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Can it be business as usual at Hardwick's Richmond?
By Peter Ryan
January 15, 2021 — 11.30am
On Monday at Punt Road the Tigers' senior players and triple premiership coach Damien Hardwick returned to training in the now familiar position as defending premiers.
Hardwick addressed his marriage break-up briefly and politely in public to waiting television cameras, then in private with his players, a week after the club confirmed they had "no concerns ... under club policy" that he was now in a relationship with a female member of the administration.
Richmond coach Damien Hardwick at the club's return to pre-season training on Monday.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
While captain Trent Cotchin made it clear he didn't want to talk to waiting media, it was left to champion forward Jack Riewoldt to declare the situation "business as usual" on the football front.
Riewoldt answered as best he could questions about Hardwick's separation that, at the very least, surprised and saddened those close to the 48-year-old coach and his family.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ect-tigers-says-riewoldt-20210111-p56t4e.html
Although Riewoldt's description rang true for those at the club on Monday when they saw Hardwick - who despite occasional public outbursts of frustration generally adopts a "never explain, never complain" attitude - bounce in to work ready to go, the effect on the club remains to be seen.
The coach knows what is required of him to do his job well, having admitted after last year's grand final that his reluctance to accept COVID-19 restrictions affected the team, saying "the reality is if I'm struggling, the players are certainly going to feed off that energy" .
He also understands why some players are shocked at what has happened and appreciates they will need time and raw conversations to adjust to the new light in which some - certainly not all - of his most loyal lieutenants now see him.
But his demeanour allowed most players to maintain a guise that suggested if the personal issues were to have any impact on the club they would be minimal.
They showed in 2020 that they could overcome all manner of distractions, including Hardwick's internal struggles, defeating Geelong in a hard-fought grand final. Early wins this season will push the very public private matter well into the background because for all the posturing from clubs that's what matters most.
That doesn't mean senior people at the club are underestimating what lies ahead as there are very few road maps for how modern, often superficially virtuous, football clubs handle such matters despite the situation being a classic conjunction of events - a very public and long-standing personal relationship breakdown, and the interaction of a senior staff member with a more junior one, albeit in a separate section of the organisation.
Skipper Trent Cotchin and Damien Hardwick lift the 2020 premiership cup.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
Richmond may not have couched it in such terms, but the reality is that the senior coach in any club holds more cards than anybody bar the CEO and the president, both who have remained, to this point, silent on the matter publicly.
The club released a statement addressing that power dynamic, saying they were satisfied after examining their human resources policy that they were comfortable in workplace terms with the situation, as marketing executive Alexandra Crow did not report to the coach.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ew-hardwick-relationship-20210104-p56rnm.html
Beth Gaze, a professor at Melbourne University's Law School, says it appears from afar that the Tigers have handled the issue appropriately from that perspective.
"One of the concerns organisations have is that if someone has power over somebody else's career that there may be some favouritism and that can, of course, really poison the workplace and can make relationships difficult," Gaze said.
"The consequences of [such a relationship] should not rest on the woman or the more junior person and that is why organisations are in a sense saying if you are the senior person then it is your responsibility to make sure you have disclosed this and removed yourself from any control over their career.
"The rest of it is awkward but there is no way you can avoid those emotional consequences."
Given there is no way of avoiding the emotional fallout, management led by CEO Brendon Gale and president Peggy O'Neal will need to be on their game.
Even though football clubs, generally speaking, get on with the job (Richmond are not the only club dealing this summer with marriage breakdowns or interoffice relationships that not everyone within the office are celebrating), this turn of events has saddened many.
What effect the marriage breakdown will have on those at the club close to the coach and his wife remains unclear; as we have seen, Danielle Hardwick and daughters were embraced by the captain's wife, Brooke Cotchin, at Christmas.
Adding to the complexity is the fact the Tigers' extensive network of tight personal bonds - common in AFL clubs but rare in most other workplaces - have been cited as one of the secrets to the Tigers' recent success with the use of anecdotes and connected stories a key part of the coach's modus operandi in recent years as he established a tight bond with his players.
