Richmond vs Collingwood

[eliminator]

Think we should have double teamed cloke. He managed to get too many one on ones with Rance. Rance was caught behind and as a consequence easy mark for Cloke.

[Gigantor]

you play from behind to a superb mark like cloke you will get smacked

[Owl]

was a weird game, we looked at times as though we were going to blow it open with our rebound in the first two, missed too many easy shots again... just dunno we lost concentration in that third and then looked like stunned mullets for a bit...  if they had of kept composure in the third.  In a way this game was a bit of a pressure release for us, we didn't get smashed.   We had some bs 50's against us, Jack got tackled without the ball in one incident which blew my mind, couldn't buy a free kick, there were plenty ignored, we had another blatant goal disallowed by the idiot review clown.  I am not sweating it too much.  We will run into some real form as the year goes on and will be cherry ripe to kick some arse.

[Penelope]

our trend to switch right off for the best part of a quarter is a concern though.

we were lucky to have a big enough lead against Carlton and even against St kilda and the dogs we allowed the opposition to get a bit of a roll on at times. Against the lesser sides we are able to stem the flow and get a roll on ourselves, but we dont seem to be able to recover once we allow the good sides to get their tails up.

it was pleasing they were able to regroup at 3/4 time, but the damage was done.  In saying that, we missed a goal at the end of the third and 2 early on in the last. Nail them and we were only 2 goals down with the best part of a quarter of footy left.

[Gigantor]

hate to say it ..but also think dimma and friends were outcoached yesterday

[Chuck17]

hate to say it ..but also think dimma and friends were outcoached yesterday

For 16 minutes or the whole game?

[Gigantor]

i see your point chuck...but i think pies stuck to their game plan the whole game and although we matched it at times we never overcame it

[WA Tiger]

hate to say it ..but also think dimma and friends were outcoached yesterday

If we were out coached it's only because they had the players that could do the job they were instructed to do through experience, knowledge and being better. Dimma probably coached fine but our players could not execute their instructions and they let themselves down skill wise.

[Penelope]

when that sort of rot sets in I dont think there is too much you can do from the coaches box. Its really up to the players on the ground the dig deep and show some mental fortitude. many of the players just had a stunned look on their face when the pies went rampant

[Chuck17]

i see your point chuck...but i think pies stuck to their game plan the whole game and although we matched it at times we never overcame it

Agree

hate to say it ..but also think dimma and friends were outcoached yesterday

If we were out coached it's only because they had the players that could do the job they were instructed to do through experience, knowledge and being better. Dimma probably coached fine but our players could not execute their instructions and they let themselves down skill wise.

Agree

when that sort of rot sets in I dont think there is too much you can do from the coaches box. Its really up to the players on the ground the dig deep and show some mental fortitude. many of the players just had a stunned look on their face when the pies went rampant

Agree

[Owl]

D'accord

[Eat_em_Alive]

hate to say it ..but also think dimma and friends were outcoached yesterday

If we were out coached it's only because they had the players that could do the job they were instructed to do through experience, knowledge and being better. Dimma probably coached fine but our players could not execute their instructions and they let themselves down skill wise.

This is a good post, And possibly close to the answer. I was never disappointed that we lost to a better team but the way in which we did and didnt stand up

[eliminator]

Their forward structure appeared to work ours didn't. Alot of their goals were from leads. The decision to not penalize Swann in last quarter for holding the ball was atrocious. Very poor umpiring.

[rogerd3]

we safely assume the boys understand the plan, or did the pies not let the boys
play to the plan WP?

one quarter was all it took from where I sat.

First quarter in particular roger they followed things to the letter. The reason IMV we weren't further ahead was poor execution of skills at crucial stages.

Unfortunately one thing that we are very good at is defensive turnovers in our fwd 50, that is our Fwds creating turnovers in our FWD50 but yesterday as the game went on we didnt get that as from where I sat only Kingy & jack offered it for the entire game. Edwards tried but he was basically tagged out of contests.

The third was the one, pies got on top in the clearances easily. This wasn't helped by our guys not setting up at centre bounces the way they were instructed.

We wanted stoppages because up until yesterday we were 2nd in the comp in stoppages and the Pies were 9th or something like that. In the third that was the one thing stood out to me like beacon, no mid filed pressure meant no chance of stoppages

On o'Brien - clearly the 2 main people given the task of stopping him showed him no respect, hence he carved us up.

I find the comments about Petterd amusing, he's played spare man in defence the previous 2 weeks and there's been no complaints but we lose and it's suddenly a stupid move 

I would imagine then that Dimma would have being dirty that the guys didn't follow instructions in their set ups as discussed pre match.

thanks for your insight.

[Judge Roughneck]

Where can I see the stats from specifically the third quarter.