One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: MintOnLamb on September 22, 2017, 11:21:40 AM
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Geelong would be spitting chips we beat them. They would love their chance for revenge on GF day.
Adelaide may be less inspired.
I think our game plan would give us a better chance against either of these 2 and GWS have modified their game plan to ours.
For mine if we beat GWS bring on Adelaide.
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Im officially giving you a red card Mintonlamb.
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Mint on Lamb= KB
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Geelong played their GF last week - Adelaide will smash them
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Be it on the OP's head if we lose....
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Be it on the OP's head if we lose....
Dimma breathes a sigh of relief.
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Think mods need to ban him for 72 hours or at least until the end of the game tomorrow
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Geelong played their GF last week - Adelaide will smash them
x2.get on the crows
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No real footy fan calls the grand final the big dance.
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No real footy fan calls the grand final the big dance.
True, a lot of players call it that, so to does Anthony Hudson
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so to does Anthony Hudson
I arrest my case.
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so to does Anthony Hudson
I arrest my case.
Yes, exhibit A - the bobblehead
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Exhibit B - Ling just said it then...
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No real footy fan calls the grand final the big dance.
Gee you are very observant to know I and thousand of others are not real footy fans.
Are you a Detective?
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Gee you are very observant to know I and thousand of others are not real footy fans.
Are you a Detective?
Actually no, but my comment wasn't meant to cause offence. Apologies if it did.
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No real footy fan calls the grand final the big dance.
Another bloody american saying that the moronic commentators are now using.
Sell the candy FFS is another (the word candy) and the use of inches and feet continues.
This is Australia, embrace our own grouse sayings.
No offense to the OP at all :thumbsup just sick of hearing american crap.
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No real footy fan calls the grand final the big dance.
Another bloody american saying that the moronic commentators are now using.
Sell the candy FFS is another (the word candy) and the use of inches and feet continues.
This is Australia, embrace our own grouse sayings.
No offense to the OP at all :thumbsup just sick of hearing american crap.
whoa :shh
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I also don't like the term, "didn't get the chocolates today" I think that's a stinker
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I want to hurt the person who said "what if tthe tigers don't get the rose" cos it is patronising as poo
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can't believe it!
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Good luck to everyone in the categories 2 & 3 ballots today
Hope you have some luck :thumbsup
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Kim Jong better not let any stuffing bombs off this week. Rocketman can do whatever he wants after next weekend.
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When do we find out the umpires?
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When do we find out the umpires?
tues arvo typically :pray
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same umps we had for the GWS game will suit me, they were neutral. We copped it hard in the first quarter but most of em were there abouts. Tightened up after that and they let the game play out.
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'We're here to be the best': Tigers test their mantra
afl.com.au
24 September 2017
RICHMOND has won 318 games since it lost the 1982 Grand Final to Carlton.
But none of those wins come close to matching the importance of its stunning victory on Saturday over Greater Western Sydney in the preliminary final.
It means Richmond is in the 2017 Grand Final, a thought that only 12 months ago seemed more outlandish than Donald Trump being in the White House.
The Tigers deserve to be there, having lost just three games since they recorded their third loss in succession when they failed to defend a 25-point three-quarter time lead against the Giants in round nine.
Once such anguish caused ongoing nightmares and capitulation, but this is a different mob, a resilient team that now gives its long-suffering coach Damien Hardwick a sense of calm and a reason to smile when he looks at the names in the line-up.
"I look at those blokes and the influence they can have and makes me feel at ease straight away," Hardwick said.
Blokes such as tattooed champion Dustin Martin, an influential player by any measure, who returned to the rooms a winner and raised his fists in triumph at the coach, who responded in kind.
Men such as skipper Trent Cotchin, who went into the series as a finals failure and has been close to best on ground in both the qualifying and preliminary finals.
The clean-cut captain hugged Martin, who will soon, surely, sit alongside him as a Brownlow medallist.
Add an All Australian captain Alex Rance, a Coleman Medallist in Jack Riewoldt, a Rioli named Daniel and a bunch of worker bees in support.
However, many more people than just those unlikely allies revelled in the victory.
CEO Brendon Gale, a Tigers' man through and through after 244 games and two losing preliminary finals with Richmond, stood proud, wearing a Tigers' tracksuit top underneath his suit coat.
In 2011, he had launched a Fighting Tiger Fund to eliminate debt with this dream in mind, summing up his intent that night with the prophetic words: "We're not here just to compete; we're here to be the best."
Now, with the club in a Grand Final, the long-haired CEO deferred to the players as he has since taking on the top job in 2010.
"At the end of the day it takes a club to get to a Grand Final, but those most directly responsible are the players and the coaches and I am so proud of them," Gale told AFL.com.au.
One of those players, the ginger-bearded Tigers defender Nick Vlastuin, who was player No.213659 when picked with selection No.9 in the 2012 NAB AFL Draft, sat on a plastic chair against a wall, the song sung, the greatest moments of his football career both behind and ahead of him.
"I want to celebrate but then we have got a job next week," Vlastuin told AFL.com.au.
"Who would have thought last year? It's a credit to Cotch [skipper Trent Cotchin] and the coaches. They made us believe that we could be this good, so now we are just running on confidence."
After losses of 70, 88 and 113 points in three of the final six games of last season, no-one believed except those Tigers inside Punt Road – and even some of them would admit they weren't convinced that a Grand Final berth was likely.
Now, the mindset had changed so much that a quiet confidence accompanied the preliminary final build-up, with Vlaustin refusing to panic when the as yet unfulfilled hopes of the Tiger army dawned on him as he wandered around Richmond on Saturday in search of sushi.
"I went down Swan Street to get some lunch. That was pretty silly," Vlaustin said.
"Every pub was overflowing, cars had flags on them, every second house had Richmond stuff on it."
Vlastuin just went back to Hardwick's words to "trust the process, embrace it and have fun" and didn't let the mayhem affect him.
He played his usual solid role in defence without fanfare as the Tigers drove into the Grand Final with a win that good teams manage, breaking away from the Giants with six goals to one in the premiership quarter to run out 36-point winners.
The rooms buzzed like a party in full swing, the crowd inside as raucous as a Punt Road pub.
The Tigers were in the Grand Final, having endured 12,782 days of waiting.
Not just there to compete, but to be the best.
Now only one opponent stands between Richmond and its 11th premiership.
Can the Tigers beat Adelaide?
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-09-24/were-here-to-be-the-best-tigers-test-their-mantra
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Adelaides record at the G 2017
(1) A 24 point win over Hawthorn, when the Hawks were traveling very ordinary. The hawks lost their next game against Gold Coast by 87.
(2) A scappy 12 pt win over Carlton , where the blues hit the front in the last
(3) A draw againt Collingwood.
:gotigers :gotigers
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So basically, they're undefeated at the 'G this year.....
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against 3 poohouse sides this year.
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So basically, they're undefeated at the 'G this year.....
And therefore due for a loss....
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This year:
-tipped for bottom 4 (with Saints and Dees making it by default)
-worst 5-0 side ever
-will slide out of the 8
-won't make top 4
-weakest top 4 team
-gone in straight sets
The goal posts keep moving and now apparently we can't beat the Crows. I think it's fair that they're favourites but we're definitely a bi chance. Round 6 was a long time ago.
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In SA, Rucci has the Cup already going to Adelaide and their "perfect team" ::) :chuck.
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Crows primed to claim third flag
Michelangelo Rucci,
Chief Football Writer,
The Advertiser
25 September 2017
THE Advertiser’s Chief Football Writer Michelangelo Rucci looks at this weekend’s AFL grand final match-up between the Adelaide Crows and Richmond.
AFL GRAND FINAL
ADELAIDE v RICHMOND
MCG, Saturday, 2pm
CROWS
1. THE PERFECT TEAM?
IT is the complete team. In attack, there are too many goalscoring threats to cover - even if there is a break-even count in the midfield. Taylor Walker, Eddie Betts, Josh Jenkins, Andy Otten, Tom Lynch and Charlie Cameron will all influence the scoreboard by their own boot or with goal assists.
In the midfield, there is now such meaningful diversity that it begs the question why the Crows wasted so much energy to work a dead-end trade period with Carlton midfielder Bryce Gibbs.
The rise of the Crouch brothers, All-Australian Matt and older brother Brad, to work with the experience of vice-captain Rory Sloane and Richard Douglas while living the dream with the tap work of ruckman Sam Jacobs is making a mockery of early calls - such as that from premiership coach Michael Malthouse - that the Crows midfield was one-dimensional, slow and unaccountable.
In defence, there has been significant improvement during the season when the Crows were tested by not winning the midfield.
The true standouts in this zone are All-Australian Rory Laird and the unheralded Luke Brown.
The most-telling observation of how this team has come together is from coach Don Pyke and Jenkins referring to the strength of “relationships” and “trust” built between the players. Sounds like what Kevin Bartlett and Michael Roach say of Richmond’s last premiership team in 1980.
2. REASON TO CHANGE?
IF - and it is a very big “if” - young forward Mitch McGovern was to overcome his left-hamstring strain, there would be reason to work a change on the team sheet - and most probably end Andy Otten’s incredible storyline.
Otten’s return to the AFL - after two years on the sidelines as he recovered from a serious knee injury and appeared in SANFL ranks to lack the pace to make it back to the big league - is an extraordinary tale of persistence, belief and proof that experience does count.
He deserves an AFL premiership medal, so he would be difficult to take out of the match 22.
There is the unanswered question on how upgraded rookie midfielder Hugh Greenwood came out of the preliminary final win against Geelong on Friday night when he had the least touches among his Crows team-mates.
This will be the first grand final since the first VFL-AFL premiership play-off in 1898 with each player on the park in his first grand final.
There is the question of how the Crows players will deal with the crowd of 100,000 at the MCG.
But after all the Adelaide squad has endured - and overcome - in the past three years, a few people cheering or jeering from the crowded terraces at the MCG should not be overwhelming.
MEDICAL ROOM
M. McGovern (hamstring) test
B. Smith (knee) season
C. Ellis-Yolmen (knee) season
J. Gallucci (jaw) season
E. Himmelberg (foot) season
TIGERS
1. CAN THEY SCORE?
ADELAIDE will certainly defy the impression of grand finals being more about defence than attack. But can the Tigers keep up?
Richmond’s attack is “different” - one key forward with Jack Riewoldt (who has scored 52 goals this season) and a seemingly unconventional group of smaller forwards who need to deal with the big occasion in their first AFL grand final. Daniel Rioli (42 games), Dan Butler (22), Jason Castagna (29 games) and Jacob Townsend (36 games) all have enormous assignments - and challenges - before them.
There also is the direct scoreboard contribution of Brownlow Medal-favourite Dustin Martin.
Townsend, the Liston Medallist as the best player in the VFL competition, has been outstanding since he returned to the Richmond line-up for the last two games of the home-and-away series and the two finals. He has kicked 14 goals in four matches.
Richmond does have to avoid the grand final turning into a shoot-out with Adelaide. This is where the noted pressure the Richmond half-forwards apply to the Crows defence to keep the ball in their forward half will be decisive.
The Tigers were good for 30 minutes - the first 30 minutes when they outscored the Crows six goals to five - in the teams’ only meeting this season, at Adelaide Oval on April 30.
2. CAN THEY DEFEND?
RICHMOND’S defence is the stand-out feature of the Tigers’ season. After conceding an average of 98 points last season, the Richmond defence has tightened up considerably to give up 75 points this year to rank as the AFL’s No. 2 defence (behind Sydney).
