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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Zlatan on April 11, 2015, 04:05:43 PM
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i am blown away by the coaching, selection committee and general list managment.
as a passionate richmond member i dont mind losing games - by why are the same guys selected week in, week out?
how many more years ?
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i fear to think what would happen the last couple years and i the future if it were not for alexander rance
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we would be a bottom 4 club
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you forgot Batchelor in your thread title.
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you forgot Batchelor in your thread title.
thought bach matches up well on crameri
stringer is too talented for him
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you forgot Batchelor in your thread title.
thought bach matches up well on crameri
stringer is too talented for him
Batch was rubbish today. Turned over the footy and the bulldogs scored from his turnovers. Batch should go back to the reserves.
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you forgot Batchelor in your thread title.
thought bach matches up well on crameri
stringer is too talented for him
Batch was rubbish today. Turned over the footy and the bulldogs scored from his turnovers. Batch should go back to the reserves.
bach is about 5 years younger than the main culprits: Houli, Grigg and co.
im not sticking up for bach as i dont rate him
but i dont think he is the primary problem
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Bulldogs will play finals this year if they can keep up the intensity during the season. They are a quality young side. They lost Griffen, they lost Cooney ... and they are a better club, we lose one or two to injuries and we go up poo creek.
why dont grigg, houli, pettard etc. play with intensity like that
why do they play every week
is hardwick a future flag winner at punt road? i think not
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Bulldogs will play finals this year if they can keep up the intensity during the season. They are a quality young side. They lost Griffen, they lost Cooney ... and they are a better club, we lose one or two to injuries and we go up poo creek.
why dont grigg, houli, pettard etc. play with intensity like that
why do they play every week
is hardwick a future flag winner at punt road? i think not
Because they obviously think it's ok to put in a mediocre effort
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Bulldogs will play finals this year if they can keep up the intensity during the season. They are a quality young side. They lost Griffen, they lost Cooney ... and they are a better club, we lose one or two to injuries and we go up poo creek.
why dont grigg, houli, pettard etc. play with intensity like that
why do they play every week
is hardwick a future flag winner at punt road? i think not
Because they obviously think it's ok to put in a mediocre effort
effort is the key word
lin jong (sp?) is no wayne carey. but does he have heaps more ability than pettard or houli? effort.
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What would be worse is if Rance leaves and we have not committed to free agency in the last few years and ultimately we get no one there. Without h in the first half we would have been 6 goals down at half time.
Can Butler Lennon and knights get a gig next week. Please. :pray
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Bulldogs will play finals this year if they can keep up the intensity during the season. They are a quality young side. They lost Griffen, they lost Cooney ... and they are a better club, we lose one or two to injuries and we go up poo creek.
why dont grigg, houli, pettard etc. play with intensity like that
why do they play every week
is hardwick a future flag winner at punt road? i think not
Because they obviously think it's ok to put in a mediocre effort
effort is the key word
lin jong (sp?) is no wayne carey. but does he have heaps more ability than pettard or houli? effort.
There are aspects of his game (eg speed, evasion) which are probably superior and others which are equal to that of Pettard and Houli. He was deadly good against West Coast.
However, his effort is 100% vs the other to being hot and cold and doing very little work off the ball in terms of running, positioning and defensive pressure
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What would be worse is if Rance leaves and we have not committed to free agency in the last few years and ultimately we get no one there. Without h in the first half we would have been 6 goals down at half time.
Can Butler Lennon and knights get a gig next week. Please. :pray
Yes possible but after they still retain Grigg, Houli, Pettard, Newman and Chaplin, we are hamstrung by the selection committee who basically have to make a statement but wont because then it highlights the club's inadequate recruiting of past seasons.
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What would be worse is if Rance leaves and we have not committed to free agency in the last few years and ultimately we get no one there. Without h in the first half we would have been 6 goals down at half time.
Can Butler Lennon and knights get a gig next week. Please. :pray
Yes possible but after they still retain Grigg, Houli, Pettard, Newman and Chaplin, we are hamstrung by the selection committee who basically have to make a statement but wont because then it highlights the club's inadequate recruiting of past seasons.
I don't have the ability to articulate it correctly; however one feels for the Cotchin, Rance types that play next to those, perhaps in the title, that are not contributing to the required extent. at the end of the day they are just homo sapiens and perhaps they are not adequately talented enough to perform said role to a satisfactory extent. But surley to the sweet virigin mother of god - the question must then evolve to WHY to they play week, after week, after years
"hamstrung" is a good description, its almost as if playing 16/17 against 22
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I thought the back line held the opposition to 12 goals, not exactly a cricket score , with 6 more i50 than the opposition , I thought u might be lining up the forwards that couldn't get a kick walking through a horse stable ,,,but hey I'm a little crazy too ::)
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I thought the back line held the opposition to 12 goals, not exactly a cricket score , with 6 more i50 than the opposition , I thought u might be lining up the forwards that couldn't get a kick walking through a horse stable ,,,but hey I'm a little crazy too ::)
the defence only holds up because rance is back there. take rance out and the bulldogs would have kicked another 5 or 6 goals easy.
