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How would you rank our last 10 Richmond coaches?
We have had the following at the club since 1988 -
Tony Jewell,KB, Alan Jeans, John Northey, Robert Walls, Jeff Geishen, Danny Frawley, Terry Wallace, Jade Rawlings and now Damien Hardwick.
10. Jade Rawlings - had very few games but only delivered a couple of wins and the odd competitive performance. Will never be a senior coach again
9. Jeff Geishen - use suburban coaching tricks such as moving the players toward the cheer squad to motivate his players. Was insecure about winning over the players and gaining their respect for good reason - they had a low opinion of him as a coach and leader of men - especially in 1999.
8. Robert Walls - along with Alan Joyce probably the worst coach of the side that won a flag - a mate of mine who played in that team described him a ---- who the players won despite him. Took the 1st job offered to him after being sacked by Richmond and it showed in the results
7. Alan Jeans - in playing parlance, a coaching legend who was struck down by illness in his only season. Many of our younger players of the time were thankful of his contribution - particularly Wayne Campbell
6. Danny Frawley - Only a finals appearance puts him above the others. Bascially inherited a pretty decent list and topped it up with recycled players and completely ran the list into the ground.
I'll never forget him stating that the coaching panel had worked on a specific strategy for beating Essendon and we lost by 100 points. He admitted afterwards that he got that one wrong. Thanks Danny.
5. Wallace Mainly for his press conferences.
4. Tony Jewell We actually played some good footy when he was coaching but balls up games by losing games that seemed impossible to drop. I remember going into a wedding ceremony with us 6 goals up and we were losing when we came out - unbelievable!
3. Hardwick - I reckon the last month has been at least as good as the second half of 2008 - with half the talent. He has proved he can coach and develop players. The trick now is to replace the dozen duds on our list with another 8-10 quality players in the draft or at the trade table. Over to you Craig Cameron
2. KB - I probably will get bagged for this but the one thing KB brought the club was discipline and a genuine youth based recruitment culture. It set Northey up.
1. Northey - the best years of a bleak 30. We had a tough, tackling, team first ethos that has not existed since - with the exception of the past month. The 2nd half of 1994 and 1995 should've been the beginning of a number of years that the Tigers played finals footy.
Well its a pretty sorry list of coaches but lets hope we don't see an 11th coach until well into the next decade.
We have had the following at the club since 1988 -
Tony Jewell,KB, Alan Jeans, John Northey, Robert Walls, Jeff Geishen, Danny Frawley, Terry Wallace, Jade Rawlings and now Damien Hardwick.
10. Jade Rawlings - had very few games but only delivered a couple of wins and the odd competitive performance. Will never be a senior coach again
9. Jeff Geishen - use suburban coaching tricks such as moving the players toward the cheer squad to motivate his players. Was insecure about winning over the players and gaining their respect for good reason - they had a low opinion of him as a coach and leader of men - especially in 1999.
8. Robert Walls - along with Alan Joyce probably the worst coach of the side that won a flag - a mate of mine who played in that team described him a ---- who the players won despite him. Took the 1st job offered to him after being sacked by Richmond and it showed in the results
7. Alan Jeans - in playing parlance, a coaching legend who was struck down by illness in his only season. Many of our younger players of the time were thankful of his contribution - particularly Wayne Campbell
6. Danny Frawley - Only a finals appearance puts him above the others. Bascially inherited a pretty decent list and topped it up with recycled players and completely ran the list into the ground.
I'll never forget him stating that the coaching panel had worked on a specific strategy for beating Essendon and we lost by 100 points. He admitted afterwards that he got that one wrong. Thanks Danny.
5. Wallace Mainly for his press conferences.
4. Tony Jewell We actually played some good footy when he was coaching but balls up games by losing games that seemed impossible to drop. I remember going into a wedding ceremony with us 6 goals up and we were losing when we came out - unbelievable!
3. Hardwick - I reckon the last month has been at least as good as the second half of 2008 - with half the talent. He has proved he can coach and develop players. The trick now is to replace the dozen duds on our list with another 8-10 quality players in the draft or at the trade table. Over to you Craig Cameron
2. KB - I probably will get bagged for this but the one thing KB brought the club was discipline and a genuine youth based recruitment culture. It set Northey up.
1. Northey - the best years of a bleak 30. We had a tough, tackling, team first ethos that has not existed since - with the exception of the past month. The 2nd half of 1994 and 1995 should've been the beginning of a number of years that the Tigers played finals footy.
Well its a pretty sorry list of coaches but lets hope we don't see an 11th coach until well into the next decade.