There is the All-Australian captain, Alex Rance. His key defenders’ tandem with the much-improved David Astbury is a major factor in the strengthening of the Richmond defensive system.
Richmond’s defensive game - as is the norm in the AFL today - is built on far more than the six defenders in Rance’s unit. Rance noted during the preliminary final win against Greater Western Sydney at the MCG that the work of the Tiger half-forwards in slowing the opposition’s defensive rebound is critical for Rance, Astbury, Dylan Grimes and Brandon Ellis setting up.
This quartet will find the prospect of dealing with Taylor Walker, Josh Jenkins and Eddie Betts off the creative set-up work of Tom Lynch will be difficult, no matter how the Richmond half-forwards become part of “team defence”.
MEDICAL ROOM
N. Drummond season
MRP VERDICTS
RORY SLOANE (CROWS)
ADELAIDE vice-captain Rory Sloane will have his second-quarter collision with Geelong midfielder Patrick Dangerfield played again and again, angle after angle, speed after speed, by the match review panel. The key questions - Sloane’s options, his raised forearm and Dangerfield’s ability to play on - should be answered in the Crow midfielder’s favour.
TRENT COTCHIN (TIGERS)
RICHMOND captain Trent Cotchin is the man who can deliver the final nail in the debate to bury the current AFL judicial system. His head-high moment with Greater Western Sydney midfielder Dylan Shiel in the opening term is complicated by the two fines Cotchin has carried to the final series. He either is cleared - or there will be an automatic ban and the inevitable run to the AFL appeals board. Working against Cotchin is Shiel being benched at quarter time by concussion.
BRANDON ELLIS (TIGERS)
RICHMOND defender Brandon Ellis is also up for review for his shoulder clip to the chin of Giants midfielder Lachie Whitfield midway through the last term. Whitfield did play on, giving Ellis comfort that there is no medical report to haunt him when the match review panel finishes watching the vision.
THE ODDS
Adelaide $1.70
Richmond $2.20
NORM SMITH MEDAL
Dustin Martin (R) $5.50
Rory Sloane (A) $7
Matt Crouch (A) $7
Brad Crouch (A) $11
Trent Cotchin (R) $11
Rory Laird (A) $15
THE RECORD
PLAYED: 35
ADELAIDE: 23 wins
RICHMOND: 12 wins
AT MCG: 5-5
FINALS: First meeting
LAST TIME: Adelaide 21.14 (140) d Richmond 10.4 (64) at Adelaide Oval, Round 6
THIS SEASON: Adelaide 1-0
SEASON TALLY
CROWS TIGERS
W-L-D 17-6-1 17-7
SCORE 110 92
AGAINST 79 75
EARLY CALL
CROWS by 39 points
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/expert-opinion/michelangelo-rucci/adelaide-crows-primed-to-claim-third-afl-premiership-in-grand-final-against-richmond-tigers/news-story/f78bb3a7d7c4fb4d8309685588c462af
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stuff... 39 points??
what a wanker
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Tigers fans paint Richmond yellow and black
PETER ROLFE,
Herald Sun
September 25, 2017
THE Tiger Army is locked and loaded for a week of Grand Final festivities not seen in Richmond for more than three decades.
Saturday’s thrilling preliminary final win ignited passionate scenes of celebration from long-suffering Richmond fans, waiting since 1980 for a flag and 1982 for the Tigers to book another Grand Final berth.
Now they are daring to dream that premiership No. 11 could finally be on its way to Tigerland.
Dual Richmond premiership player Rex Hunt fought back tears in the Tigers rooms after the win and urged this year’s crop of yellow-and-black stars to seize the day.
“I just want these kids to understand that you only come by this way but once,” he said.
“I was fortunate to go by the Richmond way in their golden years but some of the great players, like Richo, haven’t fired a shot.
“But now they’re in the big dance, we can dance all night.”
Richmond football boss Neil Balme told the Herald Sun the club’s spiritual home at Punt Rd Oval and surrounds would be “jumping’’ all week as players and fans alike lapped up the occasion.
“We are here for the fans in a big way so I’m hoping they’re enjoying it,’’ he said.
“I know we will give them a decent shot next week.
“They will love it ... it’s another great week for all the fans and all of us.’’
The club is tomorrow expected to announce when the doors to Punt Rd will be thrown open to fans for open training sessions, likely to lure huge crowds.
The streets of Richmond are already paved with yellow and black after Saturday’s fighting win, which triggered party time in the inner-city suburb with the team song on high rotation.
Shops in Swan St and Bridge Rd have begun decorating their windows in earnest.
Tigerland residents have painted fences, letterboxes, and water tanks in team colours, while Richmond scarfs and “eat em alive Tigers’’ signs hang proudly from front doors.
While Richmond rightly has home ground at the MCG this week, Adelaide fans forking out top dollar for limited Grand Final ticket allocations are also being stung more than $400 to fly one way to Melbourne.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/tigers-fans-paint-richmond-yellow-and-black-ahead-of-grand-final/news-story/0d24f86a933af1cef93d0bfc8724cb1d
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Stevic.
:help
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Just heard on SEN that if:
Adelaide wins Mark Bickley will Present the cup to the Crows
and if Richmond Win, Matthew Richardson will present the cup to the tigers
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Yesssssss
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What time does the Grand Final start?
afl.com.au
26 September 2017
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 - TOYOTA AFL GRAND FINAL, MCG
8am: Melbourne Cricket Club gates open
9.30am: General public gates open
10am: NAB AFL All Stars Under-18s game
1.33pm: Welcome to Country by Uncle Bill Nicholson
1.34pm: Retiring greats and award winners motorcade.
1.43pm: The Killers perform
2.08pm: Mike Brady performs Up There Cazaly
2.11pm: Umpires Matt Stevic, Simon Meredith and Shaun Ryan enter ground
2.13pm: Richmond enter the arena
2.16pm: Adelaide enter the arena
2.25pm: Delivery of the premiership cup by VFL/AFL games record holder and North Melbourne great Brent Harvey
2.26pm: National anthem performed by Dami Im
2.30pm: Toyota AFL Grand Final begins
Half-time:
NAB AFL Auskick
Final of the Gatorade Grand Final Sprint
Dami Im performs
5.15pm: Final siren, followed by the presentation of the Norm Smith Medal (to be presented by James Hird), the Jock McHale Medal (to be presented by Mick Malthouse), premiership medallions (to be presented by NAB AFL Auskick participants) and the premiership cup (to be presented by Mark Bickley and Matthew Richardson)
6.15pm: Virgin Australia Premiership Party – free concert
6.25pm: The Killers perform
7.30pm: Presentation of the premiership team with the premiership cup
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-09-26/what-time-does-the-2017-afl-grand-final-start
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Richmond won't be intimidated by Adelaide tough anthem stance says Dustin Martin
LAUREN WOOD,
Herald Sun
27 September 2017
DUSTIN Martin has declared that Richmond will not be daunted if Adelaide attempts another national anthem stare-down in Saturday’s Grand Final.
The Crows have stood to attention during the anthem in every final so far, evenly spaced apart and staring directly at their opponents until they break away in a move that has drawn comparisons with the haka engaged by New Zealand’s national rugby outfit the All Blacks.
The Brownlow medallist said the Tigers would not be put off by any pre-game strategy.
“No, I don’t think it’ll be intimidating,” Martin said.
“Once the ball is bounced, we’ll worry about winning the footy.
“That’s the plan, so it won’t bother us.”
Adelaide ruckman Sam Jacobs said that it was “based around focus”.
“If people want to look into it and the other teams want to be worrying about that at that stage of the game, it is just about us respecting the national anthem and getting a good focus on what we’re about to do,” he said on SEN.
Jacobs also dismissed the “blink first” theory that the team would not move until the other team did, while teammate Rory Laird recently revealed that it was the brainchild of skipper Taylor Walker and the Crows leadership group.
And if the Tigers can salute against the Crows on Saturday, there could be some more ink on the cards for the tattooed superstar.
“Yeah, definitely, he said.
The 26-year-old said he is yet to really think about Saturday’s clash, but as the game grows closer he will “start to get nervous, but really excited as well”.
He said that he had never held any doubt as to Richmond’s chances this season, saying off-season changes and a “refreshing” feeling meant that “on day one (of preseason) as soon as I got here, I knew we were in for a good year”.
And he said the team is holding fast to its “why not” mentality.
“When we made the top four, it was like, ‘Why can’t it be us?’,” Martin said.
“We’re really looking forward to it.
“We’ve worked extremely hard together and given ourselves the best opportunity, so we’re just looking forward to it.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/richmond-wont-be-intimidated-by-adelaide-tough-anthem-stance-says-dustin-martin/news-story/9a7279595769f5d3de99820cdab4f193
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Mitch McGovern confirmed to miss Saturday’s Grand Final.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/09/27/crow-forward-ruled-out-of-grand-final/
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Bloody shame Neville Crowe passed last year to miss this
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I've never seen Richmond succeed in my life.
All these years I remember looking st the 2 team in the granny thinking we are so far off, we will never be that good. Can't believe that this year, along side Adelaide we are the benchmark team in the comp. strange feeling
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Bloody shame Neville Crowe passed last year to miss this
he aint far awsy
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Jon Ralph’s player ratings of all 44 players in the Richmond v Adelaide clash
JON RALPH,
Herald Sun
28 September 2017
IT looms as an intriguing battle between the high-scoring Crows and frenetic pressure of the Tigers.
JON RALPH ranks every player based on their importance to the outcome.
1. Dustin Martin (Richmond)
The complete player.
Born for footy and born for September, he holds the fate of this game in his hand after an awesome year and two epic finals.
Last week he set up the opening goal, had 20 disposals, finished with three clutch goals and gave two off as well. 13 of those 20 disposals led to scores.
Incredible.
2. Alex Rance (Richmond)
The game’s best defender has four All Australian nods and now is putting together the finals resume he needs to challenge Matthew Scarlett as this generation’s best full back.
Ranks second in intercept possessions but also a threat with ball in hand. And to think he might have walked away from footy.
3. Trent Cotchin (Richmond)
His redefined his reputation with a phenomenal finals series, highlighted by frenzied assault on the ball and man.
The baby-faced assassin won a staggering 78 per cent of his possessions against Geelong in the contest, and is in white-hot form.
Nine tackles in both finals.
4. Rory Sloane (Adelaide)
Identical stats to Cotchin this year but is shaded only by his inability to break the tag and a good-but-not-great 20 possessions in the prelim.
The boy from Upwey Tecoma is Adelaide’s fire-starter. He dominates, they win.
5. Eddie Betts (Adelaide)
Betts has such profound talent he could rip this game from Richmond’s grasp in the space of five minutes.
54 goals for the year, third for assists and with a penchant for the sublime. What a player.
6. Matt Crouch (Adelaide)
A faultless home-and-away season keeps getting better with an All Australian nod and two 31-possession finals.
Yet to be tagged this year but write him off at your peril as an accumulator who doesn’t hurt you. Freakishly good.
7. Tom Lynch (Adelaide)
Fresh from two goals and 10 score involvements in the prelim, Richmond might have to tag the AFL’s best connector.
Not even viral meningitis can stop the ginger ninja, who ranks 2nd for disposals and No.1 for score involvements as a forward.
8. Rory Laird (Adelaide)
Quick, agile, fearless, great skills, what a defender.
The best small defender in footy racks it up as an offensive weapon and cannot be allowed to run free if Richmond is to win.
