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McIntosh would be so much better if we abandon the nonsense of making him a defender. He's an out and out midfielder and I would start him in the guts each week.
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waved good bye to fans at the vfl and was having snaps taken with them .TV was doing the same.
Sadly you can't do all that in one foul swoop.
Something tells me we wre going to the draft and trade period with the same recruiting bloke, same list manager and same football dept head!
I'm one - a journo - but don't cover AFL. But yes, the line of questioning to Dimma from the media has been as poor as his coaching. He has his mates Watson, Lloyd and Robbo pumping his tyres up still every week.
I said as much to a mate watching the game with me ... Sydney had a bunch of first and second year players running around. Yet they seemed well-drilled and do the team things.
Sh**s me that Dimma just thinks that we are destined for finals next year, but has no idea how the hell we are going to get there. The culture of this club needs to change immediately if we are any hope of getting near finals in the next 10 years.
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Refreshing to see someone optimistic, but I won't join you in your optimism. I'll tell you why. Let's run through those players missing:
Deledio - need to start finding other options as he may be slowing down
Miles - Hardwick chose to leave him out, he was available
Griffiths - he was injured, should be able to cover him 7 years into our rebuild given his usual output
Batchelor - should be able to cover him 7 years into our rebuild given his usual output
Vickery - definitely need to be able to cover as he is probably gone next year anyway
Chaplin - finished already
Morris - we made finals last year without needing a lot from him
McIntosh - Only one I'll give you from those out due to injury.
Should all of these outs result in a 113 point loss to the Minor Premier after making finals 3 years in a row if we were a decent side? No. Most of these guys are/should be depth players anyway. Essendon had so many out this year and they were never 136 points down at any stage this year. Even Brisbane were not 136 points down 5 minutes into the last quarter against anyone (although they lost to Adelaide by 138 points).
We still had Cotchin, Dusty, Riewoldt and Rance out there in the loss. 4/5 of our best players. Grigg, BEllis and Houli were still there. So, I just don't see the outs as the main factor to our performance.
I just think we are a bad side heading to the bottom 2 next year with the way things are going.
Good luck, I find it unsavoury how posters come on here gloating after a loss, I love football, i will back myself on most occasions with my actions and comments I make against any nonsense that I believe to be spiteful, misinformed, unbalanced, inaccurate or ignorant by those who choose to use forums as a negative sounding board.
Some of these posters will come on here and complain 100 times a week after a loss, yet after a stirring win become dormant.
I find this unacceptable so i will stick up for my team as i would expect others to do the same.
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This is not about the odd "stirring" win. As other posters have already pointed out, just about every season for the last 34 years has had the odd "stirring" win. That may be enough for you. Maybe all you want is to put you arm around a mate a few times a year and head to the pub. But plenty of us saw the writing on the wall. You could see this season coming a mile off. Just think of some of our turgid performances over the latter stages of last season, such as when when Adelaide had about four times as many scoring shots; or when we took most of the match to put paid to North Melbourne's b-team on the eve of the finals. The fact is, you can't be anything without a functioning forwardline, a good ruckman, some depth in the midfield, and more than one defender that would get a game at another club. Everyone is entitled to be ropeable that we are in this predicament after seven years of Hardwick. His task was not impossible. For seven years, he has had a side with five of the top 50 players in the league, yet has bugger-all to show for it.
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hey dimma can i play for the tigers i rate pretty good amongst my mates when we have a kick...about 2nd or 4th best.
Can't disagree with you. Excellent points.
So really its still just poor depth and underperforming middle tier players.
So when does the cricket start?
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Ok. Quite a bit said. You can have whatever opinion you want. If you want to believe COLA (which no longer exists and for which list mgt decisions were made to equality) or academies (which are now entirely weighted on proper value save 25% discount) is the reason for success then by all means do so. It is the popular self delusion perpetrated down south because it excuses facing the truth. That truth is exactly as I said.
To be a success the very first thing you must do is be honest with yourself about where it stands. If you don't as a club then it's unachievable because your starting point is an illusion
I'm sorry if this sounds like telling you how to suck eggs , that wasn't my intention. My intention was to say that richmond WILL have it's turn, it's place in the sun so don't despair at one loss.
To be a success the very first thing you must do is be honest with yourself about where it stands. If you don't as a club then it's unachievable because your starting point is an illusion
I'm sorry if this sounds like telling you how to suck eggs , that wasn't my intention. My intention was to say that richmond WILL have it's turn, it's place in the sun so don't despair at one loss.
Don't you reckon the decent thing to do was to give him a send off in the ones?
Pretty piss poor by the club I would have thought
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Stiff s**t and what does this have to do with you behaving like a fifteen yo and accusing me of having another account?
I'm always on here win or lose so again you're full of yourself.
The only person here being spiteful is you by your posts of late.
Pretty amazing how 90% of posters now are basically saying what a few were saying for the last three years.
Yet you haven't caught on. Which possibly suggests you're a fanbois and troll as what genuine RFC supporter would want this incompetent buffoon coaching us.
Now if you don't like it go and join the DH Arnott's Teddy Bear Facebook forum.
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Yeah but are you a good bloke from a good family?
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Playing in Sydney mate so it was difficult.probably not the best memory of your last game either had he gone.
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Seriously dude, main board if you want to have this fight (per your op)
Was thinking our last game at home against the saints
Anyways, thought Ivan deserved more for his services ...but it would be just lie, him to decline and want to play VFL...God thing he got to go out a winner
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Agree and at least people got a chance to shake his hand.
Dimma looked happy in the press conference.
Yes can't wait to watch Sri Lanka smash Australia...
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what a contrast, compared to us the fans lol we werent laughing yesterday
I might have been...
Can't believe Dimma faces the media with a huge smirk on his face. Clearly, he cannot coach and needs to be paid out before he weaves his magic on more of our Star players (Jack has become "ordinary" from "Elite"). Sure the list is one of the worst in the AFL, but I don't trust the powers to be to develop a good side.
Inside the four walls - the culture is rotten. Dimma is wiping the floor with the jumper. Half the players on our list need to be put on the table. Thank God this train wreck of a season is over, but there's not much optimism until coaching, recruiting, development and players are moved on.
.. and Dimma says we "might learn something" from this year. The only thing I've learnt is that coaches should never been given extensions until AFTER the season. Then we would not have to wait 2 years to start the rebuild. Dimma will be plugging holes. We are 5-7 years off from sustained success.
Inside the four walls - the culture is rotten. Dimma is wiping the floor with the jumper. Half the players on our list need to be put on the table. Thank God this train wreck of a season is over, but there's not much optimism until coaching, recruiting, development and players are moved on.
.. and Dimma says we "might learn something" from this year. The only thing I've learnt is that coaches should never been given extensions until AFTER the season. Then we would not have to wait 2 years to start the rebuild. Dimma will be plugging holes. We are 5-7 years off from sustained success.
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