Damien Hardwick

Apart from Ken Hinkley and the Tasmanian job, I think everyone's just gone away from that.

So, uh, it's been a long time really, hasn't it? Uh, and the success mo-- the lack of, of Damien Hardwick at the Gold Coast Suns, uh, Alastair Clarkson, uh, Mickey Malthouse.

I'm trying to think of some of the others in recent times that, uh, the second-time coaches.

Ross Lyon coming back hasn't really worked too well for them, so everyone's looking now for whether Sam Mitchell's the poster boy, uh, right now.

Mick Malthouse had three coaching gigs now, remember, and was successful at two of them.

And I, I think the impatient nature we are i-in football, and I think we're impatient now with second-time-around coaches because we, we want the instant magic straight away.

So, um, you know, when they come across, we, we've got to realize that a lot of those successful coaching stops that they had, what did-- how long did it take Damien Hardwick to win the premiership at Richmond? It was like his seventh year.

Uh, he started in '11 and won in '17.

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when Dimmer went to, to the Suns, he took a couple there, and you know, they just all filtered around the competition, and now they're left with a, a vulnerable list where they need those leaders.

Yeah, like it's coming through on the text.

Richmond can't afford to lose any more experienced players.

But, look, in terms of how they all sort of bow to him in terms of what he taught them, but what they brought to him as well I think cannot be underestimated.

If you've got Luke Beveridge and Damien Hardwick – and Chris Fagan, and you've got, and I'm probably missing three or four others here, just off the tip of my tongue, that is absolutely phenomenal what he was able to do.

And it was also an era where he could do things that he can't do now.

And that is, and in so many different ways, he could, Sam Mitchell often says when Clarkson first got to North, when he first got to Hawthorne, he was basically a dictator at that club.

I mean, but, you know, it's so funny.

Like, Damien Hardwick so far isn't really working out at Gold Coast.

And he coached Richmond to three premierships after decades in the wilderness.

He is clearly a brilliant coach, but is it working at Gold Coast? I don't think so.

... push the responsibility down the...

Like Damian Hardwick did.

Like Damian Hardwick did.

And how, how did that work out for Richmond? Hey, where's Hopper right now?

Yeah, that's right.

What should the number be?

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it saves this because Damian Hardwick doesn't care if he's not there when Jacob Hopper finishes his career.

He'd

be good, but I'd rather have a beer with like, Chris Scott, Ross Lyon, Damian Hardwick, these types of feisty sort of characters that have got good stories to tell.

I think

Josh Fraser's universally loved.