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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on April 21, 2025, 08:00:51 PM
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AFL Round 7
Melbourne vs RICHMOND
Thursday, 24 April, Anzac Eve @ the M.C.G.
Start time: 7:30 pm
https://www.afl.com.au/afl/matches/7016
We will be wearing the Golden Wattle guernsey again for Anzac Eve this year.
(https://resources.richmondfc.com.au/photo-resources/2025/04/17/7dbd2c49-6b0f-4417-a134-5deb5b7efdd2/0SJGcGzi.png?width=902&height=536) (https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/1757994/richmonds-wattle-guernsey)
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/1757994/richmonds-wattle-guernsey
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NO LATE CHANGES
SUBSTITUTES
Melbourne: Harry Sharp
Richmond: Tom Brown
https://www.afl.com.au/news/1305395/follow-it-live-melbourne-demons-v-richmond-tigers-afl-round-seven-2025
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Is green dumb or what
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We can't get it out of our back half and past Gawn.
Making it easy for them.
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If that was not 15 then so was the Melbourne one that led to the 50 ::).
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Don't look switched on except for Floss. Really lacking intensity
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Short missed 2 easy kicks. That’s basically what he’s in the team for
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Not much brains out there. What was Ross doing?
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Gee they look a bit dumb tonight
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Miller drops a sitter in defence.
Trezise then kicks it OOTF.
:banghead
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Ross has been very poor so far.
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It's not as though the Dees are playing well. We've just been woeful and panicky :help.
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Look really flat. Signs look bad.
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Lalor :gotigers
Understatement to say we needed that. Hopefully it steadies us.
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Hopper playing really well.
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That shouldn't have been a free to Timmy :whistle but we'll take it :gotigers.
Not sure how we're only 5 pts down.
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Quarter time
Richmond 2.3-15
Melbourne 3.2-20
Goals: Lalor, Taranto.
So far it's showing it's a match between two bottom 4 sides. Pretty poor standard. Hopefully we've now settled. The last 5 mins we had the better of it.
Gray doing well so far on debut.
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Stats to QT:
Short 8 disposals
Taranto 8
Floss 7
Dow 6
Hopper 6
Disposals 83 - 99
Marks 24 - 34
Tackles 7 - 16 ... hello bruise free
Clearances 12 - 5
Inside 50s 13 - 12
Hitouts 10 - 10
Frees 6 - 6
https://www.afl.com.au/afl/matches/7016#team-stats
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Geez Lynchy :scream
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Green kicks the difficult one :gotigers
We're in front! :o
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That was a worse decision than the Taranto one ::). And some say we shouldn't criticise the flouro muppets. The standard of umpiring is in crisis. They are spoiling the game :banghead
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Mansell :gotigers
Back in front again.
Just a weird game lol.
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Too casual Floss. Soft goal to give away.
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Is this hoppers annual injury
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Half-time
Richmond 2.3 4.6-30
Melbourne 3.2 5.4-34
Goals: Lalor, Taranto, Green, Mansell.
Both sides ordinary. Only topped by the umps. I'd reckon we had the better of that quarter in terms of chances but 4 goals from 25 inside 50s shows we are falling down going forward. Just a weird game how both sides are going so wide by the boundary.
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Stats to HT:
Ross 14 disposals
Short 14
Dow 13
Taranto 13
Hopper 12
Floss 11
Trezise 9
Lynch 8
Miller 8
Campbell 7
Kmac 7
Nank 7
Banks 6
Hugo 6
Trainor 6
Green 5
Mansell 5
Lalor 4
Gray 3
Faull 2
Rioli 2
Brown 0 ... sub not used yet
Disposals 167 - 202 .... ( contested: 54 - 57 )
Marks 50 - 67
Tackles 24 - 32
Clearances 22 -14 .... ( centre: 5 - 2 )
Inside 50s 25- 21
Hitouts 14 - 24
Frees 12 - 15
https://www.afl.com.au/afl/matches/7016#team-stats
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Another BS free to Melbourne ::)
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Been really poor tonight. I noticed when the opponent pressures up on the mark quickly our players just don’t get back fast enough and end up getting smothered or having to kick too high all the time. Banks and miller are massive offenders of this
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Faull been done twice for blocking. Not a block imo. Umpiring has been bizarre tonight, clearly had some instruction which has just been disgraceful
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MRJ
lol
Please
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Vlastuin seems to have no awareness tonight. Cost us multiple goals now
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I'm really not sure how Rioli is getting a game
He's terrible.
