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Title: So close
Post by: TFL on May 03, 2008, 11:03:46 PM
What a thrilling finish to the game tonight.

Jack was always going to fall short and i hope that his confidence is ok, i am sure he will be ok. Richo was great after the siren as was Rob Harvey in speaking to Jack.

Kel's kick was all but home when it hit the post and Browny almost snuck one in earlier.

I thought we played fairly well for what i seen of the match. Unfortunately i couldnt go and watched the 2nd half on TV. I couldnt sit down in the last qtr and was pacing back and forward with a stubbie in my hand. The only thing that pissess me off is that little piece of crap Milne kicked 7 goals. That really rubs salt into the wounds.

With most of our players getting a week off next week and Geelong having half its team playing, i reckon they will be cherry ripe for us to take them down.

Get on it now!!!

Go Tigers. :gotigers
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Ramps on May 03, 2008, 11:19:12 PM
Continuing good sign from a variety of players. Disappointing to lose, we should have won, but in terms of the real future- I reinterate, good draft picks for us this year are vital. We need to find a variety of players and we have some players who still murder the footy, these players need to be moved out of the senior 22.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Go Richo 12 on May 03, 2008, 11:48:56 PM
What a thrilling finish to the game tonight.

Jack was always going to fall short and i hope that his confidence is ok, i am sure he will be ok. Richo was great after the siren as was Rob Harvey in speaking to Jack.

Kel's kick was all but home when it hit the post and Browny almost snuck one in earlier.

I thought we played fairly well for what i seen of the match. Unfortunately i couldnt go and watched the 2nd half on TV. I couldnt sit down in the last qtr and was pacing back and forward with a stubbie in my hand. The only thing that peeess me off is that little piece of crap Milne kicked 7 goals. That really rubs salt into the wounds.

With most of our players getting a week off next week and Geelong having half its team playing, i reckon they will be cherry ripe for us to take them down.

Get on it now!!!

Go Tigers. :gotigers
I need help, only just got home( i live in the Bush) and i knew that we lost by 3 points and that richo kicked 5 but what is it about jacks shot on goal? did he miss after the siren? How did he play? I rate him
Title: Re: So close
Post by: TFL on May 03, 2008, 11:53:02 PM
Jack had a kick from about 55m after the siren to win the game, we were down by 3 pts. He didnt make the distance. Jack was ok tonight, nothing special.

Kel Moore had a shot about 1 min earlier directly in front about 40m out and hit the post.

Just wasnt meant to be!!!
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Fwoy3 on May 03, 2008, 11:59:36 PM
Can someone explain what the deal was with Shulz's "non" mark and the Hyde free kicks. I was on the other side of the ground, at ground level, and there were no replays on the big screen at the best of times...

Also...what do we have to do to get a holding the ball decision in our favour. I know we had more frees for the game, but it seemed to be holding the ball against us and play on when we had them pinned. One that stood out was Gay-rig dropping the ball in the tackle only to have it fall to Harvey and end up a goal. The one where Reiwoldt injured his knee was another...just dropped the ball as soon as he was touched. Holding the man was paid.

Little things are costing us dearly this year.  :-\
Title: Re: So close
Post by: tigersalive on May 04, 2008, 12:13:44 AM
Can someone explain what the deal was with Shulz's "non" mark and the Hyde free kicks. I was on the other side of the ground, at ground level, and there were no replays on the big screen at the best of times...

Also...what do we have to do to get a holding the ball decision in our favour. I know we had more frees for the game, but it seemed to be holding the ball against us and play on when we had them pinned. One that stood out was Gay-rig dropping the ball in the tackle only to have it fall to Harvey and end up a goal. The one where Reiwoldt injured his knee was another...just dropped the ball as soon as he was touched. Holding the man was paid.

Little things are costing us dearly this year.  :-\

Schulz's mark, "wasnt 15."  ::) :scream   

Riewoldt free was there, no prior and then was slung afterwards.  Thats certainly a free.

Hyde was a holding or some poo like Foley didnt put up with it all game.  :banghead

GTrain's was a clear dropping the ball, couldnt believe it.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Go Richo 12 on May 04, 2008, 12:16:16 AM
Can someone explain what the deal was with Shulz's "non" mark and the Hyde free kicks. I was on the other side of the ground, at ground level, and there were no replays on the big screen at the best of times...

