Yeah I agree with you.
Hardwick's legacy is only 3 cups, massive cultural impact and outstanding player relations. Not to mention wonderful memories.
For non-Richmond fans it must be a sad bitter taste in the throat, dont you reckon?
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Andrew 'Mini' McQualter
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Hardwick's legacy is only 3 cups, massive cultural impact and outstanding player relations. Not to mention wonderful memories.
For non-Richmond fans it must be a sad bitter taste in the throat, dont you reckon?
ok imagine this, hardwick quits and mini takes over. we are rubbish - enough that the great man decides he's had enough.
And Mini gets up and says we'll win 6 of the next 8 games and almost beat 2nd best side port with heaps of good players out injured.
put up your hand if you would have believed him?
And Mini gets up and says we'll win 6 of the next 8 games and almost beat 2nd best side port with heaps of good players out injured.
put up your hand if you would have believed him?
I am huge Dion fan ever since he played at GCS.
Theres a video interview up on the AFL website now where he mentions he is currently doing some AFL coaching courses and also working at Scotch College a little.
Now don’t tell me. It’s sarcasm isn’t? I don’t survive on memories and neither should the RFC.
I’m looking forward to the next Tiger premiership!
At 3/4 time I said this is the coaching interview.
A few positional changes, he takes off Young..who'd done a very sound job all day for Coulthard? That was different AND it worked.
Full of run we came back from 30 points down in one of the greatest comeback's in our club's history.
Win loss now 6-2.
A few positional changes, he takes off Young..who'd done a very sound job all day for Coulthard? That was different AND it worked.
Full of run we came back from 30 points down in one of the greatest comeback's in our club's history.
Win loss now 6-2.
Not just at Richmond. His method of developing that connection with the team has now become the de facto way to coach across the league.
It feels like it will be a more sustainable/ long lasting impact to the AFL than Clarkson. His was a tactical shift with a win at all costs attitude while Dimma's was both tactical and cultural.
Pretty sure the players at all clubs have a large say in who they would like as captain.
Banksy, Arthur, Funky, Samsung, Nigel, Cummerbund, Moju, Raaalph, Gibber, Coulthard, Clarko, Young, Bauer, Biggie, Dow have all had a crack at senior level during the last two seasons so development work is as always ongoing. Still a few untried youngsters learning at magoos. Some will be good, some maybe not quite so good. There's always a fine line between what talent you have to work with and how much that talent wants what's in front of them.
Recruiting could be better, but there again three premierships in four years leaves you scraping the bottom of the draft pile most of the time while developing fringe players often depart for easier opportunities elsewhere. Creating prospective list holes which get compounded by long term injuries to certain key players.
He made that change because the Hawks took off Granger Barass and Young didn't have a match up. So not sure it was coaching wizardry. Think people are willing Mini to be some sort of wizard that he is perhaps not at this stage. He is going well but he took over a reasonay good team, not a total basket case.
not wizardry, but certainly observant. good coaches do the simple things well.
whether he gets the main gig remains to be seen, but that's another story which McQualter is building a case for ..
There are times to be tough and times to put your arms around people.
Being Only ruthless is not the blueprint for success, its a combination of many determining factors.
Ask Carlton and Essendon how being ruthless is going!
Yes but it’s gutsy to take off a defender when you are getting thumped, particularly in clearances. I don’t think dimma would have been able to bring himself to do it. Then we have his willingness to make other important tactical decisions in play. I think he’s proving to be more dynamic and better at playing players to their positional strengths than dimma. Credit where it’s due.
you can only beat who you play, and 6 - 2 is more than a fair effort with our poor forward line. but for some reason im just not sure still.
, at full time I thought he's a genius 
Probably because the 6 wins have all been against sides we expected to beat, but to his credit we won them. The loss against Port was creditable given they have a better side but the loss to Brisbane was diabolical.
Whilst we have won the last two games we have played poorly for the most part in both games. We beat West Coast by 6 goals when everyone else fills their boots against them and have percentage boosters. Apart from a 10 minute burst at the start of the 3rd quarter we were very underwhelming. Again yesterday we struggled against a bottom 4 side for most of the game and then exploded in the last quarter.
The next 2 games will tell us more about Mini and the team. Beat Melbourne and the Job is as good as his, put in a performance like we did against Brisbane and he’s done.
Our expectations are pretty high. We have beaten all the teams around us. I feel he needs a big scalp to add to his resume. But internally he won’t be judged on that.