Fresh off a brilliant preliminary final.
9. Brad Crouch (Adelaide)
Hard as a cat’s head, with comparisons to Joel Selwood for toughness this week.
Like brother Matt superb in two finals (27 and 28 touches), finally living up to the massive hype. Will end up going past Matt.
10. Sam Jacobs (Adelaide)
Rucks with aplomb then controls the game around the ground. His ruck dominance in Round 6 didn’t convert into scores, but will back himself to be a Tank-buster again.
11. Toby Nankervis (Richmond)
So much more than a bash-and-crash ruckman, the boy from North Launceston huge in two finals so far.
Richmond can’t win if Sam Jacobs smacks him like in Round 6, so he is elevated to a lofty ranking here.
Jack Riewoldt has been quiet in the Tigers’ first two finals. Pic: Michael Klein
12. Jack Riewoldt (Richmond)
Another Tiger to grow in front of our eyes, poor body language and indifferent second efforts now replaced by devotion to the cause.
Simply must bring the ball to ground, given Adelaide’s 21 intercept marks in Round 6 killed the Tigers.
13. Taylor Walker (Adelaide)
The boy from Broken Hill might not be Wayne Carey with his aerial contests but the No.1 assists player in the comp will have to do as a stunning stat.
And he came up with the Crows deathstare...
14. David Astbury (Richmond)
Huge role on Grand Final day. Should take Tex with Rance playing deeper, but colours lowered early v GWS after best year of his career.
Nearly left for Brisbane and now has the Grand Final as his defensive stage. Tigers can’t win if he doesn’t win aerial battles.
15. Dion Prestia (Richmond)
They paid him big bucks for midfield numbers but we rank him this high because he is Richmond’s cooler, shutting down Josh Kelly last week.
Now must go to Sloane or Matt Crouch. Tigers can’t win if they both fire.
16. Jake Lever (Adelaide)
In likely his last game for Adelaide, can the AFL’s best intercept player control the skies like Brian Lake in his Norm Smith Medal winning performance?
Jacob Townsend likely to go to him in negating role.
17. Daniel Rioli (Richmond)
Cousin Cyril set the MCG alight in his first Grand Final then won Normie in 2015.
Can he continue that family tradition like Cyril and Maurice before him? Elite pressure plus four prelim goals but likely opponent Luke Brown a jet.
18. Dylan Grimes (Richmond)
Elevated in this list because of likely role on Betts, who he kept goalless despite avalanche in Round 6.
The deep-thinking hobby farmer and vigneron might have this game’s toughest match up.
19. Daniel Talia (Adelaide)
Certain to get Jack Riewoldt, and needs only to push him under the ball and disrupt his aerial presence to play his role.
The AFL’s most miserly defender kept Hawkins to a single goal last week.
20. Charlie Cameron (Adelaide)
Has to be in your Norm Smith contenders, capable of ripping this tame apart after five in the prelim. Not sure the Tigers have a match-up for him.
Charlie Cameron was everywhere against the Cats. Picture Sarah Reed
21. Kane Lambert (Richmond)
The former Preston factory worker has had a career year, kicking the prelim’s first goal and averaging 21 possessions and five tackles.
What a great state-league success story.
22. Nick Vlastuin (Richmond)
Richmond will try to free up elite interceptor Vlastuin, who mixes rugged aggression with solid marking. Can he help hold back the dam wall on Douglas or Otten?
23. Richard Douglas (Adelaide)
Underestimate at your peril, with this dangerous half forward from Broadford bobbing up with 20 possessions and two qualifying final goals.
A Grand Final haul wouldn’t surprise.
24. Luke Brown (Adelaide)
Puts his opponents to sleep every single time, not conceding multiple goals to an opponent since Round 8.
Sure to get Daniel Rioli, fresh off four goals. Can’t wait for this match-up to unfold.
25. Shane Edwards (Richmond)
An underrated year for Richmond’s energiser with two big finals.
Wins so much contested ball at half forward, second only to Dusty for score assists. Beloved inside the club.
26. Bachar Houli (Richmond)
Richmond’s offensive weapon from half back, as well as an inspiration off the field. Under-rated in the air, creative on the ground.
Two excellent finals averaging 20 touches and 440 metres gained.
27. Kyle Hartigan (Adelaide)
Kyle who? Actually, the bloke who stopped Patrick Dangerfield last week and the man who will get Dustin Martin forward.
Since coming back from a serious hammy, he torched Josh Kennedy, kept Jeremy Cameron to a goal and didn’t conceded a goal to Danger or Dan Menzel.
28. Rory Atkins (Adelaide)
Just part of the Adelaide machine, a permanent winger averaging 22 touches and giving plenty of drive.
29. Dan Butler (Richmond)
Far more than a pressure player, this lightning-fast surprise packet has kicked 29 goals for the year. Cashed in on pressure with late 2 prelim goals.
30. Josh Caddy (Richmond)
A potential game-breaker who has 21 goals, buckets of hardness and a strong aerial presence.
31. Paul Seedsman (Adelaide)
What a story, playing 4 games Round 19 and kicking five goals and adding yet more run to the Crows outfit. And the Pies didn’t want him ...
Josh Jenkins will be a threat on the ground and in the air. Picture: Getty Images
32. Josh Jenkins (Adelaide)
Just how do we rate this bloke? He is the ultimate polarising player, labelled by some as the junk-time king but still huge for their structure with 45.21 for the year.
Just one disposal to quarter time last week yet the Crows were six goals up. But if he plays deep will get Alex Rance and need to keep him accountable.
33. Brandon Ellis (Richmond)
Career-best year for the West Coburg product who has averaged 23 disposals and six intercept possessions after his place in the side was questioned in the pre-season.
34. Shaun Grigg (Richmond)
The most unlikely Grand Final ruckman you have ever seen. Plus a hard-at-it mid who kicks goals (14) and can tag to boot.
Traded for Andrew Collins, a masterful trade for the Tigers.
35. Nathan Broad (Richmond)
Hasn’t missed a game since Round 17 recall and has lost just four of 22 one-on-one contests, twice this year keeping Toby Greene goalless.
But what a role — shutting down either Tom Lynch or Eddie Betts. Adelaide will try to exploit this WAFL recruit.
Richmond's Nathan Broad is a quiet achiever. Pic: Michael Klein
36. David Mackay (Adelaide)
This former Oakleigh Charger is key part of the midfield mix, fairly nondescript but so valuable. Won’t be winning Normie but won’t let Don Pyke down either.
37. Riley Knight (Adelaide)
Adelaide don’t often tag but if they do he is the bloke who Pyke will call on.
Having gone to Adam Treloar and Joel Selwood already, he’s the guy to put out a midfield bushfire.
38. Jason Castagna (Richmond)
Typifies the Richmond resurgence with relentless pressure and goal-a-game attacking prowess.
He has his tail up after 18 touches and a goal against GWS.
39. Hugh Greenwood
A season-low six disposals last week for Greenwood, who plays the least amount of game time in the AFL.
But the former Perth Wildcat pays his way with elite pressure skills.
40. Kamdyn McIntosh (Richmond)
The Pinjarra kid has been solid rather than explosive with 26 possessions in two finals but is another hard-running Dimma role player.
41. Jake Kelly (Adelaide)
How the hell did the Pies let this guy fall through the cracks?
The son of Craig might get Caddy or Townsend after keeping Dan Menzel goalless and Toby Greene to a goal. Another bargain-basement success story.
42. Andy Otten (Adelaide)
The ultimate utility who has played forward defence and even ruck this year and holds his spot with McGovern’s hamstring.
Has kicked 20 goals in 18 games and plays his role in the triangle offence which has worked to such stunning effect.
43. Jack Graham (Richmond)
A tackling fiend (eight a game) who after being taken at pick 53 plays midfield and half forward and could play in a flag in his fifth premiership.
44. Jacob Townsend (Richmond)
The JJ Liston Medallist was looking for a job five weeks ago.
Now the former Giant has a remarkable 14 goals from 28 kicks and might got to Jake Lever to make a pest of himself in the air.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/jon-ralph-ranks-every-adelaide-and-richmond-player-in-the-afl-grand-final/news-story/8c1882d5694c26cf81ade42f73ede08a
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Mega-preview: Grand Final, Adelaide v Richmond
afl.com.au
28 September 2017
SUMMARY
Richmond will likely have to hold Adelaide to less than 100 points to break its 37-year premiership drought. The Crows were undefeated in the 15 games they scored 100 or more points this year – they drew with Collingwood in round 19 – but won just three of nine games when held to less than triple figures. Richmond's challenge is formidable. Adelaide averaged a League-high 109.8 points a game during the home and away season and, with Taylor Walker, Eddie Betts, Josh Jenkins, Tom Lynch and Charlie Cameron, boasts the competition's most potent forward line. But the Tigers' defensive pressure has been outstanding this September and they will be banking on it carrying them to victory one more time. Whichever team wins, there will hardly be a dry eye in the MCG. The Tigers faithful's long wait has been well documented, while the Crows have had to overcome the tragic death of coach Phil Walsh in 2015 and the departures of stars Patrick Dangerfield, Phil Davis, Kurt Tippett and Jack Gunston.
WHERE AND WHEN: MCG, Saturday September 30, 2.30pm
AEDT
WHAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR?
Round six: Adelaide 21.14 (140) d Richmond 10.4 (64) at Adelaide Oval
Both teams were undefeated entering this game and the Tigers took it up to the home team in the first term, kicking six goals to lead by nine points at quarter-time. However, the Crows then assumed total control, kicking 13 of the next 14 goals to set up an imposing 76-point win. Taylor Walker (five goals), Rory Sloane (33 possessions and three goals), Matt Crouch (38 possessions) and Rory Laird (34) were the stars for Adelaide.
LAST FIVE TIMES
R6, 2017, Adelaide 21.14 (140) d Richmond 10.4 (64) at Adelaide Oval
R3, 2016, Adelaide 19.14 (128) d Richmond 13.14 (92) at Etihad Stadium
R19, 2015, Adelaide 11.22 (88) d Richmond 8.4 (52) at Adelaide Oval
R21, 2014, Richmond 10.19 (79) d Adelaide 9.15 (69) at Adelaide Oval
R12, 2013, Richmond 16.14 (110) d Adelaide 10.12 (72) at the MCG
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Adelaide
1. The Crows are unlikely to assign a specific tag to Dustin Martin, backing their midfield group to take collective responsibility for him, especially around stoppages. Riley Knight is likely to run with Trent Cotchin.
2. Adelaide is one of competition's most deadly teams by foot and will look to move the ball quickly and directly into their forward 50, aiming to give their forward line stars as many one-on-one contests as possible.
3. If allowed to roam free, Tigers star Alex Rance is a lethal intercept and counter-attacking weapon. The Crows could assign a defensive forward to him, with Andy Otten a candidate if selected.
Richmond
1. The Tigers' finals wins over Geelong and GWS were built on three things: pressure, pressure and pressure. They'll need more of the same to beat the Crows. If the minor premiers are given time and space, their edge in class should prove decisive.
2. Rory Laird starred in the Crows' round six win over Richmond and last Friday night against Geelong had 32 disposals at 91 per cent efficiency. The 23-year-old is Adelaide's most potent defensive rebounder, so the Tigers could task Kane Lambert with limiting his influence.
