I’d say we look more “Essendon” so far this pre-season.
(At Richmond) Hardwick & Caracella have been strongly influenced by Sheedy’s coaching methods.
They’ve been able to modernise Sheedy’s game Style, with tough, uncompromising defensive aggression. And taking players who don’t have the skills and making them valuable role players. Also giving opportunities to indigenous players, and watching them thrive.
According to Australian Story, Dimma ( so he said himself) was a dumb coach, now he is smarter, because he coaches people, not athletes. or some such. So, it would appear he now concentrates on coaching people rather than “evolving” or even nuancing his game plan.
Expect more of the same, while we evolve our game to look like Richmond with Saad instead of Houli, McKenna instead of Short. and a similar forward line , but with really only one key forward a la Richmond 2017 and Jakey instead of Martin. We probably have an equivalent midfield, and either of our ruckmen are better than Nankervis.
It will be very interesting to see how we play against them.
Considering the amount of other coaches they’ve played or coached under since the early 2000’s and the relative success they had under all of them, that’s quite a flex you’ve managed there… well done.
Playing like Richmond ! I was horrified when I saw the article. The secret is out. How did we leak this information? It must have been a breach of confidentiality at board level, there could be a mole in the executive committee or the coaches meeting room is bugged.
He says its from Champion Data stats? Well that conclusion has little or no credibility then. Surely?
I can’t help but just want to roll my eyes reading this.
I don’t mind the comparison and trying to articulate a comparison, but it just seems like the media love going out of their way to try and be extra undermining when it comes to Essendon.
The reality is Richmond just play a good honest brand of footy. I don’t read too much into the “Richmond style” stuff. They’re not doing anything new, they’re just playing really well.
Pies adopted a similar brand to Richmond and got it them to a GF.
Richmond how they play has won them 2 flags in 3 years I have no issues with copying them it’s certainly better than the downhill skiing brand we were known for.