Any positives from last night's game?

[jackstar is back again]

RFC home game

[mat073]

Yes we got smashed last night.Completely out muscled and out classed. However the positives for me were...

(1) Nathan Foley 24 touches.
(2) Second half score was 33-43.
(3) More inside 50s.
(4) Played 20 players with less than 100 games experience.

[TigerLand]

its our home game and I go everyweek, rain hail or shine, lets hope its doesnt rain again though, the Mrs just through the $2.00 poncho in the bin, LOL

my draw must be a misprint cause it say Collingwood vs Richmond. l be there in the MCC waving 

Would be one of many mistakes printed in a Collingwood membership package.

[eliminator]

Positives the performances of Cotchin, King, Nahas, Jackson and Foley. Believe Helbig has a future

[tony_montana]

i decided not to go at the eleventh hour and Im positive ot was the right decision. my 15min walk to the ground would have drenched me and the next 2 hours would have floored me. I'm better for not putting myself through that misery ..But i'll be back to fight another day

my sentiments exactly Bo, was having dinner in stkilda with the fairer half and decided at the last minute not to go. Being 5 goals down in 15 mins in those conditions justified my decision

[WA Tiger]

Um....no...unless there were individual performances and unfortunately individuals don't make a team.

[Infamy]

We're still only averaging 51 games experience per player in our side which is only 5 games more than Gold Coast in Round 3 and 2.5 less than Gold Coast in Round 2 when they were pumped by over 100 points. After 2 games against some pretty good sides they have a percentage of 35%, ours is 73%.
We always knew the first four rounds were going to be tough, I'm surprised we even managed to get a draw out of one of them.

[TigerLand]

We're still only averaging 51 games experience per player in our side which is only 5 games more than Gold Coast in Round 3 and 2.5 less than Gold Coast in Round 2 when they were pumped by over 100 points. After 2 games against some pretty good sides they have a percentage of 35%, ours is 73%.
We always knew the first four rounds were going to be tough, I'm surprised we even managed to get a draw out of one of them.

Smart post Infamy.

[WilliamPowell]

Thank god I parked in the MCG car park

Yep

Grimes was a positive thinking long term

As much as last nights game was a complete disgrace we need to remember that those sort of games are going to happen in our search for success. We are young, inexperienced and still very light as a collective. We have shown in the last couple of weeks that we are heading in the right direction but to think that games like last night are behind us is a little premature.

Last night we were out played, out mussled, out coached and umpired out of the game. The Hawks were on from the outset and played the conditions very well just as we played the conditions terribly. We seemed not to want to get in and get our hands dirty. We played dry weather footy and played like we had got ahead of ourselves a little.

For me dropping lots of players after a lose is just not practical at the stage we are at. If there is somebody bashing the door down in the twos then fine but lets not just make changes from the side that has played pretty well in the first two weeks of the year for the sake of making changes just because we lost.
Conca has shown me he is worth persisting with as with Batchlor and Helbig.
Richmond had a bad game last night we all know that but lets take a step backwards and just let these kids play for a while together and I'm pretty sure they will do us all proud. What choice do we have???
It ain't going to happen over night though!!!

Actually agree with you but it doesn't do anything for the disappointment from the Saturday night. For me it wasn't the result it was the effort, or lack of in the 1st half

[Owl]

im hoping we turn up for the big dance against the hated enemy.  Maybe we were saving ourselves for it.  Foley looked awesome, I liked Connors too, despite the errors some raised, these were due to the pressure / and lack of support from the majority of our team which seemed to be half hearted.  Most of our better players didn't turn up.  Some of the newer guys had their jobs cut out for em and for us to pee and moan when grimes had to contain buddy and astbury had to contain roughhead would be pretty cruel, these blokes joined us last year.  The blokes they are on have a premiership to their name and are in their prime so im not gonna go scream and fling poo around like a chimp about it.

[tiga]

Kingy, Nahas & what WP said on Grimes. Despite being toweled up by Franklin, I can see some real potential there. He will learn from the experience for sure. In actual fact I'd keep playing him if we are serious about development.

[wayne]

No injuries. Nights like Saturday when it wet and we're copping a belting usually end in an ugly injury for one of our players.

We got the ball inside 50 a lot, that's always good.

Cotch was awesome, throwing himself into every contest head first.

[MADTIGER2010]

We didn't come to play like the Hawks did. Reminded me of the North game late last year where we turned up expecting to do well and treated it like a dry weather game. In other words we were a bit lazy 

[Smokey]

We got the ball inside 50 a lot, that's always good.

Agree with that - the midfield still did a job even when we were getting fairly whacked.

[Smokey]

We didn't come to play like the Hawks did. Reminded me of the North game late last year where we turned up expecting to do well and treated it like a dry weather game. In other words we were a bit lazy 

Agree with that too.  Someone posted a couple of days ago about getting ahead of ourselves!