Also...what do we have to do to get a holding the ball decision in our favour. I know we had more frees for the game, but it seemed to be holding the ball against us and play on when we had them pinned. One that stood out was Gay-rig dropping the ball in the tackle only to have it fall to Harvey and end up a goal. The one where Reiwoldt injured his knee was another...just dropped the ball as soon as he was touched. Holding the man was paid.

Little things are costing us dearly this year.  :-\
I always wondered, is it me barracking for the side that finishes last or do we just get screwd? Last week we shouldve got holding the balls heaps and it never happened. It doesnt seem to matter how you get rid of it as long as you do. The only other reason i can think of is that we are smaller in stature and get thrown easier thus making a tackle look heaps better than if you grabbed a 100 kg bloke
Title: Re: So close
Post by: rogerd3 on May 04, 2008, 12:46:19 AM
foot skills... :banghead
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Hellenic Tiger on May 04, 2008, 01:14:15 AM
A few times Kanes footskills let us down.
Then again so did a few others.
In the first play of the match Morton had a mark or I thought gets crunched no free.
5 mins later Riewoldt (Nick) similar scenario free to him.
Hit the post twice in the last quarter.
Newman ball watching for Milne's 7th goal.
The Gehrig dropping the ball and about another 5 frees to us and Harvey kicks a goal.
How about on the Doug Hawkins Wing in the last similar play Harvey goes 360 degrees in a tackle no free.
The Schulz mark.
Gutted from inconsistencies in umpiring to a loss of 14 seconds to footskills.
Although in a few years time I may be looking at games like tonights as growing pains it is still so so so gutwrenching to lose. It was not as if we are playing like poo and losing by 3 points. At least we are somehow on the up.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: mightytiges on May 04, 2008, 06:01:36 AM
Also...what do we have to do to get a holding the ball decision in our favour. I know we had more frees for the game, but it seemed to be holding the ball against us and play on when we had them pinned. One that stood out was Gay-rig dropping the ball in the tackle only to have it fall to Harvey and end up a goal. The one where Reiwoldt injured his knee was another...just dropped the ball as soon as he was touched. Holding the man was paid.

Little things are costing us dearly this year.  :-\
We had the run of the umps in the first half but they sure made up for it in the second half. A number of Saints just dropped the ball as soon as they were touched  ::). The Riewoldt one on the members wing near the footy was just so blantant  :scream. Often the umps were blindsided too which didn't help.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Little Jackie on May 04, 2008, 08:01:04 AM
If everyone played the same way as Richo plays everyweek, we would have won by 5 goals.
What about Tuck in the 3rd quarter handballing to a teamamte who was stationary with his opponent behind him :banghead
Chris Newman , 29 possessions, refused to man up on occassions resulting in easy goals to Milne.
And dont start me on Schulz. Got in Richos road on 3 separate occaasions in the last quarter :banghead
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Ramps on May 04, 2008, 08:49:34 AM
The only reason Im not bitterly disappointed is that I know that we werent going to win anything this year so we may as well get good picks in the draft. We still have to many dumb and unskilled footballers.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Francois Jackson on May 04, 2008, 12:19:39 PM
The only reason Im not bitterly disappointed is that I know that we werent going to win anything this year so we may as well get good picks in the draft. We still have to many dumb and unskilled footballers.

funny ramps i saw geoff raines last night and his words were "im coming back to punt toad, to find the club the talls that they need"

weather he was pulling my leg or not he said this current crop were doing well but newman has gotta step back to coburg and we r in desperate need for a quality tall and Tall forward.

if we get to round 15 with only 2.5 or 3.5 wins then we r in the same boat as last year and the draft is the only thing that can help us
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Smokey on May 04, 2008, 12:31:24 PM
The only reason Im not bitterly disappointed is that I know that we werent going to win anything this year so we may as well get good picks in the draft. We still have to many dumb and unskilled footballers.