The notion of being a "Richmond man" and concepts of mindfulness sat nicely beside Hardwick's occasional public reference to Mrs Hardwick's influence on his thinking, words that smoothed his rough edges and endeared him to the public whenever he apologised for overstepping the mark.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...wick-to-avoid-derailment-20201204-p56krk.html
Family and football even intertwined before the 2019 grand final in a moment captured in Konrad Marshall's book Stronger and Bolder when Hardwick gave each player a rock to write the name of the person they would dedicate their performance to as he argued it would make them more determined to succeed. He then held up a large rock carrying words revealing his own motivation, Danielle and family.
Such public and private expressions from the coach add another layer of complexity to managing the situation.
Despite all that, officials from other clubs share the Tigers' view that their performance won't be affected much, with the players' pride in their performance paramount and the leaders experienced enough to allow Hardwick's role to be one of alignment.
Many have been through change with Hardwick before as the coach began his career as a command-and-control coach who would stop drills midway to tell players where they should be and the decision they should make.
At that point Hardwick was less about finding time to have a coffee with players and more about using the time to talk about their positioning and what the numbers said about performance. His dress sense was chided, his down-to-earth nature and loyalty to them celebrated, but the emotional rollercoaster he took many at the club on was exhausting.
It wasn't until the nadir of 2016 that he overcame his controlling instinct to give his best decision-makers licence to play and gave fringe players roles that emphasised their strengths with their pace giving the Tigers numbers around the ball.
He, relaxed, opened himself up to learning and created a game plan that one assistant coach said boiled down to Richmond taking the ball forward under pressure.
They scored off turnover and players such as the skipper led the way in creating a group of low-possession, high-impact players.
The so-called "simple" game plan is now, after four years of refinement, described by one experienced assistant as like an orchestra that makes the difficult coordination of disparate parts seem effortless in their creation of a masterpiece.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/...an-buckley-call-it-quits-20201204-p56ks7.html
It is a turnaround that has Hardwick on the verge of equalling such coaching greats as Kevin Sheedy, Allan Jeans, Ron Barassi, Tom Hafey, David Parkin and the man he has shared so much with, Alastair Clarkson, with four flags.
Richmond are sticking with the coach, as they have before in trying times, hoping for business as usual.
After such a dramatic 2020 it might seem business as usual but time will tell what the real impact will be in season 2021 with the exhausted Gale telling 3AW pre-Christmas that they will have no option but to get on with it.
"We’ve just got to find a way to recharge and re-energise and renew and we will, because that’s the way our caper rolls," Gale said.
Can it be business as usual at Hardwick's Richmond?
Despite winning back-to-back premierships Richmond face a set of emotional challenges in 2021 as they grapple with their coach's new relationship status.
Can it be business as usual at Hardwick's Richmond?
January 15, 2021 — 11.30am
On Monday at Punt Road the Tigers' senior players and triple premiership coach Damien Hardwick returned to training in the now familiar position as defending premiers.
Hardwick addressed his marriage break-up briefly and politely in public to waiting television cameras, then in private with his players, a week after the club confirmed they had "no concerns ... under club policy" that he was now in a relationship with a female member of the administration.
Richmond coach Damien Hardwick at the club's return to pre-season training on Monday.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
While captain Trent Cotchin made it clear he didn't want to talk to waiting media, it was left to champion forward Jack Riewoldt to declare the situation "business as usual" on the football front.
Riewoldt answered as best he could questions about Hardwick's separation that, at the very least, surprised and saddened those close to the 48-year-old coach and his family.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ect-tigers-says-riewoldt-20210111-p56t4e.html
Although Riewoldt's description rang true for those at the club on Monday when they saw Hardwick - who despite occasional public outbursts of frustration generally adopts a "never explain, never complain" attitude - bounce in to work ready to go, the effect on the club remains to be seen.
