Hardwick's aftermatch media conference / Tigers to stew for two weeks

[WilliamPowell]

Was a lot more Tiger support than Port Inf.  Trouble was, we never got going well enough to bring the crowd into it.

Not wrong there smokey - hardly any support for Port to be honest & makes the "effort" and I use that term very loosely indeed all the more disappointing and UNACCEPTABLE

[the claw]

"You can't use where we play as an excuse for a poor effort. At the end of the day we play at a footy ground that has got four sticks at either end and the ball is round so nothing much changes," Hardwick said.
The problem with the argument here is about 35,000 less Richmond supporters for the opposition to deal with!

so we play a final at aami or scg or subiaco etc cant rely on the home crowd then either.

Finals ?

did i say thius yr. all im saying is whats the difference as a club and a team we have to learn to play well anywhere. no time like the now i reckon. if we cant beat port at a neutral venue how the hell do you expect to beat all those interstate teams at home. one thing for sure we arent collingwood.

[Infamy]

"You can't use where we play as an excuse for a poor effort. At the end of the day we play at a footy ground that has got four sticks at either end and the ball is round so nothing much changes," Hardwick said.
The problem with the argument here is about 35,000 less Richmond supporters for the opposition to deal with!

Who cares, the players need to learn to win without the backing of a large crowd

Youre dead right! So lets learn how to win first and then sell our games to Darwin!

Chicken and the egg, in order to develop our kids properly so we will win more games we need to sell home games to make money to pay for development coaches and better facilities such as our own reserves team and resurfacing PRO

[Penelope]

"You can't use where we play as an excuse for a poor effort. At the end of the day we play at a footy ground that has got four sticks at either end and the ball is round so nothing much changes," Hardwick said.
The problem with the argument here is about 35,000 less Richmond supporters for the opposition to deal with!

so we play a final at aami or scg or subiaco etc cant rely on the home crowd then either.

Now claw, no amount of common sense will stifle petulant sooking.

[Tigermonk]

have to laugh, Port are a basket case and we couldnt there pressure
Maybe the club pay fork out the $$$$$ and pay for the extra night and go up earlier

that was the biggest kick in the guts l had in many years

[10 FLAGS]

have to laugh, Port are a basket case and we couldnt there pressure
Maybe the club pay fork out the $$$$$ and pay for the extra night and go up earlier

that was the biggest kick in the guts l had in many years

Now monky we all know that your laughing as your typing up your posts. Isnt it a bit late to be doing the weekly pisstake tonight!

[one-eyed]

Dream becomes nightmare
Michael Gleeson, Darwin
May 30, 2011

RIDING the tide of the Dreamtime victory Richmond came north to Darwin and got lost in its own dreams, playing as poorly as it had in a year and leaving coach Damien Hardwick bitterly disappointed and stewing on the fact that with a bye this week it would be a fortnight before it could atone for the ugly lapse.

Richmond was a mess from start to finish in the match that - mercifully for fans - was played in the twilight zone of Saturday night, interstate and on pay TV only but also in the half-light of a ground of failing lights.

Played on a warm Darwin night in dry but humid, and so slippery, conditions, both sides fumbled terribly and executed skills poorly. Port Adelaide, however, was able to adapt to the conditions while Richmond overdid the handball. It was forced into indecision and panicked. It was ugly.

''It's probably the poorest we have played for quite some time, so it is disappointing and the thing that really hurts us is we have to wait two weeks before we get back and have another crack,'' Hardwick said.

''No doubt we over-handballed it,'' he admitted. ''We call it referring pressure, we were going around in circles there at one stage and a lot of that was due to Port's pressure.

''I think they out-tackled us by a differential of 27 so their pressure around the ball was a lot better than ours and forced us into those handball chains we didn't want. We tried to rectify that mainly in the second quarter when we started to get on top of it but we couldn't capitalise on some of our chances and I think we ended up with three goals seven for the quarter.''

In a stalemate contest early, neither side could score for large chunks of the game, and the Tigers' second quarter, in particular, was an exercise in frustration when in a period when, with 18 inside 50s to 13 they should have broken the game open, they squandered their chances. It meant that in the second half they began to just surge at goal and scrap for an opportunist chance rather than through deliberate, structured play.

''We didn't use the ball well at all and because our skills were relatively down I thought we just had to attack the goal face more and scrounge our goals,'' Hardwick said. ''I think our retained possession inside 50 over the last six weeks has had us number two in the AFL. As of last night I would say it would be well down.

''I don't know if emotion had anything to do with it [after the Dreamtime win], I just didn't think we hunted the ball anywhere near hard enough and Port's ability to handle the ball was outstanding and I thought ours was very, very poor. So it was a real let down.

''By the way our guys were handling the ball you would have thought it was slippery. ''I thought we fumbled the ball all night. I thought they were a lot cleaner with their disposal, their efficiency by hand and foot seemed a lot better than ours and it was uncharacteristic of our guys.

''I wish we were playing next week to be honest. We have to stew on this loss for two weeks so we will give the guys a couple of days off then hit the training track pretty hard.''

In losing to Port, bottom of the ladder with only one win before Saturday night, the Tigers wasted a great opportunity to claim a spot in the top eight.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/dream-becomes-nightmare-20110529-1favr.html#ixzz1Nl4NXx5N

[Go Richo 12]

"You can't use where we play as an excuse for a poor effort. At the end of the day we play at a footy ground that has got four sticks at either end and the ball is round so nothing much changes," Hardwick said.
The problem with the argument here is about 35,000 less Richmond supporters for the opposition to deal with!

Who cares, the players need to learn to win without the backing of a large crowd

Youre dead right! So lets learn how to win first and then sell our games to Darwin!

Chicken and the egg, in order to develop our kids properly so we will win more games we need to sell home games to make money to pay for development coaches and better facilities such as our own reserves team and resurfacing PRO

I know! We are playing catch up!

[Go Richo 12]

"You can't use where we play as an excuse for a poor effort. At the end of the day we play at a footy ground that has got four sticks at either end and the ball is round so nothing much changes," Hardwick said.
The problem with the argument here is about 35,000 less Richmond supporters for the opposition to deal with!

so we play a final at aami or scg or subiaco etc cant rely on the home crowd then either.

Now claw, no amount of common sense will stifle petulant sooking.

Sorry to have an opinion on this!  Pious !

[Mr Magic]

I don't see the point on stewing over it. In fact the quicker it is forgotten the better.
Enjoy the break I say and look forward to the 2nd half of the season.

[julzqld]

Should have given the players gloves to pick up the cake of soap, like Port did

[Jackstar is back again]

most port players were wearing Reebok sweat bands.