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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on April 06, 2014, 12:40:19 PM
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'No one stood up' for Tigers in disastrous second quarter
Jennifer Phelan
afl.com.au
April 6, 2014
TOO MANY Richmond players failed to stand up in the match-defining second quarter of Saturday's two-point loss to the Western Bulldogs, says defender Steven Morris.
The Tigers were awful after quarter time, with an 18-point deficit turning into a 37-point advantage to the Dogs by the main break.
The statistics told the story. The Dogs had 13 more contested possessions in that quarter alone, plus nine more clearances.
Morris said the Tigers were simply let down by too many players in that short period of the game.
"I think that's the thing – the fact no one really stood up at that time," Morris told AFL.com.au.
"At Richmond, we really pride ourselves on the fact that we're trying to build team leadership. We're not relying on one person to stand up.
"We're all leaders out there and hopefully in times like those, at least we've got someone to stand up and steady the flow.
"It's really disappointing. We got ourselves back into the game and we know why we did that. We just shouldn't have found ourselves in that position in the first place."
Morris, who ran with Luke Dahlhaus for much of the game and acquitted himself well, said the players had not looked ahead to the Tigers' daunting upcoming month of matches.
Before their round-eight bye they play Collingwood, the Brisbane Lions (at the Gabba), Hawthorn and Geelong.
Morris acknowledged the Tigers needed to get better at being in control of games for longer, after being exposed again in a single period of football.
"It's the big question. We've just got to find a way for ourselves to be able to change momentum within the game," he said.
"Those momentum swings can be really important.
"We obviously held that in the second half and we nearly got over the line but we need to be able to lessen the impact of their momentum throughout the games."
"I think [in] our second quarter … we let ourselves down in key areas that we really pride ourselves on.
"We'll go back and have a look at the tape and see what we can do to improve that."
Morris said it was frustrating to fall to one win after three rounds, particularly after a game they felt they could win.
He added it was encouraging the Tigers were able to respond to coach Damien Hardwick's half time challenge to take it up to the Dogs.
"The one word that springs to mind was fight. We just needed to get in the fight and fight for our club and our jumper, which we really pride ourselves on," he said.
"We can take some positives away from the fact we did fight in that second half and when we were challenged and we got ourselves back in it.
"We certainly did fight … but it wasn't enough."
Morris was icing his right shoulder in the rooms after the game but said it was "fine".
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-04-06/no-one-stood-up-
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We lost the first qtr by 18
The 2nd by 19
The whole first half was putrid, not just the second qtr. Too much spin coming out of punt rd these days..
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I like the fact that they all see whats happening after the fact but at the moment when the heats on all these blokes wearing yellow and black are nowhere to be seen. :banghead
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First thing they need to do is reassess.
We are not a good side if we can have game changing quarter/ half fadeouts each game this year given how Carlton bundled us out of Finals last year.
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We lost the first qtr by 18
The 2nd by 19
The whole first half was putrid, not just the second qtr. Too much spin coming out of punt rd these days..
The Rot started in the first quarter and didn't get any better in the second quarter
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At least Morris had a go in the second quarter with that mark in which he ended up hurting his shoulder again when landing
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Jackson had a go all game. He was only person to apply pressure acts in the second quarter
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considering jackson has had a stuffed pre season,i thought he was awesome yesterday and got better as the game progressed
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First thing they need to do is reassess.
We are not a good side if we can have game changing quarter/ half fadeouts each game this year given how Carlton bundled us out of Finals last year.
Exactly. What the point of a runner if the coach isn't adapting tactics to game situations. May as well save money and wait for qtr intervals for Hardwick to tell us to fight harder....
Agree the whole 1st half was awful.
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Took jacka a half to come good IMO but he did.
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We lost the first qtr by 18
The 2nd by 19
The whole first half was putrid, not just the second qtr. Too much spin coming out of punt rd these days..
:yep
It started badly and got worse. Seems fairly obvious but the players and the coach seemed determined to only blame their 2nd quarter effort.
:stupid
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Stop telling the world and rectify your mistakes on the field. Sick of the empty explanations that have more to do with memberships and keeping our profile high in the media than anything meaningful. The time for talk is over. Start winning and all that poo takes care of itself.
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Why don't our players stand up like fat bum Hawkins
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We have been figured out. Everyone knows how to play us and nullify our game plan. Without a fully fit and fully firing team we can not force out an early win.
I can't see us making the eight this year and watching Carlton play, a team we barely beat, we will be looking at a 1-5 by the break :help
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We have been figured out. Everyone knows how to play us and nullify our game plan. Without a fully fit and fully firing team we can not force out an early win.
I can't see us making the eight this year and watching Carlton play, a team we barely beat, we will be looking at a 1-5 by the break :help
Bunch of pansy pretenders.
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sick of these bs excuses, facts are the first half was entirely dimmas fault, his game plan his structures
pathetic
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sick of these bs excuses, facts are the first half was entirely dimmas fault, his game plan his structures
pathetic
Get your dump truck loaded dude and you know where your destination is
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sick of these bs excuses, facts are the first half was entirely dimmas fault, his game plan his structures
pathetic
Get your dump truck loaded dude and you know where your destination is
Was it flea03 that dumped the chicken poo poo?
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sick of these bs excuses, facts are the first half was entirely dimmas fault, his game plan his structures
pathetic
Get your dump truck loaded dude and you know where your destination is
Was it flea03 that dumped the chicken poo poo?
Yeah I think it was him, he seems like a serial dumper to me
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sick of these bs excuses, facts are the first half was entirely dimmas fault, his game plan his structures
pathetic
Get your dump truck loaded dude and you know where your destination is
Was it flea03 that dumped the chicken poo poo?
Yeah I think it was him, he seems like a serial dumper to me
:lol