The coach knows what is required of him to do his job well, having admitted after last year's grand final that his reluctance to accept COVID-19 restrictions affected the team, saying "the reality is if I'm struggling, the players are certainly going to feed off that energy" .
He also understands why some players are shocked at what has happened and appreciates they will need time and raw conversations to adjust to the new light in which some - certainly not all - of his most loyal lieutenants now see him.
But his demeanour allowed most players to maintain a guise that suggested if the personal issues were to have any impact on the club they would be minimal.
They showed in 2020 that they could overcome all manner of distractions, including Hardwick's internal struggles, defeating Geelong in a hard-fought grand final. Early wins this season will push the very public private matter well into the background because for all the posturing from clubs that's what matters most.
That doesn't mean senior people at the club are underestimating what lies ahead as there are very few road maps for how modern, often superficially virtuous, football clubs handle such matters despite the situation being a classic conjunction of events - a very public and long-standing personal relationship breakdown, and the interaction of a senior staff member with a more junior one, albeit in a separate section of the organisation.
Skipper Trent Cotchin and Damien Hardwick lift the 2020 premiership cup.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
Richmond may not have couched it in such terms, but the reality is that the senior coach in any club holds more cards than anybody bar the CEO and the president, both who have remained, to this point, silent on the matter publicly.
The club released a statement addressing that power dynamic, saying they were satisfied after examining their human resources policy that they were comfortable in workplace terms with the situation, as marketing executive Alexandra Crow did not report to the coach.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ew-hardwick-relationship-20210104-p56rnm.html
Beth Gaze, a professor at Melbourne University's Law School, says it appears from afar that the Tigers have handled the issue appropriately from that perspective.
"One of the concerns organisations have is that if someone has power over somebody else's career that there may be some favouritism and that can, of course, really poison the workplace and can make relationships difficult," Gaze said.
"The consequences of [such a relationship] should not rest on the woman or the more junior person and that is why organisations are in a sense saying if you are the senior person then it is your responsibility to make sure you have disclosed this and removed yourself from any control over their career.
"The rest of it is awkward but there is no way you can avoid those emotional consequences."
Given there is no way of avoiding the emotional fallout, management led by CEO Brendon Gale and president Peggy O'Neal will need to be on their game.
Even though football clubs, generally speaking, get on with the job (Richmond are not the only club dealing this summer with marriage breakdowns or interoffice relationships that not everyone within the office are celebrating), this turn of events has saddened many.
What effect the marriage breakdown will have on those at the club close to the coach and his wife remains unclear; as we have seen, Danielle Hardwick and daughters were embraced by the captain's wife, Brooke Cotchin, at Christmas.
Adding to the complexity is the fact the Tigers' extensive network of tight personal bonds - common in AFL clubs but rare in most other workplaces - have been cited as one of the secrets to the Tigers' recent success with the use of anecdotes and connected stories a key part of the coach's modus operandi in recent years as he established a tight bond with his players.
The notion of being a "Richmond man" and concepts of mindfulness sat nicely beside Hardwick's occasional public reference to Mrs Hardwick's influence on his thinking, words that smoothed his rough edges and endeared him to the public whenever he apologised for overstepping the mark.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...wick-to-avoid-derailment-20201204-p56krk.html
Family and football even intertwined before the 2019 grand final in a moment captured in Konrad Marshall's book Stronger and Bolder when Hardwick gave each player a rock to write the name of the person they would dedicate their performance to as he argued it would make them more determined to succeed. He then held up a large rock carrying words revealing his own motivation, Danielle and family.
Such public and private expressions from the coach add another layer of complexity to managing the situation.
Despite all that, officials from other clubs share the Tigers' view that their performance won't be affected much, with the players' pride in their performance paramount and the leaders experienced enough to allow Hardwick's role to be one of alignment.
Many have been through change with Hardwick before as the coach began his career as a command-and-control coach who would stop drills midway to tell players where they should be and the decision they should make.
At that point Hardwick was less about finding time to have a coffee with players and more about using the time to talk about their positioning and what the numbers said about performance. His dress sense was chided, his down-to-earth nature and loyalty to them celebrated, but the emotional rollercoaster he took many at the club on was exhausting.
