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Game Day - Richmond Tigers vs West Coast Eagles
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Found it strange that we never played a conventional full fwd. At every bounce all our fwds were positioned at least 30m+ from goals.
Last night looked like a classic suburban game where one team had a better ruckman than the other and the team structured up accordingly. I dont think the eagles are any more talented than the tiges but they were prepared to spread harder and they did their homework and structured up smarter.
Last night looked like a classic suburban game where one team had a better ruckman than the other and the team structured up accordingly. I dont think the eagles are any more talented than the tiges but they were prepared to spread harder and they did their homework and structured up smarter.
How many times have we gone into a game after the bye against a team who didn't have the bye....and got done. I was worried when everyone kept saying the Eagles come off a 6 day break. Very odd situation. Fitness ? Skill? Attitude?
tigertim said:
Had two weeks of back slapping after the Freo game. Media talking up our new gameplan, talking about top 4 etc.
In the typical Richmond way, players looked like they just expected it to happen. Complete lack of intensity from the first bounce and the start of every qtr.
tigerlove said:
Without Martin it's 6+ goals, maybe a lot more.
Unsurprisingly we're in a similar position to last year - need to add quality!
Wasnt our best game, lost to a good side who played well.
If we dont play our best footy and still competitive against the sides in the top 4, then we have come a long way.
Foundations are there to take the next step.
Season is 22 games, then finals. Judge them on that rather than week to week. Dominant sides like the hawks and swans didnt appear after one or two finals appearances, and even they lose games.
If we dont play our best footy and still competitive against the sides in the top 4, then we have come a long way.
Foundations are there to take the next step.
Season is 22 games, then finals. Judge them on that rather than week to week. Dominant sides like the hawks and swans didnt appear after one or two finals appearances, and even they lose games.
14 points down with heaps of time on the clock when Rance gives away the 50 . Not saying it changed the result but fair dinkum without doubt the worst 50 paid since the inception of the 50. He was lying on his stomach and underarmed the throw FFS , not as if he stood up and baseballed it back. Any reaction on melbourne radio from AFL or the umps . Going to be a long week over here in the west!!
I'm going with attitude. We had lost our momentum hitting the bye. Purely a mental thing I think. Maybe the slow starts to the year are indicative of the same flaw. Takes us a while to get going.tigertim said:
It's almost like we need some forced urgency to wake up. It's not a knock on Dimma, as I think he's right, but he doesn't rely on emotional addresses, more on processes. He said on SEN that emotional rev ups don't work across a season.
However we appear to need a running start to get going. We're crap off a standing start. Maybe he should pull the emotions a bit more at these times.
Baloo said:
I always cringe when a fellow poster affords the opposition so little respect.
Shame on you.
The Eagles did to us what we did to Freo. Control the ball, run in waves, short and sharp kicking on angles and roll up to the next man with intent knowing you had cover.
That's as well drilled a side I've seen in a long time. But it was a carbon copy of the Doggies game. And we had no answer. Got smashed in the midfield.
Andrew Gaff and Masten ran us off our legs. Defensively our midfield was a sieve.
That's as well drilled a side I've seen in a long time. But it was a carbon copy of the Doggies game. And we had no answer. Got smashed in the midfield.
Andrew Gaff and Masten ran us off our legs. Defensively our midfield was a sieve.
Harry said:
Nah its the fear I reckon, I've noticed it whenever its an important game that we need to win and we're expected to win. We get the fear. Its a bummer though because we didn't lean on the ump like we should have. Also, I hate any loss, but I can cop that one. The comp is so tight, WC were well and truly on, we were a bit off but stuck at it. Tigers used to fold like a deck of cards, we don't any more. If we'd got WC last week we would have done them, they played like we did last night against North. Thats just the nature of the comp now I reckon. No side is stand-out awesome due to the GC and GWS diluting the talent pool and taking 5 years worth of top talent. I still believe we'll go OK this year.
SCOOP said:
You are 100% right in everything you have written. Don't forget though all the turnovers which we lost count of. You could be excused for thinking our players picked out a WC player on purpose, so bad were the deliveries. The guy in front of us was beside himself with despair. Having said that the Weagles are the real deal and deserved to win. they were fast and Nick Nat was superb in the ruck, giving his mid fielders an armchair ride.
If we play like that against the Swannies then god help us.
Kaelan said:
Speaking of 50s, how about the 50m penalty when I think it was Natanui received a free in the forward line, he played on with a handball to Priddis who handballed to someone else who ran towards goal so was tackled by Morris and they then gave them a 50 metre penalty. Or was it paid for something else?
Harry said:
I thought the dreamtime game was a dull game also lacked atmosphere. Only the result gave me enthusiasm.
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