3. Having developed an unfashionable – but highly effective – forward line around Jack Riewoldt and a mosquito fleet, Richmond won't want to bomb the ball long and high inside its forward 50. The Tigers will try to move the ball quickly into an open forward line, where its band of goalsneaks can run the Crows ragged.
THE SIX POINTS
1. In round six, the Crows outscored Richmond 16 goals to four after quarter-time to turn a nine-point deficit into a 76-point win. Adelaide smashed Richmond in disposals (461-334) and marks (125-58) that afternoon.
2. The Crows were the competition's highest-scoring side in the home and away season, averaging 109.8 points a game and scoring 100 points or more 15 times. The Tigers were the third-best defensive team, conceding only 76.5 points a game and just two opposition scores of 100 points or more – the fewest of any team.
3. The Crows have set up their finals wins this year in the first half, outscoring Greater Western Sydney and Geelong by a combined 19.14 to 6.13 in the opening two quarters, while Richmond has dominated in the second half, outscoring the same opponents by a combined 20.12 to 7.13.
4. Adelaide has won the teams' last three clashes after Richmond won four of their five contests from 2010-14. The teams are 5-5 in their 10 games at the MCG, but haven’t played each other there since round 12, 2013, when the Tigers won by 38 points.
5. Adelaide is playing its first Grand Final since 1998 and third overall, having won back-to-back premierships in 1997-98. Richmond is playing its first Grand Final since 1982 and is aiming for its 11 premiership and first since 1980.
6. Both teams have three players in the top 50 of the Schick AFL Player Ratings – Richmond: Dustin Martin (two), Cotchin (15) and Rance (26); and Adelaide: Rory Sloane (four), Eddie Betts (24) and Matt Crouch (38).
WHAT THE COACHES SAY
Don Pyke: "It'll be a different week, we'll embrace the week and we'll prepare as we always do to come ready to play and perform. As much as we're pleased with [winning the preliminary final], making the Grand Final is not what it's about. It's about winning a Grand Final and that's what we now set our sights on doing."
Damien Hardwick: "I've been waiting since round six to get this opportunity to come back and play them again. There's no doubt we go in as underdogs, that's the harsh reality of it. They're a fantastic side, they've put everyone to the sword, but we give ourselves a chance. If we play our best, we're capable of beating anyone."
IT'S A BIG WEEK FOR … Toby Nankervis
The Tigers ruckman was smashed by Sam Jacobs in round six, with the Crows big man finishing with 26 possessions, 50 hit-outs, nine marks, eight inside 50s and one goal. Nankervis will be desperate to put up a better showing in the Grand Final and help swing the midfield battle his team's way.
PREDICTION: Adelaide by 22 points
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-09-25/megapreview-grand-final-adelaide-v-richmond
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its amazing what a grand final appearance does. All of a sudden the same people who said i feel for tigers, second favourite team bla bla bla now all want us to lose.
It will be a sweet victory if we can pull it off.
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its amazing what a grand final appearance does. All of a sudden the same people who said i feel for tigers, second favourite team bla bla bla now all want us to lose.
It will be a sweet victory if we can pull it off.
Yep. We only ever anyone's second team when we were losing. Now we're kissed on the dick and AFL darlings.
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If you're superstitious then '17 is a fine year to win it.
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AFL Grand Final winners and losers: David King on where the game will be won and lost
DAVID KING
Herald Sun
29 September 2017
GRAND Final Day is upon us.
The Tigers and the Crows have planned, played and persevered better than 16 other AFL teams to qualify for the opportunity to achieve premiership glory.
Unfortunately, our wonderful game doesn’t celebrate winning seasons or reflect glowingly about those that stumble at the last hurdle. It’s premiership or bust.
Today is a life changer, one way or the other.
There are some key factors that are important to achieving success this afternoon and post Grand Final we’ll address which team executed these facets more effectively.
Here’s my “Sum of Six” factors.
SPEED BALL
THE Crows want the game played quickly as they love to use the space for their forwards to charge back to goal.
They’ve kicked the most goals from 0-30m this season — by a significant margin — as their go-forward kicking game slices zoning defences.
If Richmond cannot halt the ball-movement speed they’ll give Alex Rance, David Astbury and Co very little chance to disrupt or diffuse the Crows’ forward thrusts.
Melbourne’s victory against the Crows at Adelaide Oval in Round 8 exhibited some methodology used by Simon Goodwin. The Demons held a defender as a goalkeeper role and had Jeff Garlett roaming across the Dees’ centre half-back area once they’d lost possession. It worked to diffuse the Crows’ speed of ball movement.
This facet is the greatest consuming the Tiger coaching staff this week.
AIR v GROUND
DANIEL Talia and Jake Lever will look to regain possession for the Crows through their strength which is intercept marking.
In Round 6 against Richmond the Crows took 21 intercept marks and a season-high 25 contested marks. It’s a clear aerial dominance that Don Pyke will certainly look to encourage again today.
Conversely the Tigers will be desperately trying to get the ball to grass, then use their ground-level game with speed as their main asset.
The Tigers’ pseudo talls of Josh Caddy and Jacob Townsend have significant roles to play.
The question all season has been the need or importance of the traditional second tall target, a Ben Griffiths type, but Damien Hardwick has resisted that urge and designed a game-plan around the stocks available.
Crows win in the air, while the Tigers hunt at ground level, sounds logical …
DUSTY MARTIN
THE Tattooed Warrior has become not only the Tigers’ best midfielder but their best forward.
The Brownlow medallist has proven unstoppable this season and I wonder if Pyke would consider a Rory Sloane run-with role to curb the Tiger superstar?
If Dusty does what he’s done all season then the Tigers are alive.
Dustin spent more than 60 per cent of last weekend’s preliminary final against Greater Western Sydney in the forward line and with great effect. He had only 20 disposals but 13 of those went on the scoreboard, which highlights the potential for Dustin to have a “bear in the square” game separating influence.
The fend-off is almost legendary, the snap at goal a trademark but the reliance on Dusty is still a fraction unhealthy.
Can the Tigers win without Dusty being Dusty?
RUCK INFLUENCE
TOBY Nankervis has looked tired at stages in the second half of the season yet he remains the competitive beast the Tigers craved in the ruck.
The Tigers are only an average clearance team but their scores from clearances is the competition’s best over the past two months, averaging +14 points on their opposition, which is fascinating give that the Crows are ranked just behind them, averaging +9 points.
The centre bounce is the most critical as it not only present the first opportunity to score but a valuable territory advantage. The numbers say that there’s a 60 per cent chance of scoring after a centre bounce clearance win.
The Tiger need to be watchful of the extra runners off the back of the centre square, such as Charlie Cameron and at times Eddie Betts. If they become part of the chain the Crows will score from centre bounce clearances.
Sam Jacobs has had a challenging month away from football, but big Sauce looks ready to tear a game apart. His contested marking close to goal often surprises, too.
A break-even at clearances is a win for the Tigers and anything better than that drastically swings the game into their favour.
SMALL PESTS
THE Tigers’ pressuring game has been much talked about but for the first time in weeks it was sub-par for the first half of the preliminary final.
Is that a concern? It’s the main scoring method for the Tigers so it will need to be at its best this afternoon.
If the fanatical Tiger pressure is below the lofty standards set in 2017 then the Crows will score
quickly and heavily. There’s only a small evidence of this being the case so assume the Tiger Tornado to be out in force.
Can Rory Laird, Paul Seedsman and the like handle the heat that Richmond brings on Adelaide’s counter attack? If so the margin may just blow out in favour of the Crows.
LEADERSHIP
WHICH leadership core will have the greater influence on proceedings?
Trent Cotchin’s leadership through the final series has been world class. Cotchin has set the standard for physicality, collision and a desire to put his head over the football regardless of what’s coming his way. Tiger fans want one more from the skipper.
Taylor Walker has been carrying the torch at the front of this campaign for 18 months but the
time is now for Walker to seize possession and start impacting the scoreboard.
The Grand Final demands more than a stare-down and a call at the toss of the coin. I get the feeling Tex is ready for a big one.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/afl-grand-final-is-a-life-changer-its-premiership-or-bust-and-there-are-six-key-factors-writes-david-kings/news-story/2b44a302c961d68845b2e254160b53b8
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david king = sacked part-coaching dunce from a yonder year.
clinging to the jaws of relevance for a dollar, from the narrative of the Herald sun
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No turnovers tomorrow a big must to.
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Tomorrow is Richmonds 700th game at the G
Planets aligning
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Took 35 years but the day has finally arrived :gotigers.
No turnovers tomorrow a big must to.
Yep. No dumb schoolboy errors please [touchwood].
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If we play 4 qtrs kick straight, pressure and tackling and bring our game 22 contributors we win this. :gotigers
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lets stuffing do this!!! :gotigers
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The cartoon in the Hun by Mark Knight is priceless
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The cartoon in the Hun by Mark Knight is priceless
link?
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im in. this is dooks signing off til later
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Stay safe, Dooks.
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geez we are not taking our opportunities.
very similar to last week v giants.
crows getting easy goals too need to tighten up deep close to goals
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To right need to kick straight jack payed the bucks for that.Is anyone doing game thread updates ?. :gotigers
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:gotigers
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Is this a dream.....Tigers you are all legends :bow
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EAT EM ALIVE
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Neil Balme
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I love you all .
What a game . Adelaide " the peefect team "shell shocked.
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LMFAO at Adelaide's line up before the first bounce.
Flat track bullies are a pack of wankers.
Will watch with interest to see if they keep it up next year.
:cheers
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Adelaide clearly been the best team all year
Lmfao
Finished half a game ahead of us you stuffing tossers!!!!
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Biggest crowd since 1986.
:cheers
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Beautiful. When the final siren went I was out of emotion. First half I was stressing hard, rocking back and forth in my seat and hardly coping. Third quarter I started letting it out and was cheering like mad in the forth when we were home. By the time the siren went I was spent. Just enjoying a quiet train ride home now. Stoked for my old man. He started dancing, been a long time since he saw the last one. Granted in my 30s I think I can still count finals wins on one hand it's the older generation I'm really happy for. Now I hope I don't have to wait as long for the next.
We are PREMIERS!!!!
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Beautiful. When the final siren went I was out of emotion. First half I was stressing hard, rocking back and forth in my seat and hardly coping. Third quarter I started letting it out and was cheering like mad in the forth when we were home. By the time the siren went I was spent. Just enjoying a quiet train ride home now. Stoked for my old man. He started dancing, been a long time since he saw the last one. Granted in my 30s I think I can still count finals wins on one hand it's the older generation I'm really happy for. Now I hope I don't have to wait as long for the next.
We are PREMIERS!!!!
Personally I have now seen 6 flags : 19767, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1980 and 2017.
Happy for my two boys (29 and 31yo) who have stuck with the Tigers.
Am thankful for my Bombers supporting wife who has stuck with me for the last 40 years.
:cheers
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Beautiful. When the final siren went I was out of emotion. First half I was stressing hard, rocking back and forth in my seat and hardly coping. Third quarter I started letting it out and was cheering like mad in the forth when we were home. By the time the siren went I was spent. Just enjoying a quiet train ride home now. Stoked for my old man. He started dancing, been a long time since he saw the last one. Granted in my 30s I think I can still count finals wins on one hand it's the older generation I'm really happy for. Now I hope I don't have to wait as long for the next.
We are PREMIERS!!!!
Personally I have now seen 6 flags : 19767, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1980 and 2017.
Happy for my two boys (29 and 31yo) who have stuch with the Tigers.
Same here 1965. But this is the sweetest of them all!!!!! :gotigers
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Yep the sweetest of them all.