It wasn't until the nadir of 2016 that he overcame his controlling instinct to give his best decision-makers licence to play and gave fringe players roles that emphasised their strengths with their pace giving the Tigers numbers around the ball.
He, relaxed, opened himself up to learning and created a game plan that one assistant coach said boiled down to Richmond taking the ball forward under pressure.
They scored off turnover and players such as the skipper led the way in creating a group of low-possession, high-impact players.
The so-called "simple" game plan is now, after four years of refinement, described by one experienced assistant as like an orchestra that makes the difficult coordination of disparate parts seem effortless in their creation of a masterpiece.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/...an-buckley-call-it-quits-20201204-p56ks7.html
It is a turnaround that has Hardwick on the verge of equalling such coaching greats as Kevin Sheedy, Allan Jeans, Ron Barassi, Tom Hafey, David Parkin and the man he has shared so much with, Alastair Clarkson, with four flags.
Richmond are sticking with the coach, as they have before in trying times, hoping for business as usual.
After such a dramatic 2020 it might seem business as usual but time will tell what the real impact will be in season 2021 with the exhausted Gale telling 3AW pre-Christmas that they will have no option but to get on with it.
"We’ve just got to find a way to recharge and re-energise and renew and we will, because that’s the way our caper rolls," Gale said.
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Why “scary” Richmond is well equipped to deny a rapid fall
Can the Tigers challenge once again?
WHY “SCARY” RICHMOND IS WELL EQUIPPED TO DENY A RAPID FALL
BY ANDREW SLEVISON 17 HOURS AGO
With three premierships in four seasons, it is largely the opinion that Richmond is towards the back-end of a dynasty that may see them begin to drop off sooner than later.
Many have questioned whether the Tigers will have the hunger to go again, but Glen Jakovich is confident they will once more be a genuine flag threat.
The West Coast great feels that Damien Hardwick’s side will have plenty of challengers this year but believes the playing group is perfectly placed to see that off and play quality football again.
“Don’t bet against them,” he said on Sportsday WA.
“That’s what I’ve learnt with looking at Richmond’s side. It’s amazing.
“Much to be respected for this football club both on and off the field.
“I don’t want to hear the Tigers’ song too much this year. It is a great song but we’ve heard a fair bit of it in the last four years.
“Sides like Collingwood, Port (Adelaide), Brisbane, Geelong, the Saints and West Coast, they’ll be at their feet and they’ll be pushing them. ”
The Tigers start the 2021 season with games against Carlton (MCG), Hawthorn (MCG), Sydney (MCG), Port Adelaide (Adelaide Oval), St Kilda (Marvel) and Melbourne (MCG) in the opening six rounds which suggests to Jakovich that they will be in a very strong position early in the campaign.
He knows that it will be difficult for the yellow and black to consistently perform at their peak but says their best is “scary” and good enough to withstand the pressure.
“I expect them to be four and two at worst after that start, which tells me straight away they are going to finish top four,” he added.
“My theme for the Tigers is: Their hunger will get challenged this year.”
He continued: “Our system is designed for Richmond to fall and to fall rapidly, but they’re going to deny that.
“In the core group there’s a lot of hunger still there. There’s still some years left, they’re not 32, 33 or 34. Some of them are in their prime.
“Can they handle the pressure? There’s no doubting they can but they will get challenged.
“It’s all mental for them. Physically, if their game is on, it’s scary.”
Jakovich also identified the key players at Tigerland who will again be at the fore as they chase a 14th premiership.
“If you look at their list, their core group that I’ve identified is dynamite,” he said of the personnel.
“I don’t say this in a disrespectful way, they’re not really household names, but they’d be the first ones I’d love to play alongside.
“That’s Nick Vlastuin, Dylan Grimes, Dion Prestia.
“Dustin Martin is an out and out superstar and he’s going to be a legend one day.
“Jack Riewoldt, is he coming towards the end? He just started to fade a little bit, but he’s got great support in Tom Lynch.
