Rawlings must get the job next year

[Go Richo 12]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

[Ramps]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

lol ... im still waiting for you tell us how you know for a fact that we would have lost todays game under another coach. Waiting Waiting Waiting ... lol and whilst your at it tell us more about your hypotheticals from the past lol ...

[Go Richo 12]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

lol ... im still waiting for you tell us how you know for a fact that we would have lost todays game under another coach. Waiting Waiting Waiting ... lol and whilst your at it tell us more about your hypotheticals from the past lol ...

Every loss since the 1982 gf, but obviously that stretches the mind back beyond the comfort zone so i'll pull,say, the Port game! Is that good enough? Sydney game? The last time we played Melbourne? RSI starting to creep in.....

[Ramps]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

lol ... im still waiting for you tell us how you know for a fact that we would have lost todays game under another coach. Waiting Waiting Waiting ... lol and whilst your at it tell us more about your hypotheticals from the past lol ...

Every loss since the 1982 gf, but obviously that stretches the mind back beyond the comfort zone so i'll pull,say, the Port game! Is that good enough? Sydney game? The last time we played Melbourne? RSI starting to creep in.....

GoRicho - Youve lost the plot

[Go Richo 12]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

lol ... im still waiting for you tell us how you know for a fact that we would have lost todays game under another coach. Waiting Waiting Waiting ... lol and whilst your at it tell us more about your hypotheticals from the past lol ...

Every loss since the 1982 gf, but obviously that stretches the mind back beyond the comfort zone so i'll pull,say, the Port game! Is that good enough? Sydney game? The last time we played Melbourne? RSI starting to creep in.....

GoRicho - Youve lost the plot

Can you blame me? Im a Richmond supporter

[Infamy]

In the past we would have lost that game today! Suck it boys, Rawlings is proving all you boys wrong! Be gracious and give credit where credit is due, any previous coach would have seen us drop that game! Who do you guys follow? Its hard to tell!

absolutely, well said, a TW coached side would have been 6g down at 3/4 time prob goine on to lose by 10g...the pleasing aspect was when the game was there to be WON the boys stepped up to the plate and there's no question about that

I dunno about that, I'd say when the game was there to be lost, Melbourne stepped down from the plate

[Ramps]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

lol ... im still waiting for you tell us how you know for a fact that we would have lost todays game under another coach. Waiting Waiting Waiting ... lol and whilst your at it tell us more about your hypotheticals from the past lol ...

Every loss since the 1982 gf, but obviously that stretches the mind back beyond the comfort zone so i'll pull,say, the Port game! Is that good enough? Sydney game? The last time we played Melbourne? RSI starting to creep in.....

GoRicho - Youve lost the plot

Can you blame me? Im a Richmond supporter

We are all Richmond supporters and we all want our club to rise to the top. Its just how we get there that is causing consternation.

[bojangles17]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

lol ... im still waiting for you tell us how you know for a fact that we would have lost todays game under another coach. Waiting Waiting Waiting ... lol and whilst your at it tell us more about your hypotheticals from the past lol ...

ummm, errrr, I stuff that we lost to this same side 10 weeks ago and thats with the likes of richo , Bowden and co in the team...is that good enough for ya

[Hellenic Tiger]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

lol ... im still waiting for you tell us how you know for a fact that we would have lost todays game under another coach. Waiting Waiting Waiting ... lol and whilst your at it tell us more about your hypotheticals from the past lol ...

ummm, errrr, I stuff that we lost to this same side 10 weeks ago and thats with the likes of richo , Bowden and co in the team...is that good enough for ya

No as Melbourne dropped more senior players to give their reserve kids a go and we only won by a kick after the siren. It all balances out in some way yet some people carry on like we got ourselves into our first grand final since 1982.

[Go Richo 12]

That last post just confirms that i got the better of that last exchange!

lol ... im still waiting for you tell us how you know for a fact that we would have lost todays game under another coach. Waiting Waiting Waiting ... lol and whilst your at it tell us more about your hypotheticals from the past lol ...

ummm, errrr, I stuff that we lost to this same side 10 weeks ago and thats with the likes of richo , Bowden and co in the team...is that good enough for ya

No as Melbourne dropped more senior players to give their reserve kids a go and we only won by a kick after the siren. It all balances out in some way yet some people carry on like we got ourselves into our first grand final since 1982.

