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Well, narrow
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Evidently, the Essendon Accountant was so busy plotting endlessly cheap, off the ball 'hits' on his next opponent during his university days, that he missed many golden opportunities to mingle with future CREATIVE accountants.
I think we can mark that down as a universal assessment from football people in the know after so many years of miserably failing to lure any top-line talent to the club - despite having cap-room to burn and being in an infinitely better off-field position than ever before in our modern history.
None of these players wanted to be subject to Hardwick's endless tactical incompetence and embarrassingly football-blind man-fetishes, or be part of the piss-weak culture of failure he's allowed to infest what has now become a terminally under-performing playing group. Players changing club want success and sadly, due to the above, we've been assessed over and over again by the football world as a worse gamble than many other alternative clubs whose core playing group is considerably less talented.
He's therefore not simply a 'weakness', he's a colossal liability and any extension of his contract will only extend the misery.
He came in promising a serious premiership challenge within a 5yr time frame with a side built almost entirely from the draft.
If any person on this board was given a crystal ball 7yrs ago which showed that we'd be going into 2016 with nothing from finals but humiliation, with Chaplin being proposed as our CHF, a half-buggered Maric as our no.1 ruck, Hampson as probably our next best no.1 ruck option, Houli as our go-to rebounder, a far too long list of retread man-fetish failures, and that the player who had come closest to fulfilling the potential they arrived at the club with was Rance, we'd all happily get down on our knees and beg for a roll of the dice on any other option which might look a little less like a massive failure.
"How could any other possible coaching end result look much worse 7yrs in?" we would ask ourselves.
Not a single person here would have said 7yrs ago - 'wow, those Hardwick results as outlined above sound *excellent*, let's go with that.'
Yet here we are.
our list wasn't too bad in 2009.Agree we were poorly coached,but heavens our famous 8 were there and are still with us today.we were gifted Martin by SMellburn with a plethora of supporting players in Jacko Kingy Newman tuck etc.That's another throwaway line. Really with all that DH has had given to him ,he's massively under achieved.The results don't lie
Awesome list at the end of 09, finishing 15th and all that must just be a throw away result. Lets not factor in who retired on that list either before hardwick took over lol
http://www.aflrules.com.au/afl-teams/richmond-tigers/2010-richmond-tigers-team/Our list was not that bad in 09 ???? Ok all righty then
Yep, absolutely. H&A record since R14 2014 is 24-7. Finals are where it's won but it's 'just' a monkey to kick off the back, and other than that we are up there with the contenders. And 5 years ago, if you told me we'd be expecting to play finals and winning 75% of games, I'd get you put in a mental hospital.
who said failed?I said he's underachieved.The above list has still yet to achieve anything worth framing let alone a bit of silverware.
Hardwick was part of Hawthorns success in 2008.
hahaha
look at your draw, we have been handed a dream run in the first seven weeks, top 4 should be a lock.
you misread my post again.here is the gist
