Is Richmond's midfield better than Hawthorn's midfield?

[one-eyed]

According to Mark Fine on his SEN show last night, he reckons our midfield is better than Hawthorn's. The reason he gave was that we have our  upper echelon gun mids - Cotch, Lids & Dusty - whereas the Hawks have a sameness across their midfield.

Thoughts?

[TigerTimeII]

Mark Fine is right. Add Grigg to our goal kicking mids and Conca is shafting to hit the scoreboard too

[Tiger Tragic]

I think we probably have more class in the midfield.  Hawks are probably more consistent in there than we have been so far, but hopefully we turn this around.

[tony_montana]

We are on the way, if we keep improving our defensive side then he's we will be on a consistent basis better than most midfields. But we've only just started running hard both ways the past several weeks so let's not get too carried away like Finey, hawks supporters were going off via SMS 

[peggles]

we have more class in the midfield but hawks at this stage have us in turns of depth, but we're improving in that department.  a couple more mids from the upcoming draft and we'd be right.

[wayne]

The Hawks are a bit samey, Sewell, Mitchell and Lewis are all similar types, Hodge is injured/not match fit and I don't know many of their other mids. Shiel, Savage, Smith is it??

[gerkin greg]

Will let you know in 2 weeks

[Eat_em_Alive]

Will let you know in 2 weeks

The rat has spoken

[WA Tiger]

Yes he is right, been saying it for bloody ages, in fact I think we have the best in the comp but.....our back line needs depth, one/two more big bodied players and the forward line needs to click, I mean really click.

We also need to bring in two young players (Arnot & Elton), get rid of Jackson and Edwards and move forward... Then we will get there!

[Hard Roar Tiger]

A mate bumped into Mattie Priddis at the airport afyer our match vs Eagles and Priddis said our mids really surprised them. Rated us ahead of the Hawks as a matter of fact

[cub]

We are right on the doorstep as a team, a couple more drops of sinister sauce may do the trick.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

We are right on the doorstep as a team, a couple more drops of sinister sauce may do the trick.

Don't worry about adding a touch of tenderness.

[Stripes]

The strength of our midfield now is it has elite players who are difficult to stop, (Cotch, Lids and Martin) supported by very good depth players (Foley, Grigg, Tuck) with young talent coming through as backup (Conca, Ellis). Throw in some good honest role players (Edwards, Jackson) and some small forwards/backs who can run through the middle/wing (Nahas, King, Houli and Newman).

Our midfield is becoming increasingly difficult to stop

[WA Tiger]

The strength of our midfield now is it has elite players who are difficult to stop, (Cotch, Lids and Martin) supported by very good depth players (Foley, Grigg, Tuck) with young talent coming through as backup (Conca, Ellis). Throw in some good honest role players (Edwards, Jackson) and some small forwards/backs who can run through the middle/wing (Nahas, King, Houli and Newman).

Our midfield is becoming increasingly difficult to stop

Totally agree Stripes right up to the point where you mentioned Edwards and Jackson, Jackson maybe but FFS Edwards...NOT the way forward mate!

[Chuck17]

Don't you rate Edwards WAT