One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Moi on May 12, 2006, 09:27:47 AM
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The Swans this week - here's what they're talking about on RedandWhite Online. Not talking about much, but here's a couple of thoughts.
They are glad that Sugar and Gas are out because the corresponding year, these were the Brownlow votes.
3 K Johnson
2 W Campbell
1 D Gaspar
Knowing that, I hope both of them play.
Having said that, the height in our forward line might stretch them, hence these comments:
Even leaving aside Dempster's strong return performance against Brisbane, Richmond's one strength is a good-sized marking forward line. Richo, Stafford/Simmonds keeping one of our defenders punching upwards in the goalsquare, Patrick Bowden is surprisingly tall, Pettifer (while short) marked everything that went near him last week (he just couldn't kick), plus Oakley-Nicholls and Hughes who will both get plenty of game time. And to make way for a smallish forward, we're dumping a 191cm mobile defender? Effectively playing with 5 specialist defenders (plus Schneider, Crouch et al rotating), but 11 players who will rotate through the midfield at some stage against a less-than-starstudded opposition ballwinning fleet? Doesn't strike me as 'horses for courses' selection
On our midfield:
While in theory Richmond are 'hard running', the fact is that (even if we were minus one midfielder) they are neither as fit nor as well-coordinated as Sydney's running brigade.
If both teams play to their capacity (a very dangerous assumption, I know), Richmond shouldn't go close to beating us in the midfield; but they could well and truly beat us up forward (and by this route give themselves a chance of winning if our forwards don't perform).
http://www.redandwhiteonline.com/forum/showthread.php?s=1c030e88ff2a17880ab9972cdfb20fab&threadid=14575
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Cheers for that Moi :cheers
Some Swannie supporters sure have a chip on their shoulder over the Tiges. Don't know whether it dates back to the 70's and the Pitura saga or more recently when we've knocked them off by a kick a few times.
SimonH: While in theory Richmond are 'hard running', the fact is that (even if we were minus one midfielder) they are neither as fit nor as well-coordinated as Sydney's running brigade.
LOL. I wonder who won last year mate ::).
Richo owns the Swans. He loves coming up with those stuff goals just for them :thumbsup. When it was wet at the SCG a couple of years ago and Richo scooped the ball one-handed off the ground on the wing and with a heavy ball snagged a long running goal from 60m out. Then last year on the boundary 50m out towards the Ponsford end he jagged the goal. No wonder they hate us lol.
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I don't really rate the swans midfield personally. Jude Bolton is a gun, Williams is past his best and they slipped under the radar last year because they had a lot of honest medium-sized types who could rotate through the middle and up forward (Buchanan, Schneider, Fosdike, Ablett). Not a lot of class there.
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Seems complacency is the hot issue on BigFooty this week. Have to agree, but they also have good reason to be confident as well.
Wise man Crows98 says:
Playing sport my whole life the one thing that has always stuck with me is complacency in good sides. If your ever played sport (not implying if you have or have not) you understand that complacency has a huge effect on how a team performers, I just hope that Neil Craig and the boys don’t start getting complacent again side such as Richmond, Carlton, Essendon.
Once good sides become complacent and start taking victories over the opposition for granted is when they will lose a game they are expected to win.
Just because Richmond lost by over 18 goals and we have not lost to them for 6 or 7 year doesn’t mean they are not going to be a formidable opponent.
And Capitalist says:
I really don’t think it is intelligent to have a “resting” policy in modern football even against lowly Richmond
Remember they are getting 4-5 senior players this week and on-song will challenge us. The have players like Coughlan, Richo, Delideo(sp?), Tambling, Rodan, Kraouker (once again sp?), Johnson is back this week.
So we can’t be complacent as if Richo fires up and there is someone kicking the ball to him we could get one of the those embarrassing losses (West Coast v Collingwood last yr I think it was)
2 words
DANGER GAME
I guess we’ll have to cop the “lowly” placed side tag, because I guess we are, and haven’t proved otherwise against the Crows. Hence Marvin:
I'm not complacent about this game, though I am very confident.
Complacency is always a danger when a run against the lowly placed sides comes up, but I think under Craig, the emphasis is on playing the way we want to, rather than the way the opposition tries to dictate. When you are proactive rather than reactive, complacency is perhaps less of an issue.
And two guys you just wanna kick their heads in. Oops sorry mods lol
Wash and Jars 458:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jars458
Richmond are useless. If we loss it will be shamefull.
Van Berlo to tag K Johnson if he plays to test my theory
Roo to kick 10.
I hate to sound complacent, but... what he said!
Couldn’t be bothered reading through the rest. They are cocky and they have every right to be I suppose. They are flying at the moment and they own us. I guess it’s up to us to show them otherwise.
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=242240&page=2
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I don't really rate the swans midfield personally.
Great call jakey.
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I don't really rate the swans midfield personally.
Great call jakey.
One of your better ones lol :rollin
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LOL. We've all been there done that Jake :thumbsup
We've got to cop it now and hope in 3-4 years time when our young blokes start reaching their peak and their older champions have retired that we return the favour and show no mercy. We're giving them a 2 and a half years and 50 games per player head start in terms of experience so no wonder they are a stronger side but as we've seen with the Lions, footy can bring even the greatest side back to Earth with a thud as age kicks in.
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They aren't very happy down on the Cats Claw messageboard.
Cat fans are arguing about who will help out Ottens in the ruck with King out. Some want their raw ruckman Blake to come in; others argue they have enough ordinary talls playing as it is lol.
If Geelong want the points they simply cannot afford to play Blake.
WHY NOT?
Currently we have Kingsley, Playfair, Ottens, Harley and Egan all battling to contribute even as much as 5 kicks per game. Harley has a legitimate excuse. However, there is a definite limit to just how many average talls any team can carry. They certainly cannot afford another one. At least Kingy can take a mark and get a kick. He is a big loss.
These blokes are paid handsomely to play football, not 1 quarter here and there but a full match. It is past time for Ottens and the others to provide the sort of service that they were contracted for. If they break down, so be it. Surely Ottens has developed some sort of fitness base by now. Is there no end to the excuses and the "molly coddling". For goodness sake, if we lose again our season is just about over.
I cannot believe that none of Kingsley, Playfair or Ottens have been held accountable for their continued pitiful performances. If they don't come good on Saturday, we will surely lose again.
They also think other sides have worked Geelong out and Bomber Thompson hasn't come up with a plan B. Sounds familiar ;).
Geelong relies on a very narrowly defined game plan and style to win it matches. Hard at the ball, tackling, running, working for your team mates and moving the ball quickly. It has been said that Geelong's greatest strength is its evenness. I say it's also our greatest flaw. When you rely on 22 players week in-week out to go into a game with a 99% switched-on mindset, it only takes a few players to be out of sorts and it spreads like wildfire to the rest of the team. A few players not running leads to indecisiveness and slow, chip around football. It's contagious. I've got nothing to kick to so I'll chip it 15m sideways. In the meantime everyone's been manned up so I've once again got nothing to kick to. We don't have a Riewoldt, Judd or Brown to do something special to break it up, so on it continues. Confidence is shattered and there's no way out.
Opposition teams have worked this out. Shut Geelong down with man-on-man, pressure football and they will go into their shells and you've got them.
So the big issue for Geelong is that they rely on a style of game that opposition teams have worked out how to bust up. The coaching staff are statuesque in their responsiveness when things aren't going well. We don't have a star to break up the play and turn the game around, instilling confidence into his teammates. We don't have a leader who stands up and says enough is enough, I'll show you how it's done.
They're problems that are not easily fixed. Even if we manage to get some confidence back and win a few games in a row, the game plan and personnel are fatally flawed and are susceptible (if not, inevitably likely) to lapse again at any stage.
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There's an 8-page thread on wanting Bomber Thompson to quit and they are calling their own players prima-donnas. Funny how we only cop the "eating your own" tag ::). Alot of the comments are much like ours were about Spud :lol.
Big fish in a small town... the players are a bunch of p*** weak, latte-loving, prima-donna's. At this stage I feel like Geelong will NEVER win a flag beause of the corio culture curse.
It's just too easy for them to get by, rake in the cash, sit around and play with their playstations... who the f*** would want to work on skills when you've got it easy. Just turn up to training a few times a week and go through the motions... and who cares about bomba? He's a good bloke and a soft touch... he'd never call Kingy down in fornt of the troops for being a completely useless ***... he'd never pull Lingy up in front of the whole team for is rank ineptitude... and god forbid that Carrot should be told in no uncertain terms just exactly how f***ing useless he's playing at the moment... nah, better just to keep a lid on the hysteria. 'Cause that's all it is. We're not that bad. And things could be worse... and geez, we weren't even supposed to be around without Thompson, Cook & Costa...
The fact of the matter is we suck because the attitude of the players sucks. The attitude of the players sucks because the attitude of the coach sucks. Apparently he can't work it out, why the players suck so profoundly. Here's a clue, bomba... they don't care. And why should they. No one's telling them or demonstrating any different from above.
They are also talking about tanking already only 6 weeks after being flag favourites :rollin.
... so let's just analyse those who don't tank and get the picks needed to rise from the ashes (recent history)...
Us, Kangaroos, Melbourne
Going nowhere, no flag in sight (and don't jump on the Dees, they're not good enough and we all know it)
Compared with the tankers...
Collingwood, Bulldogs, StKilda, Richmond ;), Hawthorn
They're all closer to flags than we are
Quote of the week:
Ahhh we are to Victorian footy what the dockers are to WA!
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Mods, this is a great thread and should be stickied. :thumbsup I love reading the goss from other team forums but just don't have the time to troll.
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Quote of the week:
From tavelbug1 - a Geeeeeeeelong supporter:
Ahhh we are to Victorian footy what the dockers are to WA!
That has to be one of the best quotes of all time
Gee I hope we win :gotigers
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Cats Claw - Never heard of it - Champagne comedy, keep it coming :thumbsup
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Cats Claw - Never heard of it - Champagne comedy, keep it coming :thumbsup
http://p209.ezboard.com/bgeelongcatsmessageboard
You need to have an ezboard account to view it as it has restricted viewing. For us net oldies they can use their old Roarpower nic.
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There's a couple of threads on Pettifer on Cats Claw. One saying Bartel and Corey should play more like Petts. What odds would you have given on a Cat fan saying that 2 years ago lol.
Cat fans are mainly getting stuck into Bomber Thompson:
If Thompson is NOT immedately terminated as coach, I demand ALL Geelong supporters who have any sort of heart left in this club call for an immediate spill of the board.
If the current board will not act, then it is our duties as financial members and backers of the club to demand a board in place that will act to make the tough decisions.
This is beyond a joke. He is the second longest serving coach of the club and given us nothing but broken promises.
Every member of the this great club should be absolutely ashamed of the pitiful effort put in today.
Action must be taken now, if it's not then it is the members and supporters who MUST act.
If Bomber doesn't play a 2nd ruckman and dump KK from full forward next week, I'd be happy to take Adam Heuskes in full drag as coach.
Some Cat fans have given up:
Well it's no secret now. This is a dud team and a team of duds except for the obvious few. Winning preseason meant we came into the season with a string of injuries, now that's smart. Carlton proved what a joke it is last year. This team couldn't beat a team of one legged blindfolded drunken brownies.
Ottens and Kingsley wouldn't get a game with Timbuktoo thirds on current form, and who else apart from Ablett, Bartel and maybe a couple of others would get a game with any other AFL club. How many times today did Cameron Mooney kick the ball directly to a Richmond player. I lost count. Lingy about as useful as a pregnant camel, Mackie cant take a dinky little chest mark unopposed. SJ useless most of the day.
Thompson, who has got nothing to lose should tell it to them how it is, and that is that they are beyond hope and couldn't win if their life depended on it.
If Ablett isn't looking to do a 'Colbert' I'll be surprised. Couldn't blame him.
I'm beyond angry. I've given up all hope of Geelong winning a premiership in my lifetime.
Some are making fun of their own club:
The GFC song for 2006:
We are Geelong, the saddest team of all
We are Geelong, we're on and off the boil
We play the game so inconsistently
No flag since '63
The team is playing like crap from dawn to dark
Down at Kardinia Park
While some other Cat fans have totally lost it :-X:
Good People of Geelong,
This week please shun the players round town, jeer them,sign a petition, throw rocks at them if need be, But for god's sake let them know it's not good enough....GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS
Please think of how much they get paid and let them have it... @#%$ get Hunt's knees with a baseball bat, that would keep the player on their toes, thinking it's a good idea to perform...
I booed them off and said they had no heart, then hung my tie on the door to the rooms, and walked away. cats need to know what we think, so I do agree, booing is fine, but not down the street, but, I wouldn't put it past myself.
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If you had never seen Freo play you'd reckon they had a history of success compared to none going by Dockerland ::). This coming from a mob who changed the colours of their fan site to red and white of the Swans just to celebrate their superior crosstown rival's loss in last year's GF.
