Non-Richmond games 2010

[Tigermonk]

The cats and hawks game is pretty entertaining so far. cant wait till were up there competing with the top sides.

 

[mightytiges]

freo rolling the bombers by 44 points today very surprised.

Freo playing more direct this year and Essendon are overrated by the Essendon and Collingwood loving media. The Bombers will struggle this year. Looking at their draw
Carlton, Collingwood, Hawthorn in the next four weeks and they could be 0-6 by the start of May.

Freo will more than likely lose their next two against Geelong and St Kilda before they probably get back on the winners list against us in Perth in round 5.

We all knew no Lloyd and Lucas would leave a massive hole in their forward line. Neagle is a unfit spud and Gumby is still iffy having missed so much footy and development time due to injury. Lovett going as much as it was the right decision from a off-field view has also taken away some X-factor and more goals. They were just lucky last year to make the finals last year with just 10 wins. This year with the bottom 4 teams being so weak you'll need 13 wins to make final Eight. No chance in hell of Essendon being there based on what we've seen from them so far. In fact they may be one of the bottom 4. Us, Melb and North are definitely three of the bottom 4.

I agree with Lloyd btw. Knighter's all out attack and running gameplan won't take them anywhere. The team is stuffed by halfway through the 3rd quarter. The lack of tall marking options up forward means they have run the ball even more to get it forward.

[mightytiges]

The cats and hawks game is pretty entertaining so far. cant wait till were up there competing with the top sides.

A game at a different level to the rest of the round. Both sides will easily finish top 5. Injured ruck stocks will probably cost the Hawks in the end but they will be better for yesterday's game. Rioli and Bateman were underdone.

2010 seems it will be a very predictable year. The gap between the top and bottom sides arguably hasn't been this wide since the early 80s when St Kilda, Footscray and Melbourne were hopeless and easy beats copping hiding after hiding. Geelong, Saints, Dogs, Hawks, Pies and Lions look certainties for the finals. The final two spots out of Carlton, Sydney, Port and Freo. I've got a feeling the Swans and Port will get there. The Eagles have been disappointing as I thought they would've performed better so far. Maybe they are a year off. The Crows have injuries and too many players out of form. Vince has gone from near AA last year to lucky he isn't sent back to the SANFL this year. The rest of the teams are rubbish - us, Melb, North, Ess.

[mightytiges]

Riewoldt looks to have done a bad hammy. A massive blow to the Saints if he has.

[mightytiges]

Gutsy win by the Saints. Down on the bench and run over the Pies in the last quarter. You've got to laugh at Collingwood. Goal-less second half and shown up once again as pretenders by a top 4 side  .

A game like also shows how lightyears behind we are. It'll be very ugly when we play St Kilda.

[wayne]

Riewoldt got scans and it's tendon related. It's not off the bone, but it looks to be a lengthy spell on the sidelines.

There goes a good supercoach score for this week! I almost picked ROK as captain, but decided to stick to a winning formula!

[mat073]

Johnny Worsfold would be starting to feel the pressure after todays loss.

High expectations this year for WCE after they won 3 of the last 4 last year.(meaningless wins perhaps)

[mightytiges]

We might even have a show against the Eagles based on today's game. Two very ordinary sides and the Eagles were making heaps of turnovers.

Lions make it 3 in a row and another bag of 5 to J. Brown working well in tandem with Fev who kicked 3. Brown should be up close to Brownlow favouritism at this stage.

Riewoldt got scans and it's tendon related. It's not off the bone, but it looks to be a lengthy spell on the sidelines.

There goes a good supercoach score for this week! I almost picked ROK as captain, but decided to stick to a winning formula!

12 weeks they are saying and that's if the hammy doesn't go again. We know what happened with Richo although in Richo's case the hammy tendon was 60% of the bone.

[the_boy_jake]

Vossy not looking so silly now. Helps if you got J. Brown but not too many teams have the guts and nous to trade away good picks and come out stronger.

[mightytiges]

Voss wants to challenge while he still has Brown, Black, Power and the senior core still around. If we did the same thing those players brought in via trades would be expected to carry our side rather than just adding experience to the bottom end of the 22.

Well at least Carlton lost  . Geez the Bombers have the wood on them. Hard to see either side making the Eight after tonight's ordinary game although the Blues have Judd to come back in next week.

[the_boy_jake]

Voss wants to challenge while he still has Brown, Black, Power and the senior core still around. If we did the same thing those players brought in via trades would be expected to carry our side rather than just adding experience to the bottom end of the 22.

Not saying we should have, but everyone thought he was mad when he traded away their top picks for established players.

1st/2nd/3rd rnd draft picks are all the rage, but IMHO they hold too much currency right now. The top few picks normally pick themselves, but after that it is a mixed bag.

[mightytiges]

Voss wants to challenge while he still has Brown, Black, Power and the senior core still around. If we did the same thing those players brought in via trades would be expected to carry our side rather than just adding experience to the bottom end of the 22.

Not saying we should have, but everyone thought he was mad when he traded away their top picks for established players.

1st/2nd/3rd rnd draft picks are all the rage, but IMHO they hold too much currency right now. The top few picks normally pick themselves, but after that it is a mixed bag.

The problem at Richmond is we've undervalued those 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds picks. We've traded them away for other club's junk. Having just 2 or 3 picks per year when we were suppose to be rebuilding the whole list was an utter disgrace. We're paying for that incompetence now.

I guess Vossy will be judged as a success if he gets them challenging for a flag. However if the list just takes them to a spot in the Eight but under the top sides then the recycling policy will hurt them in the long run. It's a big gamble he's taken. So far they've beaten the Eagles, Blues and Port so they haven't been tested against the best sides which are daylight ahead of the rest of the comp. 

[Hellenic Tiger]

Just watching the foxtel replay of North and West Coast.

Just laughing at the empty seats behind the goals at both ends and around the ground on the bottom level.
They are in real trouble off the field. Billion dollar TV rights pie will save them.

[tiger101]

didnt Black injury him self in the lions game.
vossy did well to trade fev could help out in the PR department keep a few supports and members for them from changing to GC next year when they come into AFL.

[the_boy_jake]

The problem at Richmond is we've undervalued those 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds picks. We've traded them away for other club's junk. Having just 2 or 3 picks per year when we were suppose to be rebuilding the whole list was an utter disgrace. We're paying for that incompetence now.

Deledio, Tambling, Meyer, Pattison, Polo etc

We haven't really used picks when we've had them either. You'd hope you'd get at least 2 stars and 2 solid players out of that 2004 draft.

All I am saying at the moment is that there is more bang for your buck going to the experienced player pool if you are in a position to do so.