Roast Coaching: Chaplin

[Harmichael]

I wonder if Rance is allowed extra salary cap allowance now that he's doubling up as our new backline coach?

 

[Rayzorwire]

It was an ugly day at the office for the Essendon Accountant. I took no pleasure in seeing it happen, I think at once stage I even started feeling sorry for him.

Collingwood have seldom been more vulnerable, their list is severely weakened and the simple fact is, Hardwick was comprehensively out-coached at all levels from motivation right through to yet another batch of horrible tactical blunders.

He said pre-game that his biggest concern was Cloke getting on a roll, we might have to double team him. Then sat there, watched it happen and did far too little, too late. He crucified poor Rance, it was pathetic coaching and half the ground was left wondering if our entire box had fallen asleep.

Tuck's had four tackles for the entire ****ing season (his lowest numbers ever by a country mile) as Hardwick tinkers with having his pet proteges at the coal face instead. Well and good against Footscray and the 'Aints. Give the up and coming 'stars' full reign in the midfield for major game time. But at least have your hard stopping brigade setup as plan B, C or D against the top-4 sides.

But no, we were once again treated to the far too familiar sight of Shane Tuck with the sub vest on, once again wondering whether the analogy of 'Bunny in the Headlights' or 'Clown With His Pants Around His Ankles' better fits the bloke in the coaching box as the opposition rain on the goals. It was almost a carbon copy of rd.1 last year - Tuck in the vest on the pine, while Richmond and Hardwick embarrassingly collapse on the big stage.

Personally, I stop finding forgiveness for failure when a man is incapable of learning from why he failed. Hardwick's been occupying that space for most of his tenure. Even when the answer is staring him in the face and he has the tools at his disposal, he'll be too busy straying from the fundamentals in an attempt to make reality finally gel with his man-fetishes.

Can anyone name cases of Hardwick making a slightly left of centre, significant personnel move during a match which actually helped us, even helped us lose by appreciably less? I can do that for every Richmond coach in the last three decades - except him. I struggle to think of one single, decent example. Apparently he wakes up to the possible moves he may have made on the weekend, by around Tuesday or so.

When our stars are struggling, game after game he has no tactical answers to bring them into the game, he just plods along with the same 'it was finalised on Wednesday when the players were picking their opponents'' game plan. A game plan tailored to win enough games where our list is miles ahead of the opposition and produce enough 'honourable,' small enough losses to keep him in a job out of the rest.

Personally, I'm sick to death of his lack of intelligence and his penchant for unrealistic man-fetishes holding back the club. It's tough to find more than a handful of lists which have more talent than ours and Collingwood's from the weekend certainly wasn't one of them. The Blues almost derailed us in rd.1 because Hardwick had absolutely no tactical answer to an 'attack at all costs' game plan from them at the end of the match, this week 'kick it to Clokey' had him completely tactically flummoxed, despite the fact he'd been working on that probability all week.

We win games because we have a very good list these days, not because we're being coached by an even vaguely capable tactician. Time to recognise this fact and start planning for his successor.

 

[Del65166]

Astbury will be the one if he can stay fit he is the only on with the physique and I'd prefer Griff playing forward. I honestly reckon Chaplin will be forced out of our defence at some stage either this year or next. A backline of Grimes, Batchelor, Rance and Astbury along with Morris and Houli is our best IMO.
Astbury would be used on big forwards, Rance, Grimes and Batchelor can all play tall or medium and can play 3rd tall. Houli and Morris take the small players.

It'd be nice if Astbury could work his way into the line up.I'd like to see him down back. Where is he at re: injury?

...there are question marks over our key positions both fwd and back....so Astbury, Griffiths are very much in the picture

 

[Reckoner Tiger]

Tough words Rayzor....I just don't know how much of it I agree with.

Or how much of it I don't want to believe. But a lot of what you say stirs something in me. Not ready to say yea or nay on Dimma yet but...there might be a concern or two.

 

[Harmichael]

Rayzorwire, unfortunately your post resonates, rather uncomfortably.

 

[banicktocotchin]

It was an ugly day at the office for the Essendon Accountant. I took no pleasure in seeing it happen, I think at once stage I even started feeling sorry for him.

Collingwood have seldom been more vulnerable, their list is severely weakened and the simple fact is, Hardwick was comprehensively out-coached at all levels from motivation right through to yet another batch of horrible tactical blunders.

He said pre-game that his biggest concern was Cloke getting on a roll, we might have to double team him. Then sat there, watched it happen and did far too little, too late. He crucified poor Rance, it was pathetic coaching and half the ground was left wondering if our entire box had fallen asleep.

Tuck's had four tackles for the entire ******* season (his lowest numbers ever by a country mile) as Hardwick tinkers with having his pet proteges at the coal face instead. Well and good against Footscray and the 'Aints. Give the up and coming 'stars' full reign in the midfield for major game time. But at least have your hard stopping brigade setup as plan B, C or D against the top-4 sides.

But no, we were once again treated to the far too familiar sight of Shane Tuck with the sub vest on, once again wondering whether the analogy of 'Bunny in the Headlights' or 'Clown With His Pants Around His Ankles' better fits the bloke in the coaching box as the opposition rain on the goals. It was almost a carbon copy of rd.1 last year - Tuck in the vest on the pine, while Richmond and Hardwick embarrassingly collapse on the big stage.

Personally, I stop finding forgiveness for failure when a man is incapable of learning from why he failed. Hardwick's been occupying that space for most of his tenure. Even when the answer is staring him in the face and he has the tools at his disposal, he'll be too busy straying from the fundamentals in an attempt to make reality finally gel with his man-fetishes.