Should have played an extra mid
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Ross needs to get dropped. He is so slow and a horrible decision maker. Seen enough of him
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Some really soft and lazy 'efforts' this quarter.
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So many players down tonight.
Zero pressure, tackling pathetic.
Poor performance all round
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Banks and ross to be dropped for mine.
Lynch was also bad early, blew a couple of chances for goal all on his own.
When our mids aren’t dominating (Taranto, hopper) we look so bare. They aren’t good enough to dominate often either
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Brown subbed on.
Was Gray subbed off? Why?
It's game over. We've been pitiful this quarter.
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Performances like this are so frustrating after last week.
Embarrassing
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Why is lynch playing so selfish tonight ? Really poor from him
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Geez the umpiring has been heavily 1-way.
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Lost as selection.
4 small forwards who basically get no possessions was a huge mistake.
2 extra mids would have been better option.
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Geez the umpiring has been heavily 1-way.
Disagree, Been horrible all around
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Rioli is not fit, looks like he is running in quicksand
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Need another big forward, even someone like Lefau.
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3/4 time
Richmond 2.3 4.6 5.8-38
Melbourne 3.2 5.4 11.7-73
Goals: Lalor, Taranto, Green, Mansell, Lynch.
Uncompetitive quarter. One of our worst this year. The most disappointing part was just how meek it was. Not the night to be so soft. Defensively we were nowhere. Neither pressing up nor being defensive side of our direct opponent. Melbourne players running forward 10-15m off their Tiger opponent.
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21 possessions for the 4 small forwards
Just saying
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Pee weak second half.
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Wow that effort from MRJ.
Absolute dog$#!+3
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Well just another poor game really. To keep perspective, we have already won more games than we expected for the whole year. It’s hard to remain positive when the leaders play poorly though (vlastuin,lynch,short,hopper,Taranto) on top of them, banks, Dow and Ross have been really bad imo. Ross gets a go in the twos for me, has been really average since rd 1. Let sonsie or anyone else play his role
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If MJ plays next week I'll spew up
HES JUST NO GOOD.
Drop him FFS and delist at years end
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Maurice's 'effort' then summing up our second half. Substandard and unacceptable at this level. Mind you he has had plenty of teammates in the same boat.
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Well just another poor game really. To keep perspective, we have already won more games than we expected for the whole year. It’s hard to remain positive when the leaders play poorly though (vlastuin,lynch,short,hopper,Taranto) on top of them, banks, Dow and Ross have been really bad imo. Ross gets a go in the twos for me, has been really average since rd 1. Let sonsie or anyone else play his role
The disappointing thing is Melbourne aren't that good. It's just been pitiful by us and dull as. The type of performance that won't encourage people to turn up next week. We know we're young and not going to win too many games, but we at least expect the team to have a dip. To dish this up on Anzac Eve just makes it all the more worse.
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We’re getting bullied and Nank has had his pants pulled off and waved around the MCG by Gawn.
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Lovely kick by Ross to Lynch for goal.
Not that it saves his game and even Lynch is just cashing in on junk time.
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Well just another poor game really. To keep perspective, we have already won more games than we expected for the whole year. It’s hard to remain positive when the leaders play poorly though (vlastuin,lynch,short,hopper,Taranto) on top of them, banks, Dow and Ross have been really bad imo. Ross gets a go in the twos for me, has been really average since rd 1. Let sonsie or anyone else play his role
The disappointing thing is Melbourne aren't that good. It's just been pitiful by us and dull as. The type of performance that won't encourage people to turn up next week. We know we're young and not going to win too many games, but we at least expect the team to have a dip. To dish this up on Anzac Eve just makes it all the more worse.
I think they’ve had a crack, there’s still good effort imo. Just horrible skills and decision making and positioning really. Melbourne are reading us like a book. How many times we kicked to a contest with Gawn ? Basic stuff
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How we played McIntosh as the second ruck is laughable too.
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Scoreboard will flatter us but what a show of fight. If they gave up we would all bag them for it so give them some credit, never gave up tonight
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We can't be happy with that.