“Trent Cotchin, soft tissue injuries, but Shane Edwards, Jason Castagna, David Astbury, Bachar Houli, Josh Caddy, Liam Baker, Jayden Short, Kamdyn McIntosh and Nathan Broad. That’s their core, they rarely get injured.
“They’ve been able to hold their list, and it’s very, very strong.
“For them to win it they need to have a very healthy list again.”
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Can it be business as usual at Hardwick's Richmond?
Despite winning back-to-back premierships Richmond face a set of emotional challenges in 2021 as they grapple with their coach's new relationship status.
Can it be business as usual at Hardwick's Richmond?
By Peter Ryan
January 15, 2021 — 11.30am
On Monday at Punt Road the Tigers' senior players and triple premiership coach Damien Hardwick returned to training in the now familiar position as defending premiers.
Hardwick addressed his marriage break-up briefly and politely in public to waiting television cameras, then in private with his players, a week after the club confirmed they had "no concerns ... under club policy" that he was now in a relationship with a female member of the administration.
Richmond coach Damien Hardwick at the club's return to pre-season training on Monday.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
While captain Trent Cotchin made it clear he didn't want to talk to waiting media, it was left to champion forward Jack Riewoldt to declare the situation "business as usual" on the football front.
Riewoldt answered as best he could questions about Hardwick's separation that, at the very least, surprised and saddened those close to the 48-year-old coach and his family.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ect-tigers-says-riewoldt-20210111-p56t4e.html
Although Riewoldt's description rang true for those at the club on Monday when they saw Hardwick - who despite occasional public outbursts of frustration generally adopts a "never explain, never complain" attitude - bounce in to work ready to go, the effect on the club remains to be seen.
The coach knows what is required of him to do his job well, having admitted after last year's grand final that his reluctance to accept COVID-19 restrictions affected the team, saying "the reality is if I'm struggling, the players are certainly going to feed off that energy" .
He also understands why some players are shocked at what has happened and appreciates they will need time and raw conversations to adjust to the new light in which some - certainly not all - of his most loyal lieutenants now see him.
But his demeanour allowed most players to maintain a guise that suggested if the personal issues were to have any impact on the club they would be minimal.
They showed in 2020 that they could overcome all manner of distractions, including Hardwick's internal struggles, defeating Geelong in a hard-fought grand final. Early wins this season will push the very public private matter well into the background because for all the posturing from clubs that's what matters most.
That doesn't mean senior people at the club are underestimating what lies ahead as there are very few road maps for how modern, often superficially virtuous, football clubs handle such matters despite the situation being a classic conjunction of events - a very public and long-standing personal relationship breakdown, and the interaction of a senior staff member with a more junior one, albeit in a separate section of the organisation.
Skipper Trent Cotchin and Damien Hardwick lift the 2020 premiership cup.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
Richmond may not have couched it in such terms, but the reality is that the senior coach in any club holds more cards than anybody bar the CEO and the president, both who have remained, to this point, silent on the matter publicly.
The club released a statement addressing that power dynamic, saying they were satisfied after examining their human resources policy that they were comfortable in workplace terms with the situation, as marketing executive Alexandra Crow did not report to the coach.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ew-hardwick-relationship-20210104-p56rnm.html
Beth Gaze, a professor at Melbourne University's Law School, says it appears from afar that the Tigers have handled the issue appropriately from that perspective.
"One of the concerns organisations have is that if someone has power over somebody else's career that there may be some favouritism and that can, of course, really poison the workplace and can make relationships difficult," Gaze said.
"The consequences of [such a relationship] should not rest on the woman or the more junior person and that is why organisations are in a sense saying if you are the senior person then it is your responsibility to make sure you have disclosed this and removed yourself from any control over their career.
"The rest of it is awkward but there is no way you can avoid those emotional consequences."
Given there is no way of avoiding the emotional fallout, management led by CEO Brendon Gale and president Peggy O'Neal will need to be on their game.
