Richmond V Carlton Round 1

[Dubstep Dookie]

Oh well here we are...

That familiar feeling.....

Our defence leaked like a siv on the rebound. Nahas and edwards did virtually nothing. Vickery had a stinker and Jackson still can't kick.

Need four quarters of football from guys like Deledio and Martin if we are going to beat the better sides.

And why did we alway go forward around the boundary line?

On the upside Morris had a real crack as did Cotch and Foley.

[tony_montana]

Geezus... And you all thought I would over react

. C'mon, my post was sensible!! 

Mate, it was pretty dissapointing

We lost the second quarter and got blown out midway into the 4th. Still a few things to take away.

My old man is a QAFL level coach (nothing to gloat about but still insightful) and he's constantly picking. Anyone at the game notice the kick ins? I was front of third tier Ponsford and got a good view of structures. We had NO kick in plan. Zip. Newy held the ball up and there was no movement. Players were flat footed and Carlton held the gaps and their talls sheltered the press. Our kick ins turned into junior style of kicking to any free man you can find, or bomb long. Every team is employing a press. We need a get out tactic. Also, we never employed a press. We flooded and left open centre squares. Another I picked up was when Carlton were switching, our boys were running hard to cover their men and the new holes. But if you watched the linker, every time he would look down the guts to see if we had a free man due to one of our blokes straggling or losing their man due GI hurriedly getting numbers in front. They hurt us every time with this.

Great post dwaino, I was right where you were in th ponsford and could see the way they murdered us on the spread all night. I think we were naive, a little lazy and typically just expected that it would happen, tonight - was a rude awakening. I'm not writing us off yet, we're better than that even by our standards  .

[Tigeritis™©®]

Geezus... And you all thought I would over react

. C'mon, my post was sensible!! 

Mate, it was pretty dissapointing

We lost the second quarter and got blown out midway into the 4th. Still a few things to take away.

My old man is a QAFL level coach (nothing to gloat about but still insightful) and he's constantly picking. Anyone at the game notice the kick ins? I was front of third tier Ponsford and got a good view of structures. We had NO kick in plan. Zip. Newy held the ball up and there was no movement. Players were flat footed and Carlton held the gaps and their talls sheltered the press. Our kick ins turned into junior style of kicking to any free man you can find, or bomb long. Every team is employing a press. We need a get out tactic. Also, we never employed a press. We flooded and left open centre squares. Another I picked up was when Carlton were switching, our boys were running hard to cover their men and the new holes. But if you watched the linker, every time he would look down the guts to see if we had a free man due to one of our blokes straggling or losing their man due GI hurriedly getting numbers in front. They hurt us every time with this.

yes. I noticed the kick ins & mentioned it at half time. It was excruciating to watch. The blues just hurried the ball out except in the third but all night we took ages & ages to get the ball out from a point. But all night they guys were flat footed.
The forwards weren't presenting. When a player wanted to switch there was hardly anyone running to space. That's why Im upset with our leaders tonight. And i'm not including the young guys because if you've been at Richmond for a while and you so desperately want to play finals you show everyone how desperate you are. That takes hard work and our leaders didn't work hard tonight.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

 I see a general lack of competence everywhere

[Jackstar is back again]

Gary March "no excuses" what is your excuse?
I like Dimma but why give him a contract extenion bEFORE the season?

EXTREMELY poorly coached.
*The kick ins were a disgrace.
*Listened to Mick Malthouse on 3AW at the game, and her couldnt believe why J.Post stood behind his man ALL night, I couldnt beleive it either
*Jack Riewoldt has to play in front. He should have a look at the way Cotchin played when he went forward.
*Carlton switch of play in D50 was so predictable it wasnt funny.
And we haven given Hardwick an extension, this will come back to bite once again

[Eat_em_Alive]

Considering the rest of the draw is fairly even this rd, ill guess well end up 17th by %
I did tip carlton but just disspointed in the way in which we played/ or lack of
Thereno point in bagging out our players, that will count for nothing.
Sitting on level 1 I cant see the strucures as well as those sitting higher, but it was evident they were slower, fumbly, nervous and failed to provide options or when it counted sollutions.

I think any winning team can afford to have 2-3 players with average/off games.
Tonight we just had half a dozen plus,  and were outclassed.

In hindsight, what changes would you make to our starting lineup?? What should we have done differently?

[Dubstep Dookie]

Did I mention Jackson can't kick?

[dwaino]

Geezus... And you all thought I would over react

. C'mon, my post was sensible!! 

Mate, it was pretty dissapointing

We lost the second quarter and got blown out midway into the 4th. Still a few things to take away.

My old man is a QAFL level coach (nothing to gloat about but still insightful) and he's constantly picking. Anyone at the game notice the kick ins? I was front of third tier Ponsford and got a good view of structures. We had NO kick in plan. Zip. Newy held the ball up and there was no movement. Players were flat footed and Carlton held the gaps and their talls sheltered the press. Our kick ins turned into junior style of kicking to any free man you can find, or bomb long. Every team is employing a press. We need a get out tactic. Also, we never employed a press. We flooded and left open centre squares. Another I picked up was when Carlton were switching, our boys were running hard to cover their men and the new holes. But if you watched the linker, every time he would look down the guts to see if we had a free man due to one of our blokes straggling or losing their man due GI hurriedly getting numbers in front. They hurt us every time with this.

Great post dwaino, I was right where you were in th ponsford and could see the way they murdered us on the spread all night. I think we were naive, a little lazy and typically just expected that it would happen, tonight - was a rude awakening. I'm not writing us off yet, we're better than that even by our standards  .

Where abouts exactly were you, tones? Small world if we were on top of each other lol. I was on the front railing immediately in front of where the booze was sold, in front of escalators. I was pretty vocal and often yelled "slimy green maggot!" if you heard that and saw it coming from a tattood bloke in a media polo sitting with a couple old fellas/ferals (dad and uncle)... That was me

[Ox]

Malthouse>Hardwick
Post<A Post
Richmond = Trainwreck

[georgies31]

Must say very dissapointed with that effort tigers.Th things that concerned me is that we lacked basic skills and basic footy smarts.Sloopy handballs,to slow to move the footy,dropping easy marks,stupid kick inns and our defenders didnt play smart footy at all.We were also to predictable.Some of our guys need to put more effort in.Kick inns were laughable at times by Newman and the rest no system or structure at all.I dont think Dimma and his assistants had a good day out.Jack has to be isolated one on one in the square that's were he does his damage.

[Ox]

Deledio man-Whats this guys vibe?

Some days he does poo
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[TigerTimeII]

Blah blah blah

[georgies31]

This game proved how far we are still from the pack and playing finals.Massive reality check for us backline needs alot of work.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Yep it hurts I'm frustrated.

This is the the glaring issue

Garlett Betts Yarran Robinson Lucas Hampson Henderson Scotland Armfield

all lower tier players and not elite by any standards but they have impact and their contributions count .

Grigg Edwards Miller Tuck Jackson Nahas Vickery

Look at their impact and contributions from our perspective.

Until we develop or our lower tier rise and make proactive inputs and contributions no fumbles and clangers and poor decisions then we will at best be a 6-10 side that will wallow in mid table mediocrity. No amount of first rounders will save us if we don't get a competitive second tier that impacts.

No point doing that against Freo or Sydney at the G b/c they struggle here need to do it against the filth, scums, Hawks, Cats.

[rogerd3]

nervous nellies are jumping up and down.

love it. you guys make me laugh, actually roar with laughter