Chris Newman gets a contract extension

[the claw]

Knights still has another year I believe

dont believe that is correct. was falling out of contract end of this yr . havent heard or seen a thing about him resigning.

Had a 3 year contract
2013, 2014 and therefore 2015

disagree again jack. may be wrong but was reasonably sure he only signed on to a 2 yr contract. if he is contracted just narrows the list of 6 down to 5.

[Yeahright]

Also yes there's been less activity since the winning streak but pretty sure it has more to do with the fact we were 3-10 at the start of it and that it wasn't a terribly exciting streak or looking like we might sneak into the finals until we we're about 5 or 6 wins into it.

That's my point really, start winning and people suddenly don't care as much. We can still win and people can still come in and pick apart what wasn't up to the standard and also what worked, what they'd like to change etc. and hopefully mix in some positives. But some posters just don't even show themselves (you and a few others do continually post ). I think I didn't make it clear that yes it's fine to critique the club and demand high standards but it should go both ways.

It doesn't really matter, but you edited it again

[Jackstar is back!!!]

He said at a 3121 pre match on Sunday he came over on a 3 year contract
I nearly fell over when I heard that

[WilliamPowell]

He said at a 3121 pre match on Sunday he came over on a 3 year contract
I nearly fell over when I heard that

Wasn't in the 3121 was over in the Ponsford for Inner Sanctum and heard the same thing. Though I remember we signed him as a FA reports were we gave him 3 years

[the claw]

Also yes there's been less activity since the winning streak but pretty sure it has more to do with the fact we were 3-10 at the start of it and that it wasn't a terribly exciting streak or looking like we might sneak into the finals until we we're about 5 or 6 wins into it.

a few of us have stuck to our guns thru the winning streak as well.
as you say ive seen it all before and in all honesty despite a few wins i dont see any real improvement on last yr in fact even with most of the wins id say we have been worse.

I disagree. We have shown much more resolve in our victories this year. The Essendon and Adelaide games in particular would have been games we would have lost last year IMHO. Sure our football was more exciting overall last year but they were flakier too. A fit Maric this year and the addition of Miles makes us a better side.

well we do disagree then.the same sort of problems we had last yr are still there imho. lack of depth lack of quality and poor list structure have not gone away.

also imo most players have stagnated gone backwards or in some cases shown minimal improvement..
we have found just one player in miles and ivans yr to date has not been overly different to last yr. in fact we have failed to find a decent chop out for him.
we have failed to beat a top 4 side beaten only p/a and ess who are in the 8 and when we played p/a they were in the middle of a slump. finally there is still way too much left up to way too few.

I didn't say we were a top 4 side mate. I only said we have improved in our ability to win close matches against reasonable opposition. The players haven't dropped their heads for 8 weeks. This was happening intermittently last year all year. We still have a long way to go to be a regular finals side but I can see a steely resolve in the group which wasn't there last year.
Each to their own I suppose!

i didnt imply you did. i mentioned top 4 because we managed to beat  top 4 sides last yr.failed to do so this yr. reckon we won just as many close ones last yr as we did this yr.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Also yes there's been less activity since the winning streak but pretty sure it has more to do with the fact we were 3-10 at the start of it and that it wasn't a terribly exciting streak or looking like we might sneak into the finals until we we're about 5 or 6 wins into it.

a few of us have stuck to our guns thru the winning streak as well.
as you say ive seen it all before and in all honesty despite a few wins i dont see any real improvement on last yr in fact even with most of the wins id say we have been worse.

I disagree. We have shown much more resolve in our victories this year. The Essendon and Adelaide games in particular would have been games we would have lost last year IMHO. Sure our football was more exciting overall last year but they were flakier too. A fit Maric this year and the addition of Miles makes us a better side.

well we do disagree then.the same sort of problems we had last yr are still there imho. lack of depth lack of quality and poor list structure have not gone away.

also imo most players have stagnated gone backwards or in some cases shown minimal improvement..
we have found just one player in miles and ivans yr to date has not been overly different to last yr. in fact we have failed to find a decent chop out for him.
we have failed to beat a top 4 side beaten only p/a and ess who are in the 8 and when we played p/a they were in the middle of a slump. finally there is still way too much left up to way too few.

