Reluctant Tigers to keep selling games: March (Age & H-Sun)

[10 FLAGS]

Yep, agree WP, but I reckon in this instance the message would be better coming from Gale.

Nah disagree

Gale is the CEO (read Admin ) and he is the one that has worn the "badge" of selling the game in the first place. And let's be honest he's the one who's been copping it from supporters for selling the game

The President by speaking has indirectly gone into bat for his CEO who's copping it and as smokey mentioned has as the holder of the absolute top postion of this Club put responsibility squarely back on the footy department

I reckon March has shown very good leadership here

I didnt see March or Gale trying to short circuit the lights at half time. That would have been real leadership 

Problem is, we were actually leading at half time. 

Yes we were and we would have won the game if the lights had gone out after half time or even at the start of the 3rd quarter

[TFL]

Yep, agree WP, but I reckon in this instance the message would be better coming from Gale.

Nah disagree

Gale is the CEO (read Admin ) and he is the one that has worn the "badge" of selling the game in the first place. And let's be honest he's the one who's been copping it from supporters for selling the game

The President by speaking has indirectly gone into bat for his CEO who's copping it and as smokey mentioned has as the holder of the absolute top postion of this Club put responsibility squarely back on the footy department

I reckon March has shown very good leadership here

I didnt see March or Gale trying to short circuit the lights at half time. That would have been real leadership 

Problem is, we were actually leading at half time. 

Yes we were and we would have won the game if the lights had gone out after half time or even at the start of the 3rd quarter

Love your thinking Ramps...... 

[gerkin greg]

If Gourdis The Greek was in the side he would have sorted something out. Lost the game at the selection table.

[Mopsy]

Yep, agree WP, but I reckon in this instance the message would be better coming from Gale.

Gale is an employee of the club and therefore it would not be in his best interests to make any comment on the matter

[Mr Magic]

Well said Gary.

[The Big Richo]

Yeah good points re Gale not being the right choice but I stand by the fact that March shouldn't comment publically on football matters because he has about the same level of knowledge as Caroline Wilson.

[Penelope]

Gee that's as harsh a call as could be made, big fella. I suppose caro will the enjoy the company of another ignoramus though 

Considering all the moronic talk about how it was the administration that cost us the game by selling the Darwin game I can understand why March, who represents that administration, felt a need to comment.

[RollsRoyce]

Nothing moronic about it at all. When you sit in the middle of a Tiger crowd at the G you can literally feel the electricity we generate. I've seen it make the players go up a gear countless times. If I'm imagining it, then why does Dimma constantly refer to the 19th man in his e-mails to fans, urging us to come to the games?
What the club did on Saturday night was effectively take the 19th man out of the equation.
Richmond in the first half, though playing badly, were right in that game. They were just looking for a spark to ignite them which never came, and a lot of positive crowd noise could have provided it.
Port on the other hand were at their lowest ebb coming into that game. And the resolve they managed to scrape together when they sensed we were vulnerable would have evaporated away like dandelion spore under the blowtorch of intimidatory hatred that the Tiger masses subject visiting teams to at the G.
   

[Smokey]

Nothing moronic about it at all. When you sit in the middle of a Tiger crowd at the G you can literally feel the electricity we generate. I've seen it make the players go up a gear countless times. If I'm imagining it, then why does Dimma constantly refer to the 19th man in his e-mails to fans, urging us to come to the games?
What the club did on Saturday night was effectively take the 19th man out of the equation.
Richmond in the first half, though playing badly, were right in that game. They were just looking for a spark to ignite them which never came, and a lot of positive crowd noise could have provided it.
Port on the other hand were at their lowest ebb coming into that game. And the resolve they managed to scrape together when they sensed we were vulnerable would have evaporated away like dandelion spore under the blowtorch of intimidatory hatred that the Tiger masses subject visiting teams to at the G.
   

While you may have a valid point about the effect of the "19th man" RR, if we want to be a top side we need to be able to put sides like Port Adelaide to the sword, at home or away.  Still very much on our learning curve is our team and we need to be mindful of that when we have an expectation of success at every outing.

[Hellenic Tiger]

In two years time when we will have more consistency and maturity then games interstate and Etihad against inferior opposition will be gimmes so long as we stick to our structures as good consistent and mature sides do, but we are not quite there yet and although a game away from familiar surrounding does provide a challenge for a young group like ours we showed that we were not quite up to the mark at this stage.
To me how much we have learnt from the Darwin experience will depend on how we perform over the next few weeks rather with further interstate trips as much as how we prepare in Cairns also, so that by the time we play Port in Darwin next year we can at least have something that we can proactively and positively compare ourselves to.

[Penelope]

Nothing moronic about it at all. When you sit in the middle of a Tiger crowd at the G you can literally feel the electricity we generate. I've seen it make the players go up a gear countless times. If I'm imagining it, then why does Dimma constantly refer to the 19th man in his e-mails to fans, urging us to come to the games?
What the club did on Saturday night was effectively take the 19th man out of the equation.
Richmond in the first half, though playing badly, were right in that game. They were just looking for a spark to ignite them which never came, and a lot of positive crowd noise could have provided it.
Port on the other hand were at their lowest ebb coming into that game. And the resolve they managed to scrape together when they sensed we were vulnerable would have evaporated away like dandelion spore under the blowtorch of intimidatory hatred that the Tiger masses subject visiting teams to at the G.
   

so perhaps you would care to explain why port beat us with dockland chock full of feral tiger heads. The atmosphere was electric that day... or how we beat port on such a big celebration for them in adelaide, with very little support.

to blame the administration for the pathetic effort from the players is moronic. It's ill conceived and illogical. They didn't turn up to play and port did - that is the bottom line. there was more support for richmond at the ground but the players simply did not give them anything to get excited about.

Unless the players get the crowd going with performance this 19th man BS will not even come into play.

If we are to hang our hat on the crowd support to win games then we might as well shut up shop now. FFS Norf won premierships will 1/4 of the support of the "19th man"

It's a national competition played all over the country. the players have to deal with playing in all conditions to be succesful. All the sooking in world from victorian centrics living in the past of a victorian only based competition played on Saturdays only will not change that.

The players are ones that need to take responsibility and thank stuff the coaching know that and are not pushing the blame onto the administration like petulant, spoilt brats, as many outside the club seem hell bent on doing

[RollsRoyce]

Al,Port are a much poorer side this season to the mob who beat us last year (no pun intended). Secondly that game you're referring to was swindled out of our grasp by a bull$*! umpiring decision at the death.And Telstra Dump is not our home ground anyway.
And you're damn right I wish the competition had remained the VFL. It was a better competition, the Tigers were a better side, and football was a greater spectacle without all the flooding,"press" and rugby crap we have to put up with now.

[Infamy]

It was still mostly the same players with the same coach in round 22 last year, we would never have played the game at the MCG so it would have been at Etihad, that's why it was sold so it was never going to be at our true home ground as you rightly point out.

Personally I would rather we didn't over achieve this year due to beating teams with key players out injured and the 19th man getting us over the line in many games. I want our kids to win on merit, talent and hard work first. We can worry about our supporters being the 19th man when we get to the finals, or dare I say it... the big one!

[The Big Richo]

We can worry about our supporters being the 19th man when we get to the finals, or dare I say it... the big one!

Except the crowd there will all be corporates. 

[WilliamPowell]

We can worry about our supporters being the 19th man when we get to the finals, or dare I say it... the big one!

Except the crowd there will all be corporates. 

I'll be there and I'm not a Corporate