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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on July 24, 2016, 05:11:55 AM
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How the Tigers took Riewoldt from great to average
Matthew Lloyd
The Age
24 July 2016
Jack Riewoldt is 27 years of age and in the prime of his football career. Along with Alex Rance, there are no better bookends in the competition. Riewoldt currently sits seventh on the AFL goalkicking leader board with a return of 37 goals from 16 games he has played so far this season.
On paper that doesn't look like a great return for a player with such exquisite talents but Jack has tried his heart out this year in the constraints he gets asked to play within by the Richmond coaching staff. The issues are not with Jack's form, the problem is that Damien Hardwick doesn't utilise Jack Riewoldt like he should. Jack is arguably the best inside-50 player in the game but he just doesn't play there enough and it just doesn't make sense to me.
John Worsfold must have loved what went on at the MCG last Saturday. Worsfold set Patrick Ambrose the big job of playing on Riewoldt yet the Tigers star roamed the flanks and wings for most of the afternoon.
That would have been exactly what the Essendon coaching staff would have been hoping for. Ambrose's biggest strength is his endurance, not his footy smarts or his ability to read the flight of the ball in the air.In the last quarter when Riewoldt pushed deep, he got Ambrose for power and strength and I thought: why has this taken to the last quarter to happen ?
Ben Griffith had a great game taking 12 marks and kicking three goals but it's fair to say he was due and owed the Tigers considering how many opportunities he has been given.
The Richmond inside-50 targets against Essendon last weekend read like this: Griffith eight, McBean six, Martin and Rioli four and Riewoldt just three. Going to Riewoldt too often is unhealthy, I know, but rarely kicking to him inside 50 is just ludicrous considering what a brilliant one-on-one player he is. The Tigers don't have too many weapons in their holster yet they have one staring them in the face and they refuse to play him to his strengths.
Riewoldt kicked 78 goals back in 2010 in just his fourth season. He kicked more than four goals on eight occasions that season including a bag of 10 against West Coastat the MCG which had the Tiger army literally beside themselves with unbridled joy.
Riewoldt was explosive off the mark, sat on heads when the ball came in the air and was cat-like at ground level. That mix made him unstoppable and he was the most difficult match up in the AFL at just 22 years of age.
In 2016, Riewoldt has kicked more than four goals on just three occasions and is yet to have a five-goal haul in a match. The game has changed significantly since 2010 but Jack's skills remain the same. Why those skills aren't utilised more is just crazy.
Yes, Jack is a super creative player up the ground but he is then delivering the ball into Griffith, Vickery and Sam Lloyd but where has that taken the Tigers?
Riewoldt has made significant adjustments to his body by dropping size to play the role and his body language can no longer be questioned as he always remains in control and puts the team ahead of his own individual interests.
Riewoldt has won 40 per cent of his disposals inside 50 this season, down from the whopping 70 per cent of only four years ago. Riewoldt averaged three goals a game that year and Hardwick made a decision that Jack couldn't be the sole focus and that he would need to find a far greater spread of goal kickers if the Tigers were to have success. The Tigers did play finals in the following three seasons but no other forward has developed into a consistent enough performer alongside Riewoldt to show that the way he has been asked to play has made the team better.
I rate Riewoldt as good as the Suns' Tom Lynch. Lynch is currently playing in a similar fashion to what Riewoldt was when he was 22. Lynch is a colossus above his head, is a reliable kick for goal and also a ruthless competitor. Lynch works up the ground at times but always remains close enough to goal to be a presence and put the fear of god into opposition defenders.
Riewoldt is just as capable and it's about time Hardwick releases the shackles and allows him to play to his strengths.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/matthew-lloyd-richmond-must-release-the-shackles-on-jack-riewoldt-20160722-gqbo7t.html
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Merge with sack Hardwick thread please
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Dimma must be held accountable for this :banghead
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said it ages ago, it is part of some sort of cunning plan, probably wouldn't get the ball into our fifty as much without him though LOL
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no surprise that selfish forward like LLoyd cant see beyond how many goals a player kicks to what else is provided or have an appreciation of the work required up the ground to create scoring opportunities
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"He's kicking too many goals pooe"
"Yeah na jack to a HFF, everyone kick to the pockets"
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no surprise that selfish forward like LLoyd cant see beyond how many goals a player kicks to what else is provided or have an appreciation of the work required up the ground to create scoring opportunities
Selfish or successful
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Should have been played in the backline with the other 21... :banghead....... :whistle
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My kids also play life on a loop, it's takes discipline to ignore it.
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no surprise that selfish forward like LLoyd cant see beyond how many goals a player kicks to what else is provided or have an appreciation of the work required up the ground to create scoring opportunities
Selfish or successful
Champion forward.
