Richmond vs Brisbane @ the M.C.G. - R4, 2018

[Eat_em_Alive]

Was it just me, or was the flavour of the umpiring today the "not 15, play on" rule.

Felt like I'd been seeing signs all week

[The Machine]

I think you should watch more football.

He was clearly one of our best players after having a terrible start to the season.

Stevie Wonder watches more football  than you do if you think Conca was one of our best. Truly laughable assertion.

Some of the best footy minds in the game (Dimma, Balme, Leppa and co.) pick him to play and publicly acknowledge his good performance....your hate for Conca has clouded your ability to see the/his performance for what it is and to say he was shyte is truly laughable.

[eliminator]

Good win. Good to finish game off strongly.

[Slipper]

We did do well in the end, but had the rub of the green early.

We should have trailed by a couple of goals early. Still not sure how Cameron's goal was called a behind on the replay footage I saw, but the players seemed to think it had hit the post.

[Chuck17]

I think you should watch more football.

He was clearly one of our best players after having a terrible start to the season.

Stevie Wonder watches more football  than you do if you think Conca was one of our best. Truly laughable assertion.

Some of the best footy minds in the game (Dimma, Balme, Leppa and co.) pick him to play and publicly acknowledge his good performance....your hate for Conca has clouded your ability to see the/his performance for what it is and to say he was shyte is truly laughable.

Are they the same footy minds who kept on playing Vickery exc Balme

[The Machine]

I think you should watch more football.

He was clearly one of our best players after having a terrible start to the season.

Stevie Wonder watches more football  than you do if you think Conca was one of our best. Truly laughable assertion.

Some of the best footy minds in the game (Dimma, Balme, Leppa and co.) pick him to play and publicly acknowledge his good performance....your hate for Conca has clouded your ability to see the/his performance for what it is and to say he was shyte is truly laughable.

Are they the same footy minds who kept on playing Vickery exc Balme

Yes the same ones who produced us our 11th flag!

[WilliamPowell]

Hard to glean much out of the game to be honest as the opposition was insipid

Great Prestia got good solid game time

Lambert got played back in to some form, ditto Graham

Conca was good

Dusty kicked 6 goals but when on the midlle was just "going"

Nank did really well all things considered

We won, got a % boost that we needed and we mpve onto the game against the Dees

[mat073]

Conca has been good . For the sake of team balance much better he plays midfield. Allowed Dusty to kick a lazy 6 . Sure he butchers the ball from time to time ...but geez look at Luke Hodge yesterday.

Hope Conca can get a decent injury free run to see where he is at .

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Training drill and Conca was still shyte....should've won by 25 goals.....anyway, good to see the umpires bog for us for a change....

I don't rate Conca, if you play enough then at some point can help but fall into some form. I'd be amazed if he ends up consistently impacting games when the whips are cracking at the end of this season

[one-eyed]

Haven't checked yet to confirm but apparently yesterday was the second lowest score we have ever conceded and the lowest in 108 years (16 pts to St Kilda in 1910).

Source: https://twitter.com/AFLNation/status/985043518178537472

[one-eyed]

Brisbane were as lifeless as Carlton. It’s odd because the numbers don’t display an overwhelming dominance by Richmond other than the inside-50 count. The Tigers had 30 scores from 53 entries. The Lions had seven from 39. The confidence they found against Port Adelaide was dismantled by the best defensive team in the competition. It looked like whenever Brisbane got the ball, the Tigers had already set up defensively and also had numbers swarming around the ball-carrier. It was the Double Deluxe Defence which led to mistakes and turnovers and frustration from the Lions.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/essendon-heads-mark-robinsons-likes-and-dislikes-for-round-4-of-the-afl-season/news-story/e5c828c6175ff85e0fd606dbcc898f88

[one-eyed]

Haven't checked yet to confirm but apparently yesterday was the second lowest score we have ever conceded and the lowest in 108 years (16 pts to St Kilda in 1910).

Source: https://twitter.com/AFLNation/status/985043518178537472

Yep, it's true.

Saturday was the 2nd lowest score we have ever conceded in our entire VFL/AFL history. It was also the equal fewest scoring shots we've ever conceded.

R15, 1910     Rich  8.6-54      def. St Kilda  1.10-16
R4, 2018   Rich 16.14-110 def. Brisbane  2.5-17
R1, 1928       Rich  14.15-99  def. North       2.9-21
R15, 1964     Rich  10.16-76  def. Fitzroy     2.9-21
R8, 1918       Rich   5.15-45   def. Essendon 3.4-22

https://afltables.com/afl/teams/richmond/gamer.html#04

[Hard Roar Tiger]

It was a brutal defensive obliteration of a brittle opposition.

[mat073]

I always get worried when we play Brisbane,  thinking they are always better than they actually are , thinking they are a team on the rise and their ladder position is not reflective of their actual ability.

They are a very ordinary team - I should remember that .

[¾ T!geɹ]

I always get worried when we play Brisbane,  thinking they are always better than they actually are , thinking they are a team on the rise and their ladder position is not reflective of their actual ability.

They are a very ordinary team - I should remember that .

I get the same feeling around a lot of teams, but I feel it's still the past 30 odd years of pain and fear of losing again and again is somewhere still embedded inside. Bloody hard to shake off.
Like I've always said (until 2017) Richmond was the only team in the AFL that could lose the unloseable game so consistently.