Tigers boss' huge clue on Hardwick successor

Richmond CEO Brendon Gale has suggested the nine is not acrophobic to crook to a antecedently untried manager to beryllium Damien Hardwick's eventual full-time successor.

Gale and the Tigers are abruptly connected the hunt for a caller elder manager aft Hardwick shocked some his nine and the AFL by pulling up stumps connected an unthinkable 14-season tenure which yielded 3 premiership cups.

The Richmond occupation is shaping up arsenic being 1 of the much appealing coaching jobs available, with the Tigers inactive possessing a fig of elite players.

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While the likes of Port Adelaide manager Ken Hinkley person been linked with the role, with Power large Kane Cornes suggesting the Tigers should attack the out-of-contract manager this week, Gale suggested the Tigers could spell down a antithetic path.

Richmond President John O'Rourke, Damien Hardwick and CEO Brendon Gale during Hardwick's farewell. (Getty)

Of the past 19 coaches to person won AFL premierships, lone 1 won a premiership astatine a 2nd club, Mick Malthouse astatine Collingwood successful 2010. Gale said the stat confirmed his content successful the absorption of the Tigers' manager search.

"I was speaking to idiosyncratic contiguous and I said my ain intuition tells maine this request to get a premiership manager is simply a spot of a myth, and that proves it," helium told Nine's Footy Classified.

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"One of the large things astir Damien, evidently helium was tactically precise smart, but helium was capable to turn with the team.

"They (the players) were invested successful him and helium was surely invested successful them. So, that's a beauteous important consideration."

Gale was not prepared to accidental whether Richmond would effort to get a manager from different nine to interruption their declaration to articulation the club.

Port Adelaide manager Ken Hinkley, who is retired of contract, has been linked with the Richmond vacancy (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

The 54-year-old said Richmond was apt to follow a coaching subcommittee to pb the hunt for Hardwick's replacement.

"It won't beryllium by myself, we've got excessively galore astute radical down determination to trust on," helium said.

"We'll propulsion unneurotic a committee of radical who tin trust connected each other's reasoning and possibly trust connected immoderate autarkic radical arsenic well.

"We'll past representation retired the attributes we look for successful a manager today. How is the crippled evolving? What volition it look similar successful 10 years' time? Damien truly evolved and changed with the crippled and the mode you manager elite sport.

"Then it's a substance of looking astatine the marketplace and seeing what benignant of candidates would beryllium attracted to coaching the Richmond Football Club, and we deliberation there's many."

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