Freo are in a bit of trough at the moment but all they need is soft hit out to get them back on track, they couldn't do better than beating Richmond on Sunday. There's alaways big question mark over Richmond. Are they a football pretending to be a rabble or are they a rabble pretending to be a football team? Either way, if the Dockers are in for a percentage boost this weekend.
They say there's nothing as ferocious as a Tiger with his back to the wall. What they don't tell you is that there's nothing as weak as a Tiger who's standing a few steps away from the wall and feeling pretty good about himself. Playing Richmond with a few wins under their belt is like Christmas, Easter and Cox Plate Day rolled into one.
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Then their's Troy "Five Year Two Million Dollar Contract" Simmonds. When Fremantle supporters nick named him Two Touch Troy, he made fools of us. Unfortunately he did it by taking a minimum of three touches, occasionally with his hands. He could play volleyball for Australia but in football, as far as he's concerned a contested mark is just an argument with his girlfriend about who didn't use a coaster on the coffee table. Maybe if they can get the Australian Mint to sponsor the ball, and paint a big dollar sign on it, Troy will be able to get a firmer grip on the thing. Until then, he'll just be fodder for 'Square Up' Sandilands to run through.
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But it's not the talent of the players at Richmond that are they're problem. On their day they can be as good as most teams. Their problem is that they're a bunch of girls blouses. They've even proudly announced it to the world by making Terry Wallace their coach. How can you take a bloke seriously, who tells you to toughen up, then swans off to the local beauty salon to work on his tan and get his hair blow waved.
The big question this week is how will Terry Wallace try and destroy the game that he's used to whore himself with for so long now. A couple of weeks ago he introduced a new tactic to the game that made a mockery of the game and had blokes turning in their graves who aren't even dead yet.
So, this week, will he play keepies off and tell his players to pass the ball around to each other after they kick the first goal of the match or will he adopt some other tactics from the playground?
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But whatever nonsense he decides to do, it'll just be a side show to the Fremantle goalapalooza. The Dockers need a big score to get back some percentage and an all out assault on the goals is being plotted. With Sandilands thumping the ball out of the centre to the little blokes, Pavlich, McPharlin, Polak, Campbell, Medhurst and Farmer will be getting the ball fed to them IV style. The goal umpire will be wearing a neck brace by quarter time, the Sherrin factory will have to put on extra staff and the Subiaco scoreboard will go into melt down - well actually the last one is a weekly event. The point is - get on the over forty this week, Tiger hunting season is open.
The full drivel is here: http://www.dockerland.com/NewsPub/News/Stories/2006/06/01/11491636221.html
But wait there's more:
It's Raining Champions
It's always a nice feeling to look down at the list of ins and outs on a Thursday night and see the ins column made up of much better players than the outs. It's even better when you look down and see three outright superstars of the game coming in at the expense of a couple of kids and the bloke who cuts the lawns. So enjoy the site (sic) of Aaron Sandilands, Luke Mcpharlin, Jeff Farmer and Adam Campbell coming in to replace Murphy, Duffield, Thornton and Jarrad Schofield.
But wait there's more:
On Saturday Night, the sleeping giants of the competition are going to make a statement that they are now a top 4 team. This talented team is going to blow away all the pessimists and the dooomsdayers with a performance that will be both brutal and awesome in its execution.
This team has been stuck in living hell, ignored by their parents (the AFL), scorned by the soothsayers (the media) and tolerated by everybody else as being "mostly harmless". Their rightful inheritance (and sponsorship dollars)has been stolen by their evil bastard satan half-brother (the Eagles). This team has endured the horrific 11 year Purple curse that has left a vomitous bubbling stench from the fields of Gabba to Yorke. This team has seen its Messiah and Saviour (Clive Waterhouse) savagely slaughtered by its enemies before redemption was achieved.
Saturday night this will end.
This all coming from the supporters of a side that got pumped by 68 points by the bottom-4 placed Lions last week and has only played one final in its history which it lost at home. Oh Dear! :whistle
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Freo CEO Cameron Schwab says Freo fans are like Tiger supporters .... I don't think so Schwabby :nope
"They have been supportive and extremely loyal," he said of the Dockers' fans.
"I have been involved with some of the traditional clubs (Melbourne and Richmond) and the Fremantle fans are very much the equal to them although they are probably more like Richmond fans than Melbourne fans."
"They are passionate and like everyone they get frustrated occasionally."
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=270719
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Have any of these idiots seen Simmo's stats lately?? Apparently they're all going to Boo him! :rollin They can't even spell Deledio???
I recommend everyone go visit Dockerland. You'll either hurt yourself laughing or stare in amazement car accident style at the deluded vitriol spewing from their keyboards. :chuck
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Have any of these idiots seen Simmo's stats lately?? Apparently they're all going to Boo him! :rollin They can't even spell Deledio???
I recommend everyone go visit Dockerland. You'll either hurt yourself laughing or stare in amazement car accident style at the deluded vitriol spewing from their keyboards. :chuck
Pass :thumbsup
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I had a peep over at Hawkheadquarters to see what Hawk fans were chatting about.
Earlier in the week just after their hiding to Port they were calling for Clarkson's head but in the space of few days they've got behind the decision to re-appoint Clarkson 100-16. Time heals wounds quickly at Glenferrie :o.
Not that much talk about the Tiges given we're playing them this week. Half of them are tipping Richmond to win :thumbsup. Some are deluded:
We will bounce back and beat the Tigers next week for all these reasons
1. They have Terry Wallet as coach, we have Clarko
2. Our youngsters are better. We drafted Franklin and Roughead and they drafted hacks in Tambling
3. Dunstall once kicked 17 goals against them
Their own responded to this with:
Three reasons Richmond will beat us:
1. We're sh*t.
2. We're peahearts.
3. We're sh*t.
Some are towing the party line of "rebuilding" while others are questioning it:
And I question to all you guys who talk about rebuilding.
Two years ago we beat Richmond in the second last round and they finished bottom, we 15th. Since then the Tigers and I have seen them a bit in recent weeks, after a slow start actually look like they have a significant number of young players who can actually hit a target and play the game. I am very concerned that at the moment (a) we are very slow and (b) are young players really still have very little skill and what is more distressing I have not seen anything that really excites me in ANY of them.
Sure Buddy has a lot of ability and Lewis can get the ball but that is different from saying gee i reckon that guy is really going to be a player.
Now i realise players take time but gee there are some worrying signs for me.
Maybe many will come good and they have to be given a chance but as was suggested we could have a bunch of draftees who end up like the last bunch which is basically nowhere.
Some have just given up and sound like us under Spud lol:
For the first time in my life, I find myself laughing with each Port goal, and a little part of me wants us to go down by 150 points plus.
I don't know why. I think a part of me wants them to suffer the way we have to suffer watching the same thing happen year after year.
I am tired, just so tired of this.
I'm feeling very strange and numb watching this. The Hawks have finally doused my passion.
Quote of the Week: (by a poster defending the Hawks' current form)
Last year's thrashings are different to this year's.
http://www.hawkheadquarters.com/forums/showpost.php?p=388428&postcount=13
WTF :rollin
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the first 1 makes me laugh!!!
Quote from: John Stephen
We will bounce back and beat the Tigers next week for all these reasons
1. They have Terry Wallet as coach, we have Clarko
2. Our youngsters are better. We drafted Franklin and Roughead and they drafted hacks in Tambling
3. Dunstall once kicked 17 goals against them
yep clarko is far better than terry ...........lol
yep their youngers are better than ours , even franklin(we all know what he has been up to after hrs dont we :lol
i heard that dunstall will run out on sunday !!!!
what a tosser this guy is
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We will bounce back and beat the Tigers next week for all these reasons
1. They have Terry Wallet as coach, we have Clarko
2. Our youngsters are better. We drafted Franklin and Roughead and they drafted hacks in Tambling
3. Dunstall once kicked 17 goals against them
And Santa Clause once came to my house :help :stupid :nopity :ROTFL :wallywink
Three reasons Richmond will beat us:
1. We're sh*t.
2. We're peahearts.
3. We're sh*t.
I respect honesty ;D :clapping
And I question to all you guys who talk about rebuilding.
Two years ago we beat Richmond in the second last round and they finished bottom, we 15th. Since then the Tigers and I have seen them a bit in recent weeks, after a slow start actually look like they have a significant number of young players who can actually hit a target and play the game. I am very concerned that at the moment (a) we are very slow and (b) are young players really still have very little skill and what is more distressing I have not seen anything that really excites me in ANY of them.
Sure Buddy has a lot of ability and Lewis can get the ball but that is different from saying gee i reckon that guy is really going to be a player.
Now i realise players take time but gee there are some worrying signs for me.
Maybe many will come good and they have to be given a chance but as was suggested we could have a bunch of draftees who end up like the last bunch which is basically nowhere.
Far too much logic there I reckon :clapping
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Quote of the Week: (by a poster defending the Hawks' current form)
Last year's thrashings are different to this year's.
http://www.hawkheadquarters.com/forums/showpost.php?p=388428&postcount=13
Definitely a :wallywink
:ROTFL :jump
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i heard that dunstall will run out on sunday !!!!
The funny is Dunstall would probably still get a game even now the way they are going ;D.
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i heard that dunstall will run out on sunday !!!!
The funny is Dunstall would probably still get a game even now the way they are going ;D.
lol
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Had a glimpse over at the Pie Forums. Typical overconfident Pie supporters overrating themselves:
Really this should be one of the easier games this season. Still, these days every team must be taken seriously.
Really, this ought to get ugly and be a solid percentage booster for the 'Pies.
The way I would like to see it:
Prestigiacomo - Simmonds/Stafford (providing no Richo)
H. Shaw - Brown
Clement - Petiffer
Lockyer - Krakouer
O' Brien - Pattison
Morrison - Tambling :rollin
yes however tambling isnt quite a Leon Davis/Aaron Davey/Andrew Lovett just yet, hes not the type of player that will just burst away. A tight tag from Morrison (who i still dont think should be in the team, but i kinow he will be) should be fine to keep tambling down. If he kicks a couple, put Lockyer or someone on him.
They are concerned about Joel though.
I would try something out of the box, like playing Clement or Wakelin or maybe even Jason Cloke (chill now stay with me) at CHF on Joel Bowden - he is the key to their side the way he sets up from half back.
That is a very interesting point Cam, I think Bowden is there best and most important player he creates all their play with his skills off half back. I think he will start on Tarrant and try and do what Bruce did too him a couple of weeks ago. We cannot allow Bowden to riot like the Crows did or we could be in trouble
They've got some Banner quotes too:
How well can we play
Old Ring aring arosies
Coz we'll need to against
These Black & Yellow posies
The Tiggers are like Ronaldo
Except without the ability
and with richo in the side
they've added an extra liability
Tigers at the G
The weather forecast is looking stellar!
Still, it is a Richmond home game
so better bring my umbrealla!
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An oldie but a goodie- and not one of mine
Ive altered it for our pie friends.
If I had the wings of an eagle
and the behind of a crow
id flow over the lexus centre tomorrow
and crap on the poo below ;D
hope you enjoyed it
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Forgot the opposition supporter's quote of the week:
Topic: Tharshing tomorrow
Going by Hawthorn (How Beat Richmong last round) is playing today. We should bet the tiger by 15-30 goals!
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=30093
Hmmm...and Pie fans wonder why they get ridiculed for being the dumbest supporters :wallywink
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This is what happens to Pie supporters after they lose 2 games in a row. They write an essay on the Collywobbles ;D.
The curse of the Collywobbles
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=30278
In 1980 we came from 5th position, which was unheard of in those days with pure grunt to make the Grand Final only to be belted by Kevin Bartlett and a hungry Richmond side. The problem is I can see that hunger in Richmond returning
Opposition fans are starting to get a bit worried about us on the march :thumbsup
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I had a squiz over at the Saints forum:
Saint fans were pretty cocky earlier in the week thinking Kosi would play but now they're a bit worried about Simmo being BOG with Rix dropped as well and only Ackland and Blake left to ruck.
Saint fans are also giving it to Fiora lol
Honestly...can someone objectively tell me how this guy keeps getting a game?
no reply...
still waiting for that in-depth, exposition from some die hard tactologist out there...
still waiting....
still waiting
Objectivity be damned...even my seven year old has started calling him Fiona (which I quietly giggled at before giving him 'the talk' about never bagging our own players)..which is not what I'm doing....I just want to understand why he is getting a game!
because he plays a great game everytime we thump a team like the hawks where he shows us his vast array of look-away handballs in our own goalsquare.
we all believe he's turned a corner and then he gets shown up against a proper football side and everyone realises they were right about him all along and he gets dropped again.
I think I have the answer.. GT and the boys in the coaches box have a great chuckle every time they see fiora jump with one hand like a f****** ballerina with his eyes closed to attempt to get the ball.