Even though football clubs, generally speaking, get on with the job (Richmond are not the only club dealing this summer with marriage breakdowns or interoffice relationships that not everyone within the office are celebrating), this turn of events has saddened many.
What effect the marriage breakdown will have on those at the club close to the coach and his wife remains unclear; as we have seen, Danielle Hardwick and daughters were embraced by the captain's wife, Brooke Cotchin, at Christmas.
Adding to the complexity is the fact the Tigers' extensive network of tight personal bonds - common in AFL clubs but rare in most other workplaces - have been cited as one of the secrets to the Tigers' recent success with the use of anecdotes and connected stories a key part of the coach's modus operandi in recent years as he established a tight bond with his players.
The notion of being a "Richmond man" and concepts of mindfulness sat nicely beside Hardwick's occasional public reference to Mrs Hardwick's influence on his thinking, words that smoothed his rough edges and endeared him to the public whenever he apologised for overstepping the mark.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...wick-to-avoid-derailment-20201204-p56krk.html
Family and football even intertwined before the 2019 grand final in a moment captured in Konrad Marshall's book Stronger and Bolder when Hardwick gave each player a rock to write the name of the person they would dedicate their performance to as he argued it would make them more determined to succeed. He then held up a large rock carrying words revealing his own motivation, Danielle and family.
Such public and private expressions from the coach add another layer of complexity to managing the situation.
Despite all that, officials from other clubs share the Tigers' view that their performance won't be affected much, with the players' pride in their performance paramount and the leaders experienced enough to allow Hardwick's role to be one of alignment.
Many have been through change with Hardwick before as the coach began his career as a command-and-control coach who would stop drills midway to tell players where they should be and the decision they should make.
At that point Hardwick was less about finding time to have a coffee with players and more about using the time to talk about their positioning and what the numbers said about performance. His dress sense was chided, his down-to-earth nature and loyalty to them celebrated, but the emotional rollercoaster he took many at the club on was exhausting.
It wasn't until the nadir of 2016 that he overcame his controlling instinct to give his best decision-makers licence to play and gave fringe players roles that emphasised their strengths with their pace giving the Tigers numbers around the ball.
He, relaxed, opened himself up to learning and created a game plan that one assistant coach said boiled down to Richmond taking the ball forward under pressure.
They scored off turnover and players such as the skipper led the way in creating a group of low-possession, high-impact players.
The so-called "simple" game plan is now, after four years of refinement, described by one experienced assistant as like an orchestra that makes the difficult coordination of disparate parts seem effortless in their creation of a masterpiece.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/...an-buckley-call-it-quits-20201204-p56ks7.html
It is a turnaround that has Hardwick on the verge of equalling such coaching greats as Kevin Sheedy, Allan Jeans, Ron Barassi, Tom Hafey, David Parkin and the man he has shared so much with, Alastair Clarkson, with four flags.
Richmond are sticking with the coach, as they have before in trying times, hoping for business as usual.
After such a dramatic 2020 it might seem business as usual but time will tell what the real impact will be in season 2021 with the exhausted Gale telling 3AW pre-Christmas that they will have no option but to get on with it.
"We’ve just got to find a way to recharge and re-energise and renew and we will, because that’s the way our caper rolls," Gale said.
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Naish looked good to me in his 2 games in 2019. In his one game last year I wondered if he was trying too hard to do his role rather than just playing footy as best he could (well that's what it looked like to me from the telly).
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already done in 1980, surely Emma can revive the program, no need to call in Collective Minds
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Last spud you crowned spud is now a triple premiership/Norm Smith.
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* me... talk about scraping the barrel... this story has been stretched as far as its gonna be stretchedSeeing that the Dimma thread has been closed.
Can it be business as usual at Hardwick's Richmond?
Despite winning back-to-back premierships Richmond face a set of emotional challenges in 2021 as they grapple with their coach's new relationship status.
Can it be business as usual at Hardwick's Richmond?
