Re: The 2013 PREmier Fighting Tiger Award - Round 6 vs Geelong - RESULTS
2013 PREmier Fighting Tiger Award
Voting Results for Round 6 vs Geelong
GEELONG 3.3 9.3 15.7 20.11 (131)
RICHMOND 4.1 8.4 11.7 13.9 (87)
GOALS
Geelong: Christensen 3, Bartel 2, Johnson 2 Smedts 2, Hawkins 2, Duncan 2, Stokes 2, Murdoch, West, Selwood, Enright, Blicavs.
Richmond: King 4, Riewoldt 3, Martin 2, Knights, McGuane, Ellis, Grigg.
Rank | Change | Player | 3 VOTES | 2 VOTES | 1 VOTE | RD TOTAL | TOTAL | VOTES | AVG |
1 | ↑2 | Dustin Martin | 12 | 17 | 10 | 80 | 346 | 39 | 57.7 |
2 | ↓1 | Trent Cotchin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 334 | 0 | 55.7 |
3 | ↓1 | Brett Deledio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 312 | 0 | 52.0 |
4 | - | Jack Riewoldt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 254 | 0 | 42.3 |
5 | - | Reece Conca | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 208 | 0 | 52.0 |
6 | - | Tyrone Vickery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 | 0 | 23.0 |
7 | - | Brandon Ellis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 115 | 1 | 19.2 |
8 | ↑11 | Jake King | 19 | 17 | 7 | 98 | 108 | 43 | 21.6 |
9 | ↓1 | Chris Knights | 1 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 100 | 12 | 25.0 |
10 | ↓1 | Bachar Houli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 0 | 12.7 |
11 | ↑2 | Shane Edwards | 12 | 3 | 8 | 50 | 71 | 23 | 11.8 |
12 | ↓2 | Shane Tuck | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 14.3 |
13 | ↓2 | Daniel Jackson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 5.8 |
14 | ↓2 | Dylan Grimes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 6.8 |
15 | ↑5 | Troy Chaplin | 3 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 27 | 12 | 5.4 |
16 | ↓1 | Steven Morris | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 26 | 4 | 5.2 |
=17 | ↓3 | Ivan Maric | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 2 | 3.8 |
=17 | ↓1 | Luke McGuane | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 3.8 |
19 | ↓2 | Alex Rance | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 3.0 |
20 | ↓2 | Jake Batchelor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3.7 |
21 | - | Chris Newman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0.8 |
22 | - | Ricky Petterd | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 |
Total Voters=48
MATCH REPORT
by tigergollywog
“what do you reckon Snake?
“Im confident Golly”
“you?”
“Nuh. I’ve got a bad feeling. Somethin’ bad’s gonna happen”
It was a bit of a role reversal. Me and my brother tigersnake had been doing everything together for 40 years and we had settled into a pretty comfortable blind optimist/realist routine. But tonight was different.
Snake had just busted up with his girlfriend. He’s come down to the farm for a few days to fill his tank. My misses was still here. She was on the warpath, but it was symbiotic in a sense. She’d leave me and snake alone to watch the Tigers V Cats. Friday night footy. Another must win, line-in-the-sand, contenders or pretenders, true test. Yet another, terrifying, ‘exciting opportunity to test ourselves against the best’ that we would relish. A bit like a silverside sanger.
It started with a practice run for the realization of my premonition soon after the first bounce
“Jack’s *smile*ed. He’s gone. Were *smile*ed. I told ya”
“Calm down, hell be right”
Snake was doing a great job steadying the ship, but Jimmy Bartel was a boiling sea.
Jacko turned one over. Pettard turned one over.
“Don’t look good snake” normally I only drank this fast after half time, but the excitement of having my brother down and the weight of expectation had me feeling like the top wire in a brand new bull paddock.
“Well be right” snake said
Then Pettard should have turned another one over but young Brandon Ellis swallowed it and goaled. Jack reappeared and reiterated his genius. A crafty tap to kingy. Goal.
And while all this was going on. Edwards is working like a borrowed horse in the middle and Ellis is taking the kind of marks that Cyril Rioli takes when there is no option but to take them.
Snake, Edwards, Kingy and Ellis have grabbed the tiller and poured sump oil into the boiling sea. Tigers 4 points up at quarter time.
“We could win the bloody flag you know?”
“How good is Ellis?”
“How good is Edwards?”
“Do you want a special afghani pizza calzone thing?”
Knights appears to be the best from the 2012 kerb-side recycling drive. A classy goal. He has a nice foot. Shane Edwards is showing the signs of advanced leather poisoning. I confuse Pettard with Deledio a couple of times and quietly apologize to Ricky. Jerry-Lee McGuane starts to sing.
“C’mon over baby, we got chickens in the barn. What barn? Whose barn? My barn!”
He has a touch of the Incredible Hulk about him (say it with a Dermott Brereton inflexion). His jumper threatens to tear off his shoulders, his hands seem to grow and they try to explode the ball when he grabs it from the air.
Then a barrister in a funny wig presses play on the video. “ Your honor, if you watch this passage of play, I’m sure you will have no choice but to agree, that an A-grade midfielder, generally becomes elevated, or aroused, if you will, through the act of kicking a goal. For that player, in such a state to run to the interchange after kicking a goal, and to be forced to withdraw from play entirely, at the very time when he draws on millions of years of evolution and reaches the height of his powers, is unfathomable. It could best be described, and in fact IS described, by millions of men in lounge-rooms around the country, as “*smile*en ridiculous”
Exhibit A – the footage shows Dusty kicking 2 big goals one after the other. BANG. BANG.