I would play lenny on crutches before Fiora because at least we know Lenny will give an honest contest. I dont think Fiora has had a contested posession in the red whit and black yet.
I'm not sure why Fiora is even an AFL player. He lacks so many qualities that should be required. Too many recruiters with the "if" attitude. "IF he want in harder he'd be great"
If!!
He can easily go in harder. He just doesn't for some bloody reason!
Another complete joke from our idiotic selectors. No matter what anyone says good about Fiora on this forum the fact is there is no way he should be playing each week . His heart is as big as a thimble, and his selection over Troy [Schwarze] is rediculous. At least we know Troy will go hard at any contest. Yes Eppo67 you don't know how Fiora, Powell and Peckett are getting games each week. How in hell would anyone know???? Some selections and non selections throughout this year have been bewildering to say the least. A Saint supporter i go to the footy with each week says that Grant plays favourites. I would have to agree with him the way things are going.
14 Possessions last time we played Richmond in Round 2 , AWESOME!!
Your right lets keep him on the list for the 1 or 2 times we play Richmond each year.
But then again 14 possessions would be a blinder for Fiora.
Quote of the Week
Grant Thomas has no rucking clue, is a fair dinkum imposter and couldn't inspire a colony of ants with a sugar bowl
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http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=ba22cae8d01bc7ec736df2133f85060e&showtopic=27997
Obviously, they haven't followed us since we played Adelaide - similar theme all the way through ::)
My old mate VD Sucks lol says:
When questioned about Sheedy's idea to play rock music after every goal, Terry Wallace replied "Sounds like basketball crap!" Touche Terry.
I get the feeling Sheedy's silly comments about Richmond's "basketball crap" earlier in the year are going to be responsible for a fair amount of embarrassment this Saturday.
Another realist like Vinnie is Poiso Nivy who says:
I agree, VD. I love Sheeds but even I couldn't find any justification of those comments and severely cringed when he said them! He's had some great ideas in the past but his latest one about playing music after every goal...well, Wallace hit the nail on the head, didn't he?
And aptly named Worthless lol says:
Hahahahahahah... it's only Richmond ... softie bunch of limpgots couldn't beat a fly to a lump of pooh
And whatever had to the arrogant Bomber supporter - All Things Essendon being a touch defeatist:
Can't blame Terry for shooting back (some would have let it go ... not many) ... Sheeds certainly gave his club a huge whack & provided him with the best oppurtunity to say something. Richmonds win against the hapless Blues was impressive & as VD suggests it's likely to be more of the same for the struggling Dons.
And it goes on :sleep
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They're not too keen on our clash jumper....
Someone else obviously doesn't like the idea of changing their traditional jumpers either.
They added Yellow lines down the sides and put on a White number panel.
Sure, ugly as a box full of bums, and likely to sell about 0, but it does make the game a greater spectacle.
Thank you Mr Polo Player - Gillon McLaughlin.
I defy anyone to honestly tell me that that looks good.
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=4e03227c99aa5d9a9ec9f3132e8980be&showtopic=28050
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Had a peep over at the West Coast forum eaglesflyinghigh.com to see what they are saying and although some think we are a danger game, they are desperately hoping the Eagles will win so they avoid Freo in the finals.
They have a thread titled "Lynch will kick 10 this week"
Some of their fans rate us to come good in the near future:
eagles_fan - "Will be a good game this one......Richmond have taken some big scalps this season but in the process have had some massive losses....They will be a good side in a year or two....We will have to play well to beat them... "
Chrisso - "The Tigers remind me a lot of us about three years ago......bloody inconsistant."
Persian_Ace - "Ah the tigers, they are a dangerous bunch, i will have to agree with the earlier comments, that they will be a danger side in a couple of years time, some really talented Youngens."
Alot of them reckon Glass will easily stop the big fella
perith_eagle - "So this could be fairly close....I do not think Richo will be as dominant this week as he was against the bumbers ... glassie will towel him up.. "
drunk_in_131 - "Glass will dominate Richo, he will be lucky to kick 1, and that will probably be a donation from an Umpire"
worthington84 - "Glass will do to Richardson, what Glass did to Gehrig- Silence him. I don't usually make predictions like that, but I have that much confidence in the man that is our ever-reliable stuff. Richardson is hot 'n' cold, and he whinges heaps to his fellow comarades when he isn't having a good day. However, I think that just like any other, this will be a danger game. I watched a bit of the Richmond V Bomb-outs game on Saturday, and the Tiges were loving the keepings-off play. We'll have to be on out toes to combat it. "
Eaglesniper - "This IS a MUST win game for us, aginst the Tiggers. Glassy'll towel up Richo, but we must have a good hard tag on the Bowden brothers, cos that's where the Tiggers get their run from."
They are also worried what Staff will do in his final game ;D
Eaglesniper - "We'll have to watch out for that stuffwit Stafford, as all he does is go out to maim whomever he comes up against. Since this is his last game, no doubt he'll try to take out as many of our players as possible, with dodgy knees into the thighs/lower backs and head high "tackles". Even he, himself, said that he was a clumsy, scragging type of player...... "
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I ventured over to the Blues and Collingwood message boards to find out what’s going on, how everyone is feeling for the upcoming games/season.
Blues supporters are somewhat nervous about a let down like in 2005 after they won the NAB Cup, but also a bit cocky with the kids they’ve got coming through who will not only match our kids but have already surpassed them. One suggesting we’ll need three taggers to rotate on Murphy. Maybe, we’ll wait and see.
Like some of our supporters, they don’t rate us, some believing we haven’t yet bottomed out like North and Essendon. Isn’t it interesting that the mindset of a supporter these days is you have to bottom out and be so pathetic like they’ve been for a number of years to actually achieve something. I tend to agree these days somewhat, but I would like to see Terry’s formula for the AFL one day come to fruition, where the team finishing 9th actually gets draft rewards, and make it a competition for clubs to aspire to rather than flailing around for half a season just so you can finish bottom. But that’s another story.
They’re not worried about Richo, believing that even if he gets up, he’ll be short of match practice. Browny they’ve got covered apparently. A couple of suggested matchups.
- Russell to tag Deledio
- Simpson v Tambling on a wing
- Bentick v Tuck
- Murphy tagged, Hyde, Polo or Foley
- Stevens tagged by Johnson
- Setanta v Richardson
- Ackland/Cloke v Simmonds/Knobel (if Simmonds fit)
- Thornton v Schulz
- Waite v Pattison
- Walker v Pettifer
They believe their midfield is better than ours. I hope not because that’s all we’ve been drafting for the last 5 years to the detriment of not getting any KPP.
Gotta admit they have some exciting kids coming through. Whether they’re mature enough yet to go far this season, time will tell.
But I’m afraid they may get there before us, because even though I think we’ll be around about this year, I think we’ll drop back again when Richo and Brown age even further and having to cope with more injuries, which tends to happen. We’re seeing that now unfortunately with Richo’s hammies and Brown not quite right every week. Be nice to get a season where both of them are okay – would be a lethal combination.
Some comments on Gibbs:
There is merit in playing Gibbs in the twos but I think he will play seniors first up for sure.....would be admitting he hasnt set the world on fire and might knock the boys confidence around by playing him in the Bullants first up. The club have also included him in the senior leadership group and it wouldnt look so hot on the marketing side of things having your hotshot recruit kicking the dew of the grass in the magoos..
I think Bassman suggested Gibbs on Deledio....wouldnt be doing that..Deledio is a speedster and needs a pacy minder. Gibbs needs to play on the softest dud they have...and build some confidence...
Be interesting to see who Gibbs plays on lol
They’re cocky, and they’ve got every right to be, but as we know, reality can be cruel when you get too far ahead of yourself.
I respect these comments because he shows a modicum of respect for the opposition (us).
Should win easily but it never works like that....Nathan Brown needs our best which is Walker and some of their no names needs some respect. Their onballers are not to too bad with Deledio, Johnson, Tuck, Raines, Polo and will need manning up correctly...
Maybe they deserve to be favourites. I don’t think we’re quite match fit yet and they may do a job on us, but for the remainder of the season I think they’ll still struggle, but they will also see their kids getting more games and experience, and I won’t be taking them lightly this week or in the future.
Which brings me to Collingwood supporters. They are shiit scared that Carlton will get there before they do lol. I think they will as well and have good cause to be afraid, but I don’t think they are alone. I think quite a few teams will start to slide and join the Pies down there.
I was rapt in the development of some of our kids last year, so I see no reason not to be optimistic about our future. I think we may go back in a couple of years, but that will be short-lived because we have some good kids coming through.
So despite being afraid of this week and what it holds, I am pretty optimistic about the season and pretty sure we can make the 8, but the gods have to be really kind to us for a change.
The threads I viewed on respective Scum and Maggot boards.
http://www.csc.actebs.com.au/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7387&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=34789&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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Who played on Richo the last time we met?
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Thornton?? Dunno
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Thornton
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In the first game last year Whitnall had to go back after quarter time to play on Richo.
Roos, Pies and Brisbane for the bottom 3 this year. The Pies recruiting has been shocking.
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Some poor Saint fans still believing Fiora will be a great player :wallywink lol.....
Why does everyone bag Fiora? i think he is a decent player and he is a Saint so why bag him out!!!
I think i know why!!! He was 3rd pick in a draft, if he was say pick 50-70 in the same draft then he wouldnt have that responsibilty of being a first rounder and people wouldnt expect as much from him. So get over it.
THeoritically speaking, we didnt use pick 3 on him so it isnt a waste of a pick, we got him a lot cheaper than that so it is a good pick up [MT: They traded Heath Black for Fiora and missed out on Simmonds when they were/are crying out for a top ruckman. Nah it didn't cost them much :rollin.
When he was drafted he was the 3rd best in the country, that is what confidence does to you and he had it then as no one knew who he was. Now his confidence is shot (bagging out by Saints and Tiger supporters) he is playing with no confidence, i understand why they bagged him out, he was their 3rd pick and never played like it, he wasnt ours, it isnt our problem.
If we gave Fiora some support maybe he will recapture his worthyness of number 3 in the land, as he was that good at one stage otherwise he wouldnt have been picked up at that number. Let him play his own game and give him some support and see how good he could be
He played 17 games for us last year, that is a decent amount and is a great kick. I agree, he isnt the hardest at the ball, but if we had more hard men he wouldnt have to be (yes, we are soft only Ball, Hayes, Baker, Hamill, G, Maguire are hard, we need more than that). He could be that outside reciever, with his speed and is penetrating kick, play him where he deserves to play and not a position he doesnt or cant play in the hard at it midfielder
Take Des Headland, at the Lions he was great, he was their outside reciever because they had the inside, now he is at Freo he has to play a game he isnt very good at all and that is on the inside, they gave up pick 3 for him (Jarred Brennan) and i bet Freo fans would be upset with him as well. I dont think he was worth trading pick 3 for in retraspect, at the time yes, but not now when you look back at it. If Freo had hard at it midfielders Des could play his natural game again and would be more damaging (like Fiora in the right role)
It isnt that Fiora is a crap footy player, we just need better midfielders(harder!!! better now Hayes and Ball are fit) so Fiora can play the loose man and not have to account for any players and be the outside reciever, the style that suits his style
As we were missing Hayes, added responsibilty rested on our midfielders because we were missing something. (hardness)
Dal Santo was tagged out of most games as he was our best midfielder that was fit and often got checked out, yet no one seems to mind if that happens every now and again as he has proved himself and has the respect of the fans as he is an outside player and people know that, he has made the position his as he has played with Hayes and Ball and doesnt need to play that harder role
Fiora only gets the chance when someone is injured. I think if he got a chance when our best midfield was in, he would be a lot better as he could play the loose attacking man
I think Fiora will be the key this year, just give him some confidence, HE COULD BE ANYTHING!!!!
http://www.saintsational.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28069
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Certain people think our Petts "cheats" :whistle
Ah yes Pettifer, have a mate who paid to sit in the scum coaches box last year against the Tiges and the whole match the essendon coaching panel kept on calling Pettifer "The Cheat". He tore them a big one that night because my mate said he heard the words "The Cheat" adnauseam.
Sheedy and co. think he's the greatest front runner in football and just refuses to even go near his man at any time, continuously lurking out the back for the easy kick.
I'd put AW [Andrew Walker] on him, tell him to play him very tight and then absolute run him ragged when the ball goes forward for us. The perfect matchup in the backline for Walks i reckon as Walks attacking game will be unhindered by a cheat who fails to chase at any time.
http://www.csc.actebs.com.au/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7387&start=50
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Pie fans don't think we are "rival week worthy" for them but then have a 3 page expletive filled thread hating us :wallywink.
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=35243&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Realised last night this is rivalry round.
Whilst I hate Richmond, when was it decided they were a rival worthy of a round!!! I was born in 1980, thus i am no longer a spring chicken yet i only remember Richmond playing in about 2 finals series and not once against Collingwood.