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I thought the back line held the opposition to 12 goals, not exactly a cricket score , with 6 more i50 than the opposition , I thought u might be lining up the forwards that couldn't get a kick walking through a horse stable ,,,but hey I'm a little crazy too ::)
then you would not be paying enough attention to obvious aggression and effort
I thought the back line held the opposition to 12 goals, not exactly a cricket score , with 6 more i50 than the opposition , I thought u might be lining up the forwards that couldn't get a kick walking through a horse stable ,,,but hey I'm a little crazy too ::)
the defence only holds up because rance is back there. take rance out and the bulldogs would have kicked another 5 or 6 goals easy.
yes indeed
when you have potentially the #1 player in the league, you are always going to be competitive
it would be very different imho if rance did not play. he is a absolutely gifted footballer and covers a lot of gaps. for proof think back to last season without rance (of course maric and deledio are excellent too)
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Rance and our whole defense was good. Our mids and forwards were smashed.
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Rance and our whole defense was good. Our mids and forwards were smashed.
i think houli had zero (not many) kicks in the first 1/4.
the collective had zero tackles in the first 1/8 of the spectacle
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What would be worse is if Rance leaves and we have not committed to free agency in the last few years and ultimately we get no one there. Without h in the first half we would have been 6 goals down at half time.
Can Butler Lennon and knights get a gig next week. Please. :pray
They probably will, but the duds mentioned in the op will still be there unfortunately...
Saw an incident where Chapman was sweeping as last man ran for the bal and it went straight through his legs the stuffing gimp! luckily batch or one of our defenders got there to mop it up. How often do u see this guy do stuff like that?
Newmans shot on goal in the final quarter, had all the time in the world but missed it when we really needed a supposed leader to stand up, Jack missed a couple of sitters too. Not good enough!
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Rance and our whole defense was good. Our mids and forwards were smashed.
holding the opposition to 12 goals and winning the possession count by a mile would generally tell me there's something amiss with our front half foremost , it's not houli and batches fault the forward line lay 5 tackles for the game .....
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Our defenders defended well but throughout the whole group the defense was terrible.
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Our defenders defended well but throughout the whole group the defense was terrible.
spot on. Defensively we couldn't run with them, consistently outran us. I will say the score flattered us, they missed a lot of very easy goals today. Thought they were a 6-7 goal better side today
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Their pressure was enormous but I felt the first half we were the better team. Despite losing I felt we had the better of them just didn't convert.
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Rance and our whole defense was good. Our mids and forwards were smashed.
holding the opposition to 12 goals and winning the possession count by a mile would generally tell me there's something amiss with our front half foremost , it's not houli and batches fault the forward line lay 5 tackles for the game .....
I will watch the replay during the week but from memory Batchelor on at least 2 times made decisive errors which cost us goals. I thought he was poor today.
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Defence was pathetic.
Only Rance can hold his head high.
The rest all lost contests, turned over the ball, fumbled, let their opponents run off etc.
We didn't get smashed because the Dogs didn't kick straight.
Rest assured. Backline was very average.
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What would be worse is if Rance leaves and we have not committed to free agency in the last few years and ultimately we get no one there. Without h in the first half we would have been 6 goals down at half time.
Can Butler Lennon and knights get a gig next week. Please. :pray
They probably will, but the duds mentioned in the op will still be there unfortunately...
Saw an incident where Chapman was sweeping as last man ran for the bal and it went straight through his legs the stuffing gimp! luckily batch or one of our defenders got there to mop it up. How often do u see this guy do stuff like that?
Newmans shot on goal in the final quarter, had all the time in the world but missed it when we really needed a supposed leader to stand up, Jack missed a couple of sitters too. Not good enough!
Never is with us Tone. Always half baked, half measures when full metal jackets are required.
A club that has doubled its membership in the last 5-10 years should not be where it is.
People who talk talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
That's our footy club.
Hi I'm Troy Chaplin and I am an AFL footballer.
Name may as well be John Smith and I work customer service for Telstra.
Same sort of passion emitted from both. Expressionless.
Personnel on the field are timid mentally and emotionally.
Club is too politically correct and afraid to think or act outside the square.
Hence team plays accordingly.
Hooray for everything.
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What would be worse is if Rance leaves and we have not committed to free agency in the last few years and ultimately we get no one there. Without h in the first half we would have been 6 goals down at half time.
