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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: mightytiges on March 03, 2009, 09:04:01 PM
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Just some of the headlines floating around this time last year about Richmond and why you take preseason results with a grain of salt when round 1 starts :blah.
Gloomy outlook on Punt Road horizon - Karen Lyon (Age)
"IT’S still February and already the claws are out for Richmond.
An awful performance against an undermanned St Kilda in the opening week of the pre-season competition has sent the passionate and volatile Tiger faithful into a tailspin.
Still weeks away from the opening bounce of the real stuff, the Richmond masses are already venting their collective spleen since the half-strength Saints took an almost full-strength Richmond side to task last week and won by 40 points.
The word in football circles was that the Saints had no interest in winning the match and the betting followed suit, with Richmond backed from $2.30 into $1.50 favouritism. Before being beaten — badly."
Tony Shaw....
Shaw, like most observers, was keen to see what changes Richmond had made in the off-season but felt what was presented was more of the same. "I didn’t see a lot of style changes," he said.
"They were very indirect going into their forward line, a lot of wide passes instead of hitting the top of the square. I think they have got to start even thinking about playing a big body in the top of the square, whether its a Simmonds or somebody else, who can stand there and just straighten them up a bit, because they are indirect.
"You will really worry if it happens in the first round (of the premiership season)."
Nathan Buckley
"I saw the wooden spooners on the weekend - Richmond"
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We could have won the flag and Tony Shaw would have put us down.
It's not the footy itself you shouldn't read much into it's the journos writing all this drivel that are just as bad.
Just know for certain that 1 team from outside last years top 8 will break into the top 4 this year and that Essendon Eagles Freo and Melbourne will more than likely be in the bottom 4 this year, yet if Essendon have an honorable loss to the Skunks on Friday night the same number of scribes who will be proclaiming the Pies as March and September Premiers will be proclaiming the Bombers as a top 8 possibly top 4 side. :whistle
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They are all funny but this is the funniest
Nathan Buckley
"I saw the wooden spooners on the weekend - Richmond"
Good onya Nayf :thatsgold
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Nathan Buckley
"I saw the wooden spooners on the weekend - Richmond"
ha, good call :wallywink
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Nathan Buckley
"I saw the wooden spooners on the weekend - Richmond"
ha, good call :wallywink
And some were nominating this scumbag as a prospective coach for us :chuck
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I hate to stand up for the guy, but this time last year we WERE the wooden spooners.
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Nathan Buckley
"I saw the wooden spooners on the weekend - Richmond"
ha, good call :wallywink
And some were nominating this scumbag as a prospective coach for us :chuck
I hate to stand up for the guy, but this time last year we WERE the wooden spooners.
i thought he would be a good fit for our club but on second thought no way.
If TW fails and this guy gets the gig with a comment like that i wouldn't be too happy.
stuff him the try hard
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I saw the next coach of Collingwood on the weekend- Nathan Buckley
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I saw the next coach of Collingwood on the weekend- Nathan Buckley
I saw a hack golfer on the weekend - Nick Pryor :lol
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I saw a hack golfer on the weekend - Nick Pryor :lol
:lol
He's playing basketball like an old granny too!