From Dimma's presser this morning:The Tigers looked a shell of their old selves against the Saints, kicking 2.10 and making uncharacteristic skill errors all over the park.
"We've got trust, but it's probably been more of a challenging conversation this week. Our group is a proud group, they know how to play the game, we just need to make sure we consistently drive the standards we live by," Hardwick said.
"We probably aren't at that level at the moment. We're still in the hunt, there's no doubt about that, we've just got to make sure we give ourselves every best chance to make the finals and we'll see what happens from there.
"Stoppages for us have never been a strength of ours. We set up for a turnover game and the game is won and lost on the back of turnover, in our opinion. What's probably been hurting us is we haven't scored as much off turnover as we would have liked.
"We're still moving the ball relatively efficiently, but the scores from turnover haven't been there. There are some things in our game we're not quite doing as well as we would have liked from the ball-movement point of view, and we'd like that to click a little bit quicker than it has."
Hardwick would not be drawn on suggestions the Tiger dynasty was over after three flags in four years, with the club currently sitting in eighth spot.
"People have told us their opinion, they're newsmakers, that's what they do. They're after big headlines. We've been in this situation before, but it does feel a little bit different with the amount of personnel going in and out," he said.
"We're not playing well, we understand that, so we've got some work to do in a lot of areas. This group has responded well before, and I'm pretty sure they'll respond again."
https://www.afl.com.au/news/639362/another-star-tiger-down-as-dimma-ponders-debutant-to-face-suns