Can anyone name cases of Hardwick making a slightly left of centre, significant personnel move during a match which actually helped us, even helped us lose by appreciably less? I can do that for every Richmond coach in the last three decades - except him. I struggle to think of one single, decent example. Apparently he wakes up to the possible moves he may have made on the weekend, by around Tuesday or so.

When our stars are struggling, game after game he has no tactical answers to bring them into the game, he just plods along with the same 'it was finalised on Wednesday when the players were picking their opponents'' game plan. A game plan tailored to win enough games where our list is miles ahead of the opposition and produce enough 'honourable,' small enough losses to keep him in a job out of the rest.

Personally, I'm sick to death of his lack of intelligence and his penchant for unrealistic man-fetishes holding back the club. It's tough to find more than a handful of lists which have more talent than ours and Collingwood's from the weekend certainly wasn't one of them. The Blues almost derailed us in rd.1 because Hardwick had absolutely no tactical answer to an 'attack at all costs' game plan from them at the end of the match, this week 'kick it to Clokey' had him completely tactically flummoxed, despite the fact he'd been working on that probability all week.

We win games because we have a very good list these days, not because we're being coached by an even vaguely capable tactician. Time to recognise this fact and start planning for his successor.

Some excellent points here, the appeal of Dimma has been his ability to turn around a poor list into the good list we now have. That is not Dimma alone however as Benny and everyone downwards from there have had input into this. The other encouraging thing Dimma has been doing is the steady improvement each year increasing our wins and reducing our losing margins, he also is pretty funny in the media and has even started saying "look" less.
That said, his match day performances are still questionable, the above point of not making decisive match winning moves is close to the mark. Any left of center moves (McGuane going forward, Grigg playing a run with role, using Pettard down back) are all decided before the game and some aren't even Dimma's call (Chocco take a bow). This may be a symptom of having too many one dimensional players but more likely a coaching panel that has seen wins from process and methodical thinking and think the same approach will lead to ultimate success. More bold and creative moves may be the thing that helps us take the jump into contender status, it remains to be seen if Dimma and co can produce this.

 

[partycorolla]

Wow, how predictable this has become.....

 

[tigers_of_old_08]

Can anyone name cases of Hardwick making a slightly left of centre, significant personnel move during a match which actually helped us, even helped us lose by appreciably less?

Yup, when we beat Hawthorn and Sydney last year. Good grief.

 

[Rayzorwire]

Yup, when we beat Hawthorn and Sydney last year. Good grief.

And they were...?

 

[Livonski]

And they were...?

He instructed Tucky to stop ball watching, run defensively when we don't have it and rather than banging it blindly on to your boot, give it off to Lids and Cotchin.
4 tackles all season and you blame the coach? That's a stupid thing to say. You've got to reassess your own man fetishes razor and ease up on the hatred.

 

[tigers_of_old_08]

And they were...?

Watch the game Rayz, these teams aren't beaten just by turning up to the ground. And I'm not going to engage in a shit fight over the competency of our coach who has already proved his mettle by beating the reigning premier and grand finalists respectively.

And with a 3-1 record so far this season, your attack is far from justified.

I'm not suggesting he gets a free ride, but I do think Rnd 8 onwards will give us a stable picture of where Dimma and the boys are at.

 

[_Wang_]

Surprise surprise.. The hater posts when we lose

 

[db26]

All you guys are raving about Chappy,but seriously we recruited him to play on the best forwards and monster forwards he hasn't did this.Plays loose man in defence ???.Is he up to it or not for FFS.I'm not sure.And I'm sick of the crap he had a limited preseason that's over now.From what I have seen he has iffy kicking and decision making.

 

[Rayzorwire]

Liv and Tig08, WTF are you guys on about? Do you want to go back and read what I wrote, because we're apparently on completely different pages.

Surprise surprise.. The hater posts when we lose

Surprise, surprise, yet another boring Wang ejaculation which bears zero relevance to the topic, attacks the poster and has zero value.

 

[sante]

Missed Chaplin tonight, his experience would have been great tonight.

 

[Rayzorwire]

Missed Chaplin tonight, his experience would have been great tonight.

Hehe...he may have got the same performance boost from flying OVER Adelaide that Knights did?

 

[_Wang_]

Liv and Tig08, WTF are you guys on about? Do you want to go back and read what I wrote, because we're apparently on completely different pages.



Surprise, surprise, yet another boring Wang ejaculation which bears zero relevance to the topic, attacks the poster and has zero value.

He's back!! and after a loss.
You will have a field day this week you boorish ****
And surprise surprise I attack you pal because you have become as predictable as the sun rising in the morning...

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Some excellent points here, the appeal of Dimma has been his ability to turn around a poor list into the good list we now have. That is not Dimma alone however as Benny and everyone downwards from there have had input into this. The other encouraging thing Dimma has been doing is the steady improvement each year increasing our wins and reducing our losing margins, he also is pretty funny in the media and has even started saying "look" less.
That said, his match day performances are still questionable, the above point of not making decisive match winning moves is close to the mark. Any left of center moves (McGuane going forward, Grigg playing a run with role, using Pettard down back) are all decided before the game and some aren't even Dimma's call (Chocco take a bow). This may be a symptom of having too many one dimensional players but more likely a coaching panel that has seen wins from process and methodical thinking and think the same approach will lead to ultimate success. More bold and creative moves may be the thing that helps us take the jump into contender status, it remains to be seen if Dimma and co can produce this.

That resonates with me...
Its going to be interesting to see how that mad bastard 'choco' fits into the Richmond coaching structures...