Can Butler Lennon and knights get a gig next week. Please. :pray
They probably will, but the duds mentioned in the op will still be there unfortunately...
Saw an incident where Chapman was sweeping as last man ran for the bal and it went straight through his legs the stuffing gimp! luckily batch or one of our defenders got there to mop it up. How often do u see this guy do stuff like that?
Newmans shot on goal in the final quarter, had all the time in the world but missed it when we really needed a supposed leader to stand up, Jack missed a couple of sitters too. Not good enough!
Never is with us Tone. Always half baked, half measures when full metal jackets are required.
A club that has doubled its membership in the last 5-10 years should not be where it is.
People who talk talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
That's our footy club.
Hi I'm Troy Chaplin and I am an AFL footballer.
Name may as well be John Smith and I work customer service for Telstra.
Same sort of passion emitted from both. Expressionless.
Personnel on the field are timid mentally and emotionally.
Club is too politically correct and afraid to think or act outside the square.
Hence team plays accordingly.
Hooray for everything.
Agreed. Especially about the general politeness of the club.
Look at Hawthorn. Clarkson punches holes in walls and gets in trouble at his kid's footy games.
Lake gives Mitch Clark hell.
Whole team gets stuck into Motlop about getting on the pee, ends up suspended.
And apparently they take mental illness seriously and don't condone this behaviour lmao.
They love it. The revel in it. And it works so they don't give a stuff.
Just wanna see my club giving out some pain. Looking angry and frustrated like Rance does. Not nonchalant when we're losing. Get angry and smash them. Kick a goal. Smash them again.
There's no heart out there. Pack of apathetic uphill gardeners.
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How many of you expected to win?
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We didn't get smashed because the Dogs didn't kick straight.
They kicked more accurately than us but nice try.
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Everything is awesome.
Everything is cool when your part of a team.
Everything is awesome when your living the dream.
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We didn't get smashed because the Dogs didn't kick straight.
They kicked more accurately than us but nice try.
Let me re-phrase that just for you.
The only reason we didn't get smashed is that the Dogs kicked poorly at goal. The defence didn't hold up well at all. We got let off.
Understand?
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And we nailed every chance that came our way ::)
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We didn't get smashed because the Dogs didn't kick straight.
They kicked more accurately than us but nice try.
Let me re-phrase that just for you.
The only reason we didn't get smashed is that the Dogs kicked poorly at goal. The defence didn't hold up well at all. We got let off.
Understand?
Oh thanks mate, I totally misunderstood the first time ::). Didn't think I'd have to go into this much detail.
They kicked 12.13 we kicked 9.12. Therefore THEY kicked more accurately than US. We kicked poorly at goal. If we kicked straighter we win? No point playing with ifs and buts. Facts are we lost by 19 points and none of your twisting of facts to make us look worse will change that.
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I would have said the Bulldogs missed more easy ones than us, especially early.
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why stop with those 5 in the op. glass half fulls everywhere if people just open their eyes.
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I would have said the Bulldogs missed more easy ones than us, especially early.
yep comfortably, in the 3rd qtr as well
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We didn't get smashed because the Dogs didn't kick straight.
They kicked more accurately than us but nice try.
Let me re-phrase that just for you.
The only reason we didn't get smashed is that the Dogs kicked poorly at goal. The defence didn't hold up well at all. We got let off.
Understand?
Oh thanks mate, I totally misunderstood the first time ::). Didn't think I'd have to go into this much detail.
They kicked 12.13 we kicked 9.12. Therefore THEY kicked more accurately than US. We kicked poorly at goal. If we kicked straighter we win? No point playing with ifs and buts. Facts are we lost by 19 points and none of your twisting of facts to make us look worse will change that.
What facts am I twisting?
Or are you suggesting our backline did a good job? Lol.
We got let off. Backline didn't hold up at all well enough. That's my only point. No fact twisting. Not suggesting we were more or less accurate.
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I know ppl are upset about yesterday's game but leave out the personal insults :banghead.
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What facts am I twisting?
Or are you suggesting our backline did a good job? Lol.
We got let off. Backline didn't hold up at all well enough. That's my only point. No fact twisting. Not suggesting we were more or less accurate.
I don't blame our backline. It was the whole ground pressure. Numerous times they waltzed through the middle of the ground but one of our defenders, namely Rance, stood up
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richmond comment in the herald sun ladder
something like "will never win a flag, with a bottom six as weak as what it is"
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didnt watch it yet - how did the boys go this week?
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didnt watch it yet - how did the boys go this week?
Watch the Port final for last year instead, at least Port were on fire that game
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didnt watch it yet - how did the boys go this week?
Watch the Port final for last year instead, at least Port were on fire that game
i got a good feeling chaplin or grigg were BOG
cant wait for replay :)