Hardwick can't take us any further

[tony_montana]

 

should not be happening again and again to a team coached by a bloke in his 6th year - something fundamentally wrong

[Willy]

Don't have to be a genius to see that Melbourne are a better drilled team than us.
Dimma has created a soft team that is too easy to shut down.
Time for a hard coach that can instill a simple game plan that is based on accountability and winning the contested ball.

FJ should go with Dimma. Neither are good enough. Time to move on.

[TigerMonk]

Don't have to be a genius to see that Melbourne are a better drilled team than us.
Dimma has created a soft team that is too easy to shut down.
Time for a hard coach that can instill a simple game plan that is based on accountability and winning the contested ball.

FJ should go with Dimma. Neither are good enough. Time to move on.

Paul Roos is one of the best coaches going around & has the complete support of his assistant coaches. Some of them being with him at Sydney. He is a genius when it comes to shutting down a side & can make the game look very ugly. Last night he shut us down & they roughed us up like cubs. We were beaten by a much smarter & more desperate group. Yes Hardwick & his assistants have alot of work to do. The main difference was our forwards got pushed up the ground & when we attacked there was no-one to go too. So they just booted the ball forward to who ? THEM & they booted it back & we were under pressure again & out of juice. They scored goals & our players like Morris laying on the ground several times. l would drop any player who did something like that. He offers nothing,  Forever chasing flat out wasting energy & laying on the ground aint any sort of footballer. You can't blame the coach for those acts. Martin, Morris, Hunt, Ellis, that all cost goals. If they win next week what you going to say his the best coach. They won how many straight games last year under Hardwick. Its the players & their attitude. They got found out twice now & lets see how they perform against the Cats & another premiership coach. No excuses as we have Hardwick & Choco with several premiership players there instructing. They all can't be useless so blame the players on the ground at the time.  l'm backing Hardwick 100% & if we have to go backwards too go forward then l will support that also while his coaching. l will support the playing group as well.

 

[georgies31]

For some reason Dimmas and his side kicks can't get this team up to win the games we should win at this stage.That is a major problem and concern as it happens time and time again.Team selection is also a issue guys getting games that should not be promoting players of the rookee list that have shown nothing like Arnot this week.

[MintOnLamb]

Hardwick has no cattle to work with, Francis Jackson manages our list, no one could coach us to a win BLAME THE LIST MANAGER/S

[tony_montana]

Hardwick has no cattle to work with, Francis Jackson manages our list, no one could coach us to a win BLAME THE LIST MANAGER/S

There are list management problems, then there are problems relating to mindset which relates back to the coaches msg - last night and the bulldogs game was not about list management

[Tigeritis™©®]

How many coaches know that Richmond will break if you apply pressure by playing hard footy?

Nothing has changed in 20 years.

Walls made them soft & we've had a culture of softness ever since.

[1980]

Still some supporters on the DH bandwagon I Bomber e...

Its not about being on his bandwagon. Its just that the reason why we got Hardwick is because no-one else wanted us. Its easy to point to Hinckley but he was passed over by a few clubs too and at that time, Hardwick was clearly a better candidate. Perhaps not so much now.

We also think it is just a click of the finger and bomber will come to our door. He won't, if we sack Hardwick and approach bomber, it will reinforce why he refused us coach us to begin with.

Hard wick also got passed on by plenty of clubs. Including his own club Essendon!!!!

[1980]

Doesn't take the best coaches that long. How long did it take Clarkson to win his first? Hawks were below us when we appointed Wallet

[🏅Dooks]

18 games to fix the problems or gtfo

[Simonator]

What's changed since our 2013 season ? Playing pretty good footy. Winning most games we should. Beating some top table sides ( Sydney, Hawthorn, freo ? ) did we get ahead of ourselves and think it would all just fall into place even though we wee beaten in the finals by a team which didn't even make the finals ?

[🏅Dooks]

What's changed since our 2013 season ? Playing pretty good footy. Winning most games we should. Beating some top table sides ( Sydney, Hawthorn, freo ? ) did we get ahead of ourselves and think it would all just fall into place even though we wee beaten in the finals by a team which didn't even make the finals ?

Do you think we are winning most games we should?:-

2014 losses to Melbourne, Bulldogs, Suns, Collingwood by 40 pts, Essendon by 50 pts.
2015 losses to Melbourne, Bulldogs, ..................

[Willy]

He was saying we did that in 2013.

[Simonator]

Correct ^ My post was badly worded so I can understand the confusion on that one.

to correct my post we beat top table sides in Freo ( nearly won both games ) Hawthorn and Port.
We also had bad losses to Geelong Collingwood North and Essendon.

But the style of footy we were playing was much better and you can tell the players were hungry. I guess that taste of a finals loss was enough for them

[Zlatan]

18 games to fix the problems or gtfo

limp into 8th

get smashed again

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