I also don't remember any particular epic encounters, maybe the odd small margin.
Pehapes the only things you could suggest are that they ratted on our Rd 1 gate deal and Caroline Wilson hates us.
Prepared to be convinced otherwise...... thoughts?
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lol ...
he has a point ...
but i think he realised that Fiora is a softie ...
when they go down the ladder he will be first to get the arse !
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A few cocky Eagles supporters on eaglesflyinghigh.com
Cox, Judd, and Selwood should all be rested in the WAFL this week, might as well send the 'B' team to play Richmond.
We could play one of our waterboys on Richo. It really won't matter.
http://www.eaglesflyinghigh.com/viewtopic.php?t=9275
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We could play one of our waterboys on Richo. It really won't matter.
http://www.eaglesflyinghigh.com/viewtopic.php?t=9275
thats true, esp if richo does not play :rollin
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Most Pie fans are a touch nervous about tonight especially over Browny and Foley except of course for Joffa who is gloating that the Pies will win by 100 points.
We've all gone soft......all softies fair dinkum SOFTIES
The pies will celebrate there first win IN 2007 by 100 POINTS and or more without a single doubt...all this talk the tiges are gonna come out and stick it up us is all FAIRY TALE stuff...its a bit like reading Snow white and the seven dwarfs...AND BELIEVING IT!!!
VIAGRA to all you softies and doubters about the mighty pies..we're home and we'll be home 15 min in the second Quarter
Bite ya finger nails, toss and turn ass you sleep tonight, wake up in a cold sweat.....me... im cruising humming whistling with a spring in my step while shopping for a good book to read during the second half...it will be a mauling a massacre..it will be EMBARRASSING it will be a good ole fashioned CAKEWALK......
RICHMOND ARE ABSOLUTE poo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring on the DEMONS!!!Wont payback be a BIATCH!!
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=38047&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
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Most Pie fans are a touch nervous about tonight especially over Browny and Foley except of course for Joffa who is gloating that the Pies will win by 100 points.
We've all gone soft......all softies fair dinkum SOFTIES
The pies will celebrate there first win IN 2007 by 100 POINTS and or more without a single doubt...all this talk the tiges are gonna come out and stick it up us is all FAIRY TALE stuff...its a bit like reading Snow white and the seven dwarfs...AND BELIEVING IT!!!
VIAGRA to all you softies and doubters about the mighty pies..we're home and we'll be home 15 min in the second Quarter
Bite ya finger nails, toss and turn ass you sleep tonight, wake up in a cold sweat.....me... im cruising humming whistling with a spring in my step while shopping for a good book to read during the second half...it will be a mauling a massacre..it will be EMBARRASSING it will be a good ole fashioned CAKEWALK......
RICHMOND ARE ABSOLUTE poohE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring on the DEMONS!!!Wont payback be a BIATCH!!
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=38047&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
talking about Biatch Joffa the golden gaytime ;D
l punch his lights out if he past me in the streets or even walking into the ground
cant stand the man his a ugly looking "moron" like most Skunk supporters
Joffa is one of the most "moron" looking supporters l seen at any club :gotigers
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We've all gone soft......all softies fair dinkum SOFTIES
The pies will celebrate there first win IN 2007 by 100 POINTS and or more without a single doubt...all this talk the tiges are gonna come out and stick it up us is all FAIRY TALE stuff...its a bit like reading Snow white and the seven dwarfs...AND BELIEVING IT!!!
VIAGRA to all you softies and doubters about the mighty pies..we're home and we'll be home 15 min in the second Quarter
Bite ya finger nails, toss and turn ass you sleep tonight, wake up in a cold sweat.....me... im cruising humming whistling with a spring in my step while shopping for a good book to read during the second half...it will be a mauling a massacre..it will be EMBARRASSING it will be a good ole fashioned CAKEWALK......
RICHMOND ARE ABSOLUTE poohE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=38047&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
Oops :wallywink :rollin
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Pies supporters have turned on Joffa over his 100pt thrashing predictions and bringing a wooden spoon crap ;)
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=38056&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 (http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=38056&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30)
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Thanks for posting that, just makes it all the more sweeter.
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What's funny post match is they all turn on Joffa post match.
Then he coms on gives his spiel on things and they all give him the
thumbs up. Morons.
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What's funny post match is they all turn on Joffa post match.
Then he coms on gives his spiel on things and they all give him the
thumbs up. Morons.
what do u expect , they are dumb@rse maggots skunk supporters
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Bombers fan aren't too happy ;D
Everyone is copping a bagging - McPhee, Michael, ..., even their cheer squad
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35971
The EFC, despite Hirds words of encouragement regarding the list, looks set for a long period of cellar dwelling ... much to the delight of opposition clubs & supporters. I guess the good times couldn't last forever ...
... 3 years in the wilderness & counting
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36013
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Hahaha it will only get worse for Essendon over the next few years.
:woohoo :woohoo :woohoo
The way these guys are carrying on post match the next thing they can look
forward to in life is evolving into Richmond supporters. :rollin :rollin
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Opposition supporters' opinions - well I must say you get the best of them at the games.
Just a bit of banter from sundays game.
Us your'e pooh bombers.
Them - ohhh 2 wins last on the ladder.
Us yeah and you have a finals spot and Hird and sheeds to play for and you still cant win
Insert tumble weeds here
Another passage which was a beauty 'they were getting desperate early' the bombers fans
Them - Tambling instead of Franklin owr good one there tiges
Wtf digging deep the the bombres fans
A minute later Tambling bobs up with a goal
more tumbleweeds from them and a gob full from us.
And it went on and on - what a very enjoyable evening that was.
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oh this thread made my day reading the skunks turning on Joffa ;D
l can help them out just send him out to my place l be happy to punch the living crap out of him for his stupidity ;D but l wear gloves not to get disease from his teeth
l cant stand the golden gaytime now the joker has a top hat to match his gold jacket l mean fair dinkum how old is this guy he looks 30 going on 50 but acts like 15
l often sit and drink with the skunk supporters cause my wife, daughter, & best mate barrack for them & all of them hate that Golden gaytime joffa
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They're obsessed with Richmond on bomberblitz since Knighter became coach :stupid
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=07b9f3d65a398786f193319d8ed63128&showtopic=37728
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They're obsessed with Richmond on bomberblitz since Knighter became coach :stupid
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=07b9f3d65a398786f193319d8ed63128&showtopic=37728
;D idiots. <--- this is not what I typed but I suppose it will do. (didn't think richardheads was that bad :rollin)
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They're still upset we upset their big night and they were forced to sit there listening to our theme song ;D
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Blues fans have mixed feelings about the game. Some cocky and confident; others nervous
We'll win by 6 goals easily.
The Tigers are an absolute rabble and if we can't beat them in a fortnight then we deserve to be on the bottom for the remainder of the year.
I'll be very disappointed if we lose to the Tigers...Stevens & Judd together in the guts for the first time...Fev up forward...hopefully Jamo taking on Richo...time to get the job done boys...
are u guys Serious? Take half of our side out, Richmond still wont beat us.
They are a mess, and will get the wooden spoon yet again this year.
an injured Judd will win our first game for us...
let the kids play around, and just put Judd, Scotland & Carrazo in the middle, it will be enough
Like many others it seems, I was more confident a few weeks ago than I am now, the losses of Fisher and Walker really do hurt us. Blokes like Edwards and Hartlett will now play and while this is exciting one is making his debut and the other has only played a couple of games. Therefore we can't really expect too much from them and if Eddie struggles to get involved then we may struggle to kick goals. Add to this the fact that another goal kicker in Waite will likely be playing CHB and suddenly there are some real question marks over our ability to kick a winning score. I think we are going to need some midfielders to push forward and kick a couple. Thankfully someone like Judd is adept at this but blokes like Stevens and Murphy might be important in this regard.
In defence I think we just have to accept that blokes like Richo and Brown will each kick a few and get on top at certain stages. That's not really our fault it's simply that they are both quality players likely to be playing on inexperienced and/or undersized opponents. What we can do however is stop someone like Kayne Pettifer who played well against us last time. I think how we fare against players like Pettifer and Deledio assuming he plays forward will go a long way to determining the result. It's often the relatively unheralded opposition forwards who do well against us. We need to stop them.
Makes me smile everytime I think about them finishing last and not getting the #1 draft pick
Back on topic... Richmond will be in the Box Seat for No 1 pick this year after we smash them
I'm not writting of Richmond.
Coughlan is a great player and looks to be semi-fit and ready to go.
Brown has had a good pre-season.
Simmonds is injury free.
Plus Wallace is totally under the pump!
Those are some big ins.
To be honest i think this competition, as it stands, is much closer than most people realise.
Either way, it'll be a good game and Geez i hope we thrash em. But wouldn't be surprised if Richmond did have a good year.
am I the only one worried about this game?
No.
With Walker, Fisher, Kreuzer and possibly Hampson missing this game is probably an even money contest.
Yeah, doesn't look too good.
It leaves us in a position where we have to fill in a ruck spot to support our now No1 ruck; the 195cm Cloke. That's flower!
Now, even Ackland is on the radar due toi his experience. He is underdone though.
I suggest bring in Jacobs. The only other alternatives are the underdone Setanta and Ackland. Not Ackland please.
Setanta and Jacobs may get the call.
I still think we can win it in the midfield.
Losing against Richmond is not an option!!!!!
If Tivendale is allowed to trot into fifty and kick one of those annoying goals I'll scream
Don't underestimate how crap Richmond truly are.
We will smash them in the middle and up forward. The increased pressure from that alone will tighten up the backline.
I can see a game pattern similar to the Bulldogs game last week emerging... tight early with the class gap telling in the second half. 5-6 goal win to the Blues.
http://www.talkingcarlton.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20288&start=160&sid=d3115cc49b0cb24ceaca0c855e443c1f
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Blues fans have mixed feelings about the game. Some cocky and confident; others nervous
These comments are coming from supporters of a team that finished 15th last year and hasn't won any premiership points since round 11?
You'd think we were playing Geelong or St. Kilda the way they're boasting. ::)
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Blues fans have mixed feelings about the game. Some cocky and confident; others nervous
These comments are coming from supporters of a team that finished 15th last year and hasn't won any premiership points since round 11?
You'd think we were playing Geelong or St. Kilda the way they're boasting. ::)
It'll make victory all the more sweeter :thumbsup
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TBV and BF should keep me entertained today :thumbsup
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TBV and BF should keep me entertained today :thumbsup
They're already talking about Natanui :lol
We have lost our HEART AND SOLE and are content in LOSING.
Simple as that.
Losing has been accepted culture at our once great club. Theres no second eforts , no hardness, we have no tough guys and the softest team in the Afl. We dont work for each or run in numbers for support.
Another season of bottom 4 is assured
On a positive note Natanui is the most promising ruckman in draft history this year (http://www.bluebaggers.com/phpboard/images/smiles/icon_sad.gif)
http://www.bluebaggers.com/phpboard/viewtopic.php?t=20956
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Deja vu. Joffa mouthing off before our game again :wallywink
This game will be over by HALF TIME
Im never usually wrong mate
I can feel it now!
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?p=650054#650054
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"never usually" - a bit of an oxymoron
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Deja vu. Joffa mouthing off before our game again :wallywink
This game will be over by HALF TIME
Im never usually wrong mate
I can feel it now!
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?p=650054#650054
Joffa never wrong :lol :lol :lol mark my words l will gladly punch his lights out for him oneday & he knows it.
His big mouth statement last year that he was taking a book to read cause the game would be over 10 minutes into the second quarter & that it would be a easy 100 pt win :rollin :rollin well Joffa limpgot face we all know how easy the tigers pumped your gay skunks last game & its gonna be a repeat performance so everyone keep a lookout for Golden Gaytime Joffa behind the goals at the Collingwood end Sunday
Joffa listen to the words from the Tiger Army that rings in your ears with fingers pointing
YOU ARE A WANKER :gotigers :gotigers :gotigers
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monk loves to hate joffa lol
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What other Pie fans are saying about the game:
Dangers:
Delidio (kicked 5! on us last year). He will play forward and stretch us - he has GREAT hands).
Richo (obviously, but hopefully he has his kicking boots on, i.e. kicks inaccurately)
Foley (a fiery little machine, must be stopped at clearances)
Bowden (to run off half back ... Richmond always destroy us at half back)
Nathan Brown (you just sense he's gonna turn it on soon, and we always get burnt by small forwards having a field day)
Schultz (the X factor up forward, he can't bob up as a matchwinner if we decide to double/triple team Richo)
I'm scared of this game every year. We are never safe vs this mob. They ALWAYS lift against us, as do their supporters (and it's their home game). Coupled with the fact that I'm going with my Tigers-fan cousin who has a RIDICULOUS winning record of these matches.
I predict us to fall 3-4 goals behind early as we always do against this mob and play catch-up all day. Sorry, but it happens EVERY F**KING YEAR with Richmond. ANy chance we can snag the first 2 or 3 for once?