Tigers are up by 19 midway through the second. We are dominating the indomitable. We are belting Geelong in centre clearances. And we are doing it largely without The Chimp. That’s like ploughing a field with a raw thick sausage.
And the game is there. Its floating in space, it weighs nothing and it right in front of our noses. We just have to touch it. Blow it. Flutter our eyelids, and it will move our way and wont ever go back.
Steve Johnson, Corey Enright, Matthew Stokes and Jimmy Bartel see it too and they don’t use their mouth or their eyelids, they use their heads and their hearts and their muscle and their tricks and they get down to business of bringing this baby home.
Oh, it must be said that the Ump sees it too. He uses his whistle, and the big floating ball changes direction and starts to gets even heavier all at the same time.
Joel Selwood tries to bust Richmond’s Greatest Love Machines nose. “Welcome to the big league son”. The ump has no choice but award Joel a free kick for his warm mentoring. Cats 5 points
“Jeez this pizza thingo is GOOD, what is it exactly?”
“Um, I suppose it’s an afghani pizza calzone thing”
“Its good”
“Yeah. Its really bloody good”
I hate Stevey J and I love Jimmy Bartel. Jimmy is fair, smart, good looking and one hell of a footballer. Stevie is dirty, dumb, ugly and one hell of a footballer.
Stevey craftily head butts TV. Ivan has been on one leg 5 games before this one, Jerry-Lee tries to attract a child-bride by taking himself into the ruck and we are GONE
“I told you snake, THIS was my premonition” I scowl
Snake didn’t reply
And then, the Ump gets the message wrong in a bungled Chinese whisper. The runner come out to him and whispered in his ear, with one hand over his mouth, like a shell “These blokes have been downtrodden for 30 years. They have no ruckmen and no hope. This could get ugly. Give ‘em a break”
But the Ump couldn’t quite hear over the sound of the sea. HE heard “These blokes have been downtrodden for 30 years. They have no ruckmen and no hope. This SHOULD get ugly. Put ‘em to the stake”
The ump gave Joel a wink. The green light as luck should have it. Joel put an impressive overhead spin and an atomic drop on Newy. Lids implemented the Matthew Knights Retaliation Strategy (MKRS). The ump made a 12 point play and the rest, my friends, is best summed up in dot points
• The free kicks were 5:15 against soon after the umpires had their slight communication break down. A subsequent inquiry (informal) into the alleged delivery and misinterpretation, of what is being referred to as ‘The Whisper’, conducted by the former CEO of Telstra, has so far found that Andrew Demetricon and Jeff Geishen are both ‘complete turds’. The umpire is on record as saying, from his balcony overlooking Torquay, “It was really hard to hear. It sounded like waves. I was talking to Andrew Johns this morning, and He swore he said “should” too.”
• Dusty stood up tall, so did Kingy
• Jerry-Lee kicked a goal like Buddy does
• Houli missed the crucial goal, prompting me to comment to snake “he should spend a month at Coburg for that miss”, to which snake replied “he should have kicked it, for sure, but your being a bit hard”
• Chimp seemed to go loose in defense in order to get hold of the ball and prevent a blow out? I dunno. He speared a lovely pass to Tomahawk though. It wasn’t a good 2nd half
• Our backline seemed like 6 good footballers with Ausbergers syndrome had been randomly assembled. They all played individually OK, but as a back 6, they were terrible.
• Geelong really do have that whole Brisbane Lions indominable-thing going on.
• The recipe for the afghani pizza calzone thing. Take 1 large afghani bread (like a holey flat round Turkish bread). Cover a half in a nice tomato sauce. Bit of mozzarella, some nice salami, a handful of olives, a bit of chilli and some fine sliced red onion. Fold it in half, toast it in a sandwich press, slice it into fingers. Enjoy with beer, footy and family.
Fear not that we shall never get there brothers and sisters, for The Chimp will surely lead us beyond the place of right and wrong. I will meet you there JD 17:13
EDITORIAL
by Panthera tigris FC
A quality report for a disappointing game as the Tigers experienced their greatest defeat in over a year. With many of our stars down on the night, in Cotchin and Deledio and the loss of both of our ruckmen in the space of 2 minutes, the task proved too great for the Tigers and we have now slipped to 3-3. Having said that, we have lost to sides that will certainly be contesting for the top 6 and Geelong look like they could finish top 2. Questionable umpiring aside, the Tigers never looked likely after a rough 3rd quarter, although the final margin was a bit deflating considering a competitive first half.
In the voting this week the PRE crowd awarded Jake King the best Tiger on the night for his career high 4 goals. Jakey never stops trying and plays a crucial leaders role in the forward line. Dusty backed up his game against the Dockers with another impressive display and despite plenty of speculation regarding his ability to impact games, he is now the leader in the polls. Rounding out the top 3 this week was Shane Edwards, who spent a lot of time in the midfield, racked up plenty of possessions and worked hard all night. His hands in traffic were again impressive, if not occasionally too fast for his teammates to capitalise on.
This week sees a depleted Tigers side, missing their captain, take on the Power in SA. Port have had a great start to 2013 under their new coach, but the Tigers really should secure their 4th victory of the year if we are to be a serious final contender this year. Hopefully the raft of ins this week can see us back to our winning ways.
Carn' the Tiges!