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Damien Hardwick

Tigerdangerous said:
Timing is everything and while the accolades for Hardwick are flowing thick and fast, and much deserved, I wished he had taken off to America at the end of the ‘22 season as just plain old Mr Hardwick, having already stepped down as the coach of the Tigers.

Ten games into a season and “jumping ship” with a smile and spring in your step is bloody lousy timing in my opinion!
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I think it follows from his recognition that as it turns out he was wrong when he thought that there was another premiership there.
We have a good list but a way to go.
Very stressful job, very stressful decision, but one made by him and in the clubs best interests.
 
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Tigerdangerous said:
He allowed his self belief (some might say ego), to roll the dice one more time.
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This is outrageous, a coach with self belief and ego. Totally negligent of the club to allow this to happen.

Post needed a few more exclamation marks nostradamus.
 
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What's been pleasing these last couple of days is praise and acknowledgement of how Dimma and the Tigers changed the game for the better. I'm just waiting for someone to mention the AFL's obessions with stopping our success by implementing Richmond Rules to curtail our advantages.
 
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Seeing his 3 kids, Mum and Alex sitting together can now kill all other soap opera bullshlt some come out with.

Just like when someone you know passes away, it takes time to sink in and re-boot. I have faith in MiniMac.
 
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What was that reference Beavis made at the end, "see you tomorrow" all about?
Err, actually no you won't!
Maybe to clean his office out?

Also can't see Dimma returning to a Balmey type role.
Dimma is too wired, too combative for such a role.

So lucky we still have the sage, the guru, the calm whisperer of reason in the halls of Punt Rd.
As the poster said " Keep Balme and Carry on!"
 
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Despite the shock of the timing, I think this is a great result for everyone.

So many of these things end up in bad blood in one way or another, so pleased this has ended with everyone happy.

Everyone involved in ending the premiership drought will be cherished forever by all Richmond people and rightfully so, the coach at the top of that pile.

Just don't turn on him when he coaches somewhere else. ;)
 
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Hear hear.

Actually the way he left was beautiful. No nonsense, simple, quick, intense, brutal, yet human in that very Dimma way.
 
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The Big Richo said:
Just don't turn on him when he coaches somewhere else. ;)
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Don't think I did when Swooper went to Brisbane, although wasn't as big a loss as Dimma is now. I hope he comes back as a football director to us....if we need it.
 
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I just finished balmeys biography,

And from afar,

i think he is a better actor than leonardo dicapprio.

I think His 'indestructible calm'

Would be actually pretty destructible.

I suspect his trick is, hes found a perspective and a bag of behavioural tricks that allow him to stay in the centre of the ring, to stay off the ropes at all times

I love what hes credited with doing,

But i dont buy that the bloke that shattered blokes jaws with crude clubbings from behind

Is by nature,

footy's nelson mandela.

Thats not to say a bloke impersonating nelson mandela

Isnt very valuable in a footy department.

We all pretend.

Which is to say, i just wasted a hundred words and 5 minutes.

Back on Dimma and wasted words;

I think part of his decision will be another strategy we all employ;

Avoidance of difficult things.

Dimma built the glorious super-structure of Richmond Man.

And surely he's seen that if hes there, when a few VIP Richmond Men become non-consensual Gold Coast Men for pick 30 and 250 grand of cap space,

The super-structure is demolished by a moral earthquake.

If hes not there,

It largely stands, forever.

Id do the same.
 
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Baloo said:
What's been pleasing these last couple of days is praise and acknowledgement of how Dimma and the Tigers changed the game for the better. I'm just waiting for someone to mention the AFL's obessions with stopping our success by implementing Richmond Rules to curtail our advantages.
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Yep, AND the obsession with the "State of the Game" *smile* that filled the papers & airwaves for 2 *smile* years
 
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The Big Richo said:
Despite the shock of the timing, I think this is a great result for everyone.

So many of these things end up in bad blood in one way or another, so pleased this has ended with everyone happy.

Everyone involved in ending the premiership drought will be cherished forever by all Richmond people and rightfully so, the coach at the top of that pile.

Just don't turn on him when he coaches somewhere else. ;)
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Well said, but as i posted elsewhere good luck to him at the Suns, and maybe the Power, but if he heads to the Blues or the Bombers that love is going to be tested!
 
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