Nick Vlastuin | PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
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Nick Vlastuin

Ian4 said:
Made 2 atrocious decisions in the last minute

Nah the deliberate rule is bs. He handballed well inside the line and it bounced sideways. They have to address this. Last week same thing happened to kruezer and our guy let it go out and it was still deliberate. We're king the game with these stupid interpretations.
 
It's only Round 2 but Vlastuin has been complacent so far in what should have been an emerging year.

Time was on his side but he used all of that.

There are no excuses for this once immature player from 2016 on. I've never been a fan but I'm much more optimistic that I was. I think he'll get there as long as Mr Rance does. (I'm not sure who recruited Vlastuin as a leader.)

Vickery's doing ok these days.
 
Ian4 said:
Made 2 atrocious decisions in the last minute

He had no one to kick to but he made a mistake in handballing. He was always going to be pinged for deliberate in that circumstance so he should have booted it 50 metres up to the wing instead of handballing 20 metres to the 50. There is no way Scumwood could have got it back to the top of the square for our lemons to completely *smile* up the contest and let Scumwood's tallest player scrap a rover's goal.

His decision making and execution is really starting to let him down. He has been Richmondised.
 
have to agree whole heartedly with Ridley ...if you are going to pinged for deliberate get it as far from goal as possible . He roosts it down the line we win
 
Definitely was deliberate under the current rule. But don't really like it.

Agree both he and Rance were uncharacteristically fumbly, soft in the contest, poorly skilled tonight.
 
Everyone is an exper. The kid is a good player just had a *smile* night.
Instead of a handball it should've a huge boot down the line.
Is he right footer?
Pity the his teammates didn't help with a Shepard or option .
Fasolo pulled that game out of his ass. Just wait 6 weeks he will back Williamstown
 
Not his best performance tonight, but still did a couple of good things and doesn't, in my opinion, deserve to be shellacked over his game tonight.
Has stood-up plenty of times for the Tigers and one of the few decent mid-tier players the Club has got.
Will learn from this game tonight and come back even more determined.
 
What I don't get is he often seemed to be matched up against 200cm Moore in the bacline. I thought in some of those situations he did extremely well. Just don't understand why he was left exposed like that by the coaching panel.
 
tigerlove said:
What I don't get is he often seemed to be matched up against 200cm Moore in the bacline. I thought in some of those situations he did extremely well. Just don't understand why he was left exposed like that by the coaching panel.

Possibly Grimes injury had something to do with that... but yeah, not his best game but not the worst of ours by any measure.
 
Hardly sighted. Was he playing hurt?

Perhaps Hardwick could have got him into the game by putting him in the middle.
 
antman said:
Possibly Grimes injury had something to do with that... but yeah, not his best game but not the worst of ours by any measure.
who was worse. Corey Ellis maybe and he's 12 yo not many others....
 
I'm still not seeing why we drafted this guy. Should have taken Grundy.
 
Handbraked in defence to within an inch of his football life.

Develop him in the middle ffs. Same goes for McIntosh.
 
Leysy Days said:
Handbraked in defence to within an inch of his football life.

Develop him in the middle ffs. Same goes for McIntosh.

Don't know if he's got the speed or tank as a midfield player.
Which was the knock on him coming into the draft
 
Leysy Days said:
Handbraked in defence to within an inch of his football life.

Develop him in the middle ffs. Same goes for McIntosh.

Dimma won't try this, but comes up with masterstrokes like Morris forward and Chaplin forward???
 
Leysy Days said:
Handbraked in defence to within an inch of his football life.

Develop him in the middle ffs. Same goes for McIntosh.

Amen. These 2 will leave and be very good players at other clubs if we don't manage their development better