Seems like a few posters in this thread have clearly been biding their time for 4 years waiting on Hardwick to screw up and prove then correct.
He’s been coach for 10+ years and had just as many assistants come and go in that time. Yet somehow, they are collectively more responsible for our success than the one constant during that whole time? Give me a break.
It took reduction in football department spending, crippling long injury list and some very targeted rule changes to bring down what Hardwick built. He could never coach another winning team again and still have good claim to a statue outside Punt Rd.
Yeah there’ll always be a couple who just don’t like Hardwick.
Me, I think a gold statue would be well deserved from where he took us in 2010. Gargantuan effort and he is easily one of the best man managers the game has seen.
That is everything you can ask for in a head coach.
But Mr Damien Hardwick is as stubborn as a mule.
He needs to be challenged on matters of football tactics and selection, just like any head coach in the comp.
2020 is done. We have missed finals since then.
Happy to laud Hardwick till the cows come home for what he has achieved, but as long as he’s in that chair and being paid by the club he is fair game in terms of current output.
2022 beckons and we need him sharp and ahead of the game - both in terms of his outlook and the calibre of coaching staff he has around him.
It’s a brutal industry and that’s the reality. The last thing Hardwick would want is club and fans alike wallowing in past glories.
