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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on August 14, 2010, 09:04:05 PM
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From Hardwick's aftergame media conference....
Hardwick refused to hide behind the youth and relative inexperience of his players after the Tigers were humbled by Carlton on Saturday.
The Blues bounded out of the blocks and brushed Richmond aside with apparent ease at the MCG on their way to a win that threatens to undo the good work Hardwick’s side has done in his first year at the helm.
“Possession-wise we were poor, contested possession-wise we were poor - it was just a really poor day for our footy club and we’re really disappointed with the way we played,” Hardwick said.
“You can be a young side, but when you’re uncompetitive there’s no excuse for it. As far as I was concerned today, apart from the third quarter, we were uncompetitive.
“We, at no stage, challenged Carlton. They got their game up and going early and we couldn’t stop it at any stage apart from that brief period in the third.
“You can put it down to age, but at the end of the day that’s no excuse.”
Jack Riewoldt, who finished with two goals, was a picture of frustration throughout as he struggled with a defensive double team.
As the side’s only major scoring threat, it’s a tactic that occurs weekly and his coach appears to have had enough.
“I’ve actually got to go and see the umpires at some stage - don’t get me wrong we’ve been beaten by a better side - but I think poor old Jack’s struggling a bit at the moment,” Hardwick said.
“Like most bits of play you could pull out a number of free kicks from every bit of play that you look at closely.
“But I think what we’ve got to do is look to maybe bring some attention to the powers that be and have a look at it because Jack’s a great player, we want to see the great players protected, we want to see them getting their just rewards and we don’t want to see them being manhandled.
“We just want to play on equal terms.”
Hardwick pledged to continue to blood new players and experiment with his line-up as he looks to hit upon the formula for success in 2011.
“We’ve got two games to probably get some respect back for today because we let ourselves down badly,” he said.
“Coaches, players, the whole lot of us - I thought we were really poor.”
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/100349/default.aspx
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Yeah, thanks a lot Tigers for saving up your worst, your most lacklustre and disinterested performance for the year against that filthy, cheating, hateful SCUM!!!! It's not like we don't owe them a good belting either. Honestly, I'm sick to absolute stinking death of being owned by these salary-cap rorting, hotel-stealing tankers!
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At least Dimma didn't make any excuses for yesterday. Credit for being refreshingly honest when he could have easily gone the "8 guys with less than 20 games experience" excuse.
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Carlton had a few young players as well.
The disappointment of the last quarter against the Dees and for 3 quarters yesterday if that we just rolled over and died
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Carlton had a few young players as well.
The disappointment of the last quarter against the Dees and for 3 quarters yesterday if that we just rolled over and died
Thats what happens, even though Dimma refused to use it as an excuse, when you have a team full of first year players! They find it hard to play out a 22 game season!
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Whats Tuck done since supposedly getting a new deal?
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Tuck was in our best Ramps.
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Tuck was in our best Ramps.
And played injured last week.
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I think he was ill last week smokey.
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Tucky was ill last week ;)
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I think he was ill last week smokey.
Yeah, that's what I meant Al but I had already hit "Post" when I thought about it. In the middle of moving house - quickly catching up on yesterday's game posts while grabbing lunch and couldn't be bothered editing my post. Glad I didn't have to suffer through the game by the sounds of it! :'(
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It wasn't pretty smokey. quite a few players not playing who were during the run of wins. Thats the price you sometimes play when trying to give players a go so you can have a look at them. Far from the end of the world, as unpalatable as the performance was.
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From Hardwick's aftergame media conference....
“You can be a young side, but when you’re uncompetitive there’s no excuse for it. As far as I was concerned today, apart from the third quarter, we were uncompetitive.
Spot on Dimma :clapping :clapping
Now please don't protect those pathetic souls who have let you down badly the last 2 weeks
I can cop losing what i cannot cop ain any form is not being competitive
INSIPID & PATHETIC are a very good words to describe yesterday