A loser mentality performance for mine.
Effort wasn't at the level.
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Just got sonned by Gawn. Could see the difference when he went off half way through the second or they prob just put the cue in the rack or both.
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Glad they kick scoring but agree the result flattered us. Better than being rolled by 100 (hyperbole) points instead.
Some tired players out there tonight who I hope dish up something better next round.
We’re getting bullied and Nank has had his pants pulled off and waved around the MCG by Gawn.
Yeah he has and often does, hard to blame Nank though, it's not like he isn't trying lol. Undersized ruck playing on probably the best ruck of the current generation.
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Final Score
Richmond 2.3 4.6 5.8 9.9-63
Melbourne 3.2 5.4 11.7 12.11-83
Goals: Lynch 3, Taranto 2, Lalor, Green, Mansell, Nankervis.
As others have said the scoreboard flattered us in the end with 3 junk time goals once Gawn was rested. That second half especially the third quarter will not be pretty in Monday's review. Unacceptable 'efforts' that wouldn't be tolerated at VFL level let alone at AFL. Nothing worse in footy than seeing so many players cough up the ball or go to ground so easily in the contest or fail to man up and be unaccountable. We were ordinary all night and a disorganised meek rabble for most of that 2nd half aside from the last 5-10 mins. We dished up bruise free footy. Not good enough even from a young side.
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The first half we were very competitive- only brain farts cost us the lead .
3 rd quarter - they destroyed us and put the game to bed .
Junk time goals made the score respectable.
Team looked tired .
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FMD It is going to be a good read around here with all the excuses that will be trotted out for the senior hacks who just don't change.
When will you lot learn.
How the stuff Short continues to get a game is beyond belief yet most here will just ignore just how shiite he is.
We can really depend on the likes of Ross McIntosh and Rioli when the whips get cracking for #ucks sake wake up people they are stealing games from kids with better attributes how many years does it take for people to wake the stuff up.
Its like our court system over here we have blokes with 100 convictions for the same sort of offences but hey they will come good at some stage, but not before wrecking some poor buggers life for the 101st time.
Serial offenders is what we have and all the blinkered crowd do is defend them freakin wake up to yourselves.
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I don't disagree Claw, just not sure it's wise to field an additional 3 draftees instead.
You're right though.
KMac should retire this year.
Short should be traded if we can get a 2nd rounder for him.
Have said often that I think mrj is a bust.
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We played like a side coming off a 5 day break. Then ran into the most over-umpired game of the year.
I'm not fond of the umpiring in the AFL but tonight was a real low point! Pedantic, inconsistent & with no feel for the game. Knee jerk festival! :thumbsdown
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Well just another poor game really. To keep perspective, we have already won more games than we expected for the whole year. It’s hard to remain positive when the leaders play poorly though (vlastuin,lynch,short,hopper,Taranto) on top of them, banks, Dow and Ross have been really bad imo. Ross gets a go in the twos for me, has been really average since rd 1. Let sonsie or anyone else play his role
The disappointing thing is Melbourne aren't that good. It's just been pitiful by us and dull as. The type of performance that won't encourage people to turn up next week. We know we're young and not going to win too many games, but we at least expect the team to have a dip. To dish this up on Anzac Eve just makes it all the more worse.
I think they’ve had a crack, there’s still good effort imo. Just horrible skills and decision making and positioning really. Melbourne are reading us like a book. How many times we kicked to a contest with Gawn ? Basic stuff
First half yes we had a crack and we exploited Gawn going off late. But between that especially in that 3rd quarter we lacked effort in the contest and being accountable off the ball defensively which was most disappointing. Agree Simonator about our tactics. We kept going wide and slow which played into Melbourne and especially Gawn's hands down the line.
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Everything we did well last week we failed to do this week
The pressure, the 2nd and 3rd efforts, sticking tackles
3rd quarter we were non competitive
All our small forwards were terrible
Not sure why Gray was subbed out. Can name at least 5 others who should have subbed before him.
Nank was smashed by Gawn. But let's be honest he always gets s,asked by Gawn
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We played like a side coming off a 5 day break. Then ran into the most over-umpired game of the year.