Would be able to speak from experience, unlike Jack talking from misplaced ego
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One of the biggest stager of free kicks ever, no credibility
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926 goals.
:snidegrin
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And a flag
No doubt jacks a better more rounded player
But was it best for Richmond to move away the best goal kicker in the game from te goals ?
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926 goals.
:snidegrin
In a heartbeat, if take Jack over the velvet sledgehammer. He's the Male Caro of football journalists
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926 goals.
:snidegrin
In a heartbeat, if take Jack over the velvet sledgehammer. He's the Male Caro of football journalists
How many goals will Jack have kicked at career's end?
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All these personal reasons for disliking lloyd's opinion. Lol.
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Riewoldt kicked 78 goals back in 2010 in just his fourth season.
Yet we still give plonkers Griffiths and Vickery more and more time :banghead
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Riewoldt kicked 78 goals back in 2010 in just his fourth season.
Yet we still give plonkers Griffiths and Vickery more and more time :banghead
haha yeah just give them a little more time, they'll come good
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926 goals.
:snidegrin
In a heartbeat, if take Jack over the velvet sledgehammer. He's the Male Caro of football journalists
How many goals will Jack have kicked at career's end?
And a flag
No doubt jacks a better more rounded player
But was it best for Richmond to move away the best goal kicker in the game from te goals ?
depends if you rate a player by how many goals he kicks himself or how many he creates for the team.
Lloyd was one dimensional, but he was good at one dimension. It also helped that he played in a succesfull team and he had supply in quantity and quality, although some will still just look at the goal kicked column to judgements
Jack is such a creative and smart player he will be damaging anywhere.
it is also much harder to double team a player further up the ground
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That is one of the best football articles l have read this year & is spot on.
Riewoldt should be left at FF & Hardwick & his coaching staff should be creating another player to play the role on the wing. It makes all the sense in the world why we fail up forward. We have the best players in the league for height & we abuse it by the way the team is set out & coached. Never been a big fan of Lloyd but this time he has it spot on 100% right. He was a great forward & that is why he owns a premiership medal & won the Coleman medal.
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I re jack can't handle the pressure, to be perfectly honest.
He's been tried there numerous times and ends up choking%50 of the time.
The truth is, he's mentally not strong enough to both perform and be accountable as the key forward.
That's why he shares his game around the ground...because he's a mental marshmellow who acts like he has leadership qualities
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I re jack can't handle the pressure, to be perfectly honest.
He's been tried there numerous times and ends up choking%50 of the time.
The truth is, he's mentally not strong enough to both perform and be accountable as the key forward.
That's why he shares his game around the ground...because he's a mental marshmellow who acts like he has leadership qualities
Yeah 2x Coleman medalist can't handle being the FF. :clapping
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lol Ox, Let me just get my stable shovel, seems to be a whole lot of organic matter on the floor here needs shoveling out.
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I think when you kick 5 goals for an entire game of footy, you may want to rethink your forward set up and your game plan.
Like Lloyd or hate him he is right in this article.
Jack is our best forward, play him forward. It doesn't come any more simple than that. Other than to try and isolate him and not to kick it to the pockets.
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I think when you kick 5 goals for an entire game of footy, you may want to rethink your forward set up and your game plan.
Like Lloyd or hate him he is right in this article.
Jack is our best forward, play him forward. It doesn't come any more simple than that. Other than to try and isolate him and not to kick it to the pockets.
Pretty simple rule.
Our forward line has been dysfunctional for at least two years. Coaches all need to be shown the door.
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I'd hate to be a player in our forward line. You are always outnumbered as the ball takes an eternity to get there. :banghead
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What is the point of a forward line when the ball never goes there. We were flooding like bunnies for most of the game and sidewinding for the rest of it, Jack would of been sitting up forward with his thumb up his arse.
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Reckon there's barely one decent Richmond player who, if they went to another club, would play the same role that they do under Halfstep...
(http://articlebio.com/uploads/bio/2016/01/31/stone-cold-steve-austin.jpg)
AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE......
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Lloyd ignores some important facts, as do those rubbing his hairless nutsack.
In 2010 when Jack kicked 78 goals, he had 9 goal assists for the year and we kicked a total score of 1714 for the year, % of 73 winning 6 games.
2011 he kicked 62 goals had 21 goal assists and the team kicked 2069 86% 8 wins
2012 65 goals 20 assists 2169 111% 10 wins
2013 58 goals 26 assists 2154 122% 15 wins.
so after 2010, his direct involvement in goals remained constantly only slightly lower than 2010, while the team progressively won more games and kicked much higher scores than 2010.
after that the team stagnated/went backwards , while jacks direct scoring output remained the about same in 2014 and dropped off slightly in 2015.
It's a simplistic article written by a simpleton for simpletons.
but yeah, lets dream of the successful year of 2010 where we could hang our hat on an individual award