3 assistants gone - Choco, Mellor & Smith [updated]

[DCrane]

Although players find out there fate in the morning

What are the whispers Jack?

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Omg.

It won't make a difference as long as stuffwit is coaching.

[one-eyed]

Richmond Tigers dump five coaches

Caroline Wilson
The Age
29 August 8:00pm

The shake-up at Richmond has begun with five assistant coaches expunged from their regular roles in the club's end-of-season reviews and strongly encouraged to seek opportunities elsewhere.

Port Adelaide premiership coach Mark Williams, Ross Smith, Brendon Lade, former Carlton and Footscray player Mark P. Williams and forwards coach Greg Mellor were not required to report for work at Tigerland on Monday. All five are out of contract.

Although the Tigers have guaranteed the contracted coach Damien Hardwick for at least one more season, the club has reacted savagely to its dismal 2016 season and will move to reshape its recruiting, development and assistant coaching personnel.

Although the final outcomes of the Ernst and Young review into the club's struggling football operation have not been tabled the above assistant coaches have known for some time that they could not be guaranteed contracts beyond the end of the season which for Richmond concluded with a 100-plus point loss to Sydney on Saturday.

Neither chief executive Brendon Gale nor football boss Daniel Richardson could be contacted on Monday as the review entered its final days.

Further dismissals are expected with calls for the club to consider bringing Neil Balme from Collingwood to mentor the less experienced Richardson.

Balme has been demoted by Collingwood and both him and the Magpies list manager Derek Hine have been left disenchanted with the appointment of Graeme Allan to the role of director of football — a move the club bosses had denied to them would happen after Allan returned to the Magpies in May.

However Brisbane, searching for an experienced director of football, has shown some interest in Balme and CEO Greg Swann is expected to contact his former Collingwood colleague in the coming days.

Richmond's recruiting manager Francis Jackson is also under pressure.

It remains unclear where the replacements in the coaching department will come from, although one possible new face looms in the recently retired Troy Chaplin. The pending dismissals signal a savage reaction to what has been identified as poor development of players.

Williams, who came to the club from GWS, has headed up the development program at the club.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/richmond-tigers-dump-five-coaches-as-afl-killing-season-erupts-20160829-gr40hd.html

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Why stop there?
Might as well sack Hardwick too.
What is the point of having him infect our new assistants with his 'brand' of footy, which consists of copying styles of footy that don't suit the team or that are way past their use by date, when he will probably get sacked half way through next year anyway.
It could get ugly and leave these fresh assistants exposed. Just sack him now.

It's a huge stuffn rort.

Remove all the little germs but leave the queens.

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What a dog hardwick is. .
Throwing the blokes he wanted under a bus because he can accept that he's stuffed it more than anyone.

Total disrespect for this prck

[1965]

What a dog hardwick is. .
Throwing the blokes he wanted under a bus because he can accept that he's stuffed it more than anyone.

Total disrespect for this prck

Sheedy did this for 25 years.

[Yeahright]

It's a start

[Harry]

What a dog hardwick is. .
Throwing the blokes he wanted under a bus because he can accept that he's stuffed it more than anyone.

Total disrespect for this prck

Sheedy did this for 25 years.

Sheedy won a few finals also. 

At least Troy Chaplin doesn't need to be brought up to speed with the game plan.

[Willy]

It's a start

Yep, good start.

May the axe swing long into this week!

[Francois Jackson]

Francois Hackson. The big name I'm waiting to hear what happens to

The rest is noise for me until this dud goes.

[Willy]

Francois Hackson. The big name I'm waiting to hear what happens to

The rest is noise for me until this dud goes.

Yep. Fingers crossed.

Anyone heard any word on his future?

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Francois Hackson. The big name I'm waiting to hear what happens to

The rest is noise for me until this dud goes.

Yep. Fingers crossed.

Anyone heard any word on his future?

Goneski but may be after the draft. Hartley too.

[Stalin]

What a dog hardwick is. .
Throwing the blokes he wanted under a bus because he can accept that he's stuffed it more than anyone.

Total disrespect for this prck

Sheedy did this for 25 years.

Sheedy won a few finals also. 

At least Troy Chaplin doesn't need to be brought up to speed with the game plan.

Another 5 yrs pointing at rance saying try harder

[Yeahright]

Francois Hackson. The big name I'm waiting to hear what happens to

The rest is noise for me until this dud goes.

Yep. Fingers crossed.

Anyone heard any word on his future?

Goneski but may be after the draft. Hartley too.

Just guessing? Can't see Hartley going but that's just a guess

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Francois Hackson. The big name I'm waiting to hear what happens to

The rest is noise for me until this dud goes.

Yep. Fingers crossed.

Anyone heard any word on his future?

Goneski but may be after the draft. Hartley too.

Just guessing? Can't see Hartley going but that's just a guess

I've heard whispers. Not great sources though. However, you'd have to say that he is the mastermind of our predicament and the review would not have been kind to him.