By Peter Ryan
January 15, 2021 — 11.30am
On Monday at Punt Road the Tigers' senior players and triple premiership coach Damien Hardwick returned to training in the now familiar position as defending premiers.
Hardwick addressed his marriage break-up briefly and politely in public to waiting television cameras, then in private with his players, a week after the club confirmed they had "no concerns ... under club policy" that he was now in a relationship with a female member of the administration.
Richmond coach Damien Hardwick at the club's return to pre-season training on Monday.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
While captain Trent Cotchin made it clear he didn't want to talk to waiting media, it was left to champion forward Jack Riewoldt to declare the situation "business as usual" on the football front.
Riewoldt answered as best he could questions about Hardwick's separation that, at the very least, surprised and saddened those close to the 48-year-old coach and his family.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ect-tigers-says-riewoldt-20210111-p56t4e.html
Although Riewoldt's description rang true for those at the club on Monday when they saw Hardwick - who despite occasional public outbursts of frustration generally adopts a "never explain, never complain" attitude - bounce in to work ready to go, the effect on the club remains to be seen.
The coach knows what is required of him to do his job well, having admitted after last year's grand final that his reluctance to accept COVID-19 restrictions affected the team, saying "the reality is if I'm struggling, the players are certainly going to feed off that energy" .
He also understands why some players are shocked at what has happened and appreciates they will need time and raw conversations to adjust to the new light in which some - certainly not all - of his most loyal lieutenants now see him.
But his demeanour allowed most players to maintain a guise that suggested if the personal issues were to have any impact on the club they would be minimal.
They showed in 2020 that they could overcome all manner of distractions, including Hardwick's internal struggles, defeating Geelong in a hard-fought grand final. Early wins this season will push the very public private matter well into the background because for all the posturing from clubs that's what matters most.
That doesn't mean senior people at the club are underestimating what lies ahead as there are very few road maps for how modern, often superficially virtuous, football clubs handle such matters despite the situation being a classic conjunction of events - a very public and long-standing personal relationship breakdown, and the interaction of a senior staff member with a more junior one, albeit in a separate section of the organisation.
Skipper Trent Cotchin and Damien Hardwick lift the 2020 premiership cup.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
Richmond may not have couched it in such terms, but the reality is that the senior coach in any club holds more cards than anybody bar the CEO and the president, both who have remained, to this point, silent on the matter publicly.
The club released a statement addressing that power dynamic, saying they were satisfied after examining their human resources policy that they were comfortable in workplace terms with the situation, as marketing executive Alexandra Crow did not report to the coach.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ew-hardwick-relationship-20210104-p56rnm.html
Beth Gaze, a professor at Melbourne University's Law School, says it appears from afar that the Tigers have handled the issue appropriately from that perspective.
"One of the concerns organisations have is that if someone has power over somebody else's career that there may be some favouritism and that can, of course, really poison the workplace and can make relationships difficult," Gaze said.
"The consequences of [such a relationship] should not rest on the woman or the more junior person and that is why organisations are in a sense saying if you are the senior person then it is your responsibility to make sure you have disclosed this and removed yourself from any control over their career.
"The rest of it is awkward but there is no way you can avoid those emotional consequences."
Given there is no way of avoiding the emotional fallout, management led by CEO Brendon Gale and president Peggy O'Neal will need to be on their game.
Even though football clubs, generally speaking, get on with the job (Richmond are not the only club dealing this summer with marriage breakdowns or interoffice relationships that not everyone within the office are celebrating), this turn of events has saddened many.
What effect the marriage breakdown will have on those at the club close to the coach and his wife remains unclear; as we have seen, Danielle Hardwick and daughters were embraced by the captain's wife, Brooke Cotchin, at Christmas.
Adding to the complexity is the fact the Tigers' extensive network of tight personal bonds - common in AFL clubs but rare in most other workplaces - have been cited as one of the secrets to the Tigers' recent success with the use of anecdotes and connected stories a key part of the coach's modus operandi in recent years as he established a tight bond with his players.
