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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on April 16, 2014, 05:12:07 PM
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Dimma's press conference today ...
VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2014-04-16/hardwick-press-conference-april-16th
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Vickery left behind as Tigers head north
Jennifer Phelan
afl.com.au
April 16, 2014 1:58 PM
TYRONE Vickery appears to be the casualty of Richmond's belief its team was too tall in the forward line last week against Collingwood.
Vickery was the only player from last week's 22 to fail to travel north on Wednesday ahead of Thursday night's clash with the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba.
The Tigers took 25 players because of the short week with Matt McDonough, Ricky Petterd, Nathan Foley and the untried Ben Lennon part of the travelling squad.
But Vickery was a no-show at Melbourne Airport despite coach Damien Hardwick ruling him fit to play after he was subbed out at half time last week following just two touches
"It's nothing to do with injury," Hardwick said before the team departed.
"Ty's working on his game; he's probably like the majority of our players at the moment.
"He's playing at about a six out of 10 like the side is.
"We've just got to continue to work with him, get his best football up and going because he's a very important player to our side. He knows that and we know that."
Second ruckman Orren Stephenson didn't travel, indicating the Tigers are happy to go up against the Matthew Leuenberger-less Lions' outfit with Shaun Hampson and Ben Griffiths as their big men.
Leuenberger will miss up to three months after surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his knee on Tuesday.
Hardwick said being too big in attack was something the Tigers had gleaned from last week's loss to Collingwood and believed their forward structure would not lose potency if it was a tall short.
"It's still solid. We've still got some players who can go through there," he said.
"We probably felt even a little bit tall, a little bit cumbersome and once we got our forward mix right, I think we had 11 forward 50 turnovers, which we're leading the League in at the moment.
"We're just not getting the scoreboard result we're after.
"It's still going to be dangerous; we've got Dustin [Martin] who can go through there, [Trent] Cotchin, these types of players, and [Brett] Deledio when he comes back.
"It will still be formidable."
The Tigers will take on their former assistant coach Justin Leppitsch this weekend for the first time since he took on the Lions' senior role last year.
Hardwick said Leppitsch would no doubt lean on his inside knowledge of the Tigers and it could provide an advantage regarding specific players, but was not likely to affect how he approached their game plan.
"It's important, no doubt. He's got an idea of the strengths and weaknesses of our players, and also from a game plan point of view - has a lot changed, has a little bit?" he said.
"At the end of the day, most sides know how each other plays; it's just who comes out and executes it the best on the day.
"It will be no different this week."
Hardwick said the Tigers were no closer to putting a return date on Brett Deledio, who remains out with a sore Achilles.
He said the vice-captain had trained at times this week but emphasised how he pulled up was the important part.
"We're hopeful that next week's a possibility but at this stage I can't say."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-04-16/ty-doesnt-fly-with-tigers
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Dimma's press conference today ...
VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2014-04-16/hardwick-press-conference-april-16th
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Vickery left behind as Tigers head north
Jennifer Phelan
afl.com.au
April 16, 2014 1:58
Hardwick said Leppitsch would no doubt lean on his inside knowledge of the Tigers and it could provide an advantage regarding specific players, but was not likely to affect how he approached their game plan.
Not likely to affect anything because we don't have a plan b as Leppitsch well knows.
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A 6 out of 10. Normally I'd rate a 6/10 as not that bad. Vickery and the Tiges have been bloody putrid. On my score card they get a 2/10
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Grigg and S Edwards likely starters
Gee when will this bloke ever learn
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Dimma's press conference today ...
VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2014-04-16/hardwick-press-conference-april-16th
More from Dimma today ...
* A lot of our indicators are just about where they need to be. We just need to get a few things right in our game. We’ve trained them over the course of the last two weeks. We know where we’re going wrong; we know the issues that we have to address. A lot of them aren’t personnel-driven. It’s more about the ability for us to move the ball and control the ball. Our contested-ball game is okay. We’re managing to halve those contests with most sides. What we’ve got to get better at is using the ball a lot better. Disposal efficiency is one of our strengths but it hasn’t been to the level that we expect this year. We expect it will improve over the course of the next 3-4 games.