Happy with a win that won't give me a heart attack.
Every Tiges game I go down to the G and expect to win and win well. Too often I come away really disapointed.
At this stage of the season, happy with a win. Any sort of a win. Get the 4 points. Talking percentage is thinking the tiges are no good at all. While I don't think they'll make the 8, They have all their senior players back and fit. Expect them to finsh 9th-12th. So I don't see why everyone thinks this is an easy match?
If we (players especially) go in thinking its an easy one, ................... well I think thats been the historical problem against the Tiges!
We need to lift from last weeks debarcle. Lets be honest, in the cold light of day, we lost the game last week through either choking or a very poor last Q effort. Umpiring IMO was bad for both sides through the whole game. It just made me more frustrating.
We need to convert our chances no matter what the score line is. Not waste it cos we're a few points up!
Need to Lift Pies!
We really should beat Bitchmond by 30+ Points on Sunday:-)
But we don't want to get cocky because they are still a decent side, that still can hurt you just look at Round 1
not so sure about that dtm. we have seen that carlton are shyte no matter which way you look at it. north melbourne won very easily against richmond because they were able to capitalise on richmond's poor disposal into the forward line and able to rebound it more effectively than carlton. north had more of a forward structure than carlton did.
i know we've been burnt in previous years but we really should win this comfortably. 30+ like you say dtm, i agree with that.
http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=42542
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monk loves to hate joffa lol
:thumbsup :lol
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And some people say we're one-eyed ;) on here. Freo supporters are totally out there for a club that's done nothing in their whole history.
PREVIEW: FREO V TIGERS
Written by Shane Richmond
West Coast last week, Richmond the next. No wonder Rhys Palmer and Chris Mayne think this AFL caper is all just a bit of a laugh.
Fremantle's season is getting a kick start thanks to some handy fixturing which will see them play bottom 4 clubs two weeks in a row and springboard the 2008 Premiers back into the top of the ladder where they belong.
Fiery meetings between selectors at the Doig Table have raged all week long at Fremantle as they fight to fit 26 great footballers into a squad of 22 while over at Richmond, in the Trent Nicholls room, they've been arguing all week long over whether or not Round 4 is too early to start playing for draft picks.
Full Dockerland 'preview' is here
http://www.dockerland.com/match-preview/match-preview-freo-v-tigers.html
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A sample of thoughts on the game from Saintsational:
They're no good and we are better, but we must play Fraser and hope that "the man who should not have even been reported let alone got seven weeks" plays and on Brown, their only class player.
And - attack, attack, attack!
There only class player?
Don't rate Delidio?
Don't rate Foley?
Don't rate Richo?
NO,NO,NO!
Richo? Who have got to be kidding. He is the reason they have been no good for - how long has he been playing? Reason? HE CAN'T KICK!
We'll smash them - with our current game plan - by at least two goals.
Well I wish we had players with his lack of skill and attitude.
2 weeks ago i went to melbourne to watch Saints vs Bombers with a Bulldogs supporting mate so on the sunday i got to watch Richo live if u think he's no good u need to go to a richmond game and watch how he goes about it bloody stuff he is and top player
Can you recall how many times the Tigers have beaten the Saints in the last four years with Richo the Champ playing and his massive goal kicking record? If not, look it up.
PS None and woeful.
Have you seen the thread on Trevor Barker. He was a great player. How many games did we win when he played. Hardly any. Tony Lockett anyone.
Is there 22 players in a side. Yes. Can one player do it on his own. No.
But thanks for your insightful post.
If we play like we have in recent weeks the Tigers will make a friggin' meal of us. I'm not so sure about Saturday night. I'm hoping our players yank their fingers out!
We will smash Richmond this week. Even still, we're still in trouble as it's our formline against the top teams that is the problem.
I can cop a loss to Collingwood, but if we drop ANY other game out of Richmond, Melbourne, or Brisbane, then it is season over.
http://www.saintsational.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42223
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Oh and under the thread titled "We are a top 4 team"
Baker Hudghton L.Fisher can lock down
Goddard S. Fisher Fiora a rebounding half back with foot skills
Montagna Dal Santo Gram midfield run working between 50 arcs
Ball Riewoldt Armitage hard tackling, goal kicking flankers
Milne Koschitzke Schneider goal sneaks at foot of marking target
M. Gardiner
Hayes
Harvey
Interchange:
- King or McEvoy
- C. Gardiner OR Gehrig (if BOTH King and M.Gardiner do not play)
- Birss (need an extra shut down player as a tagger or relieve Hayes)
- Jack Steven (relieve Ball, Armitage or Schneider for a run in the midfield)
Dal Santo, Hayes and Harvey to rotate with Ball, Schneider and Armitage NOT off the bench.
Sam Gilbert would make the team instead of Fiora if he was not injured.
http://www.saintsational.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42221&sid=8db7ba6799c05babce81ce5bd5acaf05
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These guys need a history lesson and I know just the team to give it to them. lol.
They must all be 12 if they can't remember the real St Kilda football club. :rollin
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Quote from: Otiman
We will smash Richmond this week. Even still, we're still in trouble as it's our formline against the top teams that is the problem.
I can cop a loss to Collingwood, but if we drop ANY other game out of Richmond, Melbourne, or Brisbane, then it is season over.
LOL - what do they think its 2006?? They should beat Melbourne, but they have no chance against Brisbane or Richmond.
When will they come to terms with the fact that their premiership window is now closed and deadbolted.
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Quote from: Otiman
We will smash Richmond this week. Even still, we're still in trouble as it's our formline against the top teams that is the problem.
I can cop a loss to Collingwood, but if we drop ANY other game out of Richmond, Melbourne, or Brisbane, then it is season over.
LOL - what do they think its 2006?? They should beat Melbourne, but they have no chance against Brisbane or Richmond.
When will they come to terms with the fact that their premiership window is now closed and deadbolted.
Have to agree TT. I went to the Brisbane v Melbourne game last Sunday and even though Mebourne reminded me so much of us 4 years ago, I have to say that Brisbane are well balanced/structured, quick and confident. I will be surprised if they don't make the 8. This guy will come a serious 'gutser' if he doesn't respect them (and us) as opposition.
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I got a laugh out of the smash us by two goals quote
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Quote from: Otiman
We will smash Richmond this week. Even still, we're still in trouble as it's our formline against the top teams that is the problem.
I can cop a loss to Collingwood, but if we drop ANY other game out of Richmond, Melbourne, or Brisbane, then it is season over.
LOL - what do they think its 2006?? They should beat Melbourne, but they have no chance against Brisbane or Richmond.
When will they come to terms with the fact that their premiership window is now closed and deadbolted.
agree. :lol but this mob never had a premiership window open only slightly ajar in my books...lets face this is the Saints we are talking about, geez they have 3 sets of cutlery always good for when you have a dinner party. :rollin
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I got a laugh out of the smash us by two goals quote
That was pure gold :ROTFL :ROTFL :ROTFL :ROTFL :ROTFL :ROTFL :jump :jump :jump :jump
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St Kilda fans are just as f***** as Collingwood fans.
Take them to Larundel lock em in and throw away the key. :thumbsup
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I got a laugh out of the smash us by two goals quote
If you know anything about history you'll realise that was a smashing for a St Kilda supporter through the whole of the 20th century (except possibly '66, I'll give them that). :lol
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Even Bomber fans now have Richo love ;D
richo to smash ablett's 250-odd supercoach record this week
Must be licking his lips just thinking about playing Essendon. We have no one that can match up with him.
Expect 15 marks and 5 goals... Throw in Delidio and Brown. I cannot believe i am thinking it but it could get ugly.
Simmons will give Hille a rucking lesson.
Please dont let Richmond beat us but 10+ goals. That will be just too much to take.
I tip he'll kick at least 7 goals.. 5 behinds.
Look at all this worrying about Richo... its good to see he is finally getting the credit he has deserved for years in a really poor team. He has always been one of the players I have loved to hate because he is such a great player! Last years dream time game when he played with a broken jaw just cemented him place in greatness for me. He will be a very big headache for Knighters and I don’t think we have the cattle to stop him…. I think the best thing to do is for him to get Reimernated….
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39697&st=75
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A Bombers fan preview
http://www.bomberblitz.com/News/321/round-9-richmond-match-preview
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A Bombers fan preview
http://www.bomberblitz.com/News/321/round-9-richmond-match-preview
never read so much dribble and waffle in my life
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A Bombers fan preview
http://www.bomberblitz.com/News/321/round-9-richmond-match-preview
never read so much dribble and waffle in my life
Yeah, I wasted 5 minutes of my time and more importantly, a few kb's of precious download limit to read that crap. Talk about trying to find a positive needle in a negative haystack. Then again, this is just the sort of game we can drop - seen it many times before. :'(
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A Bombers fan preview
http://www.bomberblitz.com/News/321/round-9-richmond-match-preview
LOL
By the sounds of it, if every single one of their players has the game of their life, they'll only beat last years wooden spooners by 4 points.
Not much faith at Bomberland.
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Bomber fans aren't happy campers ;D
The debacle that is Essendon ... in tatters ;D
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41607
Didn't we have this problem before? ... in 2006
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41620
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All I can say is:
:lol :rollin :jump
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l said early this year that never write the bombers off
what l seen last night was terrible you can write them right off now
Jobe Watson is not a AFL player his a dud by name :rollin :rollin :rollin
McPhee is the leagues new whipping boy & Knighhts is going to give it too him this week, expect him to be dropped ;D
l would hate to be a bomber supporter after seeing that 1st half
Knights could be heard from the boundry giving it too them ;D
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l would hate to be a bomber supporter after seeing that 1st half
It was us not long ago TM, I know how the bummers fans must feel. Please let that feeling be ancient history. :pray
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Atleast everyone in footy now knows that Matty Knights knows how to deliver a decent spray. Matty deserves better from his players, they arent putting in and theyll wreck his coaching career shortly.
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All I can say is:
:lol :rollin :jump
Absolutely agree 100%
that first half was pathetic
Poor old Matty Laganis Lloyd is showing that he stuggles with Hird gone and Lucas not around to help him. Didn't show much leadership out there either ..... watch your back Knighta :rollin
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Atleast everyone in footy now knows that Matty Knights knows how to deliver a decent spray. Matty deserves better from his players, they arent putting in and theyll wreck his coaching career shortly.
Matty would've learnt well how to hand out a massive spray from Richmond U19s coach Doug Searl. Talk about cranking up the decibels.
The problem for Knighter is he went to the board with plenty of faith in the list to get the job and now reality has set in.
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Atleast everyone in footy now knows that Matty Knights knows how to deliver a decent spray. Matty deserves better from his players, they arent putting in and theyll wreck his coaching career shortly.
Matty would've learnt well how to hand out a massive spray from Richmond U19s coach Doug Searl. Talk about cranking up the decibels.
The problem for Knighter is he went to the board with plenty of faith in the list to get the job and now reality has set in.
Let the rot set in at Windy Hill. For far too long all have presided with heir heads well and truly up their you know whats. With West Sydney and Gold Coast coming in and all the draft concessions the bombers will be nowhere for at least another 10 to 15 years. Too many players of the ilk of Winderlich and Watson who have been at the club for 5 or so seasons and will be no better than useless throw in recycled garbage well past their use by dates such as Michael and McPhee and a spine that will retire in the next 2 to 3 years max and you have a blueprint for a side that will be worse than what we have been at any point in time in the last 25 years and at some stages that has been awful. Sheeds ineptitude to rebuild as well as the boards inability to get their head out of the sand has progressed the Essendon Footy Club to stage 3 Reassurances and well on its way to stage 4 anger where a 100 plus point defeat against either the Crows or the Hawks in the coming weeks should see them out for season 2008 and help get their confidence up to Stage 5 in 2009. :lol :rollin :lol
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As far as I'm concerned the status quo is returning. We are on our way up and the bummers are on their way back to the bottom of the ladder as it should be and as I remember it as a kid. Sheedy was an anomaly and with his exorcism from the bummers things are returning to normal.
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The Swannie fans reckon Craig Bolton, LRT or Ted Richards will play on Richo witb Bolton the most likely. They want Goodes in the centre square.
Foley - Kieran Jack
Brown - Bevan
http://www.redandwhiteonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25128
Most also think they'll win by 4-6 goals.
Our recent record against the Tigers is pretty good, and we should win without too much trouble this Sunday afternoon, but I wouldn't take it for granted. Swans by six goals (or thereabouts).
The Tigers will come out firing and their form has been pretty good this season. Restricting Richo to the wing will make it tough for them to kick goals and a good job on Nathan Brown is required to avoid a repeat of Port's stuff. Swans should be too strong in the backline and hopefully the forwards get plenty of opportunities to score.
Swans by 28.