The notion of being a "Richmond man" and concepts of mindfulness sat nicely beside Hardwick's occasional public reference to Mrs Hardwick's influence on his thinking, words that smoothed his rough edges and endeared him to the public whenever he apologised for overstepping the mark.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...wick-to-avoid-derailment-20201204-p56krk.html
Family and football even intertwined before the 2019 grand final in a moment captured in Konrad Marshall's book Stronger and Bolder when Hardwick gave each player a rock to write the name of the person they would dedicate their performance to as he argued it would make them more determined to succeed. He then held up a large rock carrying words revealing his own motivation, Danielle and family.
Such public and private expressions from the coach add another layer of complexity to managing the situation.
Despite all that, officials from other clubs share the Tigers' view that their performance won't be affected much, with the players' pride in their performance paramount and the leaders experienced enough to allow Hardwick's role to be one of alignment.
Many have been through change with Hardwick before as the coach began his career as a command-and-control coach who would stop drills midway to tell players where they should be and the decision they should make.
At that point Hardwick was less about finding time to have a coffee with players and more about using the time to talk about their positioning and what the numbers said about performance. His dress sense was chided, his down-to-earth nature and loyalty to them celebrated, but the emotional rollercoaster he took many at the club on was exhausting.
It wasn't until the nadir of 2016 that he overcame his controlling instinct to give his best decision-makers licence to play and gave fringe players roles that emphasised their strengths with their pace giving the Tigers numbers around the ball.
He, relaxed, opened himself up to learning and created a game plan that one assistant coach said boiled down to Richmond taking the ball forward under pressure.
They scored off turnover and players such as the skipper led the way in creating a group of low-possession, high-impact players.
The so-called "simple" game plan is now, after four years of refinement, described by one experienced assistant as like an orchestra that makes the difficult coordination of disparate parts seem effortless in their creation of a masterpiece.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/...an-buckley-call-it-quits-20201204-p56ks7.html
It is a turnaround that has Hardwick on the verge of equalling such coaching greats as Kevin Sheedy, Allan Jeans, Ron Barassi, Tom Hafey, David Parkin and the man he has shared so much with, Alastair Clarkson, with four flags.
Richmond are sticking with the coach, as they have before in trying times, hoping for business as usual.
After such a dramatic 2020 it might seem business as usual but time will tell what the real impact will be in season 2021 with the exhausted Gale telling 3AW pre-Christmas that they will have no option but to get on with it.
"We’ve just got to find a way to recharge and re-energise and renew and we will, because that’s the way our caper rolls," Gale said.
Surely he didn’t get paid to write that crap
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Hopefully that would work better now than when we tried that with Griff. He would roost it over the pack - to a waiting opposition player who would be able to easily pass it into their F50; as many of the Tiges players were seemingly wrong footed after watching the ball sail overhead. Maybe why they haven't done it yet with Balta.
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Only chance Naish has of winning a premiership is with Ivanhoe old boys
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How solid is dave
Houli , Short , Castagna , McIntosh , Broad , Rioli and a few more have been called spuds on these forums in the past but every single one of these players played in our GF team in 2020 and some have 2-3 medals.
Who knows what Naish will become with virtually no games played by the kids in 2020 and the 1 game he did play looked like he tried to do too much and was found out . Hardly the worst game i have seen from a 21 year old kid.
We have 15 kids at the fringes waiting for their turn to show what they have and to replace a senior player
Ross , RCD , CCJ , Stack , Naish , Ralph-Smith , Martyn , Dow , MJ , Miller , Chol , Garth , Biggy , Cumberland , Samson with most now already 2-3 years development under their belts and ready to go.
Some will be spuds but too early to call based on 2020
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With our draft haul this year.There will be some unlucky kids getting the boot.
2020 sucked for this reason.
Some of those kids are more than ready and will be going 100% even at training. If Ross, RCD and CCJ are not playing regularly next year, they will leave, and we can't afford that. So senior players will need to be on their game every week. Great situation to be in.
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Just so long as the coaches don't simply leave the older, experienced guys in the side because of reputation over form.
