Damien Hardwick has not wasted any time started the clean out.
Injury single handedly took care of Nathan Brown and Mark Coughlan and a clean set of emotions and loyalties in Hardwick finally said enough was enough, we can't carry these two players any longer.
I could spit all the information about how these two players were some of Richmonds best when they went down but you all know the story, as much as I dont want to see Brown and Coughlan go I can't see them being the difference as Richmond move forward.
This now falls to young players at Tigers land, I can only see Richardson and Cousins making it to next year from the older crowd.
It has been a pretty tumultuous year at Richmond one I am sure we would all rather put behind us.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Damien Hardwick has his work cut out as the new Tigers coach.
Damien Hardwick says he won't shy away from making the hard decisions when it comes to the Tigers' list....
We will see, the big problem Richmond has as I see it is we can only turn over so many players per year.
The over 30's will have to be the first looked at with under performing players next.
Hardwick has left Hawthorn where he was an assistant coach, but Jade Rawlings will continue as Richmond's caretaker coach for this week's game against West Coast in Subiaco.
From Monday it is Hardwick's job, I hope he knows what he is in for.
We will see, the big problem Richmond has as I see it is we can only turn over so many players per year.
The over 30's will have to be the first looked at with under performing players next.
Hardwick has left Hawthorn where he was an assistant coach, but Jade Rawlings will continue as Richmond's caretaker coach for this week's game against West Coast in Subiaco.
From Monday it is Hardwick's job, I hope he knows what he is in for.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Graham Polak is back with Adam Thomson on Tigers debut and Rawlings wont be coach in 2010
Graham Polak is back for his first senior game since his dust up with a Melbourne tram and Adam Thomson is in for his first game for the Richmond football club.
A bunch of changes were made this week but most were forced rather than being dropped after the shocking effort last weekend against the filth.
The outs: Jake King (suspended), Tom Hislop (suspended), Joel Bowden (retired), Ty Vickery, Mark Coughlan
and
The ins: Thomson, Simmonds, Moore, White, Polak
The club said goodbye last week to one of the Tigers best servants in Joel Bowden, with a very lack lusted effort which looked like a club who no longer cares about the 2009. But who am I to blame them, I lost interest a long time ago.
The only thing worth talking about with the Tigers right now is the coach position. As every game clicks by I am more and more convinced that Jade Rawlings will not be the coach in 2010, with North Melbourne finding their new coach the Tigers are under pressure to make a decision and from the look of it they will not be rushed.
Whoever is appointed will have a big job ahead of them.
A bunch of changes were made this week but most were forced rather than being dropped after the shocking effort last weekend against the filth.
The outs: Jake King (suspended), Tom Hislop (suspended), Joel Bowden (retired), Ty Vickery, Mark Coughlan
and
The ins: Thomson, Simmonds, Moore, White, Polak
The club said goodbye last week to one of the Tigers best servants in Joel Bowden, with a very lack lusted effort which looked like a club who no longer cares about the 2009. But who am I to blame them, I lost interest a long time ago.
The only thing worth talking about with the Tigers right now is the coach position. As every game clicks by I am more and more convinced that Jade Rawlings will not be the coach in 2010, with North Melbourne finding their new coach the Tigers are under pressure to make a decision and from the look of it they will not be rushed.
Whoever is appointed will have a big job ahead of them.
Monday, August 10, 2009
New CEO Brendon Gale returns to Tiger Land
AFL Players Association chief executive Brendon Gale is the new CEO of the Richmond football club replacing the outgoing Steven Wright who has health issues.
This has to be the best personnel move the Tigers have made in years, Gale is the kind of guy who would have been looked at for any senior role at the AFL.
One of the things I really enjoyed Gale saying was that "I think it's fair to say it (Richmond) is not a big four club at the moment." SO TRUE
Any Richmond fan who thinks we belong in the company of Collingwood, Essendon and Carlton are kidding themselves, Richmond has been a dumpster fire for well over 20 years.
I hope a new CEO a new Coach and a clean out of the old and non performing players will get the club going in the right direction.
This has to be the best personnel move the Tigers have made in years, Gale is the kind of guy who would have been looked at for any senior role at the AFL.
One of the things I really enjoyed Gale saying was that "I think it's fair to say it (Richmond) is not a big four club at the moment." SO TRUE
Any Richmond fan who thinks we belong in the company of Collingwood, Essendon and Carlton are kidding themselves, Richmond has been a dumpster fire for well over 20 years.
I hope a new CEO a new Coach and a clean out of the old and non performing players will get the club going in the right direction.
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