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tiges

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just wondering do others feel the same? I love richmond football club but how much more of this crap must us supporters take.
Wached the game with my bro las night another mad tiger supporter and a few mates and it wast just embarrassing, really is very sad to see a once mighty club where it sits today.
 
based on last night there can no longer be any illusions. we have to strip the list back to the bare bones...there's no other way. if we are to see any success at all in the future the next few years must be all about kids, kids, kids...and as a result loss, loss, loss. whoever we draft this year must be guaranteed a game from round 1.
 
Again, I would seriously love to know why we took McMuffin instead of using our pick in that draft.

Anyone know the time frame for one to get over this?
 
tiges said:
just wondering do others feel the same? I love richmond football club but how much more of this crap must us supporters take.
Wached the game with my bro las night another mad tiger supporter and a few mates and it wast just embarrassing, really is very sad to see a once mighty club where it sits today.
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Soft. Go Dimma. Let's turn this club around. Hands on. No more excuses. This time it'll be done right.
 
ToraToraTora said:
Soft. Go Dimma. Let's turn this club around. Hands on. No more excuses. This time it'll be done right.
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who you calling soft?
 
strachanie19 said:
based on last night there can no longer be any illusions. we have to strip the list back to the bare bones...there's no other way. if we are to see any success at all in the future the next few years must be all about kids, kids, kids...and as a result loss, loss, loss. whoever we draft this year must be guaranteed a game from round 1.
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No point putting kids out there that aren't ready. They need to be developed correctly.

Hawthorn in their halcyon days of the late 80's forced most of their players to play 3 to 4 seasons in the Reserves before they considered them reasy to play in the Seniors.

I understand it is a different environment today but we have played all kids plenty of times in the last 20 years and we are still *smile*.

With Gold Coast and West Sydney coming in over the next few years it is also going to be hard to rebound up the ladder because teh very best talent will be going North.
 
The club is doing things right at the moment. We have made a couple of million $$$ profit.
We actually had a process to choose our next coach. Congrats to Damian Hardwick.
We will get rid of upto a dozen players that are just list cloggers and only have players that are prepared to play for the team and put in every week.
So its not all doom and gloom for the future as we are now doing things properly.
:gotigers
 
strachanie19 said:
based on last night there can no longer be any illusions. we have to strip the list back to the bare bones...there's no other way. if we are to see any success at all in the future the next few years must be all about kids, kids, kids...and as a result loss, loss, loss. whoever we draft this year must be guaranteed a game from round 1.
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Totally agree. We are in rebuild mode.
 
ToraToraTora said:
Losing the passion? Look, I'm sure you'll be there R1 2010, paid up and passionate. Chin up, huh.
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Yep - to see half of these soft as butter players get carved up by Carlton again.
 
NZ Tiger said:
No point putting kids out there that aren't ready. They need to be developed correctly.
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we should be drafting kids who are ready....by the time you hit 30 you are over the hill these days...it's a young man's game.

i wanna see a rich, ziebell, selwood type runnning around in 2010...and from round 1!
 
strachanie19 said:
we should be drafting kids who are ready....
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Like Brent Hartigan perhaps? He was ready to go in round 1.

Realistically your first round picks might be ready to go from the start but most others arent and they need some time to develop. Most of them have only ever played underage football and have not come up against big bodied senior players, let alone seen anything that resembles the speed and ferocity of AFL.
 
What exactly were you expecting from the last four or five weeks? Players have been retiring, others have been told they won't be around next year, others yet have been put into mothballs to get them ready for the off-season, others still have sniffed the wind and have been working on their lives after football.

The coach has been sacked, the caretaker found out exactly what that meant and at least two other assistant coaches have been going through he motions for months.

Hardly conducive to playing in a competition where a 5% drop in intensity leads to another flogging.

I've been looking forward to next year since the 30 minute mark of round 1 when it became obvious that Wallace had run his race and that Richmond would implode again. I've been pleasantly surprised that they have kept it together so well off the field.

On the field? We'll have a minimum of 15 new players next year. Focus on that.
 
tiges said:
just wondering do others feel the same? I love richmond football club but how much more of this crap must us supporters take.
Wached the game with my bro las night another mad tiger supporter and a few mates and it wast just embarrassing, really is very sad to see a once mighty club where it sits today.
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True tigers never lose their passion, tiges.

All of us on PRE are the die-hards, we will never lose our passion, in fact I think it get's stronger when things like this year happen.

When things eventually turn we will remember these days but will revel in the better times.

It will turn, make no mistake one day it will.
 
TOT70 said:
What exactly were you expecting from the last four or five weeks? Players have been retiring, others have been told they won't be around next year, others yet have been put into mothballs to get them ready for the off-season, others still have sniffed the wind and have been working on their lives after football.

The coach has been sacked, the caretaker found out exactly what that meant and at least two other assistant coaches have been going through he motions for months.

Hardly conducive to playing in a competition where a 5% drop in intensity leads to another flogging.

I've been looking forward to next year since the 30 minute mark of round 1 when it became obvious that Wallace had run his race and that Richmond would implode again. I've been pleasantly surprised that they have kept it together so well off the field.

On the field? We'll have a minimum of 15 new players next year. Focus on that.
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That puts it all in about the right context.
 
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