Richmond have been firing in recent weeks, but there skill level has been letting them down. As a few others have said, it is no certainty this w/e, but we should be able to win if we treat the tiges with a bit of respect.
We have to shut down Richo,Foley and Brown.
I dont see why we cant play risky football and take em on,i know we can do it and we can do it well and i know i'm not the only supporter who likes it.
The Tigers will be no easy beats this weekend but we should account for them comfortably.
Tiggers = Bummers = Carlton = Melbourne.
Though Carlton id probably the one to break away from that bunch of rabble.
A win by 10 goals or more is required on our home ground. Anything less is unacceptable.
We always play very well against Richmond. If we play half as good as we did on Saturday, it should be a comfortable win.
Swans by 6 goals.
http://www.redandwhiteonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25091
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Restricting Richo to the wing will make it tough for them to kick goals .
Restricting Richo? Where has this person been?
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Restricting Richo to the wing will make it tough for them to kick goals .
Restricting Richo? Where has this person been?
Probably with his head up the same dark orifice as this fool:
Tiggers = Bummers = Carlton = Melbourne.
Though Carlton id probably the one to break away from that bunch of rabble.
A win by 10 goals or more is required on our home ground. Anything less is unacceptable.
>:(
:gotigers
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Comments like that from your bona fide Sydney supporters if they actually reside in Sydney are why the AFL move heaven and earth on field for them even with the umpiring as well to push their progress, because they are uneducated and have jumped on the gravy train due to their win loss ratio. The last thing the powers that be would want is have a side playing infront of a handful of fans where the away support far outnumbers the home fans circa 91-94 especially when there are plans for a second team to come out of Sin City. Let them underestimate us attheir peril. :thumbsup
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Crows fans are only worried because they believe their red clash jumper is a curse lol.
we are 2W and 7L in the red guernsey
2006 v Melbourne W (a 5 point win, Hentschel saved us the game by tapping through Davey's goal and making it a point)
2006 v Richmond L (when we were dominating)
2007 v Carlton W (by a few goals and played awful)
2007 v Melbourne L (hadn't won a game all year)
2007 v St Kilda L (after kicking the first 5 goals)
2007 v Essendon L (below us on the ladder)
2007 v Hawthorn L (lead all day)
2008 v West Coast L (they're pathetic)
2008 v Richmond ?
Doesn't bode well. Every time we play in it, we play like poohe.
If they are going to wear their stupid red strip - they shouldnt even bother going
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=450805&page=2
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Took a peek over at 'Talking Carlton' to see what the blueblaggers were thinking..... they don't like us either :lol
Perhaps we were just saving ourselves [Essendon game] to upset Richmond birthday party this week?
Lets tear them a new one!
Upset what party?? they would love nothing more to beat us and kick us out of finals contention with 2 loses in a row.
The Tigers will beat us. They are much quicker than the Bombers who's pace frightened the living daylights out of us. They have a much better functioning forward line with dangerous creative fast forwards who craete soemthing out of nothing and no doubt there midfield can take ours on
Lets hope Ratten has the balls change it up. I would love to Adam Hartlett come in for Fisher or Wiggo who honestly do not deserve a game next week. Having Carazzo doing a stopping job on Foley and nothing else cause his kicking is atrocious and a liability.
Judd doesnt have too many quiet games unless he is concussed or similar and I expect him to lead from the front and get a win for his boss idiot Pratt.
Richo the man mountain beat us the first game where he was able to rag doll Jamo etc but I expect the coach to have learned from that and I dont see duds like Hughes and Morton kicking 10+ goals this week..
Richmond are crap.......just laugh when I hear the media say their finals chance are still alive.....we will end that hype this week and have them tanking after we belt them.
Carlton are absolute certainties this weekend...
Wouldn't richo lose Setanta too easily running back from the wings?
Has to be Waite on Richo to run everywhere and wear him like a rash
1973 sticks in my craw (craw not craw ) after Balme's thuggery and Fowlers elbows up on Big Nick.
But injury cruelled us prior to this game and we were missing our most important prime movers in this game:
- Barry Armstrong
- Trevor Keogh
If bogans and no shows want to talk about cheating to win premierships you only have to look at Richmond's 1973 "Thugee" inspired win and their 1980 "Steroid" engineered win.
Must beat this feral, bogan-infested club. They're a filthy, feral club with even worse supporters. They've always annoyed the FLOWER out of me and I was almost was gonna kill a few of them in 2001 when these feral pricks were literally dancing in the aisles when Kouta went down with his ACL.
Its the most angry I have ever felt at the footy!
Feral bastards!
C'mon Blues, beat these ----kickers!
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:lol
We need to smash Carltank just to keep their supporters down if for no other reason.
I hope the 'duds' Hughes and Morton kick a bag just to stick it up them!
Comments like these add a new dimension of passion and hatred to the game IMO.
Stripes
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Its interesting how they call Cleve and Mitch duds. ::) I reckon they would both get walk up starts in the current Carlton side without question. I love how all their angst is all based on ancient history. Talk about bitter and twisted. Maybe their anger should be focused on more recent events like how poorly they played against us in Round 1.
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A few more comments from bluebaggers....
I’m starting to despise Bitchmond, hell I felt sorry for them previously, but I am really, really starting to get a real hatred towards them.
Richmond ruined my 9 year old brothers first match at the footy in Round 1.
That alone puts them alongside Collingwood and St Kilda as my most hated teams...
Richmond have had too much to say in the media this week to possibly win this game. It's a simple as that really.
They had a fair bit to say in the lead up to round 1, IIRC, and they got up and won.
After the 1973 Grand Final you could't help but hate those Bastards.
Laurie Fowler KO'd Bigh John & that fat bastard Neil Balme broke Geoff Soutby's jaw & the thugs went on to win the GF
I aso despised watching that goal hungry KB taunt us over his long career.
The only decent thing the Tigers have ever done was to thump the filth in the 1980 GF
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Its interesting how they call Cleve and Mitch duds. ::) I reckon they would both get walk up starts in the current Carlton side without question.
Lol yeah, Carlton is a bit light on for forwards, they somehow forgot to draft some despite the many draft picks they've tanked for over the past 4 years.
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Its interesting how they call Cleve and Mitch duds. ::) I reckon they would both get walk up starts in the current Carlton side without question.
Lol yeah, Carlton is a bit light on for forwards, they somehow forgot to draft some despite the many draft picks they've tanked for over the past 4 years.
lol. Even we remembered to draft a couple and there's been a hell of a lot of dissatisfaction with or KPP recruiting.
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They had a young promising key forward in Josh Kennedy who could have played for them for the next decade and they traded him away for Judd :whistle.
Btw it's a nice feeling to be hated again. We must be slowly improving :thumbsup.
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Very cocky Bomber fans about Saturday over at bomberblitz ......
Should have our 5th win in a row come 5 o’clock Saturday.
Just some players need shutting down like Lids, Foley, Bowden, Newman and Brown.
Who is going to kick there goals, they bagged 24 last week tho W.C don’t have any one to stop them, Patty, Fletcher and Lovett-murrey more then enough
I would like to see Patty go to young jack riewoldt, that way he can relax and get some of his own ball, he has had some huge jobs
Thinking Nash will have a blinder 30 disposals plus
Thinking of betting on this game but dunno over 39 points or under
Lucas + Lloyd + Hille + No Richo + Symonds is a crab = Essendon 39.5+ (http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif)
we'll destroy them. everyone stop whinging about injuries and look at their team.
Riewoldt is their best available tall forwad and maguane or someone similar is their best tall defender.
Symonds is there ruck.
obviously I've done zero, research but that's the point, if you have to research to find out who their structure is based around then there's no point worrying about it.
Our midfield poos on there's too by the way.
We will smash them in the ruck
simmonds is poo and when hes actually got the ball he knows only to kick backwards or sideways no poo u watch him
Its gonna be a great 75000 and WE WILL WIN
the over confidence around this place is disturbing, we can hardly name a side of 22 players and if we lose this place will undeservedly go beserk
Hardly field a side? same side as beat brisbane minus to very good players and plus two players with something to prove.
if that side can't beat richmond who are even more crippled with more key injuries then we might aswell Jump on Rem's bandwagon and be afraid of carlton.
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43198&st=0
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Hilarious....there's nothing better than beating a cocky bomber.
It's not even worth defending. Just watch and laugh.
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But wait there's champagne comedy ..... a whole nother thread ;)
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43204&st=0
Fair enough on the risks but with family in the other camp you should know that Richo, Polack, Thursfield and so on are all out. Their spine is absolutely decimated. Their midfield hasn't got a hard worker amongst it.
They are going to try and play the softest football you've seen for a while and with Kyle leading the wa we are gonna Reimer them half to death.
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:lol Ahh, silly Bumber fans.
Didn't Little Shane Edwards tear Lovett-Murray a new one in Round 9?
Their style of play suits us down to a tee. Loose, attacking football.
They have had a couple of good starts recently though (Carlton and Brisbane), stop them from doing that and we'll win in a canter.
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I'm surprised they're not premiership favourites after reading that crap :wallywink :lol
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I hate the arrogance Essendon supporters have. This is the one game we must win - just to shut them up.
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Do these clowns not realise that the only time they've beaten us in the last 3 years was the game where Richo kicked the winning goal only to be stripped of it for the now infamous hands in the back decision against Mal Michael
We almost have a perfect record against them recently
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LMAORealhard@ "Lloyd can do the same as Richo on the wing"
Funny Sh^t that :rollin
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They're spitting chips over on Bomberblitz :lol. Calling themselves moral winners today :wallywink and bagging the crap out of us. Nothing as funny as a sore Essendon loser :rollin.
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=9a5f14322e4bbe81e954d6a1a4d434cc&showtopic=43280
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They're spitting chips over on Bomberblitz :lol. Calling themselves moral winners today :wallywink and bagging the crap out of us. Nothing as funny as a sore Essendon loser :rollin.
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=9a5f14322e4bbe81e954d6a1a4d434cc&showtopic=43280
I left a message there this arvo
Couldn't help myself :rollin
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They're spitting chips over on Bomberblitz :lol. Calling themselves moral winners today :wallywink and bagging the crap out of us. Nothing as funny as a sore Essendon loser :rollin.
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=9a5f14322e4bbe81e954d6a1a4d434cc&showtopic=43280
thanx for providing us with a comedy outlet MT
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:rollin :rollin MT!! Saved me the trouble of heading over there. To coin part of a phrase someone else here said recently. Moral victories and $4 will get you a cup off coffee!! :rollin :rollin
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:rollin :rollin MT!! Saved me the trouble of heading over there. To coin part of a phrase someone else here said recently. Moral victories and $4 will get you a cup off coffee!! :rollin :rollin
TOUCHE!!!! Go Tigers!
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MT why waste your your energy in typing reality for those tools. FFS the way those Bomber fans were carrying on you'd think they just lost their unbeaten record for the season and are now 15-1 and not 6-10. Love your work MT but save it for an audience who will actually appreciate it not dismiss it as a form of fiction. :lol :rollin :lol
No wonder most footy fans are morons. Read what blokes like Robbo and Rohan write about this overrated pack of vermin and they treat it like its Gospel. :sleep
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Like Moi I couldn't resist after all the cocky crap they were saying during the week :lol. Btw HT74 what stage are they up to now? Looks like denial or anger ;D.
Real classy bomber fans too. Bagging Polak and saying he should have looked both ways ::).
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Like Moi I couldn't resist after all the cocky crap they were saying during the week :lol. Btw HT74 what stage are they up to now? Looks like denial or anger ;D.
Real classy bomber fans too. Bagging Polak and saying he should have looked both ways ::).
Bomber fans are showing real progression
My prognosis says some are on stage 4 and some on Stage 5. The real advanced cases are on Stage 5 not waiting for pre season for diagnosis but round 16 of the initial season.
Stage 4 Anger
Anger will set in when they will suffer a humiliating 100+ point loss. Most likely to a crappy Victorian team like Hawthorn St Kilda North or a pathetic interstate team like Fremantle. Questions that will be asked by disgruntled fans will be- How can a team ladled with talent like the Bombers lose like that? What are they doing? Its a shame Its a shame Its a shame. These players are good enough. We should be dishing out these sort of hidings not copping them. In the meantime footy talk back hotlines from the various radio shows will be clogged by Essendon fans with the same repetitive and hopeless theme of helplessness, places that were once specially reserved post match for Richmond fans whose blood was boiling and were experiencing the same lows. Hopefully the end of the season is nigh by then and most of these yokels can move on successfully to the next stage by which time Santa will be going down their chimneys on Christmas Day to give them their new seasons polo shirt or trackie jacket.
Stage 5 Optimism.
With the new pre season comes new hopes new dreams new challenges and quick fix solutions. By January these Bombers will have well and truly had that abhorrent year behind them so the law of averages says a club like the Bombers cannot stay out of the finals for too long in the modern era. Plus Santa brought me a new Essendon polo so that is definentely a good omen isn't it? Geez I can't wait till casual Friday at work and I can wear this collared masterpiece and show my true colours to all those bastards. Plus I have had enough of this cricket bring on the footy I am an Essendon fan yeah yeah yeah. Carn the Bombers.
