Re: Tambling [Merged]
I was at the game vs the Swans and it was the first time in a long time I had seen Richie play 'live'.
One supporter sitting near to us kept calling him Buddy and telling him to start looking for a home on the GC, which was pretty tasteless, but it made me concentrate specifically on what Tambling was doing.
On 3-4 occassions that I could recall, I was suprised to see Tambling near the ball with no Tiger support against 2 or more Swans. On one particular occassion right in front of us, he was trying to deal with 4 Swans opponents about to pounce on the loose ball.
On no occassion did he manage to win the ball, or even hold the ball up, but the question that arose was where were our other players?
While I don't think anyone could argue that Richie is in any sort of form at the moment, on what I saw, he was at least near a contest when none of our other players were. The harshest critics will no doubt suggest that he found himself in that situation by pure luck or chance.
I haven't articulated my thoughts here very well, but it just struck me that at least he was near the contest when others weren't.
Anyway all through that, the guy kept calling him Buddy. I really don't know what he was supposed to do.