Richmond V Carlton Round 1

[Tigeritis™©®]

Players not working hard enough IMO.  They look slow, tired and worse of all scared. Besides Cotchin and Martin late in the second there's no run noone creating anything. Our kick ins are dreadful too too slow getting it out from a point. About 5 or six times players trying to run with the footy but they forgot one thing... The footy. No one clean with hands or foot beside Cotchin. Jack is playing a very lazy game not leading at all. On one occassion he had a completly open forward line & instead of working hard and leading to space he waited behind his man & lost.

This is a very very very disappointing display at the minute as we sit here at half time pondering how bad it's gonna get.

This is really the only game that matters to me this year. Beating Carlscum is everything because I hate them. But the reality is we have a long way to go.
I hope they can turn it around.
 

[wayne]

We might have a promising midfield, but until we can get quality clearances and not bomb the ball 20m forward and 50m high, we're not going to beat these top sides.

[tony_montana]

They spread a lot better, could have axed us by halftime with their overlap.

We can't win a clearance, every time the ball is in dispute they whisk it away. And they kick the first 2 of the 3rd game over

[Francois Jackson]

Once again the likes of Edwards and Jackson make us look pathetic

Training the house down. Hahahahahaha

[wayne]

Back in it, lucky they've kicked poorly.

[tony_montana]

Morris changed the momentum that quarter with some big efforts. Felt we started to run harder that quarter, reckon of we snag the first one and get a run on we can do it. Still need to win more when the ball hits the deck

[10 FLAGS]

Have to say being 26 down at the 20 minute mark of the last is very disappointing. Carlton a much more professional unit than us. We are long long way behind them in real terms. Copping these goals just shows where we are at. You cant teach Pride.

[mat073]

looks like you can just "flick the switch" after all.

[10 FLAGS]

Flogged by the Carlton twos. You cant teach things like PRIDE, HONOR, COMMITMENT! We have a long long way to go! A season wasted right here tonight IMHO.

[wayne]

First sign of improvement i'd like to see is not the ability to shut down the Judds, Murphys, Gibbs', it's the ability to shut down 2nd tier spuds like Carrazzo, Robinson and Simpson.

[mat073]

Well we have been put in our place (again)
Another rd 1 reality check.
Typical Richmond...no poise under pressure.

[WA Tiger]

Oh well here we are...

[The Big Richo]

Riewoldt's body language was a disgrace tonight.

So is his haircut.

[Ruanaidh]

Playing Tuck and Jackson in the starting 21 was always going to backfire. Conca will never be a 'sub' again. BTW why wouldn't Matt White be played on Yarran tonight considering the job he did on him last year?

[wayne]

The most disappointing thing for mine was that there was none of the pressure that I saw in the first half against Freo and the entire Geelong game in the NAB cup. It was same old, same old.

Not many hit ups, everyone just seems to bomb the ball down the line. Most kicks into the forward 50 were bombed from the centre square and getting whisked out at about 40 metres out, there weren't many long kicks deep into the 50 to put pressure on their undermanned defence.

Vickery or Post was worst on ground for me. I didn't even see Vickery in the last quarter, he kept getting spoiled by small defender Laidler and after he dropped the sitter in the 3rd, he disappeared.

It's not going to get any easier next week