How will folks react if.....

[WilliamPowell]

Serious question

What happens if our caretaker plays all the kids and we win games?

This is likely to be what he is instructed to do - play the kids

But what about the wins if they happen?

And I don't mean 1 or 2 wins

I am talking about 6 or 7

So many on here want to tank but what happens if the kids get us more than 4 wins?

How will people react?

[Jackstar is back]

i reckon we will win at least another 6 games for the remainder of the year

[Moi]

Serious question

What happens if our caretaker plays all the kids and we win games?

This is likely to be what he is instructed to do - play the kids

But what about the wins if they happen?

And I don't mean 1 or 2 wins

I am talking about 6 or 7

So many on here want to tank but what happens if the kids get us more than 4 wins?

How will people react?

Ramps will jump off Westgate  

[Moi]

i reckon we will win at least another 6 games for the remainder of the year

With the deplorable mess Tezza left us with 
How so?

[Francois Jackson]

Serious question

What happens if our caretaker plays all the kids and we win games?

This is likely to be what he is instructed to do - play the kids

But what about the wins if they happen?

And I don't mean 1 or 2 wins

I am talking about 6 or 7

So many on here want to tank but what happens if the kids get us more than 4 wins?

How will people react?

Ramps will jump off Westgate  

and i will jump off the Bolte.

if it happens so be it but anything is better than watching the snake lover and brown nose in our line up.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Serious question

What happens if our caretaker plays all the kids and we win games?

This is likely to be what he is instructed to do - play the kids

But what about the wins if they happen?

And I don't mean 1 or 2 wins

I am talking about 6 or 7

So many on here want to tank but what happens if the kids get us more than 4 wins?

How will people react?

We have had a bad experience with Giesche who won four from 5 including the Dogs and North who made a prelim and thrashed Port. Our comeback win against Carlton in rd 22 at Optus was the clincher. Proved that player power was more powerful than coaching power until 2 years later. That's the problem with our club.

I personally don't think we should go for any our assistants as I feel they are not good enough to be a senior coach at this level regardless of how many wins we get. Move heaven and earth to get either Matthews Malthouse or Hardwick. The appointing of one of the assistants to me would be clearly a player motivated appointing and will still leave us with issues of internal upheaval, player dissent and supporter backlash in a few years time from now, and so the cycle of mediocrity will begin again if that is the case.
Just my take on it.

[Infamy]

Serious question

What happens if our caretaker plays all the kids and we win games?

This is likely to be what he is instructed to do - play the kids

But what about the wins if they happen?

And I don't mean 1 or 2 wins

I am talking about 6 or 7

So many on here want to tank but what happens if the kids get us more than 4 wins?

How will people react?

Ramps will jump off Westgate  

and i will jump off the Bolte.

if it happens so be it but anything is better than watching the snake lover and brown nose in our line up.

Sounds like a good start

[Jackstar is back]

i reckon we will win at least another 6 games for the remainder of the year

With the deplorable mess Tezza left us with 
How so?

These are the wins.
Round 12 West Coast
Round 14 Adelaide
Round 16 North Melbourne
Round 18 Melbourne
Round 19 Sydney

Round 22 West Coast

[Hellenic Tiger]

i reckon we will win at least another 6 games for the remainder of the year

With the deplorable mess Tezza left us with 
How so?

These are the wins.
Round 12 West Coast
Round 14 Adelaide
Round 16 North Melbourne
Round 18 Melbourne
Round 19 Sydney

Round 22 West Coast

We have beaten Adelaide once this decade and haven't beaten Sydney since 2005.
What odds would you give me for a wager on completing that double Jack? 

I am sure the board and coterie groups would have a say on who will get the job full time and should we win 6 or so games in the 2nd half of the season I see it as another coterie group appointee who is looking after their own interests as opposed of the club long term until some point in time in season 2011-12 when the poo will hit the fan again.
It's not about tanking, it's about the future of the club and the last thing we would want is another faceless scheming puppett of an assistant graduate to a underachieving coach  doing what club insiders and cancer riddled fogeys want just because they were involved in our last flag or last glory era and thus using it as some form of leverage over the club and its fans like it has more creedence. Its Gieschen revisited 12 years later.

Wasn't Campbell of the adage the players are bigger than the club. Wonder how he would feel in two years time if he gets the gig full time and the players mutiny. Or will he ensure that will happen to Rawlings first in 2011 before he takes over after he has served 4 years as an apprenticeship and gained what will be perceived as more experience as an assistant thus making his claim to the senior gig more legitimate.

[Jackstar is back]

Would think the adelaide game on the gold coast makes them iffy.
The sydney game , well they have the saints the week before.  when play melbourne the week before.
we are a good chance i reckon

[camboon]

If we win six,  it prove except our stupidity, maybe we can trade our first 3 picks in the draft for say Travis Johnson or someone who's over 30 whilst we are at it. The only way will get all those wins is if the other sides believe they wont make the finals and will get some games into their kids.Ever wonder why we win games at the end of the year?

Anyway I have a little faith in our management who I hope will direct the new coach to play the full list. I hope its Sheedy as he will do whats best for Richmond's long term future instead of his own short term career and to please the uneducated and opposition supporting media.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Would think the adelaide game on the gold coast makes them iffy.
The sydney game , well they have the saints the week before.  when play melbourne the week before.
we are a good chance i reckon

They beat Melbourne on the GC in 2006 Jack and the only time we have beaten the Crows is when Terry's game plan of basketball worked to a tea for us. Furthermore the Swans game plan always comes up trumps against us. Roosie does have the wood over us. A seventh successive finals series would be enough motivation for them to overcome us especially with their recent record against us. Come to think of it both the Crows and Swans will be in the finals mix, we won't. I'd say at best we would win 1 of those two matches.

[WilliamPowell]

I suppose I was more interested in how people who are crying out for us to tank would react if we win more than 4 games

Personally I can see us winning another 5 or 6 games, which I have no problem with especially if it is on the back of the kids.

Winning is a more pleasant experience than losing

[Judge Roughneck]

Richmond fans want us to win the flag / win games

the problem is the player / coach / club is not good enough

the people who want us to tank such as me, want us to lose games in the short term, so we get good kids and will hopfully be good in the future.

if we play kids for the rest of the year and win games, i would be very happy, as would everyone.

i even think i would be happy comming 9th. as long as we have young promising players in the 22. not simmonds, bowden, pettifer, king types.

[Judge Roughneck]

I suppose I was more interested in how people who are crying out for us to tank would react if we win more than 4 games

Personally I can see us winning another 5 or 6 games, which I have no problem with especially if it is on the back of the kids.

Winning is a more pleasant experience than losing

i do not think anyone would be upsetting at winning more games. the problem is we are currently not a young team. look at average age of our 22 compared to other clubs.