Damien Hardwick - Sticking it up the doubters

[Blightysboyz]

I am again an idiot and an attention whore to boot.

 

[JVseven]

Hold off until they beat a decent team.

 

[La Dispute]

Haven't beat any good teams yet.

 

[Cmarsh]

But they haven't beaten any good teams.

 

[Substance]

"just play"

Genius.

 

[unplugged]

Reconsider this thread after this weekend, I reckon.

 

[Dadda Dave]

Last year they were losing against the very teams they are beating.

Given where Hardwick and the club was, It's been an impressive turn around

Wait until the fat lady sings ..

 

[mellowyellow]

Reconsider this thread after this weekend, I reckon.

Surely you should judge them on the totality of the season and not one match in isolation

 

[HTT]

He's certainly gotten us playing better than last year - you can't deny that. A lot of that is due to the large personnel change around him as well, but if he copped all the shit last year, he deserves some plaudits if the turnaround is genuine.

 

[BF Tiger]

Full credit to DH to this point of the season, but Blind Freddy could've seen that we needed to change the game plan. Coupled with some good recruiting and... surprise surprise the Tigers have lifted.

Happy to be 5-0 but the challenges are still ahead of us.

 

[Tulip]

Hardwick's Richmond have always been great at riding a wave of momentum, they just struggle to get on a run. I'll judge them at the end of this season.

 

[basashi]

Just gotta forget about the doubters and put all your focus on footy.

 

[YEMOC NAYR]

It's been an impressive start, and for them to finish top 6 they're doing everything right, but I'm holding judgement until they play some teams who I have in calculations for top 6, because I don't think they've vsed any yet.

 

[ess7]

Could be replicating North Melbourne's 9-0 start from last year.

 

[La Dispute]

Nank, Presti and Caddy have all been good though.

They needed more aggression around the ball, and those three have fit in really well and all about to enter their prime. Crazy to think Nanko is still only 22, with very little AFL experience.

 

[SkyhorseTamer]

Just gotta forget about the doubters and put all your focus on footy.

Are you talking to the supporters who frequent bigfooty or the players who (probably) don't...

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Shit, they were probably lucky to beat us, if we took our chances we probably win that game, they were lucky last week as well (as any team is who wins by a slender margin).

Jury is still out for mine, we'll see where they're at when they play some of the big boys.

 

[citizen-erased]

It seems every year the analysis and determination of the season gets earlier.
5 rounds, not tested against half the competition, have left the state once.
Outside of Adelaide, Carlton, North and Collingwood, its very hard to get a read on any team right now

 

[dogs105]

I find your ideas intriguing, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

[basashi]

Are you talking to the supporters who frequent bigfooty or the players who (probably) don't...

It was an evidently too subtle reference to the fact that the destabilising group called themselves "focus on footy"

 

[SkyhorseTamer]

It was an evidently too subtle reference to the fact that the destabilising group called themselves "focus on footy"

Yep! That flew over my head. I'm sure more intelligent readers got it though

 

[10571z]

Kissed on the dick against Melbourne and lucky to snatch other games. Will be exposed when the real stuff starts against good teams. Good start though wish it was the Pies.

 

[Chuckie357]

Last year they were losing against the very teams they are beating.

Given where Hardwick and the club was, It's been an impressive turn around

So he's the taken them from a poo side to a mediocre side? Will he be inducted into the hall of fame sometime this week?

 

[Madness101]

He has stopped trying to replicate Hawthorn's 2008 game style. Which is great.

Where this new style/game plan will get us in 2017 ? The hell knows

 

[compact72]

Fast forward to now and Hardwick is coaching arguably better than anyone in the league.

Righto then


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