Fitness coach Peter Burge [merged]

[one-eyed]

Drew Petrie - "We backed our fitness once we got level or got a lead as we've run out games this year unlike last year. We knew they (Richmond) have been run over a few times this year so once we got a sniff we went for blood".

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Dud.
Delist.

[tigs2011]

Drew Petrie - "We backed our fitness once we got level or got a lead as we've run out games this year unlike last year. We knew they (Richmond) have been run over a few times this year so once we got a sniff we went for blood".

[TigerLand]

The last qtrs stuff is such a cop out. Awful cop out.

How many games have we been blowed away only to have the oppositions take foot off accelerator. Its an awful stat.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

We all know we should have gotten the SS version - BurgeSS.

[Phil Mrakov]

We all know we should have gotten the SS version - BurgeSS.

[Mr Magic]

No fitness coach in the world can make already slow players faster.

[(•))(©™]

Hes a Burger

[Judge Roughneck]

Is it not the coach fault ?

He is content to go into the year with a lack of proper staff working under him?

[Diocletian]

A problem that we've failed to address for a quarter of a century and now the capped rotations have found us out big time. Something we, in typical RFC fashion- failed to anticipate.

[Yeahright]

Hardwick thinks we're fit...

It wasn’t to be, however, with Richmond outscoring the Power by seven points in the final term – 5.5 to 4.4 – to win by 20 points.

“We’re a good last-quarter side as well,” Hardwick said.

“We always knew if we were in front (at three-quarter time), we’d be a fair chance to win.

“We back ourselves in . . . our fitness has been very good throughout the year.

From richmond site
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2014-07-16/fit-tigers-fire-in-final-term


Edit: added link

[tony_montana]

what a muppet

[yellowandback]

I think you're being kind TM.

I remember walking to the MCG in late 2002 after hearing a typical Danny Frawley media interview about us being "cherry ripe" after an "unrichmond like effort" the previous week and how Steven Sziller was "a ripper" and thinking - " he's just not going to be the answer"

After this year, I've reached the same conclusion - I hope he can say or do something that makes me think maybe he's just had a bad week, month, month(s) but then he goes and says something absolutely stuffing ridiculous like this. 

The man is deluded. Brett Deludioed.

[one-eyed]

Bump.

Our fitness and the ability to run out games was much maligned before this season. However, there was a complete turnaround this year where we would just pressure and overpower our opponents in second halves. We especially won all three finals comfortably running away with the game after half-time. Obviously, the new gameplan and the quicker side we put out on the park this year had a lot to do with the turnaround, but credit where it's due to our fitness and conditioning staff  .



Powerful finishes were the trademark of Richmond’s 2017 premiership year.

The Tigers won 18 of their 25 last quarters for the season, outscoring opponents by a combined total of 293 points in those matches.

They kicked five goals or more in final terms on 15 occasions (including the Grand Final), with a best return of 7.3 against Brisbane in Round 17 at Etihad Stadium and also against Geelong in the qualifying final at the MCG.

Their second best quarter overall for the season was the third, which they won 15 times.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2017-10-23/tigers-dominant-in-last-quarters

[Yeahright]

Makes you question our mind set previously. Has our fitness regime changed that much? Or were all our players lazy sod's before