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Bomberblitz is down. It must have imploded :lol.
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Bomberblitz is down. It must have impoded :lol.
:rollin just noticed that, was on my way over for a midnight larf as I hadn't caught up with what u guys have been up to (moi)
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Bomberblitz is down. It must have impoded :lol.
:rollin just noticed that, was on my way over for a midnight larf as I hadn't caught up with what u guys have been up to (moi)
They're back and still whinging :wallywink. I couldn't resist again :lol.
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The excuses on why they lost and why we won could be winning awards they are so creative. Gees I thought Pies fans were horrid to talk to. :lol
Love to see their spine in 3 years from now. The optimism will have gone too in some of their posts I am certain of that. :lol
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It's been 6 weeks since we beat them again :thumbsup and Bomber fans are still obsessed with us and how much better they will be than us :whistle :wallywink
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=d1bdb632d27523ad0acf726847a18097&showtopic=44297
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Hahahaha blokes who have not played any games being mentioned as elite players.
Last post stating Essendon will be better than Richmond and Carlton is hilarious. If it wasn't for the majority of journos being Essendon men there would not be 1 silver lining written about the Bombers.
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It's been 6 weeks since we beat them again :thumbsup and Bomber fans are still obsessed with us and how much better they will be than us :whistle :wallywink
http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?s=d1bdb632d27523ad0acf726847a18097&showtopic=44297
Bookmark the thread till 2009, One Eyed, and I'll pay them another visit :lol
Bring on 2009 quick lol
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One poster on the thread actually makes a great deal of sense, the rest are so biased I would go so far as to call them delusional. Actually sounds a bit like this forum from time to time ;)
They are right about the speculative judgements on players. Some of us here try and look through rose coloured glasses as much as possible when pawing over our list but the by the law of averages some players who we hope will be successful won't.
I was interested to hear them all rate our midfielder so highly - Lids, Cotch and Foley. I was also interested when they thought Hughes would be a great player for us.... :-\
As we would when analysing their list, they really had little idea of any of our young players other than our high draft picks. Threads like that make me crave for club success even more :gotigers
Stripes
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Yep only one poster over there is judging both sides fairly.
Top 4:
Stanton
Watson
Houli - A good debut in his 10 games but top 4 in their side ???
Myers - Just 8 games and he's also in their top 4 ???
Second tier:
Lonergan
Welsh - taken him until he was 25 to finally play half a year of good footy.
Winderlich
Reimers - Over time IMO he's suspect kicking will be found out
Hocking - 3 games in 2 years
Dempsey - now he is very talented
Hislop - 7 games in 2 years
Funny stuff :lol.
Now let's talk about young KPPs - FBs, CHBs, CHFs, FFs. Oh that's right 30 year olds Lloyd and Lucas are still their key forwards with Fletcher and Michael still playing down back. Ryder is their only regular young KPP (will be a gun) in their side. Johns, Bradley and Lee not coming through in the last few years has hurt their young KPPs stocks. Neagle is 190cm and after 3 years has only played 8 games even as a 3rd tall. Gumbleton is injury-prone and although still young. Hooker is young, skinny and unknown. Only 4 young KPPs in total on their list and only 1 of them a regular in their side is a ticking timebomb for the Bombers. Lloyd and Lucas will be both 31 by the start of next year.
The only area they are ahead in is ruck stocks as Hille is three years younger than Simmo and we lack depth in our ruck stocks with Cartledge, Patto, Gus and Putt either too young or yet to show any significant form in AFL games to be considered a certain long-term option. Mind you Laycock is a dud lol and Bellchambers is young and developing.
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Deluded, deranged, vitriolic rhetoric ........... yep it's a feral Freo fan :help :whistle :stupid
http://www.dockerland.com/match-preview/roll-up-roll-up.html (http://www.dockerland.com/match-preview/roll-up-roll-up.html)
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Deluded, deranged, vitriolic rhetoric ........... yep it's a feral Freo fan :help :whistle :stupid
http://www.dockerland.com/match-preview/roll-up-roll-up.html (http://www.dockerland.com/match-preview/roll-up-roll-up.html)
It would be insulting if it wasn't coming from Fremantle. From them it's just damn funny.
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Freo should be demoted to the WAFL.
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I lost it at the part where it said
"Fremantle a team with a future......."
:rollin
:ROTFL :ROTFL :ROTFL
:thatsgold
:outtahere
:ROTFL
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Just thank the poor souls for Simmo and Polly.
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The author was a Shane Richmond - surely he should change his name to Shane Fremantle
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The author was a Shane Richmond - surely he should change his name to Shane Fremantle
Shane Scatologist is his real identity :lol
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That dockerland forum puts the f in feral :yep.
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I took a peep over to what the dark side were saying about the game ..... They were boasting about 6+ goal win in recent weeks but it's more a mixed reaction since the teams have been announced.
So in order not to go in underdone we've gone in inexperienced.
4 first gamers, 3 of them rookies in a game with finals like atmosphere. Big ask
On paper, we don't look as good as I expected - and Fev is limping (will probably be on local anaesthetic tom night).
I've got a bad feeling. There could be some disappointed customers here Friday morning.
Anyway, come on the blues.
I've gotta say I am a bit worried as well .
Four first-gamers is a huge risk . Maybe , with the long list of injuries and suspensions we have ,
there aren't too many other options left . Armfield has to be very unlucky .
Expect Waite to start at CHB . We look a bit thin down there without him . And I can see Nathan Brown being a huge problem . He will be too smart for Joseph , and , well , surely not Russell !
The plus , of course , is the enthusiasm these young guys will bring to the team . Lets get right behind them , scream our heads off , because 60 plus % of the MCG crowd will be against us .
Just hope we can stick it up 'em !!!
Richmond has a good team in (on paper at least), I wouldn't be surprised if we lost. Can't see why some say it's an obvious 6 goal win, our team isn't brimming with hardened, polished, experienced players. Jacobs, Joseph, Garlett, Robbo, Wiggins, Cloke, Russell, Hadley and Bower either have obvious limitations, are brand new or at least "un-finished" or generally have question marks over their current effectiveness at the highest level.
The young debutants deserve a game, but there's a bit of a B-team feel here, so while I'm excited to see the newbies, I'm not convinced yet. Our exposed form is just ok (Richmond's is worse) so let's get cocky after we win, not before.
Stuff that!
We are going to skin them alive. We are going to win by more than 6 goals. That's a fit team we are putting on show.
We have been waiting a long time for this team to arrive and all the newbies know this is an opportunity of a lifetime, and a privelege to wear this jumper... and guess what....they can all play a bit of this Aussie game.
Just you wait and see...and have a keg after we win as well! :thumbsup:
Well I was worried when I saw the team... then I saw Richmond's. Terry-ble.
Richmond have too many players who can't be relied upon to win their own ball. If we play smart we should have no problem wrestling control of the stoppages; then just move the ball through the corridor.
By my count their ball winners are Foley, Tuck & Newman, with Cousins and Raines needing to prove themselves all over again. On top of that it's a short team, especially in defence and the only players with noted aerial ability are Richo and Schulz.
I really cannot see Richmond winning with that team, even if it does look to be a decent side. It's completely without tactics unless there's heavy rain tomorrow. Terry-ble.
One of my concerns is Deledio will be isolated one out like Ryan O'Keefe against Scotland and be used as their go to man inside 50.
Deledio has the athleticism and talent to stretch our backline if he's sent forward.
Not sure who can go with Deledio if he moves forward and Brown moves up the ground.
They'll have a versatile and tall forwardline if they rotate Cousins, Brown, Richardson, Bowden, Riewoldt, Schulz, Deledio and Morton through their forwardline.
We might be one medium-tall defender short on the night. :?
Johnson to Brown, Waite to Richo, Thornton to Riewoldt, Bower to Schulz. Russell can man Deledio if he goes forward.
They're short at both ends and their experienced ruck is short. It's a short team. They're not going to stretch us with height at all. They're not going to consistently win enough of any kind of contest anywhere on the ground at all. Terry has no structure except put Richo everywhere and load up the forward line with talent.
Good luck Terry.
I know it is obvious but the team with the least number of turn-overs will win tomorrow night. Given it is the first game of the year and before a large crowd, there is likely to be an excessively large number of turn-overs.
I think the MC has selected so many newbies because the main thing they seem to have in common is their willingness to chase and exert defensive pressure.
The Tiges have shown that they have a number of players who have poor skills under pressure and their supporters would freely concede this - just visit their equivalent of TC and you'll see that .
So for this reasom I am not so concerned that we are fielding such an inexperienced team. As long as they stick to the basics and play to their attributes we should be right.
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All fairly measured comment expect for jimmae who obviously knows little about our list and is self deluded.
Interesting what they said about inexperienced players being more enthusiastic therefore more likely to apply defensive pressure.
Should be a interesting game
Stripes
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um...
jimmae?
(http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/dlx-talking-jimmy-01.jpg)
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um...
jimmae?
(http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/dlx-talking-jimmy-01.jpg)
:lol :thumbsup
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Most of the Bulldog fans are being cocky and think they'll win easy. Many expecting an 8-10+ goal win.
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=560489
they actually think they're a chance, and are still talking themselves up being happy with their performance against geelong.
im going to say the Dogs in between 50 to 60 points
If we can match their intensity and it is a free flowing game, then we should win by 10 goals plus. Their skill level is a disgrace for an AFL side.
Having said that though, they were really hard at it against Geelong and played well except their skill level let them down(whats new).
They do have some players who worry me though, Richo, Nathan Brown, Bowden and one or two of their tall forwards.
I think we will win but only by 18 points.
We need to punish Richmond...
We had a hard scrappy hitout yesterday and there will be some sore bodies...
8 day break to turn that around and focus on Richmond.
No doubt they'll play a very defensive game of football and it will probably be UGLY to watch (espeshially for the 1st half).
Im expecting Richmond to play numbers behind the ball to try to free up space for their forwards.
Wallace knows his team dont have the pace, skill and physical size to match it with us all day so they'll play a high possession low physical game. They'll try to really limit the effects of our run.
In saying this, we should be able to run over them in the 2nd half, is a must win game for us, if we intend to make the GF we need to win games like this and punish lesser teams
If you cast your mind back to 2008, we were really troubled by Richmond due to their RUN and CARRY. Players like Mathew White and Foley ran hard every time they got the ball. They do have some quick players, but we need to out muscle them at the stoppages and in the contested ball areas. I am confident of a win but we cannot afford to take them lightly or allow flat patches into our game.
Can't get cocky again with this one.
Richmond played very well against Geelong and were stiff not to get closer or even win it. Adding to that, we underestimated them last year (both players and supporters) and were dead lucky to get the draw in the end.
A lot depends on which Richmond side shows up. If its the Richmond that played Geelong on the weekend it's going to be a tough one for us. If its the Richmond that were so awful against Carlton we will flog them unmercifully.
I think we should win either way, but hopefully lessons have been learnt from last year that they can match it with us.
Richmond consistantly beat us at stoppages. Then we lack the pace to go with some off there mids. I seriously wonder why people think we are quick. Cooney quick. Griffen quick. Harbrow quickish. Thats it really all, the rest are average to slow. To make matters worse there is only one player out off those three that to my mind is defensive quick. What I mean by that is he actually runs hard to chase down players. You can guess which one.
That is the one area that North exploited us and I think Richmond get an advantage.
I think it will be a hard tough game. Unlike other years I think we now have the muscle to win contests and I hope that is our edge.
The other thing that worries me about Richmond is that they usually have a large amount of supporters at the ground who can make a big noise when they get on a roll or kick a couple of goals.
In the scheme of things it mightn't mean much, but it could mean an advantage of 1 or 2 goals to them.
For me, i think the Doggies by 45 points.
My weaknesses for our side would be tall forward(obivously), shut down tagger(hopefuly Picken has fixed this) and a tap ruckman(Minson and Hudson are good work horses but if we had someone to tap it down the throats of our mid field they would almost be unstopable(imagine if we had Sandilands or Cox))
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The Swans forum R&Wonline has a poll going on how their state of mind will be if they lose to us. They're obviously very confident lol
Your state of mind if we lose to 9thmond?
http://www.redandwhiteonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27722
Richmond are unabiguously crap. Last week they won, but doesn't change my opinion of them.
Last week we lost of to the heave ho's, who are unabiguously crap. OUr loss to them does not change my opinion of them.
If we lose to 9thnmond, we have lost to two crap teams on the trot. How will you feel?
well, if we lose to Richmond, and we are definately going to lose next week against Geelong(even though I am going, I will not be tipping us), I think our season will just about be over, I cant see us recovering from a 2 and 5 start.
I would be wound too tightly in the foetal position to care.
