Re: The Hardwick selection, coaching, post-game analysis disconnect
When you write, “I see some good and some bad in his coaching record, however I'm glad to see the team improve this year and believe he may have improved as a coach,” tells me you like sitting on the fence, when it suits you; not unlike our coach. Hardwick and the Tigers have hardly improved when you consider the 2017 season sees hardened finals contenders like the Swans and Geelong have slow starts and are flying now. A season that sees lower sides beat top 8 sides making a real assessment of any sides form difficult. Down at Punt Road a few band aides have covered a few holes but we still lose the crunch games and Hardwick still makes selection blunders and keeps on playing his favourites.
Our culture stinks and we are still incredibly weak mentally. Take a few minutes to listen to the Open Mike interview of Balme in 2012 and wait for the moment when Balme talks about what he saw and felt when he arrived at Geelong, on the eve of them winning a premiership (and not just a bloody final which seems to be the bench mark most acceptable to many here including yourself!) and know he’s not saying the same thing about Richmond in 2017.
Hardwick is a tosser protected by those that extended his contract. And did I mention how many of the well paid professional footballers at Richmond cannot kick goals? This is why we have not improved as many believe and that is why we will fail in the finals series. Perhaps then the club will give the opportunity for a new coach to work with this list and improve on it immediately while instilling a very different mind-set that sees the Tigers winning the big games rather than folding like a deck of cards!
You really are a snake-in-the-grass CC Tiger. Your sarcastic asides about the thread I started regarding the “disconnect” between what Hardwick says and does is the reason I have no time for you.CC TIGER said:
When you write, “I see some good and some bad in his coaching record, however I'm glad to see the team improve this year and believe he may have improved as a coach,” tells me you like sitting on the fence, when it suits you; not unlike our coach. Hardwick and the Tigers have hardly improved when you consider the 2017 season sees hardened finals contenders like the Swans and Geelong have slow starts and are flying now. A season that sees lower sides beat top 8 sides making a real assessment of any sides form difficult. Down at Punt Road a few band aides have covered a few holes but we still lose the crunch games and Hardwick still makes selection blunders and keeps on playing his favourites.
Our culture stinks and we are still incredibly weak mentally. Take a few minutes to listen to the Open Mike interview of Balme in 2012 and wait for the moment when Balme talks about what he saw and felt when he arrived at Geelong, on the eve of them winning a premiership (and not just a bloody final which seems to be the bench mark most acceptable to many here including yourself!) and know he’s not saying the same thing about Richmond in 2017.
Hardwick is a tosser protected by those that extended his contract. And did I mention how many of the well paid professional footballers at Richmond cannot kick goals? This is why we have not improved as many believe and that is why we will fail in the finals series. Perhaps then the club will give the opportunity for a new coach to work with this list and improve on it immediately while instilling a very different mind-set that sees the Tigers winning the big games rather than folding like a deck of cards!