:cheers
Jack Graham is going to be a superstar.
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Beautiful. When the final siren went I was out of emotion. First half I was stressing hard, rocking back and forth in my seat and hardly coping. Third quarter I started letting it out and was cheering like mad in the forth when we were home. By the time the siren went I was spent. Just enjoying a quiet train ride home now. Stoked for my old man. He started dancing, been a long time since he saw the last one. Granted in my 30s I think I can still count finals wins on one hand it's the older generation I'm really happy for. Now I hope I don't have to wait as long for the next.
We are PREMIERS!!!!
Personally I have now seen 6 flags : 19767, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1980 and 2017.
Happy for my two boys (29 and 31yo) who have stuck with the Tigers.
Am thankful for my Bombers supporting wife who has stuck with me for the last 40 years.
:cheers
:cheers
Dad went to the '74 and '80 but said this one was special. We're not a close family but we might have hugged after this one.
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They said will finish bottom four
They said we didn't win against top teams
They said we had a soft draw
They said we won't make the eight
They said we won't make top four
They said you won't win a final
They said crows will smash us
What now !.
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A game like that might mould Graham into a absolute gun and future captain. Wasn't scared by the big stage in only his 5th game. What a beauty.
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They said will finish bottom four
They said we didn't win against top teams
They said we had a soft draw
They said we won't make the eight
They said we won't make top four
They said you won't win a final
They said crows will smash us
What now !.
Exactly what I've been saying! Stuff them all. I'm sure we'll hear all sorts of whinging over the summer.
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They said will finish bottom four
They said we didn't win against top teams
They said we had a soft draw
They said we won't make the eight
They said we won't make top four
They said you won't win a final
They said crows will smash us
What now !.
Exactly what I've been saying! Stuff them all. I'm sure we'll hear all sorts of whinging over the summer.
I better attend to.all tgose fb posters talkin smack last week :lol
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Watching the replay. This is glorious.
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well done Tigers!!!! I am a bit tipsy now but you played an excellent brand of football today. Constantly harassing and forcing them wide and kicking goals when needed. I have never been more proud to say I am a Richmond man
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Terribly anxious.
Knew we had it near the end of that 3rd quarter.
Burst out crying and sang the song with tears running down my face.
Had my first ever beer with my dad who is a 16 year reformed alcoholic (decided this was a special occasion, only once lol).
Now I am spent. Exhausted and in pain all over from tensing my body for hours.
So surreal. F Adelaide and their wanker aggressive stance during the anthem and waiting for our boys to walk away before dispersing themselves. We stuck it out for decades side by side.
First time in my life I'm not disappointed after a season and I'm so glad my dad got to see at least one more.
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Plenty of great stories tonight, yours is just one Andy
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Terribly anxious.
Knew we had it near the end of that 3rd quarter.
Burst out crying and sang the song with tears running down my face.
Had my first ever beer with my dad who is a 16 year reformed alcoholic (decided this was a special occasion, only once lol).
Now I am spent. Exhausted and in pain all over from tensing my body for hours.
So surreal. F Adelaide and their wanker aggressive stance during the anthem and waiting for our boys to walk away before dispersing themselves. We stuck it out for decades side by side.
First time in my life I'm not disappointed after a season and I'm so glad my dad got to see at least one more.
Onya Andy! Hope you and you & your Dad are well now. We have a premiership cup to celebrate with! Go you Tigers! :gotigers
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Bloody hell.... just so good coming home from a GF win. 34 years in the making. Thought i had cursed this club fron the day i was born. So proud right now. From the bottom of my heart i hope you all enjoyed it ad much as i did. YOU BEAUTY!!!!!
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I literally can't not believe this....
Speechless with happiness. Can we go back in time and relive it all again.
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Pinching, pinching, pinching ..... nah I'm not dreaming. We actually did win the flag! :gobdrop
:woohoo :winner :wavetowel :highfive :highclap :veryhappy
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what a sweet sweet victory!!!!! :cheers
its so surreal!
too young to remember 1980. I remember 1982.
winning at least one flag is one of the main things i wanted to witness in my lifetime. now that ive seen one, my life feels at ease and when its my time to go i will look back at this whole thing with a huge smile on my face and a middle finger to the world.
a big stuff you to all the other teams, opposition supporters (often fairweather) who bagged Richmond as a joke over the years, and media haters. your old times success and arrogance means NOTHING as of now!
i hope our win yesterday is absolutely gnawing at the insides of the likes of Damien Barett, Gary Lyon, Tony Shaw and the chopstix bitch.
im so proud of our club from top to bottom.
im blown away by how we played from Dusty to player no 22 they all did a job. but a special mention to Jack Graham. WOW!
its been a hell of a ride and a hell of a season. ill never forget.
and thanks for letting me share it with you all here!
now lets party on, hold our heads high, nail this years draft and have a crack at another in 2018!!!!!!!!!!
:gotigers :gotigers :gotigers :gotigers :gotigers
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what a sweet sweet victory!!!!! :cheers
its so surreal!
too young to remember 1980. I remember 1982.
winning at least one flag is one of the main things i wanted to witness in my lifetime. now that ive seen one, my life feels at ease and when its my time to go i will look back at this whole thing with a huge smile on my face and a middle finger to the world.
a big stuff you to all the other teams, opposition supporters (often fairweather) who bagged Richmond as a joke over the years, and media haters. your old times success and arrogance means NOTHING as of now!
i hope our win yesterday is absolutely gnawing at the insides of the likes of Damien Barett, Gary Lyon, Tony Shaw and the chopstix bitch.
im so proud of our club from top to bottom.
im blown away by how we played from Dusty to player no 22 they all did a job. but a special mention to Jack Graham. WOW!
its been a hell of a ride and a hell of a season. ill never forget.
and thanks for letting me share it with you all here!
now lets party on, hold our heads high, nail this years draft and have a crack at another in 2018!!!!!!!!!!
:gotigers :gotigers :gotigers :gotigers :gotigers
Look at him goooooooo :dancing
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Thank-you to the players and the coach. Too young to remember 1980. Thought at one stage would never seen a flag. Every players deserves enormous praise. :cheers
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Some absolute garbage in the media today
Grant Thomas stated that this is the worst group of premiership players he's ever seen
and some fuckknuckle croweater journo Jai something had a massive crack at us in the heraldsun
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Some absolute garbage in the media today
Grant Thomas stated that this is the worst group of premiership players he's ever seen
and some stufstuffnuckle croweater journo Jai something had a massive crack at us in the heraldsun
(https://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2017/10/01/image.jpg)
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I am almost as disbelieving of our whole finals performance as I am of the premiership.
We smashed all our opponents.
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Some absolute garbage in the media today
Grant Thomas stated that this is the worst group of premiership players he's ever seen
and some stufstuffnuckle croweater journo Jai something had a massive crack at us in the heraldsun
Norf and Dees on BF melting hard. Many Hawks and Cats posters have our backs. poo clubs can't handle being confirmed poo with Richmond beating them to a flag.
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Some absolute garbage in the media today
Grant Thomas stated that this is the worst group of premiership players he's ever seen
and some stufstuffnuckle croweater journo Jai something had a massive crack at us in the heraldsun
Norf and Dees on BF melting hard. Many Hawks and Cats posters have our backs. poo clubs can't handle being confirmed poo with Richmond beating them to a flag.
Any links. I might enjoy going through them while I watch the replays.
:gotigers
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Some absolute garbage in the media today
Grant Thomas stated that this is the worst group of premiership players he's ever seen
and some stufstuffnuckle croweater journo Jai something had a massive crack at us in the heraldsun
Norf and Dees on BF melting hard. Many Hawks and Cats posters have our backs. poo clubs can't handle being confirmed poo with Richmond beating them to a flag.
Any links. I might enjoy going through them while I watch the replays.
:gotigers
Just browse the main board there, or here is a classic off the north board. Some sane posters but there is plenty of gold sprinkled in there like Ziebell and Tarrant equal to Dusty and Rance and their players after their top 5 are better than ours etc
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/is-there-any-reason-we-cant-be-the-2018-premiers.1178755/
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Cheers Dwaino! I'll get stuck in later today.
Gents, as I sit here with the Prelim replay on in front of me typing this, I still haven't been able to accept we've won it. I don't think I've ever wanted to experience anything more in my whole life (pretty pathetic huh?) and to finally just be able to soak it in is other worldly. One person should never be allowed to be this happy.
All those years growing up, friends scoffing and chuckling at me while they got to watch their teams play finals and win premierships and I was left to console myself with "next year". Even when I was a younger guy people just give you the "Richmond?" question with some patronising comment about how we're just miles off it (and we kinda were). To say that I was there and I saw us win one and no one can take that away from me is just.... well... its heaven.
I do want to shout out to all the OER posters here. We're all difference creeds, generations, cultures, political views, locus groups (remember the Rose Colours vs the Pessimistics?). But, what a ride. I love sharing the Richmond journey with other tigers and that's why we're all here. We're a special and unique people. Our relationship with our football club is like no other group of fans. Being a Richmond supporter shapes you're identity. I think others look on and admire it, but also keep their distance. Its torturous, but the high's make it absolutely worthwhile!
What a ride guys! A weird feeling of exhilaration, disbelief, satisfaction and happyness are engulfing me. And weirdly enough, a strong sense of hunger. I want this again, I want it so much.
GO TIGERS!
:gotigers
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As you all know I have been away from this forum for the last year or so. In fact I haven't been on any forums at all, but I have been
an avid reader of OER. I thank you guys during that time because, I noticed from time to time people would ask if I was actually someone
on the forum, which I wasn't or if anyone knew what I was up to health wise, thanks especially to our esteemed doctor on here y&bb.
I suppose I'll get this out of the way, when I was here last I was struggling with kidney disease, last September, my kidneys reached the
point of no return and I started dialysis on September 10. Its been a pretty heavy ride but I'm still here and I'm glad I am as I got to see
another Richmond flag. Yesterday was simply brilliant. I suppose footy teaches us a lot, in many ways, during the last 12 months,
it was the tigers who kept me going during dialysis, 3 days a week, 5 hours a day with the needles, there's plenty of time to read and
see games on television or listen in on radio. I also lost my mum a few months ago, she passed away from kidney disease as well. So its
been a difficult time, but the Tigers winning has been a great joy.
I noted Claw seemed to struggle with us winning. All I can say is that people should enjoy winning, whether we like coaches, presidents,
or players or even if we don't like some aspects of the club, winning is more joyful, a happier existence. I am not going to return to forums a lot, if the likes of MT etc let me keep this account, I will post from time to time but not often, I have learnt to live without them to be honest, but they also provide some good interaction between people.
So to all you guys who stuck with us, who purchased memberships, who shouted your lungs out, who rattled the tins all those years ago
enjoy it now, congratulations to everyone, the footy club is in good hands, and its on its way. I can see Benny Gale announcing 100,000
members in about a year from now. Richmond is once again an Australian sporting powerhouse. Well done to all, and especially
those players who did our club proud yesterday and before and the coach and his assistants.
Cheers
Ramps
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Some oppo supporters saying we're insufferable already but they made us with all their 9th, microwave, richmondy, Richard Tambling, worse than Fitzroy etc crap. They reap what they sow. Sucked in.
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Ramps!!!!
Enjoy it mate.
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Brilliant post Ramps. Wishing you good health.
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All the best, Ramps!!
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An encore of the Grand Final is starting on Ch 7 now :thumbsup.
