It was more the stuff we can control, like our ball movement and our running patterns. We shoot ourselves in the foot a little bit, in terms of the places we run, and we just make it hard for us to score.
And that's the important one.
Was driving me crazy on the weekend how - when we had a set kick from 60 to 80 metres out - we had all our players running into our forward 50. At one stage I counted 8 Richmond players and their opponents in the forward 50 when we had a kick from 60 going to Punt Road End. WTF.
There was NO room for any forward to make any type of lead with all space clogged and then if there was a turnover they had open space to run into going the other way. Guess how they kicked their only two goals of the first half. In the second half we started to get better by leaving two spare in the back half but didn't structure up through the midfield and defence so their loose men came in the centre thus nullifying to an extent our numbers deep.
Williams the lesser needs to be replaced ASAP by someone like O'Loughlin who understands how a forward line should structure up like he did at Sydney.
If you were the opposition coach facing Richmond you would first worry about Riewoldt and would plan to have a third man on him to help spoil in the air and run off at ground level making Jack chase as much as possible, which is exactly what happened early on Sunday. You would also hope Riewoldt played well out from goal and was surrounded by lot of traffic. Om this score you don't have to worry cos Richmond sets up that way for you.
