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change your mind on Dimma if we lose?

Dimma is still the man for the job. he has a plan that the board support. He has taken a basket case into a developing team. He has taken one of the worst teams in many years and starting to build a team that can take the next step. He still has obstacles to overcome and still needs to draft or entice a few good players. Dumping him will not change anything and I believe that the current club administration is here for the long haul. A change of coach will set us back AGAIN as they start to try and implement their plans. The previous administrations at Punt Road stuffed around by dumping coaches, trying to buy players in tit for tat exchanges, brought in garbage and got rubbish. We have a vision and a plan and will succeed. Yep.....round 12 things are grim...gee why dont we try and get Roos, why dont we get whoever.....do that and we end up being a basket case again as they scrap players and try to build their own team....
 
What a contrast in the first two posts on this page. Dean Hart Northey showing he understands where the club is at and is headed, and zips.
 
If we start repeating history by dumping coaches before contracts are up we haven't learnt from our past history.
 
tigers80 said:
If we start repeating history by dumping coaches before contracts are up we haven't learnt from our past history.
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That's the whole point, the internet clearly hasn't learnt, but I reckon the club has.
 
Dimma seems like a top guy. He is not a game day coach, no plan B and can't get his team to do what we have to in tight situations. Also we are still the poorest skilled side in the league by a long way, although we get it back we give it up too easy. We leak easy goals late in qtrs and still play guys like Jackson so in my view he has to go :-\
 
spook said:
I like that we've got a crunch game against the same mob, on the same ground, at almost the same point in the season, as when 'the worst side since Fitzroy' had its first win under Dimma, just under 3 short years ago. We've come a long way, and there's still a way to go. If I were Dimma I'd use it as a signpost: "There we were; here we are. Where do you want to go? Show me you want it."

The players need to take some responsibility. It's too easy and too Richmond to blame the coach.
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Some good posting tonight spook.
 
TigerFurious said:
The reality is that Hardwick will see out his contract unless he loses the players and we start resembling Melbourne.

It wouldn't be very responsible for a club to sack it's coach and pay out millions on one hand while asking for donations from it's supporters to eliminate debt with the other.
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Good post mate. Hard to make a call on Hardwick this early. Reckon he deserves to see out his contract and a decision made next year. It was a lot worse under Spud and Wallace in their fourth years.
 
year of the tiger said:
Well said spook - couldn't agree more.

These threads tend to put me off this site I am afraid, tend to ignore them. I know everyone is allowed to have their view - but jumping on the coach after round 7, when we have had the best start to a year in years is mind boggling.

Dimma has put down the best foundations of possible 200 plus players that I have seen in a Richmond team for a very long time. Conca, Ellis, Vlas, Cotchin, Reiwoldt, Batch.......

Want to undo the last three years with a knee jerk response to a few losses.

Carter - stick to your footy analysis, enjoying reading some of those posts but this thread is just crap in my view.
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Ha ha, no worries YotT.

The truth is I'm nervous about tomorrow. I wanna believe in dimma because he's been rock solid for three years now.

How refreshing has it been to have a decent coach for a change?

Coaching a team to the finals is vastly different to rebuilding a basket case.

Maybe our second halves have been crap because our gameplay is taxing?

Maybe the players are ready for something different, a more classical game style that backs the boys in to winning more one on one contests?

These aren't easy questions to answer, and it's very easy for keyboard warriors to blame the coach.

But they've been the questions in my mind lately. I hope Dimma survives. On the hard work he's put in, he deserves to see the tree bear fruit.

The reality is there are different types of coaches out there. Dimma is yet to prove he can get us to the promised land.

The wrong result tomorrow is a hammer blow.
 
GEDS1 said:
Dimma seems like a top guy. He is not a game day coach, no plan B and can't get his team to do what we have to in tight situations. Also we are still the poorest skilled side in the league by a long way, although we get it back we give it up too easy. We leak easy goals late in qtrs and still play guys like Jackson so in my view he has to go :-\
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The poorest skilled side in league, geez I would have thought Melbourne, Brisbane and such would be worse than us.
 
spook said:
So if we lose to a team that has won 5 of 6 and lost the other by 10 points, playing at their ground, interstate, when we're without Cotchin, Grimes, Conca, Vickery and possibly Maric, with Foley playing his first game for a year, King with a broken thumb, and Newman, Tuck and Grigg down on previous output, we should re-think the coach. Sounds reasonable.
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very reasonable , port were crap (basket case )last year and if they beast us they would of gone past us and have improved more in 6 months than we have in 4 years , which shows we picked the wrong coach
 
houdini said:
very reasonable , port were crap (basket case )last year and if they beast us they would of gone past us and have improved more in 6 months than we have in 4 years , which shows we picked the wrong coach
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we beat Hawthorn and Sydney last year.......does that mean we've gone past them?
 
houdini said:
you care to put a wager that we will beat them this year ,
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I don't think we've gone past them. You're saying if we lose to Port, they have gone past us. Why will they have gone past us on the result of this game? yet we KNOW we haven't gone past Hawks and swans on those results. Trying to figure out your logic..... :headscratch
 
We are where we should be with our playing list, middle of the pack fighting for the last spot in the 8....
We have Cotchin, Martin, lids, foley, Edwards, Vastuin, Conca, Ellis as genuine quality mids that means we are 3 or 4 short of being up there with the better sides.
Chaplain, Rance, Morris are good defenders.
Maric, Jack and Vickery are good talls
Get the mids and a genuine speedy crumber and we are set

Dimm with all his faults doesn't have the complete jigsaw puzzle yet
 
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