We dont deserve Round 1 vs Carlton as an Opening Match

[WilliamPowell]

Win or lose, we still want Blues - Newman (AFL Site)
By Matt Thompson
10:00 AM Fri 30 Mar, 2012

RICHMOND has no plans to abandon its traditional round one encounter against Carlton, skipper Chris Newman says.

Despite a fourth consecutive loss to the Blues in the opening round of the season on Thursday night, Newman believes it's a fixture worth playing.

"We always love to play Carlton round one and it's always a big occasion," Newman told AFL.com.au.
 
"Next year if we're playing round one against Carlton then hopefully it's a different result," he said.

More than 78,000 fans watched Carlton run out 44-point winners, emphasising the traditional match-up's importance on the football calendar.

On Friday morning, Tigers players arrived with glum faces for recovery at Punt Rd.

And the task doesn't get easier with matches against Collingwood, Melbourne, Geelong and West Coast in the next month.

"It's disappointing, there's obviously a lot of expectation around round one," Newman said.

"It's a long season so we'll just have to look at what we did wrong and during the week try and rectify that and come out nice and strong against Collingwood."

Matt Thompson is a reporter at AFL Media. Follow him on Twitter at @MattThompsonAFL
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[Mr Magic]

78k say keep it. We'll win one soon enough.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Carlton's window is this year and next .

Hopefully we can step up this year and next . May not equate into a win but I cannot see us beating the filth until 2014 when thay are on the slide and we hopefully will be a top 6 side.

Then we may own them for a period of 3-5 years while they get their house in order as I see no young kids coming through at this stage.

[Stripes]

I'm just sick of losing to the fllthy Bluebaggers! I wouldn't mind it so much if it occured in any other round of the year but the first round is such a let down. All preseason we all wait, hope and get excited building up to the season proper only to have that all dashed every year. I don't care what this means financially and it shouldn't to the club either, otherwise we would be selling games interstate left right and center. I just want to start the year off on a positive so take the game away!

[Penelope]

I cant believe so many people want to be molly coddled.

MT hit the nail on the head, otherwise we as well ask to be demoted to the VFL so we can play weak sides every week.

If we want any change to early season, its to ask to play sides that will give us a good work out in the pre season. A half strength geelong and then GWS turns out to be not such an ideal preparation for the real stuff

[tony_montana]

I cant believe so many people want to be molly coddled.

MT hit the nail on the head, otherwise we as well ask to be demoted to the VFL so we can play weak sides every week.

If we want any change to early season, its to ask to play sides that will give us a good work out in the pre season. A half strength geelong and then GWS turns out to be not such an ideal preparation for the real stuff

Bingo, really was a soft build up

[Francois Jackson]

I cant believe so many people want to be molly coddled.

MT hit the nail on the head, otherwise we as well ask to be demoted to the VFL so we can play weak sides every week.

If we want any change to early season, its to ask to play sides that will give us a good work out in the pre season. A half strength geelong and then GWS turns out to be not such an ideal preparation for the real stuff

you think we lost to the scum because of our build up to Rd 1. Well what about the scum they could hardly beat the Na Na Goon seconds yet still managed to smash up by 7 goals.

Il tell you something for free we lost not because of our build up or it was because we are not good enough. Our top players went missing(Foley/Cotch aside)and our bottom 6 were a joke. Jack was selfish as always. Seems sometimes the blokes only cares about his own numbers.

If we continue to play your Tambling aka Edwards/Jackson types then we we will get smashed each and every time.

[Francois Jackson]

to be honest when i knew the margin would be 50ish i was in one way hoping it would blow out to 60/70 to really give the afl no choice but to take it away from us

what an embarrassment display that gets shown to us supporters every year

[Penelope]

I cant believe so many people want to be molly coddled.

MT hit the nail on the head, otherwise we as well ask to be demoted to the VFL so we can play weak sides every week.

If we want any change to early season, its to ask to play sides that will give us a good work out in the pre season. A half strength geelong and then GWS turns out to be not such an ideal preparation for the real stuff

you think we lost to the scum because of our build up to Rd 1. Well what about the scum they could hardly beat the Na Na Goon seconds yet still managed to smash up by 7 goals.

Il tell you something for free we lost not because of our build up or it was because we are not good enough. Our top players went missing(Foley/Cotch aside)and our bottom 6 were a joke. Jack was selfish as always. Seems sometimes the blokes only cares about his own numbers.

If we continue to play your Tambling aka Edwards/Jackson types then we we will get smashed each and every time.

If you want to look at it sensibly, carlton had games against sides that were competitive. we won our last two games easily against a side that didn't give an eff and one that is unable to apply or absorb pressure for any length of time. we had no where near the pressure put on us in either of those games that carlton did last night. If you think that is an ideal preparation you are mad.

look at the difference in the way carlton handled the pressure we put on them. they always managed to get the ball out to someone clear, where as we fumbled, made poor decisions and poorly executed disposal due to the pressure put on us.

that comes down to a number of factors, experience being a major one, but can you say, honestly and seriously, that our last two pre season games were a good preparation to handle the pressure carlton applied?

[TigerLand]

The NAB cup is a waste of time. Absolute waste of time.

Get rid of the byes and extend team lists to counter player fatigue. Until we get to a fixture where you play each team home and away in each season, whether its in a conferences or whatever the fixture will always be compromised.

Is there a sport or competition in the world, even at local level where you play a full season and play half the teams twice and the other teams once at random?

[smasha]

Agree Popelord.

NAB has to go.

Unless ALL teams take it seriously.

Carlton cheated in the NAB series.

It should be a competition every team aims to win.

Complete waste of time imho.

[RollsRoyce]

In the throw to Channel 10 sport they said "winners are grinners" accompanied with some absolutely sickening footage of Betts, Judd and Waite arriving at training with smug grins from ear to ear. Then Steve Quarterbrain chipped in with a line about "after their traditional win over the Tigers", and a smug little half-smile. THIS is why I want this round one debacle to end. To the whole football world a big win to the SCUM has just become a fait accomplis, and we are once again the laughing stock of the competition. It's just excruciatingly unbearable IMO opinion to have to front up to these c****'s twice a season, year in year out and have to wear the same result over and over and over again with no hope of a change in the result.
 

[Penelope]

yeah, lets just give up, roll over and play turtle.
lets go to the afl and say, were not good enough, can we only poo sides from now on

[RollsRoyce]

yeah, lets just give up, roll over and play turtle.
lets go to the afl and say, were not good enough, can we only poo sides from now on

There are no poo sides. Everyone will give you a contest. But what's wrong with changing it up?What's wrong with at least playing someone you have a HOPE of beating?? Last night was the best chance we had of breaking the hoodoo with five of their top players out, and at least two or three more underdone, and we STILL couldn't get within 7 goals of them. It's just plain demoralising to front up every year and have this crap happen. You must have a high tolerance for pain and frustration Al, coz me I'm just fed up to the back teeth and SICK of it!!! And if their knuckle-dragging,one-eyebrowed ass clown supporters clap me out of the stadium one more time, I swear I'm going to start throwing punches.

[Owl]

Time for some cups of concrete.
who cares if they clap us off, their mob won, they get to gloat, thats the rules, wait and see how it burns them when its our turn, it will be sweet.