Broders said:The thing that has riled me today is how easy the players are on themselves. I don't get the sense that losing is burning away at them.
Ellis: Lamenting the fact that he thought he had kicked the winner said something to effect of: Yeah it would have been nice. oh well maybe next time.
Cotchin: When asked if losing three in row was cause for concern: "I wouldn't have thought so. We've lost by 5 and 2 points...." and finished off with "we'll learn from this and move on" Seriously I'd wanted to do a Wallace and SPEW UP!
The players are now using the same lame excuses and platitudes Hardwick does. We are going nowhere. Losing doesn't seem to matter enough to the people who should be hurting the most.
Broders said:The thing that has riled me today is how easy the players are on themselves. I don't get the sense that losing is burning away at them.
Ellis: Lamenting the fact that he thought he had kicked the winner said something to effect of: Yeah it would have been nice. oh well maybe next time.
Cotchin: When asked if losing three in row was cause for concern: "I wouldn't have thought so. We've lost by 5 and 2 points...." and finished off with "we'll learn from this and move on" Seriously I'd wanted to do a Wallace and SPEW UP!
The players are now using the same lame excuses and platitudes Hardwick does. We are going nowhere. Losing doesn't seem to matter enough to the people who should be hurting the most.
I honestly don't think RFC can plan it.thegdog said:Need to have replacemement in pipeline. Go experienced or go newbie. Clarkson on Caracella
TigerForce said:I'd say that move to the backbench looked rather childish.
thegdog said:Need to have replacemement in pipeline. Go experienced or go newbie. Clarkson on Caracella
tigerboz said:Am not a huge Hardwick fan but we should be 7 and 1.
Baloo said:That's the toughest part about working out where we are as a club. We're 5-3. Could easily be 7-1 after the last two weeks. I'm not sure where we are but if we lose a couple more it's time to put "Wake me up when September ends" on repeat.
tigerboz said:Am not a huge Hardwick fan but we should be 7 and 1, yes bad positioning and everything went right in the last 20 seconds for Fremantle against us, but if we had some luck with umpiring decisions at critical times we would be atleast 6 and 2 and against the dogs who knows if that deliberate out of bounds wasn't paid. Against the dogs we should have won considering we had a five goal lead but we were playing the reigning premiers on their home deck which is a fast track and they were always going to come back at us and on games experience who was the least experienced team in the afl that round (Richmond) People forget that good sides of previous years don't always turn up and play four qtrs of great football, they just do enough some weeks to win, unfortunately Richmond are not a lucky side, if you stop and think of all the times a ball bounced right for Hawthorn at critical times or they kick mid air or off the ground and it finds a team mate and the critics write they just know how to win which is right in some occasions but a lot comes down to luck. I am sure that the coaching direction would be to block up the space in the opposition forward line, the players didn't execute and all us fans are the ones that have to cop the ridicule of being a Richmond supporter after another heart breaking loss but gee it is much better this year to watch the Tigers than last year and whether everything that is happening game day is because of the new assistants or not the blame lays with the coach but so does the credit and at the moment we shouldn't be talking sack the coach in my opinion.
tigersnake said:but saying we should have won both is a stretch, there are reasons why we lost both.
Baloo said:That's why I said could, not should
tigertime2 said:This is our window this year.