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When will Bernie go !!

lamb22 said:
Maybe Dimma is a genius. It's all about expectations isn't it?

Richmond win 11 games in 2008, Toby gives Hardwick kudos for winning 6 games in 2010, 8 in 2011 and 10 in 2012. Why? because 2009 was a disaster.

Flash forward to 2016 Dimma decides to fully engage the handbrake. Despite this our boys still win 8 and throw away a few more including Collingwood and Geelong.

This year pre season Balmey and the assistants encourage Dimma to drive the Ferrari with the handbrake fully disengaged. Dimma reluctantly agrees and hey presto here we are!

Dimma is a genius but probably more in marketing than football.
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What about the rest of the sentence that you cut out mutton?

How did such a *smile* coach with absolutely no grasp of modern football and such a *smile* record of developing players take a team to two 15 win seasons in three (which is the same number of wins that the coaching genius Leppachella has taken us to this year)?
 
Harry said:
New ideas?

It's concerning that our senior coach of 8+ years hasn't been able to teach his players the basic fundamentals of modern football. We've wasted many preseasons as a result and further confirms that the coach and game plan has been the problem not the list.

Wonder if Caddy gets a kick up the bum similar to Jack after his "the game went that way and we went this way" comment.

Reading the tea leaves isnt a strength of Dimmas.

Hopefully Balmeys on top of things and ensures the brains of our revival continues to lead our club into the future.
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You are assuming that what Caracella brought were the basic fundamentals of football and that's hat Caddy was talking about. You don't know that, it's just your bias that makes you believe it
 
Baron Samedi said:
So here I am, suggesting there'll be agitated coterie groups, members, ex-players, etc if we throw away our third placing on TWO more finals losses.

Fertile ground for a challenge based purely on Hardwick's tenure I would've thought, particularly as there was movement last year with two years left on Hardwick's contract.

It's possible. Remember, all it would need to do is force the board to act.

And yet here you are Sinners, categorically saying it won't happen. Who's the delusional one again?

Fair dinkum, some people on here need to think before they post.
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I thought you were better than this post Baron but clearly you aren't.

Read my post again, actually read it.

I have said it won't happen which has nothing to do with whether anyone tries or believes it's the right thing to do. If a board challenge can't get up last year in those circumstances then it has zero chance of getting up this year.

You can believe that it should but that won't change whether it will. Richmond members just won't vote for it
 
Sintiger said:
I thought you were better than this post Baron but clearly you aren't.

Read my post again, actually read it.

I have said it won't happen which has nothing to do with whether anyone tries or believes it's the right thing to do. If a board challenge can't get up last year in those circumstances then it has zero chance of getting up this year.

You can believe that it should but that won't change whether it will. Richmond members just won't vote for it
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How was my post any more aggressive than yours Sin? Just responding is all.

I merely said there will be discontent if we straight set this campaign, which feeds challenges.
 
Leysy Days said:
It's not just new ideas though. It's a complete 180 on the entire game plan Dimma was preaching.

Give him credit though for realising the folly of his previous ways and letting Blake have his way.
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Agree. Bernie turned out to not be as stubborn as I thought he was. He deserves credit for being willing to throw away a failed system and embracing ideas from outside - we are now reaping the benefits.
 
Have you blokes got a contingency if we win in straight sets?

Reinvention is the father of incorrectness. or something like that
 
evo said:
I'll be drunk for a week!
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there is a good chance we'll be in the same place, declaring our love, singing tigerland, and studying the form
 
I didn't say a challenge won't happen Baron, I said it wouldn't get up nor would there be a change in coach

I stand by that. No matter what what happens in the next 3 weeks or so there will be no successful board challenge nor will there be a change of coach. You can postulate about why that shouldn't be the case all you like but it won't change the fact that Richmond members will not vote the incumbent Board out in 2017.
 
Get over the Cats then Hardwick & this group may be creating something.

First assignment.

Hardwick has a double chance. First in his tenure. A third position at the H & A point.

Now it begins for his & his players.

Make it hard for Scott Damien as Scott is already thinking how to counter our unique and unpredictable set up & game style.

Unique.

But each game brings it's challenges.

This is a final.

Go Damien. Get this team running through a brick wall ready to make their own history.

Destiny. Whose will it be?
 
Baron Samedi said:
There will be.

Stop being such a loser :hihi I know it comes natural
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Your words, stick by them and don't backpedal BS. I know it's tempting to flip flop given your low success rate on these things but really, you just look indecisive.

Here's an idea, prove me wrong by mounting a board challenge yourself, you'd romp it in with your extensive football knowledge and natural charisma.
 
Sintiger said:
I didn't say a challenge won't happen Baron, I said it wouldn't get up nor would there be a change in coach

I stand by that. No matter what what happens in the next 3 weeks or so there will be no successful board challenge nor will there be a change of coach. You can postulate about why that shouldn't be the case all you like but it won't change the fact that Richmond members will not vote the incumbent Board out in 2017.
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Interesting that you should posit that opinion as fact, but no problem, I like that.

I don't think you've thought this through, however.

If we straight set, thats as good as missing finals altogether for the psyche of the club. An absolute, unmitigated disaster.

If you think last year was intense, watch out, because every middle of the road supporter will be furious.

The prospect of a coordinated challenge, if only to force movement on the failed head coach, is highly likely.

I'll say it again - straight sets is as good as 16th in the eyes of the club's supporters.
 
antman said:
Your words, stick by them and don't backpedal BS. I know it's tempting to flip flop given your low success rate on these things but really, you just look indecisive.

Here's an idea, prove me wrong by mounting a board challenge yourself, you'd romp it in with your extensive football knowledge and natural charisma.
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A recap on your contribution on this thread recently :

You started by claiming no board challenge could happen if we bow out. So far, so good. Wrong, but then you often are.

Then I posited the opposite. That a board challenge would happen. Nothing has changed.

You immediately dissembled, true to form, mumbling something about hoping it doesn't happen.

As soon as another poster argued that a board challenge couldn't happen, you were all over it again like the coward you are. Again, true to form.

And now, you're trying to find holes where there are none.

If we straight set, hello board challenge.

Sinners, a man I respect, disagrees with me.

You, a poster I do not respect, hung around the edges like a weasel.
 
Baron Samedi said:
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I'll say it again - straight sets is as good as 16th in the eyes of the club's supporters.
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Possibly. No doubt there will be much frothing at the mouth but history shows that doesn't translate into action. Things have been pretty dire in the past but nothing much has been done about it. Can't in my wildest dreams see that changing this year. I guess time will tell.
 
rosy3 said:
Possibly. No doubt there will be much frothing at the mouth but history shows that doesn't translate into action. Things have been pretty dire in the past but nothing much has been done about it. Can't in my wildest dreams see that changing this year. I guess time will tell.
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This is true. At the very least, I sense there are clearer reports to Benny with Balmey there.
 
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