Tigers vs Bombers game thread

[letsgetiton!]

i think the mcg is playing funny buggers with its new design.  the wind must swirl like  a tornado out there on teh park, wind gets trapped in teh stadium and has no escape route and i think thats why goal kicking has been a shocker! many of our kicks just swug away from the goals after looking good.

the bowdens grew up playing with aboriginals , and u really can see it in their playing style!

petts, fantastic bar his accuracy at goal

raines and harts continue to take them on

hall improving

bowdens  both played well , esp joel but paddy can hold his head up high

tuck......gun

kids .......fantastic

richo........god!

we now have to beat sydney and really get the cabuse rolling! all aboard!  we beat sydney , and give the crows a good run 4 their money, we are definately in town!

[mightytiges]

The other games played at the 'G don't seem to be affected by the new design though.   

[one-eyed]

Round six ponderings
9:58:36 PM Sun 7 May, 2006
Paul Gough
Exclusive to afl.com.au

1. Is this the making of the Tigers and Dockers?

No two teams in the competition have been as unsuccessful as Richmond and Fremantle over the past decade or in the Tigers' case two decades but could their stirring wins this weekend finally prove the making of these two success-starved clubs.

It wasn't just the manner of their gutsy last minute victories that was so impressive but which clubs they were achieved against given that Essendon and West Coast have heaped more misery upon Richmond and Fremantle respectively than any other clubs in the competition during their long periods in the wilderness.

The Tigers have made the finals just twice in the past 23 years and throughout that time have suffered mercilessly at the hands of Essendon during Kevin Sheedy's long reign as coach.

Incredibly Saturday night's stirring two-point win over the Bombers – coupled with last year's round 15 success – meant the Tigers have now won their past two games against Essendon for the first time since 1982 – the last time the club reached the grand final.

During that time the Tigers have won just nine of 40 clashes against the Bombers but the way the team was able to fight back in the final term on Saturday night when all looked lost showed the kind of resolve that has been missing for so long at Punt Road.

The Tigers trailed by ten points deep into time-on – after having squandered a 16-point lead when the Bombers kicked four goals in six minutes – but somehow fought back to level the scores.

Then the Tigers bravely withstood three minutes of sustained pressure as the Bombers had the ball inside their forward 50 but couldn't score before taking the ball the length of the field to win the game through a behind from first-gamer Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls.

What also made the Tigers' win so impressive is it was achieved without so many of their on-field leaders with captain Kane Johnson and vice-captain Nathan Brown and their most experienced defender Darren Gaspar sidelined while they did not have to rely on a big performance from Matthew Richardson to get them home.

Instead it was the Tiger cubs who proved to be the heroes with Oakley-Nicholls scoring the winning behind on debut, while second-gamer Cleve Hughes kicked two goals and first gamer Dean Polo was simply magnificent with his 28 possessions and three goals – including the goal that tied the scores in time-on – representing one of the finest debuts seen in the AFL for many years.

There is still a long way to go before Richmond and Fremantle emerge as genuine powers in the competition but if they do then both clubs can look back to round six 2006 as a major turning point in their history.

http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=feature&spg=display&articleid=263826

[one-eyed]

It all points to a new AFL record
By Geoff McClure
The Age
May 9, 2006

AND well may Kayne Pettifer hang his head in disappointment. The Tiger forward shows his frustration at kicking a behind against Essendon on Saturday night, not just one of five he finished with for the game but one of four he kicked (including a poster) in the second quarter alone, all of them in the first 10 minutes. Mind you, it wasn't just Pettifer who didn't have his kicking boots on in that forgettable second term — the 1.17 booted by the two teams in a match billed as "Dreamtime at the 'G" could only be described as a nightmare display of goalkicking, a search of record books revealing it was in fact the most inaccurate term in the history of the game, eclipsing the previous worst, 1.15, which was scored in one quarter of three games, back in 1937, 1947 and 1955. Worse still, what Saturday's scoreboard does not tell you is that Pettifer had two other shots at goal that didn't even make the distance, including one from about 40 metres out which, thankfully for Richmond, was finally gathered in by teammate Matthew Richardson, who slotted it through for the only goal of the term. Truth is, we knew something was up with Pettifer's kicking for goal early on — even though he scored the first goal of the match his first shot at the big sticks, 20 seconds into the game was, you guessed it, a point.

WORST QUARTERS FOR ACCURACY

1.17 2006 (R6) Q2 Ess 0.8 v Rich 1.9

1.15 1937 (R9) Q3 Carl 0.11 v Haw 1.4

1.15 1947 (R16) Q2 Coll 0.6 v Mel 0.9

1.15 1955 (R9) Q3 South Mel 1.5 v Coll 0.10

0.14 1959 (R9) Q3 St K 0.1 v Geel 0.13

Source: statisticians Martin Windsor-Black, Bruce Kennedy

Hyphen a Tiger first

Richmond new boy Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls certainly made his mark in his league debut at the weekend, and we're not necessarily talking about him scoring the point which put his team in front of Essendon in the dying minutes of the game. He is the first Tiger in its 121-year history with a hyphenated surname.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/geoff-mcclure/it-all-points-to-a-new-afl-record/2006/05/08/1146940477042.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1