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if we get to round 15 with only 2.5 or 3.5 wins then we r in the same boat as last year and the draft is the only thing that can help us
You guys are going to appear so off the money by the end of this year it will be embarrassing to you.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Tigermonk on May 04, 2008, 12:47:53 PM
If everyone played the same way as Richo plays everyweek, we would have won by 5 goals.
What about Tuck in the 3rd quarter handballing to a teamamte who was stationary with his opponent behind him :banghead
Chris Newman , 29 possessions, refused to man up on occassions resulting in easy goals to Milne.
And dont start me on Schulz. Got in Richos road on 3 separate occaasions in the last quarter :banghead

Chris is playing so poorly
l'm not a person who judges football off possessions,  cause there is so many cheap possessions in a game of football
Richmond with so much overuse of the football will always have huge stats that mean nothing on a true game
how many times have you seen Richmond use 15 possessions to turn it over & the over side uses 2 possessions to cover the same ammount of ground to score goals. Happens every game
l watched Chris last night closely,  cause l have said too many & posted it here on the forum before that his form & decision making this year is poor & he needs to be rested.  hopefully this week off will help him, before action is takin for him to be dropped
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Little Jackie on May 04, 2008, 02:06:31 PM
Newy was pathetic while trying to stage a free in the 3rd quarter when Milne just kept playing on  an goaled ::)
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Stripes on May 04, 2008, 03:23:10 PM
The amount of times I saw Lids not chasing down players or atempting to tackle infuriated me! On at least two occasions he just couldn't push himself to run down his opponent which resulted in a shot for goal. McMahon also had a very ordinary game.

Funny really after both had such strong games last week  ???

Another great step forward. I'm really impressed with the game plan and the players intensity around the ball.

I must say that I am quickly tired of honourable losses though  >:(

Stripes

Title: Re: So close
Post by: Ramps on May 04, 2008, 05:17:05 PM
The only reason Im not bitterly disappointed is that I know that we werent going to win anything this year so we may as well get good picks in the draft. We still have to many dumb and unskilled footballers.

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if we get to round 15 with only 2.5 or 3.5 wins then we r in the same boat as last year and the draft is the only thing that can help us
You guys are going to appear so off the money by the end of this year it will be embarrassing to you.


We have only won 2games this season and one of those was against a team that just got beaten by the hapless demons after being 50 points up in the 3rd quarter. Hopefully you will be right and I will be wrong, but at the end of the day I want a Richmond flag and I can see it coming quicker if we get good draft picks this year.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: Smokey on May 04, 2008, 06:08:15 PM
The only reason Im not bitterly disappointed is that I know that we werent going to win anything this year so we may as well get good picks in the draft. We still have to many dumb and unskilled footballers.

......

if we get to round 15 with only 2.5 or 3.5 wins then we r in the same boat as last year and the draft is the only thing that can help us
You guys are going to appear so off the money by the end of this year it will be embarrassing to you.


We have only won 2games this season and one of those was against a team that just got beaten by the hapless demons after being 50 points up in the 3rd quarter. Hopefully you will be right and I will be wrong, but at the end of the day I want a Richmond flag and I can see it coming quicker if we get good draft picks this year.
And I see it coming regardless of whether we get good draft picks next year (assuming by "good" you mean low - you only know the reality of a good draft pick well after the event).  I watched Hawthorn belt the living crap out of Collingwood yesterday so that validates our recent form just as much as Freo v Melb today.  Individual results don't mean as much as a sequence of results.  We have played 3 tops sides in the last 3 weeks and lost by a total of 15 points - in 2 of those games we would win with another 12 months experience in this side.  We are on the right track and I'm more than happy to keep pushing the 'patience' line.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: {X} on May 04, 2008, 06:18:44 PM
dont worry about the score board.
we are developing nicely, and we won that game, stuff the scoreboaerd

its plain obv, we are on the way up, the saints down


newman and king should both be dropped, they may do a flashy thing here and there , but they stuff ups are too costly

jordy and tuck should follow suit

these blokes should be replaced with guys like cotch, rance, coillins, casserley etc as soon as they are ready
Title: Re: So close
Post by: mightytiges on May 04, 2008, 08:06:24 PM
Foley was on Ch 7 this morning and he looked quite down. He sure didn't smile when answering questions. I guess one positive is they're hurting after a loss and not satisfied with near enoughs.
Title: Re: So close
Post by: WilliamPowell on May 04, 2008, 10:04:55 PM
Foley was on Ch 7 this morning and he looked quite down. He sure didn't smile when answering questions. I guess one positive is they're hurting after a loss and not satisfied with near enoughs.

Absolutely has to be another positive I reckon

Just on King I thought in the first after the Newman turnover when he kicked it over Johnson's head  :banghead :banghead and Dal Santo swooped his attempted chase down was sensational. He could have just jogged and made a half hearted effort but he didn't, he busted his gut to try and stop that goal. It is those thought of things that we are doing now that 12 months ago onlt a few would bother with.

As for Newman..... well I could get started but I wont  :shh :-X