I'd play him in front of Fantasia.
Coaches all want a different version of the rules, the version that favours the own game style, don't listen to coaches, listening to coaches is even worse than listening to the media.
Hardwick did make one pertinent point; 131 tackles were laid for very few free kicks. A lot of those tackles were relatively meaningless, repeat efforts in congestion, but more than a few should have been rewarded with holding the ball free kicks and some should have been punished for holding the man.
There won't be much to come out of that umpire complaining, Hardwick's example was Charlie being spun in the tackle but the reality is Andrew didn't halt Charlie's movement or inhibit his disposal so the umpire is correct.
I'm against Hardwick's demand umpires blow the whistle sooner, he seems to think "We the public" want that as the default, which in effect encourages and rewards tacklers. But for me it's the exact opposite of what the general public want, we want the player hunting the ball rewarded, we do not want the sniper who sits off the contests and tackles rewarded.
There is no law stating the free kicks should even resemble even. All it shows is a trend of how likely one team was to infringe vs another although you could argue how its possible that the team who had the lions share of the play, and won most of the ball, and had way more posessions and less tackles ended up with more free kicks against.If umpires do what Hardwick suggests, blow the whistle early rewarding the tackler, then it must be the case frees are lopsided if possessions are lopsided.
I told my wife during the 3rd quarter that the umpires will give us a whole heap of free kicks at the end when the game is over.