You would be surprised what can happen when you have ALL coaches and support staff on the same page lead by a great teacher/leader. Everyone at that mob are on the same page and they play for each other, care for each other, support each other, so on and so on......
All of the new line coaches coming in MUST support each other and believe the messages they are passing on are real and can make us successful. Now with most of the line coaches who gave mixed messages to the players are gone this should be seen as a new opportunity to move forward together.....like the dogs are right now!
So every thing was the fault of the assistants and Hardwick is lily white.
Do you work for the RFC?
Haha! no I don't. Are you in charge of staff? If you are, you would know it is very hard setting standards and procedures (in this case game style etc.) when middle management (in this case line coaches) don't always support decisions and instruct people under them to do thing differently. Hardwick has his faults but what i am saying is it is a great opportunity to bring in people who will work together in totality....like the dogs right now!
So youre basically saying dimma has been undermined and its the fault of the assistants - is this your take on it or have you heard this?
Both
Who's "blueprint to success" is it?
The game plan is Dumma Halfsteps baby. He or no one else can blame the assistants for keeping close to the boundary consistent backwards, sideways, two steps backwards to go forwards game plan.
The assistants must instruct the forwards to lead to the pockets to force stoppages and wonder why we can't score.
The assistants must instruct the backs to kick to the boundary to force a stoppage just to see the ball repeatedly come back over the players heads.
The midfielders are instructed to go to the wings or backwards or to the boundary to force stoppages, to use slow ball movement to control possession or to kick to the pockets when kicking inside 50.
The assistants are instructing the whole team to corral an opponent rather than tackle them because "we're just not a tackling team".
The assistants must instruct the players to do all this whilst knowing the successful teams are brutal at the contest, taking the game on using fast ball movement, using the corridor at every opportunity to get the ball forward quickly with all out attack, smashing the opponents with immense pressure and fierce tackling at all times whilst helping and assisting each other at all times by shepherding, blocking & bumping.
The assistants must do all this because Hardwick has the "BLUEPRINTTOSUCCESS" game plan & most importantly he has the characteristics & attributes to be a premiership coach.