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Ramps,
The 2017 post of the year, from the heart to touch our hearts
You are welcome here anytime, always have been, always will be.
The account is yours and yours to do what you want when you want.
Sorry to hear about your Mum and your health battles. Keep fighting along
Take care and enjoy this time, it is so very very special
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I am not going to return to forums a lot, if the likes of MT etc let me keep this account, I will post from time to time but not often, I have learnt to live without them to be honest, but they also provide some good interaction between people.
As WP said, you're welcome here anytime, Ramps. Good to hear from you, mate :). What a brilliant post :clapping :thumbsup.
Real life puts things including footy and forums into perspective.
Sorry to hear about your Mum :(. Losing your Mum/Dad hurts like bloody hell. Condolences to yourself and the rest of your family.
Take care of yourself, Ramps, and best wishes health wise. Enjoy everything about us winning the flag. We've all waited a loooooonnnnng time to see one :cheers.
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Good to see Ramps back again.
I will say one thing about the win that I didn't see coming. I thought I would get smashed but I didn't. Three before the game, two at half time and two during the last quarter. The pubs were that packed that it made it hard to go hard. But I am glad of this as I can savour the moment in some clarity.
Tonight I will get smashed and celebrate it though.🍺🍺
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Got home from the shops earlier and saw Fox had just started another replay. So that's already twice I've watched it since. Not getting old at all.
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As you all know I have been away from this forum for the last year or so. In fact I haven't been on any forums at all, but I have been
an avid reader of OER. I thank you guys during that time because, I noticed from time to time people would ask if I was actually someone
on the forum, which I wasn't or if anyone knew what I was up to health wise, thanks especially to our esteemed doctor on here y&bb.
I suppose I'll get this out of the way, when I was here last I was struggling with kidney disease, last September, my kidneys reached the
point of no return and I started dialysis on September 10. Its been a pretty heavy ride but I'm still here and I'm glad I am as I got to see
another Richmond flag. Yesterday was simply brilliant. I suppose footy teaches us a lot, in many ways, during the last 12 months,
it was the tigers who kept me going during dialysis, 3 days a week, 5 hours a day with the needles, there's plenty of time to read and
see games on television or listen in on radio. I also lost my mum a few months ago, she passed away from kidney disease as well. So its
been a difficult time, but the Tigers winning has been a great joy.
I noted Claw seemed to struggle with us winning. All I can say is that people should enjoy winning, whether we like coaches, presidents,
or players or even if we don't like some aspects of the club, winning is more joyful, a happier existence. I am not going to return to forums a lot, if the likes of MT etc let me keep this account, I will post from time to time but not often, I have learnt to live without them to be honest, but they also provide some good interaction between people.
So to all you guys who stuck with us, who purchased memberships, who shouted your lungs out, who rattled the tins all those years ago
enjoy it now, congratulations to everyone, the footy club is in good hands, and its on its way. I can see Benny Gale announcing 100,000
members in about a year from now. Richmond is once again an Australian sporting powerhouse. Well done to all, and especially
those players who did our club proud yesterday and before and the coach and his assistants.
Cheers
Ramps
Ramps, Enjoy this epic awakening of the Tiges. Sorry to hear about your health, I hope you are getting looked after. Dunno if you should read oppo sites either, too much saltiness, (or sweetness for us) isn't good for your kidneys either). :thumbsup
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As you all know I have been away from this forum for the last year or so. In fact I haven't been on any forums at all, but I have been
an avid reader of OER. I thank you guys during that time because, I noticed from time to time people would ask if I was actually someone
on the forum, which I wasn't or if anyone knew what I was up to health wise, thanks especially to our esteemed doctor on here y&bb.
I suppose I'll get this out of the way, when I was here last I was struggling with kidney disease, last September, my kidneys reached the
point of no return and I started dialysis on September 10. Its been a pretty heavy ride but I'm still here and I'm glad I am as I got to see
another Richmond flag. Yesterday was simply brilliant. I suppose footy teaches us a lot, in many ways, during the last 12 months,
it was the tigers who kept me going during dialysis, 3 days a week, 5 hours a day with the needles, there's plenty of time to read and
see games on television or listen in on radio. I also lost my mum a few months ago, she passed away from kidney disease as well. So its
been a difficult time, but the Tigers winning has been a great joy.
I noted Claw seemed to struggle with us winning. All I can say is that people should enjoy winning, whether we like coaches, presidents,
or players or even if we don't like some aspects of the club, winning is more joyful, a happier existence. I am not going to return to forums a lot, if the likes of MT etc let me keep this account, I will post from time to time but not often, I have learnt to live without them to be honest, but they also provide some good interaction between people.
So to all you guys who stuck with us, who purchased memberships, who shouted your lungs out, who rattled the tins all those years ago
enjoy it now, congratulations to everyone, the footy club is in good hands, and its on its way. I can see Benny Gale announcing 100,000
members in about a year from now. Richmond is once again an Australian sporting powerhouse. Well done to all, and especially
those players who did our club proud yesterday and before and the coach and his assistants.
Cheers
Ramps
You're a bloody legend Ramps and we all love you. Savour the success the tiges have achieved as much as you can. I hope you're being cared for in the best possible manner. Sorry to hear about your mum. I lost my dad in the last 12 months and he was a huge tiger man. So much so that I was thinking he was manipulating things from above in way that made everything fall into place for the team. If you ever need anything just pm me.
Y&BB
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When you look at it we won all our finals convincing that's what I'm suprised at,but we were the form team and playing for each other and doing the team things.
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Replay is on again, lads.
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I've watched the replay 3 times haha.
Still quietly enjoying the salt from Crow supporters suggesting the umpiring was daylight robbery. Honestly it wasn't that bad at all lol. At least half of them can admit their whole team went to water!
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what a great day yesterday was.
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I've watched the replay 3 times haha.
Still quietly enjoying the salt from Crow supporters suggesting the umpiring was daylight robbery. Honestly it wasn't that bad at all lol. At least half of them can admit their whole team went to water!
Thought we got the better deal from the umps, tbh.
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what a great day yesterday was.
The whole atmosphere, everywhere. Swan St, before and after. Around the 'G, inside the 'G. Post game entertainment. It was all very well done.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLBydfnVwAABql3.jpg)
https://twitter.com/CherylCritchley/status/914356663091585024
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Awesome just awesome.
The finals series.
The GF.
The feeling.
The atmosphere.
Pre and post match.
Everything.
Proud team.
Proud club.
Good to see we have rubbed salt into the wounds of grub clubs.
Go Tigers.
I love you all.
Unconditionally.
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Watched it three times we won it every time, so best out of three, more salt from the sooks
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Good to see you back Ramps
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Oh I'm so dreadfully sorry Adelaide! We took something from you yesterday & I feel we should hand it back. So here you go Adelaide players & supporters, this is for you ...
(_(_)
Now you know how it feels to have your arse handed to you in front of the whole football world! :santa
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just another franchise club in a town irrelevant to the world.
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Well done TIGERS you are all my heroes, what a day, what a year, tears flowed, bourbons were drunk and the mighty Tiger chest was beating hard :cheers :bow :clapping :gotigers
Bring on '18 :thumbsup
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Good to hear from you ramps, sorry to hear abt your mum and your health, hope it all gets easier
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F Adelaide and their wanker aggressive stance during the anthem and waiting for our boys to walk away before dispersing themselves.
They were reactive then at it stuck for the whole game. Stuffin losers
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLCBNEQVoAAP8E0.jpg)
https://twitter.com/chrisroytaylor/status/914372814513115136
;D
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What an awesome day.
I can't believe it. You bloody ripper!
The boys were unbelievable they did exactly what was required and not one player let us down.
All I can say is..
37 years! We're back baby!
:gotigers
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https://www.facebook.com/eibwt/videos/1597032853692918/
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Workmate who took the day off just sent through a snap of him, Kingy and Peggy at King's tattoo shop getting his premiership tat. Reckons he's on channel 7 tonight lol
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Workmate who took the day off just sent through a snap of him, Kingy and Peggy at King's tattoo shop getting his premiership tat. Reckons he's on channel 7 tonight lol
Nice
I'll be getting one too, once I decide on a design :-)
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Workmate who took the day off just sent through a snap of him, Kingy and Peggy at King's tattoo shop getting his premiership tat. Reckons he's on channel 7 tonight lol
Nice
I'll be getting one too, once I decide on a design :-)
Wonder if Peggy was there getting a Tiger sleeve.
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Watched the game in San Francisco and can't wait to watch it again and again when i return home next week. love this Club :gotigers
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Enjoy the saltiness
https://youtu.be/Y4id8qwyST8
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Enjoy the saltiness
https://youtu.be/Y4id8qwyST8
The 5-10min I could stand watching I thought they were accurately appreciative of Richmond's performance.
Can't stand that stuffing Cornes' voice though I'd love to punch him in the throat.
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Dimma and Pyke both had Houli as B.O.G.
2017 AFLCA Gary Ayres Award
Grand Final Votes:
10 - B. Houli (Richmond)
8 - D. Martin (Richmond)
6 - A. Rance (Richmond)
4 - S. Edwards (Richmond)
1 - J. Graham (Richmond)
1 - J. Riewoldt (Richmond)
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-10-02/unstoppable-dusty-takes-out-gary-ayres-award
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Nice!
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It seems the one united team (us) won on Grand Final day :thumbsup.
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In another extraordinary twist, Lever’s manager has claimed that his player’s relationship with some Adelaide teammates got so bitter that they did not even want him playing finals with them.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/garry-lyon-says-adelaide-captain-taylor-walker-was-furious-in-very-aggressive-conversation-with-jake-lever/news-story/f58ca65af83d24ed09605116784dc69d
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Enjoyed hearing from the old OERites Tucker and Ramps- was worth the poo lads! Plop plop no more :santa
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Whose tucker these days?
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Whose tucker these days?
He posted as Tucker a few pages back
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Awesome just awesome.
The finals series.
The GF.
The feeling.
The atmosphere.
Pre and post match.
Everything.
Proud team.
Proud club.
Good to see we have rubbed salt into the wounds of grub clubs.
Go Tigers.
I love you all.
Unconditionally.
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Grand final: Ricciuto says Crows 'didn't handle the occasion'
Mick Stirling
Sporting News
17 October 2017
Adelaide fans are still coming to terms with their grand final effort and how they were humbled by a rabid Richmond despite going into the game as red-hot favourites.
And there is no bigger fan than former Crows superstar and current club director Mark Ricciuto, who has only now spoken publicly about the loss.
‘Roo’ didn’t complain about the match being played at the MCG, happy (to a point) to accept the Tigers were the better team on the day.
“I thought Richmond won the first quarter and they were the better side in the first quarter,” Ricciuto said on Triple M Adelaide’s Roo and Ditts show on Monday.
“After that they were definitely the better team.
“I don’t think anyone would have thought that was going happen before the game, that Richmond would be the best side for four quarters.
“Everything they did was first class; their pressure, their attack on the ball, they kicked big goals, they won the majority of the positions.”
When it came to the Crows’ performance Ricciuto didn’t gild the lily.
“You flip that over to Adelaide and it’s quite the opposite,” he said.
“They didn’t handle the occasion I didn’t think. Their skills were way off, that was probably because of (Richmond’s) pressure and because we didn’t handle the occasion so missed targets a lot of the time.”
It may have taken more than two weeks, but kudos to Ricciuto for calling it as it was - a day when the Crows were given a football lesson.
