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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Rodgerramjet on March 01, 2007, 03:31:17 PM
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I reckon Carlton are going to smash us by 10+ goals in round one.
We will be lucky to win a game out of the first 6, perhaps Collingwood.
Get prepared for some more Hundred point thrashings this year as well, we will be very up and down, wont make the eight.
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I reckon Carlton are going to smash us by 10+ goals in round one.
We will be lucky to win a game out of the first 6, perhaps Collingwood.
Get prepared for some more Hundred point thrashings this year as well, we will be very up and down, wont make the eight.
Fev will kick 8 goals.
I agree with you Rogerramjet
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what a bunch of pessimists
have some faith, still a bit of time to go b4 rnd 1.
so fev will kick 8 hey, what if say he does a hammy a week prior and does not play.
still early to predict how we will go, but there is no reason why we cant win it either
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lmao
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not that funny , with any luck, richo will be ok, brown will be on fire, thursfield will come up , polak will improve, schulz will be confident and snake or knobs will be ok and ready.
if all goes well and foley blingers lids and howat continue to improve , there is no reason why we cant win
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Way too early to write us off with a month to go. Apart from Simmo who is touch and go for round 1, our injuries aren't actually to our matchwinners and Cogs hasn't had a full injury free season in the past 4 years. Razor, Kingsley, Casserley and Petersen won't make too many opposition coaches go "phew lucky they're out".
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Look injuries are once again hampering our progress and although the prognosis seems to be grim on the surface it does not need to be. If anything if we want to capitalise on our improvement and what to have more depth on our list we need to have faith in the youngsters coming through like Cleve Hughes Jack Riewoldt etc. Only big game exposure can do this and the experience gained will be invaluable for them. Sure we might get a belting every now and then and that really hurts but if it means better in the long run I'll take.
For those who can remember when we beat Essendon on 2nd semi final day in 1995 who was thinking about the 139 point belting we copped in Adelaide in rd 16 1993 when we kicked 5 unanswered goals in the 3rd quarter or Rogo marked twice ina minute in the last quarter. I bet not many is the answer at that point in time. I'll take 3 100 plus point beltngs like last year if it means this year or next year I see finals footy the players have learnt from those mistakes and it makes us a sterner team a smarter team and a better team. Plus it makes the good times even sweeter when we get to them. Have a bit of faith guys were 0 and zero right now equal with W Coast.
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what a bunch of pessimists
have some faith, still a bit of time to go b4 rnd 1.
so fev will kick 8 hey, what if say he does a hammy a week prior and does not play.
still early to predict how we will go, but there is no reason why we cant win it either
Fev wont do a hammy? Why ?
Because he doesnt get flogged on the track and isnt 31 years old
Faith, I reckon we have an very ordinary list.
Lets ee whats happens this year.
Simmo ? Took him 12 months to get him fit.
Lets see how he goes on a very limited preparation.
His first year with us was just, last year he had a HUGE preseason, this year NO pre-season. I will predict he has an ordinary year and thats not through a lack of trying.
If anyone ask me six weeks ago would we make the finals, I would of said no probs, now, I doubt it.
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If anyone ask me six weeks ago would we make the finals, I would of said no probs, now, I doubt it.
Fair call. We were flying on the track 6 weeks ago :-\.
I bet Blues fans will hunt you down Jack for mozzing Fev if he does cop an injury lol.
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what a bunch of pessimists
have some faith, still a bit of time to go b4 rnd 1.
so fev will kick 8 hey, what if say he does a hammy a week prior and does not play.
still early to predict how we will go, but there is no reason why we cant win it either
Fev wont do a hammy? Why ?
Because he doesnt get flogged on the track and isnt 31 years old
Faith, I reckon we have an very ordinary list.
Lets ee whats happens this year.
Simmo ? Took him 12 months to get him fit.
Lets see how he goes on a very limited preparation.
His first year with us was just, last year he had a HUGE preseason, this year NO pre-season. I will predict he has an ordinary year and thats not through a lack of trying.
If anyone ask me six weeks ago would we make the finals, I would of said no probs, now, I doubt it.
Jackstar I agree with you up to a point our list is not totally up to scratch as some players should not even be there let alone at AFL level but a very similar list was 7-2 after 9 rounds in 05 and then Browny and a few other disasters occurred. Furthermore we had a horrible start last year but by round 14 we had beaten Port in Adelaide last year for the first time and were 8-6 and in the 8 albeit with a poor %. We also had even worse injuries last year Thrsfield Newman Cogs to compound the half fit Browny . That Hawx game was the one that got away. I even hark back to rd 2 game v the Saints and the job Thursfield was doing to Riewoldt and the freedom Riewoldt had after Will did his knee which was the difference b/ween the sides. All it takes is a bit more luck than what we have had in the first two years of Terry's tenure and we can scrape in. We won 11 last year yet with 11 and a half we would have made the eight in 05. All it takes is to win 1 or 2 more games and we are there. I am still sure we are capable.
