond were prepared to accept a below-par training standard earlier this AFL season but the Tigers are back on track, ruckman Ivan Maric says.

Maric said the club's leadership group and coach Damien Hardwick had resolved to focus on driving the standards around the club.

"We had to take a good hard look in the mirror and identify those things," Maric said on Saturday.

But, for the Tigers, it's probably going to be too little, too late.

Richmond's fourth consecutive win on Friday night against West Coast in Perth has lifted Hardwick's side to a 7-10 record with five rounds remaining.

Maric said the club's 3-10 start to the season, after finishing in the top eight in 2013, had left him "really upset".

"But I feel like it has been good for us to go through that," Maric told radio 3AW.

"Our training standards and the standards around the footy club were so poor. The attention to detail for the little things were not up to the standards we set the season before.

"Our training standards in the last nine weeks have been improving every week and that's the reason why I think we've won four in a row.

"It started with the leadership group and 'Dimma' (Hardwick).

"We focused a lot on policing and driving the standards and making sure that everyone was doing it, no matter if you're a captain or a first-round draft pick or whatever.

"We've made sure that everyone is doing the little things correctly, attention to all the details, and it shows in games. We're doing it."

Richmond great Matthew Richardson praised Maric's straight-talking approach.

"It's good to hear players be honest because we always talk about cliches and players wheeling out the same lines," Richardson told 3AW.

"So, to hear Ivan say that eight or nine weeks ago they sat down and thought 'we're not living up to the standards we set; we need to change', I think it's refreshing to hear that."

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[Lozza]

So how can the coaching staff be seen to be doing their job if they allowed this to occur. If I did similar in my job and just sat on my hands I would have lost my job weeks ago. It's an indictment of the RFC and it's reactive rather than proactive culture, needs to change quickly or otherwise it's a miserable time ahead.

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Richmond were prepared to accept a below-par training standard earlier this AFL season but the Tigers are back on track, ruckman Ivan Maric says.

yet all we heard about was how hard they trained, at the time.....

[tony_montana]

say what?

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It's like Ivan runs the club.
LMAO.
I'd prefer someone with heart doing it, anyway.

[tony_montana]

So would I    Im still trying to work out why we weren't training well earlier this season  coming off an elim final thumping against the team that finished 9th, any sane person would assume that would fire you up to train harder and improve? - not this mob, obviously content with making up the numbers..

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So would I    Im still trying to work out why we weren't training well earlier this season  coming off an elim final thumping against the team that finished 9th, any sane person would assume that would fire you up to train harder and improve? - not this mob, obviously content with making up the numbers..

New age thinking in regards to prep and recovery.
A double edged blade.
Take it too far and u breed poofters.
Just train ur idiot out and leave everything on the track, every night.
It's stuffn simple

[tony_montana]

Don't the "sports science" department monitor how many shots on goal a player can practice when its not part of dedicated training? lmao softies

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It's Hrvatska time!!

[bojangles17]

I heard that interview and was amazed at those comments I mean following a finals berth HTF would our training standards slide, they should have gone up a notch. At least pleased to hear leaders taking more responsibility for the bludgers 

[Francois Jackson]

to think we have only 2 or so years left with this bloke at his best and no one else coming through.

[bojangles17]

 Apart from his cousin 

[WilliamPowell]

Great leader is big Ivan 

That's what missed most when he wasn't on the ground for the first half of the season, his leadership.

So many things point to him being our most important player

to think we have only 2 or so years left with this bloke at his best and no one else coming through.

  

[bojangles17]

Maric and miles into the side and our contested ball count has rocketed , 

[Gigantor]

All this article does for me is just re enforce what a stupid cultureless club we are,where we let standards slip and nobody notices nor does anything about it until our season is shot...just a truly amazing article.
might I just add that the coaching staff should wear most of the responsibility because they would I assume be the guardians of the football culture at the club