“They have to live with that now, and come back bigger and better next year.”
http://www.sportingnews.com/au/afl/news/grand-final-ricciuto-says-crows-didnt-handle-the-occasion-afl-adelaide-richmond-tigers-tex-walker-premiership/pttlegz42jvi1cu31vceee7w7
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMQ3X7EVwAAO-t4.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MazMazfit/status/919921116591693824
:lol
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Haven't seen any articles from Cornes after the grand final. Has he written any or he is being deliberately quiet?
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Haven't seen any articles from Cornes after the grand final. Has he written any or he is being deliberately quiet?
Little Kane?
He's been on twitter (briefly) admitting he was wrong about Richmond :lol
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Haven't seen any articles from Cornes after the grand final. Has he written any or he is being deliberately quiet?
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/expert-opinion/kane-cornes/2017-premiers-richmond-werent-getting-ahead-of-themselves/news-story/6f0761a57c7f95a7346a9925b7ec1b43
If you can't get through the paywall you can click the link via his twitter and you should get through. A LOT of crap to wade through first to find it though :rollin
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All this salt is drying out my skin like a mofo
(http://i43.tinypic.com/20tktpx.jpg)
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This was only the 7th time in history that a side with no 30 year old has won the flag.
Interestingly enough, we've done it as a club 3 times previously in 1967, 69 & 74. There's lots of similarities between 1967 and 2017 being both drought breaking premiership after a long period of failure.
Six of the seven sides have also gone on and won another flag within the next few years after the first one :pray.
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2017-10-25/under30-tigers-in-elite-company
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Six of the seven sides have also gone on and won another flag within the next few years after the first one :pray.
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2017-10-25/under30-tigers-in-elite-company
Haha McGuirepies the only side that didn't.....#sucessionplan #bucksthemessiah #betterlist #milliondollarmayneVFL :clapping
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BEFORE:
(https://cdndata.bigfooty.com/2017/10/430113_dd6e1873026cea7984a3c937c8136443.jpeg)
AFTER:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMoOe_wVoAUTYs3.jpg:large)
;D
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Greatest Richmond moment in my life hands down.
I was there.
I am a Premiership supporter.
Unconditional love for Richmond.
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Haven't seen any articles from Cornes after the grand final. Has he written any or he is being deliberately quiet?
Little Kane?
He's been on twitter (briefly) admitting he was wrong about Richmond :lol
What about Grant Thomas.
Anyone heard from him?
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I never thought id get over the 2013 EF loss to the Cheats but im glad to say that im over it now.
Id like to thank Trent Cotchin and all those left over from that terrible day and i can honestly say with my hand on my heart that i forgive you..As well as the Tommy Hafey tribute game vs Melbourne... all is forgiven!
So cathartic.
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Just at the South Melbourne Market and this random dude walks up, biggest grin on his face 'Tigers how good is it mate' I smile everyday,
and so do I mate ...Love these moments
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNMzWVGVwAIjQl7.jpg)
https://twitter.com/j0sharp/status/924138815781986304
:snidegrin
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Just at the South Melbourne Market and this random dude walks up, biggest grin on his face 'Tigers how good is it mate' I smile everyday,
and so do I mate ...Love these moments
:thumbsup have had similar but the best one was a great conversation i had with a past player... the smiles and happiness is just...fantastic!! :gotigers
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I was just looking at some stats from the GF, and noticed that both teams had 13 marks inside 50m.
I am amazed that the Crows had that many.
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I was just looking at some stats from the GF, and noticed that both teams had 13 marks inside 50m.
I am amazed that the Crows had that many.
Can think of 3 that were unkickable from the biundary
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I was able to download the 5AA commentary of the Grand Final - that was pure gold . Well worth a listen if you enjoy hearing over confidence being torn apart :lol
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I was able to download the 5AA commentary of the Grand Final - that was pure gold . Well worth a listen if you enjoy hearing over confidence being torn apart :lol
Link pls
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I was able to download the 5AA commentary of the Grand Final - that was pure gold . Well worth a listen if you enjoy hearing over confidence being torn apart :lol
Link pls
x2 sounds like a pee-er
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https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/online-grand-final-audio.1179236/page-3#post-52909477
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Watched the replay today on fox and noticed a few of our players were smiling and nodding their heads at the crows players during their crowbot stance, others looked bored, funny poo
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOAX42dVoAAsGcL.jpg)
https://twitter.com/RachRittmeyer/status/927767840777572353
:lol
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:bow
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:lol :lol
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Lever was probably thinking he won't have to do Tex's stupid stance idea anymore after GF day :wallywink.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOQsWnHV4AUs2UH.jpg)
https://twitter.com/occyfcporto7/status/928916200490377216
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THE AFL's place as Australia's most valuable television product has been solidified with the 2017 Grand Final confirmed as the year's No.1 show.
Richmond's win against Adelaide scored 3.562 million viewers according to official television ratings – making it the most watched sporting event on Australian television this year.
The game eclipsed other major sporting events including the Australian Open tennis men's singles final and the rugby league state of origin.
The Tigers' premiership also out-rated other major TV events including auction night on renovation show The Block, the climax of Australian Ninja Warrior and the announcement of cooking contest champions on My Kitchen Rules.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-12-03/gf-friday-night-footy-dominates-tv-ratings
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If you replay the 2017 AFL Grand Final at 9:41:22 on December 31st, the final siren will sound right as the clock strikes midnight. Start off your new year right 😏🎉
https://twitter.com/Richmond_FC/with_replies
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Tex Walker was finally found, apparently he hasn’t moved since the Grand Final. A search of Dave Astbury’s pocket found proof that he was in there all day.... #richmondfc #gotiges #aflpremiers2017
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DR8dJtKUEAArkaG.jpg)
https://twitter.com/JBarbagiannis/status/945506507600175104
;D
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Tex is an average footballer, but he needs to stick with it.
He is hopless as a square leg umpire. Can't even line up on the correct side of the wicket.
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:lol
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Tex is an average footballer, but he needs to stick with it.
He is hopless as a square leg umpire. Can't even line up on the correct side of the wicket.
Is looking for the dummy he lost on 29 September?
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Tex Walker was finally found, apparently he hasn’t moved since the Grand Final. A search of Dave Astbury’s pocket found proof that he was in there all day.... #richmondfc #gotiges #aflpremiers2017
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DR8dJtKUEAArkaG.jpg)
https://twitter.com/JBarbagiannis/status/945506507600175104
;D
Lmfao keep em coming
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With pleasure, cub :thumbsup.
(https://cdndata.bigfooty.com/2017/10/432219_6c2e3409448ff1e7b69be8321bc94022.png)
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/tex-walker-and-the-crow-stance.1181339/page-2
;D
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSINSNvUIAEZE_-.jpg)
https://twitter.com/stu68christie/status/946333488185085952
:lol
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Maybe Danny Frawley can mentor Don Pyle as to how they can celebrate it 10 years down the track
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It's 100 days since we won the flag. Happy anniversary! ;D :thumbsup :cheers :gotigers.
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"We had a great opportunity to all become one [premiership players], but we didn't, and little things like Richmond being on TV or Facebook or social media – whatever it may be – are the ones that really get me personally." - Adelaide's Jake Kelly
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-01-11/dads-medal-rubs-it-in-for-shattered-crow
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haha
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"We had a great opportunity to all become one [premiership players], but we didn't, and little things like Richmond being on TV or Facebook or social media – whatever it may be – are the ones that really get me personally." - Adelaide's Jake Kelly
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-01-11/dads-medal-rubs-it-in-for-shattered-crow
But he will always have the lasting memory of their stupid "power ranger" stance to hold on too and look back on
Hasn't gone away empty handed :rollin
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSINSNvUIAEZE_-.jpg)
https://twitter.com/stu68christie/status/946333488185085952
:lol
I went to a party the other night, and one of my mates who is also an avid Tiger turned up with his hair done like Tex Walker, complete with the moustache and the eyebrows.
And he was wearing one of these shirts with 'Beaten' written in black texta just below the neck line.
I wish I had a photo, it was bloody funny.
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We should sticky this thread, if only for the memories...
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"And this is the only win this flog had on the day 😂"
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTYXLPQU8AAMvOI.jpg)
https://twitter.com/gemini67/status/951973883258724352
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"I don't normally buy into these sorts of things, and wisdom in hindsight is a wonderful thing, but this really DOES seem significant. And after reading @KonradMarshall's book it makes even more sense. Tigers nailed everything in 2017, even down to just enjoying the moment." - Rohan Connolly.
Credit to Johnno77 on BigFooty for sharing his observation on this. Look at how different both these team photos are just moments before the Grand Final started. Zoom in. A picture really does tell 1,000 words. The joy and happiness on our players faces sums up our entire year."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTSWNxtVMAATX8Q.jpg)
https://twitter.com/rohan_connolly/status/952177452704415744
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"And this is the only win this flog had on the day 😂"
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTYXLPQU8AAMvOI.jpg)
https://twitter.com/gemini67/status/951973883258724352
He made sure it was all about him too by making everyone else wait for him to turn up for the coin toss.
The only time he turned up on GF day :snidegrin.
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"I don't normally buy into these sorts of things, and wisdom in hindsight is a wonderful thing, but this really DOES seem significant. And after reading @KonradMarshall's book it makes even more sense. Tigers nailed everything in 2017, even down to just enjoying the moment." - Rohan Connolly.
Credit to Johnno77 on BigFooty for sharing his observation on this. Look at how different both these team photos are just moments before the Grand Final started. Zoom in. A picture really does tell 1,000 words. The joy and happiness on our players faces sums up our entire year."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTSWNxtVMAATX8Q.jpg)
https://twitter.com/rohan_connolly/status/952177452704415744
I reckon Pyke and Tex are sitting in each others seats.
In our team photo, there are 4 players either side of Dimma. The Crows have 3 on one side and 5 on the other of Pyke.
They were clearly becoming unbalanced before the game :)
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Courtesy of Tigerbob68 on BF:
(https://cdndata.bigfooty.com/2018/01/454103_1257915e1dee3bb204cb066c9e330f07.jpg)
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/opposition-observation-ix.1182206/page-44#post-54106061
;D
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DffnOozXUAEIO9-.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Tigers_of_Old/status/1006527382226898944
:lol
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Have we single-handedly caused the Crows to implode since the GF?! :laugh:
Exhibit A:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Df25dPTUYAAvO0A.jpg)
https://twitter.com/_WeWantAnswers_
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Exhibit B:
@Adelaide_FC players are walking away from the controversial 'Collective Mind' program, which has been blamed in part for their fall from grace.
https://twitter.com/9NewsAdel/status/1009365266369638401
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We broke the Adelaide football club .
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Should fold and bring in Glenelg..... :gotigers
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when do we play them again.
we will demolish them.
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when do we play them again.
we will demolish them.
In two weeks time following the Swans game. Round 16, Friday night, July 6 @ the MCG.
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What to do on bye weekend ?? - watch the GF again of course. Still cry like a baby when Benny G gets all emotional.
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Some absolute garbage in the media today
Grant Thomas stated that this is the worst group of premiership players he's ever seen
and some stufstuffnuckle croweater journo Jai something had a massive crack at us in the heraldsun
Should we ask Thomo if the Saints are the best group to win a wooden spoon at the end of this season?
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Adelaide have officially parted ways with Collective Minds, who ran their highly successful preseason camp.
Don Pyke has now labelled the camp a fail.
