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

[tony_montana]

Deledio talks a lot of poo - pays lip service to everyone bc they are team mates.  Each week on the rfc website he's talking up someone. Remember his Tambling call - does things in training no one in the afl could do

[bojangles17]

That sounds about right , fumbling the ball like its a cake of soap when under no pressure , no one else does that

[Diocletian]

That sounds about right , fumbling the ball like its a cake of soap when under no pressure , no one else does that

As if you wouldn't have been talking him up as the next big thing when he was still on our list.

[Tigeritis™©®]

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."

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8880864

 

I've been waiting for years to hear this.
Maybe just maybe finally the club is addressing the disease.

Let's hope this is the genesis of the end of Tigeritis™®© once and for all.
I really really hope so.
 

[The Big Richo]

How could anyone read that and still think Hardwick is the right coach?

[YellowandBlackBlood]

How could anyone read that and still think Hardwick is the right coach?

Good point.  The only redeeming feature of this is that he at least has learnt from his mistakes.....
Some guys don't ever learn.....

[Dice]

How could anyone read that and still think Hardwick is the right coach?

Agree TBR. This just confirms what most of us already knew. He's not a coach's bootlace. Unfortunately we're stuck with him for another year coz the heirarchy are too weak to get rid of him. By the time we do , Bomber Thompson will be off the list of good available coaches.

[The Big Richo]

I'm starting to warm to Voss, after watching him in the recruit I reckon he has a hard streak that would be just right.

I always thought he was a little unlucky in Brisbane.

[Chuck17]

I'm starting to warm to Voss, after watching him in the recruit I reckon he has a hard streak that would be just right.

I always thought he was a little unlucky in Brisbane.

He certianly is ruthless at the trade table, unofrtunately that is paired with being poohouse at it as well

[unplugged]

Why isn't the coach lambasting him in the media.  Its ok for Maric but not for Jack to tell the truth. 

[Chuck17]

Why isn't the coach lambasting him in the media.  Its ok for Maric but not for Jack to tell the truth.

You dont mess with the mullet

[tony_montana]

Why isn't the coach lambasting him in the media.  Its ok for Maric but not for Jack to tell the truth.

You dont mess with the mullet

[Chuck17]

Why isn't the coach lambasting him in the media.  Its ok for Maric but not for Jack to tell the truth.

You dont mess with the mullet

 

[one-eyed]

Barrett in his latest 'Sliding Doors' article:

Richmond

IF ....... it took until this week for big Ivan to admit why Richmond was a slow starter this year - because it was below par in training standards early in the year..

THEN ... you just have to wonder how complacency could have been allowed to be tolerated.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-08-01/sliding-doors-round-19

[one-eyed]

“You don’t get six wins in-a-row, when you’re sitting equal bottom, if you’re not training well,” Maric said.

“So, we’ve improved them, set new standards every week, and that’s what we’ve got to keep doing.”

Full article at: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2014-08-11/marics-massive-boost-for-tigers