They also have a predictions thread saying it's a "danger game"...
http://www.redandwhiteonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27694
I have a very negative deju vu feeling about this game against Richmond.
We have a situation where the Richmond coach, Terry Wallace has recently been under the pump, with the sack hanging around him like a very bad smell. A fortnight ago, I was worried that he would go after a predicated loss against North Melbourne, and the Swans would be faced with Richmond players fresh, pumped out, and ready to please with a new, caretaker coach. Always a danger game for the opposing team. Surely their Round 5 win against North has giving the Swans a break. Wallace stays, and there is no way a team like Richmond can win two in row. least of all at the SCG.
Well, almost exactly five years ago, the then Richmond coach Danny Frawley was massively under the pump, with huge media speculation about him getting the sack. In the Round 5 game between Richmond against Adelaide, the Tigers were thrashed at Docklands by nearly 13 goals. Frawley suffered the humilation of being spat on by his own team supporters as he left the ground. A week later, Frawley "survived", when Richmond won in a major upset one point win against Hawthorn. So by the time of the next SCG game in Round 7 against the Swans, we Sydney supporters were all relieved. No fresh caretaker coach to worry about. And there was no way that the very poor Richmond could win two straight, particularly a win against the Swans at the SCG. Wrong! Richmond went on to win by 13 points in terrible wet and windy conditions. Richo had a blinder, kicking in such poor conditions 7 of the Tigers' 10 goals, and kicking them from all angles. It represents the only time since 1992 that Sydney has lost a game to the eventual wooden spooners.
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It wouldn't be a Freo game without a word from the nutjobs on Dockerland :wallywink
Dockerland Match Preview: v Richmond
Written by Shane Richmond
The dregs of society, the lowest of the low, the scum of the AFL come to town this week. And Ben Cousins will be joined by his team mates from Richmond too. The Tigers are suffering a run of outs that seems to have lasted for 30 years or so and, while many would expect them to be hungry for a win, they really just want Philip Nitschke to come along and show them how to put a plastic bag over their heads. Still, it's polite to pretend the Tigers have a chance so Fremantle will play a long just like everyone else, give the Richmond supporters a tiny bit of hope in the early stages before ripping their hearts out, showing it to them then stomping over it like Steven Dodd on an unsuspecting Damon White.
They're a funny pack over at Punt Road. You might be able to remember back to the summer. Fremantle and Richmond were drawn to open their season in the Tautologically Named Bank Cup. Richmond supporters lined the roads, streets and highways from the MCG to Subiaco Oval throwing rose petals at the feet of their team and their new messiah, the disrepute bringing recruit from the West Coast Eagles. Trumpets sounded, new born babies were brought out to be blessed by them, the entire country was swept up in Richmond fever (not to be confused with Richmond flu - symptoms of which involve nausea, vomiting and dysentery principally caused by reading these match previews).
Their membership was at an all time high, times were good and everyone was glad to see it, not just Richmond supporters. After years and years and years of being the laughing stock of the competition holding up the top eight and sacking coaches merely for sport, they were telling us that they were finally ready to enter polite society again and compete at Aussie Rules Football.
It came on the back of a sensational finish to the 2008 season which saw them win 8 games in the second half of the season and restored them to their birthright - ninth position. It was a great triumph for the Tigers. Despite Terry Wallace's 5 year plan not involving recruiting any young talent, poaching any stars from opposition clubs, revolutionising the game with brilliant new tactics or even working really hard, the leather faced skin cancer incubator had bloody well done it. Sure, they had the easiest draw since the war and most other teams out of the top eight were competing for the services of Daniel Rich, Stephen Hill and that tall bloke with the lollipop but, in their eyes, it was an example of just what you can accomplish if you bunker down, put your nose to the grindstone and do absolutely nothing. The feeling around Punt Rd was that Steve Bradbury's biggest mistake was that he didn't kick on to Turin in 2006.
This new found sense of optimism and hope has swept through the entire Richmond Football Club. From idiot Smith himself all the way down to the club scatologist. So much so that, despite no one being able to name a half decent player from the 38 midfielders they've cobbled together this century, they felt it was time to do a bit of topping up with a bit of experience. Carlton did it with Chris Judd and look where it took them to (eleventh). So, they headed over to Woosha's House of Used Captains and did a deal on a barely used drug addict with a history of criminal behavior and hamstrings so weak he wouldn't even use them to tie off before shooting up.
Many were sceptical about Richmond's decision to try and tame a bloke who'd gone so far off the rails that even the West coast Eagles didn't want him but it's proven to be a winner. Not so much for the Tigers who've seen their star recruit spending most of the season on the sidelines - something which was eerily predicted last year by...well, pretty much everyone - but for Ben Cousins it's been a big win.
The Richmond Football Club are so irrelevant to the rest of the country that Cousins this week was on the radio promoting the narcotics industry and the benefits of getting off your nut on pain killers and nobody even bothered to pull him up on it. When he was in Perth, he went to the effort of keeping his love for mind altering substance a secret for ten years and they kicked him out of the competition. Now he's with the Tigers he's doing PR for drug dealers and getting laughs in the process.
But despite Richmond's obvious problems, Fremantle's hatred for Ben Cousins and all who've come into contact with him without punching him (as well as Daniel Kerr) and the imminent sacking of Terry Wallace, Fremantle are faced with a genuine worry this weekend.
There's a bit of a competition going on among AFL clubs at the moment as to who can get the Richmond supporters hopes up the most before brutally crushing them. There have been some outstanding performances this season but Essendon set the bar at a new high last week with their fifty odd point turn around which broke the average Richmond supporter to the point that, all around the MCG, they were actually bursting out in tears like a St Kilda forward.
It's not the sort of thing that can easily be topped and Fremantle are faced with a Sophie's choice type situation as a result.
You may be aware that the Dockers aren't in any danger of getting a nose bleed from their position on the ladder at the moment. Wins are important but the fickle equation that makes up percentage is also shaping up to give some Fremantle a they approach September.
So Fremantle have two options. They can play the Bombers' style game of build them up and bring them down, which Fremantle have done so well with the Eagles this season; or they can take the high road, play their best from siren to siren and crush the Tigers into the ground, beating them by a margin which is sure to see Terry Wallace's contract terminated and bring some relief to the tortured Richmond supporters.
They're both excellent options and Mark Harvey and his match committee have no doubt had more than one sleepless night over the decision. Do they let Pavlich off the leash to run riot all over the ground, give Brett Peake a license to have a ping from the centre square, send Dean Solomon on a mission of bone crushing and tell Luke Mcpharlin to bring down a couple of speckies a quarter or do they let the Togers tire themselves out flooding for the first half before putting Stephen Hill and Paul Hasleby to work in the second, getting the ball out of the middle then handing it to random blokes in the forward line on a platter. Who'd be a coach.
At the end of the day though, while Fremantle can be proud to have done their part, football will be the winner no matter which manner Fremantle go about beating the Tigers this Saturday night.
http://www.dockerland.com/match-preview/match-preview-v-richmond.html
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They're totally obsessed with Benny as well....
If we don't win and Cuz plays, just imagine the headline in the Worst. 'Courageous Cousins Demoralises Dockers'. I puke at the thought.
Sycophancy is not the sole domain of a Sunday paper. Did you notice on today's 'West' back page article that it also referred to Harvey's disquiet with umpiring - yes, it is there and highly relevant to the headline, don't you think?
coz the Corporate boxes will be choccablock full of Chardonney sipping disgruntled slime cheering for Benny.
Can we get the security company to block anyone wearing blue n yella from enterring the ground, regardless of whether they have a ticket? Surely there are principles that need to be adhered to. It's hard enough having him in the side, let alone having budgie supporters coming along supporting him. If any of them say "Richmond are my new second side" I will vomit on them. They are an amazingly uneducated (in a footy sense) bunch of supporters.
http://www.dockerland.com/message-board/docker-discussions/why-ffc-v-rich-is-a-must-win-game/view.html
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eat poo u docker faggots
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Those Freo ferals aren't happy campers over there today are they :lol. Blaming everything from the umps, injuries, cuz, and cuz loving eagle fans.
I like this post :thumbsup
"Yeah walkin out of Subi last night felt like walking out of the MCG or something.
There seemed to be just as many supporters decked out in the colors of both teams.
There was millions of em in Black and Yella."
http://www.dockerland.com/message-board/docker-discussions/which-richmond-supportor-did-you-sit-next-too/view.html
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have to agree there was helluva lot of Y&B there yesterday :clapping
Fortunately we wer enot attaacked by the Feral Freo fans - they were all to speechless after we WON :rollin
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Ok, so it's not about upcoming games, but it's about the upcoming trade week....
Have a look at this pearler from the Collingwood BF board!!
Cloke and pick 6 -> Richmond
Deledio, Tuck and Pick 3 -> Collingwood
Cloke is not the type of forward we need atm. I honestly believe there is no point having the really good lead up forward if you dont have a target for him to kick to in the forward 50. We can cover the loss of Cloke with dawes, or even have Medders play the lead up role similar to 2008 when Cloke was injured. Richmond maintain the early draft pick to add a midfielder, which will probably come down to the one that Kangas dont pick out of Martin and Gary Rohan. They gain the lead up forward they do need, whilst getting good value for Lids and Tuck.
But wait, there's more:
I guess it really depends on how Hardwick approaches coaching. Honestly, is he really going to want such an outside player like Deledio, will he put a premium on a lead up forward. Sure he hasnt had such a great year, but lead up players of his quality with 100 games arent cheap, and in this draft there isnt much difference between pick 3 and 6, especially if you're looking for a midfielder cause you have already traded for a KPP...
Oh dear.... :lol
EDIT: Oh, if you're wondering where pick 6 came from, they traded Josh Fraser to Sydney for it!! :lol :lol
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Ok, so it's not about upcoming games, but it's about the upcoming trade week....
Have a look at this pearler from the Collingwood BF board!!
Cloke and pick 6 -> Richmond
Deledio, Tuck and Pick 3 -> Collingwood
Cloke is not the type of forward we need atm. I honestly believe there is no point having the really good lead up forward if you dont have a target for him to kick to in the forward 50. We can cover the loss of Cloke with dawes, or even have Medders play the lead up role similar to 2008 when Cloke was injured. Richmond maintain the early draft pick to add a midfielder, which will probably come down to the one that Kangas dont pick out of Martin and Gary Rohan. They gain the lead up forward they do need, whilst getting good value for Lids and Tuck.
But wait, there's more:
I guess it really depends on how Hardwick approaches coaching. Honestly, is he really going to want such an outside player like Deledio, will he put a premium on a lead up forward. Sure he hasnt had such a great year, but lead up players of his quality with 100 games arent cheap, and in this draft there isnt much difference between pick 3 and 6, especially if you're looking for a midfielder cause you have already traded for a KPP...
Oh dear.... :lol
EDIT: Oh, if you're wondering where pick 6 came from, they traded Josh Fraser to Sydney for it!! :lol :lol
:wallywink
How about we offer Tuck, Schulz, JON + pick 51 for Pendlebury. That would be just as realistic as that Pie nuffers suggestion :D.
Trade week can't come quick enough.
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They gain the lead up forward they do need, whilst getting good value for Lids and Tuck
Dear o dear.
I sat in the Collingwood chear squad (for reasons outide my control) for some of the Richmond / C'wood 90 point loss game. Was one of the most unpleasent times of my life thus far.
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Ok, so it's not about upcoming games, but it's about the upcoming trade week....
Have a look at this pearler from the Collingwood BF board!!
Cloke and pick 6 -> Richmond
Deledio, Tuck and Pick 3 -> Collingwood
Cloke is not the type of forward we need atm. I honestly believe there is no point having the really good lead up forward if you dont have a target for him to kick to in the forward 50. We can cover the loss of Cloke with dawes, or even have Medders play the lead up role similar to 2008 when Cloke was injured. Richmond maintain the early draft pick to add a midfielder, which will probably come down to the one that Kangas dont pick out of Martin and Gary Rohan. They gain the lead up forward they do need, whilst getting good value for Lids and Tuck.
But wait, there's more:
I guess it really depends on how Hardwick approaches coaching. Honestly, is he really going to want such an outside player like Deledio, will he put a premium on a lead up forward. Sure he hasnt had such a great year, but lead up players of his quality with 100 games arent cheap, and in this draft there isnt much difference between pick 3 and 6, especially if you're looking for a midfielder cause you have already traded for a KPP...
Oh dear.... :lol
EDIT: Oh, if you're wondering where pick 6 came from, they traded Josh Fraser to Sydney for it!! :lol :lol
Thank you very very much Wayne for bringing such mirth to an otherwise dreary day. :scream :lol :rollin :lol :scream
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Thanks Wayne for bringing that to our attention.Its amazing how deluded some people can be.
You can only come to one conclusion.... Hells K1tch3n is on some excellent hallucinatory drugs.