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GAME DAY Tiges V Eagles

Don’t understand why they went back to sydney… we looked cooked last 10mins
Thought our leaders let us down tonight
We cant win the flag this year
 
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Good teams don't lose games when leading by 22 points with 12 minutes to play
 
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That was just a stitch up as far as I’m concerned.

A free to the Eagles at every opportunity.

Throws (supposed) were all of a sudden penalised, dangerous tackle against Broad was mind boggling, oh, and let’s allow 8 metre kicks to be called marks too.

Noise of affirmation strikes again
Dangerous tackle was against Pickett from memory. And yes it was ridiculous. As was the throw against Grimes. As was the under 15m kick. Lambert's was fair enough but gee he had a good game.
 
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We are facing a trip to Adelaide or Perth for an Elimination Final if we dont smarten right up ............. fan E$%^* tastic.

We have to finish 5th.

This loss is as annoying and as bad as our last two losses to Port over there 2 games we had won and ^*%$*^ up with errors.
 
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We’ve got Saints, Suns, Pies.

We need to do what Geethrow do all the time: win those easier games, take the heat off when things aren’t going perfectly, get under cover, re-set, and go again.

Geethrow have done this for 15 plus years. When everyone thinks they’re gone, they sneak back into contention.

We need to do the same.
We could also try getting rid of caddy
 
Its hard to get angry at Dusty after the last 4 years but I agree, he made some ordinary decisions. When he took that mark through the middle and signalled to slow everything down, he should have looked straight away and see we had 2 or 3 racing through on goal, he needed to get the ball over the top of their defence and we'd have run onto it.

The indecision when he kicked to George with what 90 seconds of so left on the clock, he had a player to his left who could have taken a mark, but scrubbed the kick through to George and he gave it back to them (again should have been looking for a mark), and then that kick from what 60m out with 15 seconds to go.

A bit more composure from the great man and we could have won, but we were only in that position due to our lack of ability to compete in the air throughout the 4th.
Dusty seemed intent on finding trouble every time he got the ball. Bizarre game from him.

We lost the game because we panicked in the last quarter but also because we made so many basic errors earlier in the game and kept them in it. Our kicking was bush reserves level. Game should have been over at 3/4 time.

We only have ourselves to blame. Extremely disappointing loss. I thought the days of Richmond snatching defeat from the jaws of victory were long behind us.

Ah well whatever happens we have 3 flags on which to reflect.
 
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The guys have been away from family for 2 to 3 weeks. Makes a big difference in attitude.

while west coast blokes spoon their wives every night. the same as they did for the majority of 2020.

Covid footy is pretty farcical,

unless you win the flag.
 
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We’ve got Saints, Suns, Pies.

We need to do what Geethrow do all the time: win those easier games, take the heat off when things aren’t going perfectly, get under cover, re-set, and go again.

Geethrow have done this for 15 plus years. When everyone thinks they’re gone, they sneak back into contention.

We need to do the same.
Are we getting back to Victoria at all, AFL will be happy after stictching us up.
 
. I thought the days of Richmond snatching defeat from the jaws of victory were long behind us.

we did snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I can't remember last time we really did that?
 
Reading all the comments, can see both sides.

But agree we are way off our best footy. With the personnel back and some tweaks we can march onwards but you have to call it at this point on what we have produced. 1-7 does'nt bode well.....that's being realistic.

Seeing us improve, march on and play our best footy - thats optimistic right NOW.
 
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The better teams will always punish stupid mistakes. Thats been our issue all year. We are ok against the crappy teams as they dont have the quality to punish. Explains why we havent beaten a top 8 team this year apart from doggies.
 
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We were missing a tall in defence today and it showed. We had the chance to blood Miller but blew it as his big body would have been useful. Without Broady and Houli our defence was well down .
 
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Learn more from your losses & we’re learning big time this year. As many others have said, uncontested sideways ball for the sake of it? Why? Creates nothing. Apart from the Bulldogs game, we’ve beaten no one in the top 8. Why not show more concern with being thrashed in centre clearance every week? Why not think about winning clearance & giving forwards one on one opportunity?

Few other gripes - really disappointed in our lack of ability to stick tackles & non existence of pressure by small forwards. Aarts had a shocker, Castagna dreadful (one good game for the year) & Rioli who knows what’s happened to him. Surely as soon as Stack gets fit, he takes Rioli’s spot for good.

Agree with the Caddy comments - can’t play on the wing & no longer best 22. Think Baker is better suited in the middle, offensive role - fumbling far too much down back.
Agreed.
Poor tackles. Too many turnovers. Poor skills. Left too many goal opportunities on the table.
Time to refresh the team.
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Out:Caddy, lack of pace to play wing. Pickett back to the wing
Castagna, lack of skill, awareness and game iq.
Houli, off the pace, sloww
Rioli, off the boil
Depending on fitness Prestia back in and Parker
Lynch, Astbury, Nank?
Play Lynch, CCJ, Jack forward. Nank/Mabs ruck/bench.
 
Unless we fix our instead 50's we are doing jack shiit this year.
We cant always expect snaps or mark of the year to win us games.
Where was Cj in the last 30 seconds only Bolton and Aarts where in the forward line
Really? That was on Castagna, not CJ. Maybe CJ was leading. Maybe like moat players including himself no-one had a clue what Castagna was going to do.
 
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