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I am sure we capable too, but injuries will play a huge part.
Simmo plays a major part in our structure.
Unfortunately it relies on to few at Tigerland.
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going on our performance against the pussies i can see us going down to the richkids by about 33 points.
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Tiges will come good in round 1 :thumbsup Schulz will kick 5
:gotigers
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well ... i went to watch carlton v essendon ...
carlton played not bad ... but i reckon we should win ... but at the moment carlton ...
so carlton by 5 Goals +
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LMFAO one dodge performance with a dodgy team changes our good training form to another bad year come up? 4 goal win. Will be tough though no doubt.
Control Fev, and the game is ours.
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We have to forfeit because we only have 13 fit men.
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Tiges will come good in round 1 :thumbsup Schulz will kick 5
:gotigers
Hey WP . this is obvisously an April fools day joke four weeks in advance ? as the game is played on this day ;)
Schultz 5, we arent talking about high fives are we ;)
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We must be favourites to beat Carlton, and I'm confident we will.
We've trained well over the pre-season. Have faith. WP could even be right about Schulz kicking 5 goals.
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I'm reserving judgement until I see how well our second teir performs on Saturday in Canberra but I'm still confident that we will make the 8. It might be a late charge due to some possible early losses but I think we'll scrape in there. :pray
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Tiges will come good in round 1 :thumbsup Schulz will kick 5
:gotigers
Hey WP . this is obvisously an April fools day joke four weeks in advance ? as the game is played on this day ;)
Schultz 5, we arent talking about high fives are we ;)
Jackie - you've gotta keep the faith ;D
Did you ever see the movie about the the American Ice Hickey team winning the Gold in the winter olympics when no-one expected them to? It was called Miracle on Ice ...anyway to borrow one a memorable lines from a commentator from that game
"Do you believe in miracles?" :thumbsup
Or the favourite saying of the New York Mets MLB team - "You've gotta believe"
I reckon I just gotta believe
and BTW I didn't say 5 what he'd kick did I :rollin but I do believe if his fit he'll play and he'll kick 5 :cheers
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What was the AFL catch phrase a few years ago.
Schultz to kick 5 goals, I like to see that ;)
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Go Sarge ;D
A big test for the Club this year. If say we did lose to Carlton in round 1 or didn't make the finals this year then the club mustn't lose it's nettle under supporter and coterie pressure and throw out the gains we've made. That would be repeating the stupidity of the past 25 years. We mustn't be reactive to setbacks as there will be setbacks no matter what. No one said improvement has to be linear. We might plateau this year and the next then jump up all of a sudden in 2009 say.
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What was the AFL catch phrase a few years ago.
Schultz to kick 5 goals, I like to see that ;)
jackstar, with all due respect, i know u have and are entitled to your opinion but i am over all your negative bs posts. all you do now is come on here and post total negative biased crap and it is starting to get to me and many others.
we know your upset but your memory must be poor as it was not long ago that schulz cleaned up an almighty brisbane defense and bagged many goals. so if u would "like to see that" , get the video footage out.
if he could kick a bag v the lions in their prime when we were weaker than we are now, why the hell not cant he bag 5 or more against the wooden spooners.
i know u r bitter but ffs stop all this -ve sh it!!!
really i have no idea if u really are a tiger supporter or not, you are more -ve towards everything about the tigers than i am about tivendale, now that is a worry
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Sorry to say this that 1 game of footy does not make a career.
Would think that if Sarge cannot perform this year, he wont be there the following. Thats not being negative, thats being factual.
As for being upset, not at all. I am fine actually.
By the way, I bleed yellow and black, always have and always will.
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Contract. ;) He's got 2 years to show he deserves more.
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Would think they would try and trade with a year on contract.
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I reckon that Fev will kick around 8 goals and we will get pumped.
Our backline is still very poor.
Gas is going to stuggle big time this year and Thursty is underdone.
Polak may go ok, but we have no one else to play Full Back.
Watching some of the other teams so far this season, i think we have made a big mistake in hanging onto a few players. i.e Jackson, Hall, McGuane, Moore and there's probably a couple of others.