* It was a strength of ours last year [ie. good starts to games] but this year we haven’t won a first quarter apart from the Carlton game. We’ve looked at that - it’s developing into a bit of a trend at the moment. We’re having shots but we’re not actually hitting the scoreboard. We’ve just got to make sure when we do get those opportunities we hit the scoreboard. So we’ll try a few different things this week to try and get the scoreboard flowing our way.
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So basically the problems are with our football skills but it's not the players.....as long as the "indicators" on the laptop are showing we're "nearly there" it's nothing to worry about....stuff me drunk.....bloke's so far in denial he's in the stuffing Suez.
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So basically the problems are with our football skills but it's not the players.....as long as the "indicators" on the laptop are showing we're "nearly there" it's nothing to worry about....stuff me drunk.....bloke's so far in denial he's in the stuffing Suez.
It's spin. The club doesn't want to have its dirty laundry hung out to dry in public. Behind closed doors it's a different story.
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Only problem is our skills..right.
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The malakies are starting.
Don't worry about admitting we are playing like poo.
As long as we are sounding like poo then everything id fine hey Dimma. :help
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Over the obssession with stats and our 'numbers'. Who cares what our numbers are, the key number we all care about is the 4 points after the final sire. Out of 16 we have 4. They aren't where our numbers want to be Damien regardless of all the other rubbish. Its a simple game, kick more points than the opposition, all the other rubbish doesn't matter if you are losing games.
Pathetic for Vickery to be scapegoat. The club couldn't have possibly have selected him with the amount of heat on him in the media. The media dropped him, not the club. If the club dropped players for not performing this year, like Tyronne, 3 or 4 would have joined him. Club is weak as.
We will probably win this week and the argument can be made we should be picking our best side unlike Carlton did vs Melbourne and thus lost to the Demons. I prefer to set a standard and regardless of who you are you give 100% and if not you play VFL. Grigg and Edwards know they are safe if they put in 75% effort. Needs to be stamped out.
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The stats I care about is having more goals, behinds and total points than the opposition.
Dimma is taking us all for fools smokescreening the malakies.
Malakies.
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If Hardwick is smart he will resign at the end of the year and he may get another job at Essendon in the future. If he stays the 3 years at Richmond he may never get another senior coaching job. He has severly let himself down with the players he is playing in the team at present. Its gone to sh.ite in such a hurry. What a disappointment.
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Stats are rubbish & always have been. They don't mean nothing in the heat of battle. most teams rack up 30 useless possies at the end of each quarter. Whats is Richmond using them useless stats as positives oh please l will shoot them all. :banghead
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A 6 out of 10. Normally I'd rate a 6/10 as not that bad. Vickery and the Tiges have been bloody putrid. On my score card they get a 2/10
x 2
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On My Kitchen Rules a 6 from Colin isn't too bad, but a 6 from Manu is pretty poor.
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Stats are rubbish & always have been. They don't mean nothing in the heat of battle. most teams rack up 30 useless possies at the end of each quarter. Whats is Richmond using them useless stats as positives oh please l will shoot them all. :banghead
Just like Ben Kilday who racked up 55 possies and all he ended up with was a can of Solo shoved up his clacker! ;D
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On My Kitchen Rules a 6 from Colin isn't too bad, but a 6 from Manu is pretty poor.
It's sad that you know that.
:lol
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Who the **** watches my kitchen rules
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Who the **** watches my kitchen rules
Don't derail the thread thanks champ
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On My Kitchen Rules a 6 from Colin isn't too bad, but a 6 from Manu is pretty poor.
Missus controls the remote eh?
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Sometimes you just have to do what you know is good for you.
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On My Kitchen Rules a 6 from Colin isn't too bad, but a 6 from Manu is pretty poor.
I think Dimma is more like Pete :lol
Sometimes you just have to do what you know is good for you.
Pick your battles etc etc. :lol
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Stats are rubbish & always have been. They don't mean nothing in the heat of battle. most teams rack up 30 useless possies at the end of each quarter. Whats is Richmond using them useless stats as positives oh please l will shoot them all. :banghead
Just like Ben Kilday who racked up 55 possies and all he ended up with was a can of Solo shoved up his clacker! ;D
:lol