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someone please post the interview with pyke and burton. Too funny
"Did you play the richmond theme song on the camp"
Yes"
How many times"
Just once"
hahahaha
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http://www.afc.com.au/news/2018-06-23/crows-part-way-with-collective-mind
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/adelaide-press-conference-don-pyke-and-brett-burton-to-face-afl-media/news-story/41d5e75db9123379f90f23fe39aa1136
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/floundering-crows-providing-plenty-of-excuses-for-disastrous-afl-season-and-fans-are-rightly-angry/news-story/0713017326ee33f7f8c1ab28c942bfe6
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someone please post the interview with pyke and burton. Too funny
"Did you play the richmond theme song on the camp"
Yes"
How many times"
Just once"
hahahaha
More like "Just once" ................................................. on repeat :yep.
They've told porky pies so often that no one believes them anymore.
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Some absolute garbage in the media today
Grant Thomas stated that this is the worst group of premiership players he's ever seen
and some stufstuffnuckle croweater journo Jai something had a massive crack at us in the heraldsun
Should we ask Thomo if the Saints are the best group to win a wooden spoon at the end of this season?
Late quote
FWIW Thomas praises us all the time on his podcast with Sheahan and Newman
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someone please post the interview with pyke and burton. Too funny
"Did you play the richmond theme song on the camp"
Yes"
How many times"
Just once"
hahahaha
More like "Just once" ................................................. on repeat :yep.
They've told porky pies so often that no one believes them anymore.
Just further to this, I didn't realise the Crows players were actually blindfolded on the bus while being forced to listen to our theme song. That's just plain bizarre! :rollin
When we play them in two weeks time, the whole Tiger Army should sing as Adelaide runs onto the ground ...
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
round and round,
round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
all through the town.
(Roll hands around each other)
The wipers on the bus go Swish, swish, swish;
Swish, swish, swish;
Swish, swish, swish.
The wipers on the bus go Swish, swish, swish,
all through the town.
("Swish" hands in front of you like windshield wipers)
The horn on the bus goes Beep, beep, beep;
Beep, beep, beep;
Beep, beep, beep.
The horn on the bus goes Beep, beep, beep,
all through the town.
(Slap palm in front of you like honking a horn)
The doors on the bus go open and shut;
Open and shut;
Open and shut.
The doors on the bus go open and shut;
all through the town.
(Push hands back and forth in front of you)
The Driver on the bus says "Move on back,
move on back, move on back;"
The Driver on the bus says "Move on back",
all through the town.
(Point thumb over your shoulder)
The babies on the bus says "Wah, wah, wah;
Wah, wah, wah;
Wah, wah, wah".
The babies on the bus says "Wah, wah, wah",
all through the town.
(Rub fists in front of eyes)
The mommies on the bus says "Shush, shush, shush;
Shush, shush, shush;
Shush, shush, shush."
The mommies on the bus says "Shush, shush, shush"
all through the town.
;D
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hahahahaha MT. I explained to my 6 year old what the Crows made them do and even she thought it was weird, but so funny.
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The story that keeps on giving :yep.
'Collective Minds' held a press conference today trying to claim amongst other denials that our theme song wasn't played despite everyone else over the past six months saying it was.
THE COMPANY behind Adelaide's controversial pre-season camp has denied players were left scarred by the experience and deflected blame for the Crows' dreadful season.
Mind training firm Collective Mind on Monday held a press briefing in Melbourne to address what it described as "salacious claims" about the camp, carried out following Adelaide's Grand Final loss to Richmond.
The Crows, who finished 12th on the ladder, cut ties with the business midway through the season amid reports the psychologically stressful camp had caused lingering tensions within the playing group and offended indigenous players.
Company director Amon Woulfe rubbished claims players were forced to listen to the Tigers' theme song on loop, saying the feedback from players had been "overwhelmingly positive".
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-08-27/collective-mind-says-crows-werent-scarred
Sam McClure said Adelaide dumped Collective Minds early on in the season but, when they were 6-3, Don Pyke brought them back without consulting the players who were scarred by that preseason camp. They lost the next 4 games before dumping Collective Minds for a second time during their midseason bye.
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Elvis with Adelaide's new theme song:
We're caught on a bus
I can't walk out
Because we're listening to the Richmond theme song too much, baby
Why can't you see
What they're doing to me
When I don't believe a word they say?
We can't go on together
With collective minds (collective minds)
And we can't build our premiership dreams
On collective minds
;D
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We broke their football club.
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But they beat us round 2, got their revenge they did :rollin
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Listening to SEN and how Adelaide felt they Failed and were Losers, give me a break. They got to the Grand Final which is amazing.
18 teams, TBH I was happy to be there, the fact that we won was unreal.
I don't think Adelaide players should be beating themselves up too much. They got there, the day didn't pan out for you, move on, learn from it and win the next time.
Collective Minds pfft, their agenda would have been outlined and ratified by Adelaide FC. They were only implementing it. Perhaps they should have gauged how the players were reacting and modified their approach.
Their problems look to be internal.
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They've always been an odd insular club. In the 90s, they sacked their entire Victorian-based staff for away games (most of who were expat South Aussies) because they didn't want even people living in Victoria working for them. Paranoid much! :lol
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Bizarre. They were such little bunnies about losing and so were Geelong. As you say, I too was just stoked we had got into a Granny and was proud of our blokes, they had just smashed the finals and proven they were a good side. I thought no matter what happened, we had a team that was going places. To then win it was just nirvana. Geelong acted like we cheated them of their birthright in the final and so did the crows in the Granny.
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"Adelaide were wracked by injuries and the ongoing fallout from their ill-advised pre-season camp this season, which followed on from their grand final loss to Richmond.
The Gold Coast camp has been described as cult-like and psychologically-distressing for players, some of whom are believed to still require counselling."
Must be that part where they were forced to listen to the Richmond club song on repeat :D :D :D :D :D
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2018-adelaide-crows-forward-mitch-mcgovern-has-requested-a-trade/news-story/dac4f00e33db558d07256ae2f237dfe8
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Thanks for coming. We enjoyed your stay. #GoTiges
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0o2okvU4AAp6lT.jpg)
https://twitter.com/RFC_Tiger/status/1101753137772130304
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Thanks for coming. We enjoyed your stay. #GoTiges
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0o2okvU4AAp6lT.jpg)
https://twitter.com/RFC_Tiger/status/1101753137772130304
Bird poo all over it. Very appropriate
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Nobody can take this away from us. :rollin
:gotigers
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Richmond 2017 AFL Premiers :gotigers
Can never wipe our smiles!
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Interesting comments by Bartel on the radio about the Crows and why they've imploded since the 2017 Grand Final.
Paraphrasing but he said, "Since that GF, the Crows have viewed it as a game they lost. Richmond didn't win it; they lost it. Ummm, no you didn't. Richmond was the better team and beat you up. Dusty had the season of all seasons, Cotchin had a great year as captain, Rance was the best CHB in the comp., and other Tigers stood up. Richmond did a number on you. And you can't blame it either on the game being played at the M.C.G. It wasn't as though it was a 5 or 10 point loss. Richmond not only won but they won it running away from you."
Lethal added that a GF still needs to be treated like any other game when analysing it. You review it for a week or two and then move on. Adelaide haven't stopped talking about it.
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On that day, we ruined the Adelaide Football Club
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Just saw an interview with Lever, said something along the lines of in 2017 most of his thoughts leading up to the GF were what he would do/say when collecting his medal. :rollin
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Just saw an interview with Lever, said something along the lines of in 2017 most of his thoughts leading up to the GF were what he would do/say when collecting his medal. :rollin
Cocky bunch hope dogs roll him to.
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go doggies
at least with that club you get diehard supporters.
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Im on the bullies as well.
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I think Dees will win but I'm rooting for the Doggies now.
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I have 3 Melb supporters as mates
Two are working class, a cleaner and a bus driver. The other one ( a teacher) is a nephew of Crackers Keenan. All have waited a literal lifetime for a flag. So it's Demons for me.
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I live in Footscray and have a soft spot for the Dogs so I’m backing them.
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Prob leaning towards the dees now although not really fussed either way as long as it’s a good close game.
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Don’t mind other teams having tight hard fought grand finals as long as we keep smashing em in ours so I don’t have a friggen heart attack
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Don’t mind other teams having tight hard fought grand finals as long as we keep smashing em in ours so I don’t have a friggen heart attack
Ain't that the truth. 2020 almost killed me that night haha.
2019 was relaxing and fun I have to say, being surrounded by absolute strangers.
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:cheers
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4 years ago today since our drought breaking premiership :thumbsup.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAfUocDVgAEkxc0?format=jpg&name=large)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FH6fsf_VIAETaSI?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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5 years ago today :)
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https://twitter.com/JamesBarbante/status/1575647109390663681
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Remember poor Michaelangelo Rucci in the Advertiser writing how winning the flag would only be a formality for Adelaide :rollin.
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Ahhh I had a spare 20 minutes and just read this entire thread.
What a special special time this was. I loved the stat thT we were 1 or 7 premiership teams in history to win a flag with no over 30 year olds. All but 1 went on to win another premiership.
What an amazing era. Might go plug the DVD in! The Facebook memories have been great.
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12 still left from the 2017 flag.
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https://twitter.com/JourneyRichmond/status/1580154001219530752
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Half of them are ageing or down on form. We have new players from 19-20 though.
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Make that 11 (half the team gone).
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https://twitter.com/Tigers_of_Old/status/1630313463678644226
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Eddie Betts talks us through Adelaide's grand final revenge after their 2017 loss, and how one 'mic drop' comment from Alex Rance made it meaningless.
WATCH: https://twitter.com/FOXFOOTY/status/1648630113028931586
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Only 9 left now.
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https://twitter.com/Jonesracing82/status/1697528639829811203
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By the way, those that hate Richmond are still sulking about it six years later :nopity :wallywink.
Most Poorly Umpired Grand Finals in AFL History
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E-4ec4IWB-I/maxresdefault.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-4ec4IWB-I&t=203s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-4ec4IWB-I&t=203s
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By the way, those that hate Richmond are still sulking about it six years later :nopity :wallywink.
Most Poorly Umpired Grand Finals in AFL History
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E-4ec4IWB-I/maxresdefault.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-4ec4IWB-I&t=203s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-4ec4IWB-I&t=203s
Still got a long way to go to catch up to Polly Farmer, he was still sooking about it 'till the day he died.
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By the way, those that hate Richmond are still sulking about it six years later :nopity :wallywink.
Most Poorly Umpired Grand Finals in AFL History
Yeah they missed that hold but in all seriousness 2017 was one of the best umpired GF I can remember
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6 years ago today :thumbsup.
Part 1: https://twitter.com/_tigertime/status/1707716034038579281
Part 2: https://twitter.com/_tigertime/status/1707716565540729195
Part 3: https://twitter.com/_tigertime/status/1707716982253171126
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https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/12/21/jenkins-and-cooney-name-their-mount-rushmore-of-afl-defenders-since-2010/
Is someone still bitter that he was kept to just 7 touches and no goals in the 2017 GF against us? :whistle
Rance was 5-time All-Australian key defender and also named AA captain during the 2010s.
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Hurn and Enright over rance is just laughable. Rance is in the convo of the top 3 defensive
Players ever in the game.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCP_YpIaIAA6558?format=jpg&name=large)
https://twitter.com/Jonesracing82/status/1739514682506203597
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(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1BfP5CAP60s/maxresdefault.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BfP5CAP60s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BfP5CAP60s