Hey tucky, whose carrying onn like we won the gf? No one! We are simply stating that winning is better than losing!We need wins for membership, sponsers and therefore our viabilty! We can be pro tank or anti tank but our kids are learnig under Jade and learning fast!

[Hellenic Tiger]

Wins for membership means squat we have been abysmal for 27 years and we have a membership base of 46000 combined. Fans sign up because of loyalty and a futile hope we might make finals not to see us win. We were 1-4 at the end of April and we still got another couple of members signed up before the June 30 deadline.

 Yes it is nice to win but when there is no pressure on the footy club wins against teams just around us on the ladder are quickly forgotten to lets say wins in big games. All I am saying is these wins can mask an otherwise very raw and deficient list and provide false hope.All I hope Jade is not being given a job full time based on 4-5 wins in half a season against opposition that will ultimately finish below us and around us on the ladder. Lets rewind to last year same sort of scenario with Ben Cousins on board and we all thought we were shoe ins for the 8.

Furthermore we have discussed on the forum the romance of late season Gieschen wins and what it does to the fans the board and the psyche of the place and who is left to pick up the pieces at the end of it which goes back to the membership issue, regardless of what bad mismanagement and decisions occur members will still sign up. We have been doing so in higher and higher levels since Save Our Skins.

[Go Richo 12]

As has been posted earlier, Geish has the best win/loss of any Tiger coach in recent history! It now appears as though Jade has the proven form and the others are the unknown!

[Hellenic Tiger]

As has been posted earlier, Geish has the best win/loss of any Tiger coach in recent history! It now appears as though Jade has the proven form and the others are the unknown!

He had 25 wins in 49 games. Hardly earth shattering and if that is what has been the best at our club for a generation and people want to hang their hats on that and make comparisons to it with Rawlings then we may be down the garden path again.

[Go Richo 12]

As has been posted earlier, Geish has the best win/loss of any Tiger coach in recent history! It now appears as though Jade has the proven form and the others are the unknown!

He had 25 wins in 49 games. Hardly earth shattering and if that is what has been the best at our club for a generation and people want to hang their hats on that and make comparisons to it with Rawlings then we may be down the garden path again.

It is the anti-Rawlings people making the Geishen comparisons, im pointing out the folly of it!
I prefer to look at Paul Roos/Sydney snenario! I would also like to see a better reason than Jeff Geishen for not appointing Jade, what are his weaknesses? What decisions has he made at the selection table to deny him the job? What is wrong with his vision for the club? Thats what we need to know not what previous caeretakers have done!

[Hellenic Tiger]

Caretaker coaches always seem to get the best out of players initially. Once you appoint them full time and the honeymoon period ends however you find that you were no better off than you were when they took over as caretaker. Roos yes is an exception but he had a ready made team who had made finals in 2001 and still had soldiers from the 96-99 Sydney finals campaigns.

In recent years Ratten at Carlton, Craig at Adelaide were given the jobs full time due to the fact that they fit the club so nicely and they understood it, hence they had full board support and player attention. Jade I don't think does hence the club is going through an extensive process to find a suitable candidate with the media trying to influence our panel in a decision writing these pro Jade and Richmond articles. It's as if they want us to stuff this up again to keep on writing about us.

Journos do not want us to get Hardwick. These are the same journos who before a few weeks ago were slagging us off and now we are the flavour of the month due to a few results over the last few weeks against clubs who were out of finals contention at the same time as we were. I have nothing against Rawlings but he will not lead us to ultimate success. Richo's relationship with him will also become a very sticky issue if either Richo stays on and Jade is appointed but that is another side dish.


Lets not get swept off our feet like an infatuated teenager at 3 wins against bottom 4 type sides and take the next 3 years of our footballing lives to new dramas and untenable situations. The perfect coach may not be available in 2012 but he is now in Hardwick. 3 years is far too long to wait again. Rawlings right now is a good assistant at best. Many hear hounded down Campbell for applying and he haat  as much experience as Jade yet Hardwick who has played in two flags and been an understudy to a flag at Hawthorn and has overseen a rebuild at Hawthorn is not the man for this job. If the plumbing was gone in your house you would not call an apprentice plumber to oversee the repairs you would call a licensed on. Hardwick is the licensed plumber we need to tighten our taps and stop the spillage and unblock those pipes.