I didn't say we were a top 4 side mate. I only said we have improved in our ability to win close matches against reasonable opposition. The players haven't dropped their heads for 8 weeks. This was happening intermittently last year all year. We still have a long way to go to be a regular finals side but I can see a steely resolve in the group which wasn't there last year.
Each to their own I suppose!

i didnt imply you did. i mentioned top 4 because we managed to beat  top 4 sides last yr.failed to do so this yr. reckon we won just as many close ones last yr as we did this yr.

i really feel our Hawthorn victories were a little hollow in the last couple of years. Sure they looked great but Hawthorn didn't come to play in either game. We are kidding ourselves if we think we were better than Hawthorn last year. That's why I don't rate that win as significant.

[one-eyed]

Newy's press conference today ...

VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2014-08-26/newman-press-conference-august-26th

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Fitness, feel-good factor convince Tigers veteran Chris Newman to play on

  Liam Mannix
     The Age
    August 26, 2014 - 6:09PM

Fitness and the feel-good factor are behind Richmond veteran Chris Newman's decision to play on in 2015.

Newman and his club confirmed on Tuesday the former captain had signed a one-year contract extension. He will play game number 250 this weekend in the club's must-win match against Sydney.

Newman, 32, has played 16 games this year after tearing a calf.

It was his recovery from that injury, coupled with the Tigers' late-season form surge, that convinced a wavering Newman to play on.

"It didn't really sit comfortably with me to walk away now," Newman said on Tuesday. "It just feels like we've got too much unfinished business.

"It was probably a different mindset when I tore my calf. I was probably at my lowest point there, and I thought that realistically I wouldn't go around again, but things have changed.

"I needed to be confident that my body could hold up, and I'm really confident that it will. I'm feeling pretty good."

Newman said he felt "blessed" to play 250 games for the Tigers, but said the milestone meant nothing for the upcoming match.

"You can't really play emotional football," he said. "If anything, it might have some bearing at the start of the game, but certainly I think when you run out there it becomes very process-driven.

"I don't think we'll be drawing on any of that, we'll just be worrying about what we can control."

If Richmond can beat the Swans - a massive task at ANZ Stadium - it can realise an unlikely goal of making finals from a 3-10 start to the season.

Richmond is on an eight-game winning streak, but momentum may count for nothing when confronted by Sydney's twin towers Lance Franklin and Kurt Tippett.  Ominously, Sydney was the club the Tigers last lost to, by 11 points in round 14.

Newman said he was always confident the club's form would turn around.

"The win-loss record wasn't paying justice to how close we were. We lost a lot of those games we possibly could have won and it could have been a different story. I always had confidence in what we were doing, the process that we had, and that's really holding up now."

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/fitness-feelgood-factor-convince-tigers-veteran-chris-newman-to-play-on-20140826-108k7i.html

[Jackstar is back!!!]

He said at a 3121 pre match on Sunday he came over on a 3 year contract
I nearly fell over when I heard that

Wasn't in the 3121 was over in the Ponsford for Inner Sanctum and heard the same thing. Though I remember we signed him as a FA reports were we gave him 3 years

He came over to the 3121 pre match with Matt Thomas as well

[WilliamPowell]

He said at a 3121 pre match on Sunday he came over on a 3 year contract
I nearly fell over when I heard that

Wasn't in the 3121 was over in the Ponsford for Inner Sanctum and heard the same thing. Though I remember we signed him as a FA reports were we gave him 3 years

He came over to the 3121 pre match with Matt Thomas as well

Yep we had them both at IS pre-match and then Jake King at half time

[Tigger]

And Knights did say he had another year on his contract at Inner Sanctum.  I heard it too.