Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 8, 2013

[Hellenic Tiger]

We should expect a comfortable win but the Dees will be well and truly switched on for this game and there intent should not be underestimated. I think we should still win well because individual focus often comes crashing down when you don't get reward for effort so the first quarter will be a massive indicator for the rest of the game. Break them early on the score board and the cards will tumble but if they are in the game still at quarter time then we will have to fight out the win.

A massive margin is not a given despite last weeks results

C'mon lets get serious here. 
We must take this opportunity to not only boost our percentage but to really work to our strengths & game plan.
 We should systematically demoralize. We should decimate. We should cut to shreds. We should run rings around. We should post a big score. We should dishearten their supporter, discourage their coach, depress the Hairy Malaka, weaken the teams resolve, rattle their defence, unnerve their forwards, psych out their midfielders, disempower their new CEO, dispirit David Schwarz & deject every supporter around the camp fire at a ski lodge.
.....And we should do all this in the first quarter.
Melbourne is an absolute rabble and we should do exactly what the bummers and the suns have already done to them.

Tucker just wants to root them into oblivion all 

Those filthy and dirty footy clubs?
I wouldn't root them with if I had your middle finger at my disposal Ramps.
Just like I wouldn't bet on Tom Waterhouse even with other people's money.
I would obliterate them (The Toffs and Skataboners) beyond human recognition though.

[one-eyed]

Neeld is already pulling out excuses a day before the game has even started  .

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The Demons coach spoke of the need for fans to remain patient, as the club's youngsters continue to develop.

Neeld said research had found premiership teams were made up of players with an average of 110 games of experience.

The Demons will have 13 players under 50 games running out against the Tigers on Sunday.

To put it in perspective, though, ladder-leaders Geelong will have nine players with less than 50 games experience in its clash with Collingwood at the MCG on Saturday night.

However, Neeld said the club has seven of its first choice selected players out – namely injured forward Mitch Clark and suspended midfielder Colin Sylvia.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-05-18/stay-the-course-neeld

[Tigeritis™©®]

Neeld is already pulling out excuses a day before the game has even started  .

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The Demons coach spoke of the need for fans to remain patient, as the club's youngsters continue to develop.

Neeld said research had found premiership teams were made up of players with an average of 110 games of experience.

The Demons will have 13 players under 50 games running out against the Tigers on Sunday.

To put it in perspective, though, ladder-leaders Geelong will have nine players with less than 50 games experience in its clash with Collingwood at the MCG on Saturday night.

However, Neeld said the club has seven of its first choice selected players out – namely injured forward Mitch Clark and suspended midfielder Colin Sylvia.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-05-18/stay-the-course-neeld

[Rampstar]

tuckers an angry man today. we need more quatrains about norf and melbourne and footscray etc etc etc.

[Hellenic Tiger]

I hear there may be one coming up for our next weeks opponent.

[one-eyed]

Tigers unbackable against Dees
Paul Gough, Betting Editor
Sportal.com.au
18/05/2013 8:32 PM

Richmond are set to start at their shortest price in any AFL game for 17 years against hapless Melbourne at the MCG on Sunday.

The Tigers are the heartbreak team of the competition, having played in just two finals series in the past 31 years and having finished in ninth spot on six occasions since the top eight was introduced in 1994.

But so bad are Melbourne - who have just allowed Gold Coast to win their first ever game in Victoria and whose six defeats this season have come by an average of 13 goals - that the Tigers are at the kind of unbackable price on Sunday usually reserved for teams of the stature of Geelong and Hawthorn.

The Tigers are just $1.01 in head-to-head betting at the TAB and only marginally bigger odds of $1.02 at Centrebet and $1.04 at Betfair against a Melbourne side at as much as $23 at Betfair.

You have to go all the way back to 1996 when Richmond played Fitzroy in the Lions' last ever game in Melbourne before they merged with Brisbane to find the last time the Tigers were at such short odds to win an AFL game.

With four wins from seven games so far this season to be sitting in seventh spot, the Tigers are showing signs of genuine improvement at last and are even as short as $1.04 at Centrebet to win by 25 points plus and just $1.13 at Betfair to win by 40 points plus.

And the start the Tigers have to give at the line is a massive 73.5 points at sportsbet.com.au at $1.92 and 102.5 points at Betfair to get $2.26.

But even without injured trio Shane Tuck (shoulder), Chris Knights (knee) and Ivan Maric (ankle), the punters are backing the Tigers at the short odds against a Melbourne side that is also missing two of their few contributors this season in the suspended Colin Sylvia and the injured Jack Viney.

Full article here: http://www.sportal.com.au/betting-zone-news-display/tigers-unbackable-against-dees-235634

[tiger101]

On Game Day they just played a radio conversation of Gary Lyon not backing Neeld and saying a review is needed to take place on him having the job in his final year of contract 2014.

[Gigantor]

Time for Gary to put up or shut up I reckon..throw your hat into the coaching ring and show us what you can do

[Tigeritis™©®]

 
 So far its a snorefest.

C'mon boys. Wake up!  FFS!

[Tigeritis™©®]

  
What the hell is going on here.

Looks like I'm watching under 10s footy.

 

[Tigeritis™©®]

I'm close to leaving.

    

[WA Tiger]

I am watching the worm on the Heraldsun page........bloody all over the show.....

Gee we really struggle against these teams don't we!!!

[Tigeritis™©®]

I'm losing patience.

      

[Tigeritis™©®]

stuff it.
I'm going to the bar!

      

[WA Tiger]

stuff it.
I'm going to the bar!