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[one-eyed]

Slow starts killing Tigers: Wallace
richmondfc.com.au
Jason Phelan
 6:49 PM Sun 06 April, 2008

SUCCESSIVE heavy defeats have prompted Richmond coach Terry Wallace to go back to the drawing board in an effort to fix the Tigers’ ailing game plan.

Richmond was effectively out of the contest by half-time in Sunday’s cash with Collingwood, with the eventual 44-point defeat following last week’s 41-point loss to North Melbourne.

“We would clearly like to have done better in our last two games – we haven’t – but what we do is we go back to the drawing board and have a look at why that is,” Wallace said.

“It’s a long arduous season. We go over to the west next week to take on Fremantle over there, and the one thing that we need to do is get the game style working better than what it did.”

Wallace was straight to the point when asked his initial thoughts on what was troubling his side.

“Starts are killing us,” he said.

“We’ve played in three games now, and I think when you have a look at the three games, we were nearly five goals behind Carlton in round one, but managed to work our way out of that.

“Last week, (it was) 11 shots to four in the first quarter [against North Melbourne] and then this week (Collingwood has) had seven of the first eight scoring shots.

“We’re clearly going to be working on our first quarters, and we’ve got to be better than that early in games because they’re hurting us. When you play two top-four sides from last year in the last two weeks and you give them a start, they don’t let you back in.

“We were very, very even from half-time, but the game (was) gone.”

Wallace didn’t hide from the fact that his side over-used the ball by hand, finishing the match with the lop-sided total of 209 handballs to 182 kicks.

“We had too many midfielders with high handball [to kicks] stats with nowhere near enough kicks,” he said.

“That’s not the way we want to play, but we’ll go back and that’s the thing that we’ll work on the most. If we get as much possession of the footy as what we did today, you can’t be finishing on [182] kicks. If you’re not getting over 200 kicks in a game of footy you won’t win; that’s purely and simply it.

“Unless you’re kicking the footy and giving blokes good one-out opportunities and getting it in there quicker than what we did today, it will never work.”

The Richmond coach even conducted a little exercise with his players after the match to illustrate his point, citing Collingwood’s Alan Didak as an example of what to do when taking possession of the ball.

“(Didak) had 12 kicks in the last quarter, which was more than what 19 of our players did for the entire game. It’s a kicking game; we know that (and) we understand that, (but) we didn’t do it under pressure.

“Who gets the blame for that? We all do, and we’ve just got to go back and work on that aspect of the game and do it better next week.”

Further souring the day was news that Kayne Pettifer was reported for striking Nick Maxwell in the second quarter.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/6301/Default.aspx?newsId=57454

[Little Jackie]

Memo to Terry Wallet, you are the reason they handball instead of kicking.
And when they do kick inside 50, they miss the targets by at least 10 metres on occasions.
Another pre season gone down the drain
Today was a good lesson on how to kick to a team mate by Collingwood. Didak, Thomas, Shaws, Davis ,its a delight to watch them kick

[bushranger]

I agree Jackstar. I think he finds it easier to blame those on feild for his training. And not blame himself for training them to do that. Like last year when he blamed a lose due to have a lot of young players in. Well he's the one that picked the team. And then he blames them. He has to stand up and say he's doing a crap job as I think we all out here are seeing it and I know I'm feeling it.

[tigersalive]

Memo to Terry Wallet, you are the reason they handball instead of kicking.
And when they do kick inside 50, they miss the targets by at least 10 metres on occasions.
Another pre season gone down the drain
Today was a good lesson on how to kick to a team mate by Collingwood. Didak, Thomas, Shaws, Davis ,its a delight to watch them kick

The last two weeks have been.  The Roos skills into the forward line were mouth-watering last week.

[Rodgerramjet]

It's more than just poor starts that are killing us.

Most of our players are lazy.
Most of our players cave in under pressure, lose posession, lose composure, throw the ball, give it to the opposition or fall off tackles.
We only get back into games when the opposition takes the pressure off by loafing themselves.
Nathan Foley is our best player by the length of the flemington straight.
Newman was our best player in the first quarter but then went missing I think until the last.
Brett Delidio is a good player but he is not the champion and doesn't at this stage look like becomming the champion that most of us if not all of us thought he would become.
Tambling, see my comments on Deledio.
Morton is a selfish player and a lair, he plays for himself and not the team, I don't know who picks these people.

Today was one of the worst performances that I have seen from our side for a while we need to get serious about dumping the poo. but first our coaches need to be able to identify it.

Today's performance was a shocker

[one-eyed]

A bit more from Wallace in today's Herald-Sun


Tigers coach Terry Wallace admitted his team's attack had little impact.

"It didn't function, (Collingwood) were able to take the ball out of there far too easily all game and we'll certainly look at that part of the game," Wallace said.

"Again, unless you're kicking the footy, giving the blokes good one-out opportunities, getting it in there quicker than what we are today it will never work."

He conceded Shaw's dominance over Brown was a major factor.

"He's developing as a fantastic player in both roles, when he was playing across halfback I thought his ability to rebound off halfback was magnificent," Wallace said.

"When he was one-out deep towards goal I thought his defensive work, which was probably not a strength of his early in his career, I thought that improved dramatically.

"He had a good game and he was one of the very best players."

The notable difference between Shaw and the main Richmond possession-winners - midfielders Nathan Foley, Shane Tuck and Kane Johnson and Jake King - was his creative and assured use of the football.

Shaw was full of purpose with his 23 kicks, while the Richmond trio had just 26 kicks between them, but a whopping 58 handballs.

Wallace noted they appeared to lack the confidence to move the ball quickly, preferring the conservative option of inching their way forward rather than bursting into attack.

"In fairness it comes from opposition pressure, being under pressure in footy makes you make the wrong decisions," Wallace said.

"It comes from blokes losing a bit of confidence early in matches and not wanting to turn the ball over.

"What is the best retention rate? Hit the ball three metres rather than try to take a 60m kick.

"It comes from blokes not being brave enough to step out and break out of packs."

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23493385-23211,00.html

[Tigermonk]

it came from a team that run harder & created space to receive the football.
Something Richmond does not do ain any game. which is the fault of the coach who implies basketball tactics