Could of had a few more youngsters to develop.
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jackstar, with all due respect, i know u have and are entitled to your opinion but i am over all your negative bs posts. all you do now is come on here and post total negative biased crap and it is starting to get to me and many others.
:rollin :jump :ROTFL :ROTFL :thatsgold
really i have no idea if u really are a tiger supporter or not, you are more -ve towards everything about the tigers than i am about tivendale, now that is a worry
:thatsgold - not possible (is it :help) but Gold none the less ;D :rollin :rollin :lol :rollin
Ripper post X ;D :thumbsup ;)
:gotigers :gotigers
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:jump :thatsgold :thatsgold
I reckon its Gold as well.
If only X knew, :rollin
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Cant wait for round one ;)
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i think we have made a big mistake in hanging onto a few players. i.e Jackson, Hall, McGuane, Moore and there's probably a couple of others.
Could of had a few more youngsters to develop.
Sounds good, but how do you do it?
You can only get rid of a certain number of players and you can only use the draft picks you've got. If you could have traded any of those players to get extra draft picks, don't you think they would have?
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moore will suprise alot of ppl this yr, if he stays fit he will become a more than handy player and fill the gap in defence left by chubba
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Exactly X
IF, there are too many IF's over a lot of out players.
That has been the problem for far too long.
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i think we have made a big mistake in hanging onto a few players. i.e Jackson, Hall, McGuane, Moore and there's probably a couple of others.
Could of had a few more youngsters to develop.
Most of them still being contracted till the end of this year yet having no trade value meant they couldn't have been cut unless we paid them out.
Even if we could have delisted them we couldn't trade for more decent high draft picks because no other club valued the players we were willing to trade. That meant cutting more players would just have meant we would have had to pick up kids with very late picks (picks 80+) in the draft that have just as an unlikely chance of making it anyway.
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Exactly X
IF, there are too many IF's over a lot of out players.
That has been the problem for far too long.
Correct!
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Exactly X
IF, there are too many IF's over a lot of out players.
That has been the problem for far too long.
Correct!
That's sitting on the fence boys!
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My list of 20 players to go will be making a reappearance by r11 for sure I reckon. Still got a way to go just yet as a team imho.
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Exactly X
IF, there are too many IF's over a lot of out players.
That has been the problem for far too long.
Correct!
That's sitting on the fence boys!
No sitting on fence here Moi. ;)
I still havent got over the Tigers picking Fiora before Pavlich in the 1999 draft, but we wont go there will we. If we picked up Pavlich, if
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Not picking on you for the quality of those players, because I agree with you.
I just wonder how Wallace could have got more kids last draft as a result of letting these players go.
And BTW, Wallace didn't draft them ;)
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Exactly X
IF, there are too many IF's over a lot of out players.
That has been the problem for far too long.
Correct!
That's sitting on the fence boys!
No sitting on fence here Moi. ;)
I still havent got over the Tigers picking Fiora before Pavlich in the 1999 draft, but we wont go there will we. If we picked up Pavlich, if
Spud would have had him playing out the back pocket spotting up Wayne Campell 20 metres up the ground. He would have been at another AFL Club now.
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I reckon a few sms messages - one to Lara Bingle and the other to Lance Witnall's missus should do the trick. :lol
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I reckon a few sms messages - one to Lara Bingle and the other to Lance Witnall's missus should do the trick. :lol
:thumbsup :rollin
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just watched the blues beat the hawks. now we have nothing to worry about rnd 1. as long as we put in a good effort we will win. a full carlton team just beat the hawks and i must say ut was a crap game, nothing special about either team.
all u guys who think the blues and fev will thump us, I DONT THINK SO!
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I actually watched it as well
Thought the blues released players out of defense pretty good actually.eg Houilhan, Walker,Scotland. etc.
I think the blues will be hard to beat in round 1.
We will have to just wait and see wont we.
Guys like Whitnall and Kouta will only get better in upcoming weeks.
I reckon Murphy is going to be a superstar. Have watched him train many times and I like him better than Lids at this stage.
I reallly like Kennedy hitting up at half forward as well.
All indictations are that Whitnall will play forward this year, Fisher isnt too bad either. Very interesting round 1 coming up.
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Still a month to go and March form means squat with sides at different stages of their preparation. Let's see who runs out on April 1 before we write ourselves off.
The Blues' youngsters are very very good (yep Murphy will be a superstar Jack) and their senior players can still cause strife if allowed a free reign but there isn't much in between and what there is is very ordinary. You don't win back to back spoons for nothing.
ps. LOL Julz ;D