Fallout if Richmond loses Round 1: Healy

[tony_montana]

carlton are underdone, we've had a solid preseason getting plenty of run into most players - would take a massive capitultion from us to get smashed here. We should go in confident(not cocky) we can win this

[WA Tiger]

Dead right TM, this is the best team, fittest team, best prepared team going into round one, hardest team, biggest bodied team that we have had since the opening games we played against the Pies......
 

[Mr Magic]

I see it like this, if we get flogged we will be accused of being the same old Tigers....bla bla bla......

If we win it will be because the Blues are underdone and riddled with injury, although they only have 3 out and one more that is not a star or regular name. We also have King out....but that won't bother the press.

If the Blues do win, they will be hyped up as top 4 favourites.......no matter what happens we lose even if we win.....

Only one way to change perceptions..

[Smokey]

Hi First time post but I have been reading for a while

I think the fall out for both clubs will be the same, if its a close contest then neither club will lose much credibility however if the margin is more than 7 goals, then the heat will be on either loser

Hi TE, welcome to the forum.

I see it like this, if we get flogged we will be accused of being the same old Tigers....bla bla bla......

If we win it will be because the Blues are underdone and riddled with injury, although they only have 3 out and one more that is not a star or regular name. We also have King out....but that won't bother the press.

If the Blues do win, they will be hyped up as top 4 favourites.......no matter what happens we lose even if we win.....

True WAT but if we win, we don't lose, regardless of what any media knobs write or say.  There will be much love and rejoicing among those who are the only ones that matter - us!!

 

[mat073]

Carlton are going to have to produce their very best football to beat us in round 1.

If they don't the Blues are going to receive one hell of a tiger mauling.

Its funny looking at sites like "Talking Carlton" at the moment.You know they are in trouble when Blues fans are hoping they can "flick the switch" for rd 1.

Other arrogant fans believe they have been foxing the entire preseason.(some people believed the Thorpedo was foxing  )

[dwaino]

I don't understand why Blues supporters are so confident. On Big Footy for example they already have this one ticked off. You can't just switch on form. Ratbag's excuse is they were just getting mins into their group and ignored score line. I don't understand how this would benefit any way at all when they're getting walloped by sides like Brisbane and couldn't get a single inside 50. This means for an entire game they couldn't initiate their press. Duigen, Jamison and Laidler out, all key players to their  press, the backup blokes haven't had much opportunity to practice the game plan in match conditions. With no form, no practice and missing some major posts in their press, and the complete opposite in regards to us who have upgraded and improved personel, form, and game structure, they should be more than a little worried heading into this game.



Edited for wacko autocorrect.

[WilliamPowell]

Carlton are going to have to produce their very best football to beat us in round 1.

True

But I reckon we need to play our very best footy too 

[Stripes]

Really we just need  -
1. Maric to provide a contest and give our midfielders a chance at getting first use. This should be made easier with Warnock out but they still have a handy ruck division.
2. Win the contested ball. Tuck needs to be in the middle with Foley, Cotchin and Martin on the ottom of the packs feeding it out.
3. Stop the ball coming out the back. The Blues have smashed us by weaving through our press after turnovers allowing their smalls to kick easy goals. We need our press to turn the tables on them.

All of these are achievable. All of these seem more certain than not based on preseason form but....it is preseason form and history shows us they are a 16+ goals better side than us last time we met 

[WA Tiger]

Carlton are going to have to produce their very best football to beat us in round 1.

True

But I reckon we need to play our very best footy too 

The Politician......

You neet need to change your online name....."WP-The Politician"....

[WA Tiger]

Hi First time post but I have been reading for a while

I think the fall out for both clubs will be the same, if its a close contest then neither club will lose much credibility however if the margin is more than 7 goals, then the heat will be on either loser

Hi TE, welcome to the forum.

I see it like this, if we get flogged we will be accused of being the same old Tigers....bla bla bla......

If we win it will be because the Blues are underdone and riddled with injury, although they only have 3 out and one more that is not a star or regular name. We also have King out....but that won't bother the press.

If the Blues do win, they will be hyped up as top 4 favourites.......no matter what happens we lose even if we win.....

True WAT but if we win, we don't lose, regardless of what any media knobs write or say.  There will be much love and rejoicing among those who are the only ones that matter - us!!

 

Dead right Smokey, there will come a time when we earn the respect, it might come in the first 5 rounds...

[Ox]

Reality check.

How can u blame anyone for expecting that to happen given our record of wacko outbreaks as supporters?

[Mr Magic]

Carlton are going to have to produce their very best football to beat us in round 1.

If they don't the Blues are going to receive one hell of a tiger mauling.

Its funny looking at sites like "Talking Carlton" at the moment.You know they are in trouble when Blues fans are hoping they can "flick the switch" for rd 1.

Other arrogant fans believe they have been foxing the entire preseason.(some people believed the Thorpedo was foxing  )

Interesting hearing Judd on the radio today. The Blues see us as a very big challenge and it didn't sound like the usual rhetoric.
Their fans might think we're easy beats but the skipper sure doesn't.

[eliminator]

Beating Carlton would send a clear statement to other sides not to take us lightly. To win we need to dominate the clearances and expose the weakness in their defence. Agree we need to dominate the hard ball gets but most importantly we need a team effort- everyone needs to play their part. They have more to lose than us

[Hellenic Tiger]

The media pump and goad us up and the same media bring us down and ridicule us.
Let us continue to play with a straight bat and our on and off field situation will sort itself out.

There is very little interest here for Swans v Giants as we all know the Giants will lose heavily and people here in the heartland are just waiting for the season to kick off with a game that matters next Thursday. These guys are just talking about a result they want or expect to pan out.

Maybe Healy would like to elaborate on the fallout.
Is it same old Tigers fallout
or "Healy off, Ellingworth on" fallout
or "I'll shut up if you give me possessions" fallout.

[tigtuff12]

...confident - but still the past years have me a tad nervous...on the plus side - agree that we've got the best side/fittest side heading into an opener that we've had in years, some good momentum with a couple of solid /wins (the cats win HAS to have given some of the boys belief) and with their outs being key posts I think we have the line up to trouble them (Jack and TV should provide enough headaches up forward)...the 2 biggest keys though for me are 1) that we appear to have tightened up our defense/zone under Ross Smith and don't look like we'll leak as many goals out the back - something that has deadset flogged us over the years & undone our grunt work and 2) we might have a ruckman who is at least competitive...