Tony Greenberg
richmondfc.com.au
4:11:35 PM Thu 26 June, 2003
Richmond coach Danny Frawley believes a different type of courage holds the key to the Tigers returning to their winning ways of earlier this season.
"I see football now as the courage to attack the contest, the courage to keep running -- and the courage to make the correct decision continually. That's what makes you a good player and, more importantly, that's what makes you a good team," Frawley said.
Frawley admitted the Tigers had focused too much on star forward Matthew Richardson in the past couple of games leading up to the mid-season break.
"We had become a little bit too Matthew conscious. He'd lead into an area that was outside the corridor -- and open the space up for someone else -- yet we'd still go to him," Frawley said.
"It's important that we have all our players as usable options in our forward line, and that's what was happening early in the season.
"When you look at the wins we had against Hawthorn, Essendon, St Kilda and Fremantle, we had everyone chipping in and kicking goals . . . Coughlan, Campbell, Johnson, Bowden, Cameron, etc.
"But under pressure in the last few weeks, we'd probably gone a little bit too name conscious instead of style conscious. Hopefully, that's something we've rectified over the last couple of weeks.
"We've just got to make sure we keep spreading the load in that area and going to the correct spot at the correct time.
"Look, Matty's such a great athlete that he can blow his opponent apart with his power running and he presents himself (as a target) all the time. But we have to make sure that we go to anyone on top of the (goal) square under pressure -- whoever it is.
"It's a matter of getting back to what makes us a good team, and that's giving it to the correct player in the correct spot.
richmondfc.com.au
4:11:35 PM Thu 26 June, 2003
Richmond coach Danny Frawley believes a different type of courage holds the key to the Tigers returning to their winning ways of earlier this season.
"I see football now as the courage to attack the contest, the courage to keep running -- and the courage to make the correct decision continually. That's what makes you a good player and, more importantly, that's what makes you a good team," Frawley said.
Frawley admitted the Tigers had focused too much on star forward Matthew Richardson in the past couple of games leading up to the mid-season break.
"We had become a little bit too Matthew conscious. He'd lead into an area that was outside the corridor -- and open the space up for someone else -- yet we'd still go to him," Frawley said.
"It's important that we have all our players as usable options in our forward line, and that's what was happening early in the season.
"When you look at the wins we had against Hawthorn, Essendon, St Kilda and Fremantle, we had everyone chipping in and kicking goals . . . Coughlan, Campbell, Johnson, Bowden, Cameron, etc.
"But under pressure in the last few weeks, we'd probably gone a little bit too name conscious instead of style conscious. Hopefully, that's something we've rectified over the last couple of weeks.
"We've just got to make sure we keep spreading the load in that area and going to the correct spot at the correct time.
"Look, Matty's such a great athlete that he can blow his opponent apart with his power running and he presents himself (as a target) all the time. But we have to make sure that we go to anyone on top of the (goal) square under pressure -- whoever it is.
"It's a matter of getting back to what makes us a good team, and that's giving it to the correct player in the correct spot.
