Seven months after Adam Kingsley departed Richmond to guide GWS, Tigers coach Damien Hardwick has turned to his former assistant for suggestions.
GWS fought previous Adelaide to win Kingsley’s first match as coach of the Giants on Sunday and a jovial Hardwick mentioned he’d already spoken him about deal with the Crows on Saturday.
“Yeah, no question (I spoke to Kingsley.) We had a hard time finding him to be honest, he was still painting the town red after,” Hardwick instructed reporters.
“He’s very diligent, Adam, he gave us some good things.
“Obviously, we labored collectively for a very long time and a few of the issues they’re doing and we’re doing are fairly related. So we’ll take a look at that.
“(Adelaide’s) first half versus GWS was quite exhilarating.
“Speaking to ‘Kingers’, he used the time period ‘GWS killing GWS’ … hastily GWS ramped up their stress they usually acquired the sport again on their phrases.”
The Tigers will again be without Robbie Tarrant (hip), likely leaving Dylan Grimes and Noah Balta to handle Darcy Fogarty and Taylor Walker, while their smaller defenders will have to deal with livewires Izak Rankine and Josh Rachele.
“We’re definitely going to have our fingers full with that,” Hardwick mentioned.
“Once once more, if we depend on gamers to individually compete in opposition to these guys one-on-one, we, like most, are going to be in bother. So it’s going to be a workforce defence philosophy.”
Hardwick was proud of “80 per cent” of the Tigers’ efforts in their opening-round draw with Carlton but wanted better polish and execution.
He expected his midfielders’ chemistry with boom recruits Tim Taranto and Jacob Hopper to grow as the season progressed.
“Those boys, we have began calling them 7-Eleven – they had been open 24 hours,” he quipped.
Ruckman Toby Nankervis dominated Carlton’s Tom De Koning first-up but faces a sterner test against Adelaide big man Reilly O’Brien.
The Tigers opted for defender Ben Miller as a pinch-hitter but could also turn to ruck-forward Samson Ryan at the Adelaide Oval.
“It’s one we’re nonetheless making an attempt to work our approach by,” Hardwick mentioned.
“So it’d simply be horses for programs. Sometimes we would go together with the ruck-back philosophy, typically we would go together with the ruck-forward philosophy.
“We’ve just got to figure out what works for us, but also, what’s a bit dangerous for the opposition as well. So that will change probably from week to week.”
“We really like Toby in the ruck for 80 per cent of the time. So we’re just trying to find that 20 to 25 per cent for that secondary ruckman.”
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