I'm not fond of the umpiring in the AFL but tonight was a real low point! Pedantic, inconsistent & with no feel for the game. Knee jerk festival! :thumbsdown
They were coming off a five day break too
Their older players stood up ours didn't
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30 more tackles when having 80 more possessions screams lack of workrate
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It’s all my fault we lost.
First game I’ve been to since covid.
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Everything we did well last week we failed to do this week
The pressure, the 2nd and 3rd efforts, sticking tackles
3rd quarter we were non competitive
All our small forwards were terrible
Not sure why Gray was subbed out. Can name at least 5 others who should have subbed before him.
Nank was smashed by Gawn. But let's be honest he always gets s,asked by Gawn
The delivery into the forwardline played right into Gawn 's hands and didn't help our small forwards at all. Should have lowered eyes. We lacked intensity for the most of the game and tackling is a major concern. Nank Hopper Taranto Broad Lynch and Flos all tried hard. Ross played really poorly and unfortunately Kmac's disposal always let's him down.
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We are not running out games this year, our fitness coaches have some work to do as playing half a game is an an issue .
Might be why Brown was sub in , but I didn’t like the message it gave to the first gamer .
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It’s all my fault we lost.
First game I’ve been to since covid.
:banghead :help :wallywink :facepalm
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We are not running out games this year, our fitness coaches have some work to do as playing half a game is an an issue .
Might be why Brown was sub in , but I didn’t like the message it gave to the first gamer .
That’s what happens when you have a very young group complimented by very old players and not much in between.
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We are not running out games this year, our fitness coaches have some work to do as playing half a game is an an issue .
Might be why Brown was sub in , but I didn’t like the message it gave to the first gamer .
That’s what happens when you have a very young complimented by very old players and not much in between.
Correct
Exactly this
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It’s all my fault we lost.
First game I’ve been to since covid.
:banghead :help :wallywink :facepalm
Na, it’s my fault, I didn’t wear my lucky Tigers socks.
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AFL Report Card - Round 7
Dane Heverin, Catherine Healey, Will Faulkner, Ben Cotton and Jack Jovanovski
Fox Sports
April 28th, 2025
RICHMOND
The Tigers may have sunk to a fifth loss in six games but there’s plenty to take away from the 20-point defeat to Melbourne. Richmond were on top in the first half as they dominated a star-studded Demons midfield – but ill-discipline and wasted opportunities ensured they didn’t put their good work onto the scoreboard. And when Melbourne’s “ferocious” pressure came in the third term, the young Tiger cubs couldn’t go with them. In pleasing signs for coach Adem Yze, Richmond didn’t roll over and instead kicked the final four goals of the match. They finished even for clearances despite having almost 100 less disposals.
In the votes
Tim Taranto tried to lift his side and finished with 22 disposals – 11 of them contested, three clearances and two goals. Nick Vlastuin still had 11 intercepts – despite a few horror moments exiting defence that proved costly on the scoreboard. Despite Melbourne’s second half dominance, Richmond still finished equal for centre clearance in a big win for Adem Yze’s young side.
Room for improvement
Toby Nankervis (15 disposals, eight clearances and a goal) was overrun by Demons skipper Max Gawn in the end. The Richmond captain was admirable in the first half, but when the Melbourne ruck found another gear, no one could match him. Simple skill errors continued to cost Richmond goals – Maurice Rioli Jnr (just four touches) was a chief offender as he coughed up an off the ball free kick that Harry Petty converted, breaking the Tigers’ momentum and run of three straight goals. In the last quarter with the game out of reach, Fox Footy experts questioned why we didn’t see Sam Lalor injected into the midfield for experience – given he had just 10 disposals for the match.
Grade
C
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2025-round-7-report-card-highlights-every-club-reviewed-and-graded-best-and-worst-players-stats-latest-news/news-story/bef47fec09221fe51106dd654a73e80a
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Coaches votes (Yze & Goodwin)
10 Max Gawn MELB
8 Christian Petracca MELB
6 Jake Bowey MELB
2 Christian Salem MELB
2 Tom Sparrow MELB
1 Thomson Dow RICH
1 Nick Vlastuin RICH
https://www.afl.com.au/news/1310389/coaches-votes-r7-pies-pair-nick-daicos-and-steele-sidebottom-share-the-lead-six-perfect-10s