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Game Day RD 17 - Tigers V Suns

When they kicked the first 2 goals of the 2nd half, I just knew we were going to fold.
 
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Our players have looked off the pace all season and recurring hamstrings to key players reeks of desperation bring blokes back too early and not managing them properly.

The Richmond FC has been hamstrung by its hamstrings this season.

Lynch, Prestia, Dustin, Balta , Cotchin, every @##@@#$ week it seems someone is doing their hamstring or doing it again.
Especially when they spent all summer spruiking how good preseason they have had.
We are soo unfit. If that's possible after 15 weeks of football.
We need new players and we need a new fitness and strength bloke
 
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Especially when they spent all summer spruiking how good preseason they have had.
We are soo unfit. If that's possible after 15 weeks of football.
We need new players and we need a new fitness and strength bloke
Yep. We talk *smile* every season about this.
 
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Time to circle the wagons. Someone needs to slap Hardwick with a fish as he is having undying love to loyal drones flashbacks.
Yep, in the old days both Short (dumb 50m) and George (dumb missed goal) would have been dragged immediately. Not now, they are protected and Daniel's 50m mouthing the umpire. Pathetic. About time we started fines for players who make dumb game-changing errors.
 
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What's amazing to me - given the countless 5 plus goal leads we've had this year and drop off in intensity that immediately follows - you have to start to question and wonder what proactive actions/remedies are discussed and put into place - midweek after each game.

Are the coaches aware of this problem?

Have they brought in new psychologists into the club to try and give a new perspective and message to the players on this issue? To discuss maybe a lack of hunger/complacency being the issue.

You'd think once we hit the 5 goal lead mark - that Hardwick would be sending repeated messages out to the players to not drop the pressure and intensity. Stressing the need to "kill" the opposition.

Mind boggling to be honest.

You can almost perceive and feel the drop off in intensity once the players believe they've "won" the game.

The lack of hunger after 3 Flags was always going to be an issue this year and an ageing list.

You would have thought the coaches would have at least tried to address the former.
 
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Especially when they spent all summer spruiking how good preseason they have had.
We are soo unfit. If that's possible after 15 weeks of football.
We need new players and we need a new fitness and strength bloke
No we need players who have a killer instinct, and never say die attitude. That is what that was we should have put it away before halftime but no typical switch off and then shitting ourselves in front of goal.
 
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It must be quite demoralising for some of our players watching some of the others go about their business. It must sap your energy.
 
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No merit hanging around bottom of the 8 thru 10th just take our medicine, we cant hold out the Suns from 7 goals up.

The loss to the Swans in the last minutes and the loss to the Cats last week in the last few minutes have been well and truly compounded now.

Next week they'll scrape by the Kangas by 4 goals ................... BIG F%#$^&#$^%* DEAL.
 
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This will go one of two ways.

We’ll either crack completely like after the WCE game last year or …..our embarrassing meltdown yet again will finally galvanise us and with the help maybe of one or two other results going our way (Note: not ***** teams way above us losing but teams directly around us losing), then we can somehow sneak into the 8 and give our young kids some finals experience.
 
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What's amazing to me - given the countless 5 plus goal leads we've had this year and drop off in intensity that immediately follows - you have to start to question and wonder what proactive actions/remedies are discussed and put into place - midweek after each game.

Are the coaches aware of this problem?

Have they brought in new psychologists into the club to try and give a new perspective and message to the players on this issue? To discuss maybe a lack of hunger/complacency being the issue.

You'd think once we hit the 5 goal lead mark - that Hardwick would be sending repeated messages out to the players to not drop the pressure and intensity. Stressing the need to "kill" the opposition.

Mind boggling to be honest.

You can almost perceive and feel the drop off in intensity once the players believe they've "won" the game.

The lack of hunger after 3 Flags was always going to be an issue this year and an ageing list.

You would have thought the coaches would have at least tried to address the former.
What happened to Emma Murray? Was she somehow outed by that scumbag called SHocking.
 
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We can still make top 4....but have to win every match
No merit hanging around bottom of the 8 thru 10th just take our medicine, we cant hold out the Suns from 7 goals up.

The loss to the Swans in the last minutes and the loss to the Cats last week in the last few minutes have been well and truly compounded now.

Next week they'll scrape by the Kangas by 4 goals ................... BIG F%#$^&#$^%* DEAL.
Yep. Absolute spineless performance that’s totally *smile* my weekend and the week ahead
 
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All this and the Geelong Geriatrics are on top of the ladder. Oh well, they'll fall over come finals time... again.
 
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What a horrible, horrible loss. Despite our injuries there is no way we should have lost that from nearly 40 points up.

I really tried to will Castagna into some form but there is no excuse. He cannot play another AFL game again.
He will.