Richmond vs St Kilda @ Metricon, 2nd Semi-Final 2020

[one-eyed]

Benny Gale talking to the playing group in the rooms post-game.

Dimma said Gale was just wanted to commend Cotch in front of the group on him breaking the captain games record.

[WilliamPowell]

Benny Gale talking to the playing group in the rooms post-game.

Dimma said Gale was just wanted to commend Cotch in front of the group on him breaking the captain games record.

Think you will find Benny also mentioned Dimma' s record of 250 games as well 

[georgies31]

I thought Nank was very good against Marshall did a good job just needs to cut a few errors.

[one-eyed]

Ratten just said it was a reverse of scoring trends from both sides tonight.

We kicked 8.4-52 from stoppages to their 1.3-9. From centre clearances we kicked 4.2-26. We are typically 16th in the comp. for stoppages scores.

Oddly they did better than us from turnovers which is usually our strength.

Ratten saw it as a bonus for us to now know we can add stoppage scoring to our normal turnover scoring gamestyle.

[Tiger Khosh]

Great games from Lynch, Sheds, Nank with bolts and dusty rounding out our top5 I reckon.

Very sloppy and fumbly overall but the win is all that matters.

[one-eyed]

Team stats:

Disposals:       329 - 308 .... ( contested: 123 - 117 ; uncontested: 203 - 186 )
Efficiency%:     74 - 70
Turnovers:       67 - 62
Marks:             72 - 77 .... ( contested: 9 - 8 )
Tackles:           48 - 38
Clearances:      29 - 26 .... ( centre: 15 - 5; stoppages: 14 - 21 )
Inside 50s:       52 - 40
In50 eff%:        48 - 53
In50 marks:        8 - 7
In50 tackles:     10 - 11
Hitouts:            16 - 26
Bounces:            2 - 2
One %ers:        50 - 32 
Free kicks:        19 - 15 

Individual possessions:

Houli    32
Martin  25
Edwards 21
Baker   19
Cotch   19
Kmac   19
Lynch   17
Prestia  17
Short    17
Vlastuin 16
Rioli     15
Graham 14
Nankervis 14
Lambert  13
Astbury   12
Bolton    11
Broad    11
Castagna 9
Grimes    9
Pickett   9
Balta     6
Riewoldt 4

https://www.afl.com.au/matches/2900#player-stats

[one-eyed]

What the experts said

Dermott Brereton on Fox Footy: “They didn’t totally control this game, yet they won handsomely, and they won in a fashion we’re not totally used to seeing.

“They find ways to win. They find ways to overcome. The system that they use, if one isn’t working, they’re capable of going to the next one, and tonight the next one was winning the ball at the stoppage and scoring from centre bounces.”

Jonathan Brown on Fox Footy: “It’s almost like they said going into the game, let’s stop mucking around with the amount of people going through centre bounces. Martin, Edwards, Prestia, Cotchin. There you go boys, get the job done.”

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-finals-2020-trade-news-semi-finals-review-press-conference-geelong-defeats-collingwood-richmond-defeats-st-kilda/news-story/1bc60e355e9550d872739140dc330e31

[one-eyed]

Votes for Richmond vs St Kilda semi-final (Hardwick & Ratten)

8 – Dustin Martin (Richmond)

5 – Tom Lynch (Richmond)

5 – Bachar Houli (Richmond)

4 – Shai Bolton (Richmond)

4 – Shane Edwards (Richmond)

3 – Callum Wilkie (St Kilda)

1 – Toby Nankervis (Richmond)

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/825455/dusty-s-ayres-award-defence-underway