Richmond on prowl for a top-4 scalp (Herald-Sun)

[one-eyed]

Richmond on prowl for a top-four scalp

    by: Michael Warner in Arizona
    From: Sunday Herald Sun
    December 04, 2011

RICHMOND has set its sights on beating at least one top-four side next year.

Tigers coach Damien Hardwick said his players had made the pledge at a goal-setting session during the week in Tucson, Arizona.

And an opportunity will come early with games against Carlton, Collingwood, Geelong and West Coast in the first five weeks of the 2012 AFL season.

"We talked about our standard of performance and that we want to improve that over the course of the year," Hardwick said.

"We're still a fair way off those top four to five sides - and that's an area where we want to improve. We'd love to beat one of those sides next year. It is one of our goals and we've fallen well short of that over the past two years.

"I reckon we were between 30 and 60 points off those sides. And when a side is starting to mature you want to knock off one of those guys and that's one thing we are looking to do next year."

Richmond's last win against a top-four side was a 29-point victory against eventual premier Hawthorn in Round 20, 2008. Terry Wallace was then coach.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/richmond-on-prowl-for-a-top-four-scalp/story-e6frf9jf-1226213206807

[gerkin greg]

Carlton top 4? 

[Jackstar is back again]

Carlton top 4? 

Round 15 this year, they beat us by by 103 points.

[RollsRoyce]

Carlton top 4? 

Round 15 this year, they beat us by by 103 points.

Yeah, thanks for reminding us all
This scum is the first team we should be setting our sights on beating. But Gerks is spot on. These cheats are only top  4 material in their own deluded imagination.

[Owl]

Concs and Lids up into the midfield.  AWESOME MR. FRODO!!!  I cant wait to tell Bilbo and the fellowship.  (I hope this doesn't get edited I think it conveys the spirit of camaraderie and ...haha I can't go on)

[Chuck17]

Instead of that how about we pledge not to get beat by the losers of the comp ie Port and Gold Coast

[Jackstar is back again]

Just read the article in full.
Way too much ''spin "' Dimma
Mat Dea to play 22 games   You say you will be disappointed if he doesnt play 22 games, can tell you Dimma, you will be disappointed.
Then mentions about the recuitment of quality kicks like Ellis, Morris DEA and Houli.
Well well well.
The first two mentioned havent played AFL footy, so how would anyone know if they can kick under the pressure of an AFL Game.
And as for Dea, please Dimma, you need contact lenses, he cannot kick as we have all witnessed.
Give you Houli though, so one out of 4 isnt too bad Dimma
Please we have bearly finished the 2011 and now you are talking ''spin "" for 2012.
And as for Shane Edwards comments, god help us !
John McCarthy is hardly a world beater,  ordinary footballer at best, he can actually kick a ball, ( when he gets it  )
Also Reeca Conca is no Mark Murphy.   
For us to be competitive this year Dimma, you will need to rely alot on Lids, Martin and Cotchin being at there best every week
memberships must be low at the moment, way too much crap and talking players up.

[Chuck17]

Agree better off saying nothing at all than spinning a yarn like that

[Jackstar is back again]

Chuck, you earlier comments are spot on.
I would be saying "we need to win the winnable games" eg Port and Gold Coast etc.
The other rubbish about beating a top 4 team
Lets just win the games that we can.

[Smokey]

Is the "full article" in the print media only?

[Jackstar is back again]

yes

[Owl]

Just read the article in full.
Way too much ''spin "' Dimma
Mat Dea to play 22 games   You say you will be disappointed if he doesnt play 22 games, can tell you Dimma, you will be disappointed.
Then mentions about the recuitment of quality kicks like Ellis, Morris DEA and Houli.
Well well well.
The first two mentioned havent played AFL footy, so how would anyone know if they can kick under the pressure of an AFL Game.
And as for Dea, please Dimma, you need contact lenses, he cannot kick as we have all witnessed.
Give you Houli though, so one out of 4 isnt too bad Dimma
Please we have bearly finished the 2011 and now you are talking ''spin "" for 2012.
And as for Shane Edwards comments, god help us !
John McCarthy is hardly a world beater,  ordinary footballer at best, he can actually kick a ball, ( when he gets it  )
Also Reeca Conca is no Mark Murphy.   
For us to be competitive this year Dimma, you will need to rely alot on Lids, Martin and Cotchin being at there best every week
memberships must be low at the moment, way too much crap and talking players up.

If we were in the trenches together, I think I would have to shoot you for morale captain downer.

[Jackstar is back again]

i wouldnt be in the trenches in the first place , why ?
As I would of planned not to be there .
For what its worth, todays article in the paper was utter rubbish.
We couldnt even beat Gold Coast and Port last year, was flogged by 103 points by Carlton, and everyone knows that Dea is an ordinary kick, so why go and say rubbish for , really.
I am not about being a downer, I am about reality.
You cannot fix the problems in any situation, if you dont know the reality of the situation.
We are dreamers at Punt Rd.
And I dare not mention Shane Edwards, please Dimma, if you looking at Edwards to be a one of your solutions., look elsewhere

[taztiger4]

i wouldnt be in the trenches in the first place , why ?
As I would of planned not to be there .
For what its worth, todays article in the paper was utter rubbish.
We couldnt even beat Gold Coast and Port last year, was flogged by 103 points by Carlton, and everyone knows that Dea is an ordinary kick, so why go and say rubbish for , really.
I am not about being a downer, I am about reality.
You cannot fix the problems in any situation, if you dont know the reality of the situation.
We are dreamers at Punt Rd.
And I dare not mention Shane Edwards, please Dimma, if you looking at Edwards to be a one of your solutions., look elsewhere

Want some cheese with that whine

[bojangles17]

1 win againt a top 4 side, wouldnt suprise me at all if we had a couple