Missing out on Kingsley was what has me annoyed the most. We missed out on a very good coach who was right under our roof.
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Damien Hardwick
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Even if all true, i harbour no ill feelings. People go through different things during different periods of their lives, I have absolutely no doubt we got the absolue best out of Dimma and the 3 flags are in the books.
AFL industry theres lots of changes, i dont care that i dont know every sorded detail, what i do know is he worked his backside off for majority of his 14 years and we fans finally saw success, lots of it.. Thats good enough for me and i wish him all the best for whatever he does in future, just not vs tigers!.
Look great full to Dimma , but his conduct from the fall out from the covid hub went downhill. He wasn't coaching great at all even preseason this year we looked so far off it.
Utter bs burnout for me he bailed on us knowing we we're a sinking ship from our glory days and still believe he had deal in place to go on to.The end left a sour taste for me.
Utter bs burnout for me he bailed on us knowing we we're a sinking ship from our glory days and still believe he had deal in place to go on to.The end left a sour taste for me.
I could actually see a Dimma bring success to that club - they have that mix of star forward and mid power potential - amazing what you can do around 3 or 4 stars of the game and Dimma would also draw more star power to that club.
Every docker, sainter, and GWS supporter would turn in their grave if Dimma did make it to the holy grail at that place.
I gotta say I feel the same, but I'd be absolutely filthy too if Cornes was a Tigers fan.Cornhole trying his hardest to cause faction. Love the responses to him....
To be fair, Dimma does have the softest hands. Feels like silk sheets running up and down your body.
Interesting point. This is almost a last chance saloon scenario for the GCS project. If it fails to fire under Dimma, it’s time to board the joint up.
I reckon this is the old "let's go buy the shiniest piece of the puzzle trick" and that will fix all our problems (re: Clarkson at North). Dimma deserves a lot of credit for our 3 premierships. Maybe the most credit. But so does Peggy, Benny, Balmey...etc etc. And then a few blokes called Martin, Cotchin, Riewoldt, Rance and Lynch (all future AFL hall of famers). Throw in 100,000 lunatics at the MCG.
Do Gold Coast have the equivalent less shiny pieces? If not...good luck Dimma! Enjoy the beach.
Do Gold Coast have the equivalent less shiny pieces? If not...good luck Dimma! Enjoy the beach.
Balmy said that when Dimma told Benny he wasn’t up to coaching us anymore that Gale told Dimma if that’s the case then he wasn’t up for a farewell game either.
I wondered why nobody made a big deal out of it at the time. For what it’s worth I agree with Benny, you’re either in or you’re out. If you choose to leave then leave but don’t expect any favours on the way out.
The guy gave us three flags and had no unfinished biz at Punt Rd
Players loved him, he left at the right time
Nothing to see here except the likely departure of Livingstone and some others.
Good. They served the club immaculately and 2024 is looking fresher by the day.
Players loved him, he left at the right time
Nothing to see here except the likely departure of Livingstone and some others.
Good. They served the club immaculately and 2024 is looking fresher by the day.
Tend to agree. Let's see at end of 2028, if the Huns failed under Dimma, he'll probably bring up the cooking the snags line again and disappear into the sunset. Could get embarrassing for Dimma's reputation if Huns fail within those 5 years.
There's nothing embarrassing about stuffing your pockets with cash
Hardwick's ending at Richmond couldn't have been handled any better. Regardless who thought he was finished or wanted him to stay forever.
He wasn't the best match day coach I've seen, but he made a playing group believe. He is always a players coach. But to say we dont like him because he bailed mid year is pure BS.
It was time for change. We love him regardless who he coaches but we need change and Q isn't the one either. We need someone from outside to come in to start the new chapter.
Good luck to him and his family he served our club well.
He wasn't the best match day coach I've seen, but he made a playing group believe. He is always a players coach. But to say we dont like him because he bailed mid year is pure BS.
It was time for change. We love him regardless who he coaches but we need change and Q isn't the one either. We need someone from outside to come in to start the new chapter.
Good luck to him and his family he served our club well.
I've put this elsewhere.
You don't line up a new girlfriend if you're still married. That's a dog act. He may not have been performing, and it might have been time for him to go. He may truly have been burned out. Also fine. I think he realised though, we were in for a rebuild, that his plan had backfired, and he didn't want his legacy tarnished with extra losses while
we re-tooled.
It's the setting something up in the background, so he has a soft landing that I don't like. Why would he give up his contract for next year if he didn't already
have a guarantee he'd be covered. Remember, there's an agreement that old clubs only have to pay the delta between old contract and new contract - so he likely wouldn't have had a wage from RFC next year anyway. Absolutely no risk to him at all financially.
If he wanted out because he was "burned out". Go. Sit out a year. Refresh yourself and go again. Fine.
But support chasing one last flag, bail when it gets tough - with a new sweetheart in the wings waiting, Go have a holiday while our season flounders
and then jump aboard a different club a few months later? One that has been topped up with high draft picks, academy picks etc, so you don't have too much of
a rebuild to go through. One that you were linked to the day you quit? Whilst the players that stayed for a finals tilt have continue to dig in for the club while he
holidays around the world?
Go *smile* yourself you traitorous, lack of integrity, Judas.
Of course, Mrs Hardwick could have probably already told us about lack of integrity, couldn't she?
Maybe dustbin time harbours romantic feelings for Dimma? Would be hard to watch the man you love choose someone else.
