Weekend trivial question: Who was more pathetic? Richmond or Carlton?Mark Robinson
Herald-Sun
Monday, July 8 2013It's a tough one.
Being embarrassed on the MCG against a bitter rival, with finals on offering, and not giving a yelp for three quarters?
Or being embarrassed at Etihad Stadium, against a team which is neck and neck in development, and not giving a serious yelp for four quarters?
Yep, tough.
It's like being asked how do you want to die: burnt alive or eaten by a shark?
Doubts are clearly back on the Tigers' door step.
They remain in the eight but have only beaten one team in the eight and that's Port Adelaide.
And they play Gold Coast this weekend, in Cairns, where all of Richmond's dead are buried.
They lost the unlosable there last year, and Paul Roos described it as the worst 47 seconds of football in the history of the game.
The Tigers go north with concern.
Until they can eradicate from their persona the type of performance we saw on Saturday, the Tigers will always be a ''maybe side''.
The Kangaroos monstered them.
They hunted in numbers, ran them ragged, key forwards kicked goals, mids kicked goals, defenders swarmed out of defence, and key defenders completely dominated their opposition.
The Tigers looked shaky and vulnerable.
Deledio was shut down, Vickery was a shadow from the week before, Jack couldn't get it, Edwards disappeared, Conca was stop start, Vlastuin was quiet, Chaplin and Newman didn't lead, and most of the rest of them were in and out of the game.
It was the worst Richmond up against the best of North Melbourne.
The ball is back in Richmond's court.
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Back to the question.
Probably Carlton. They seem to be heading south and rebuilding, while Richmond is steering north on the back of a rebuild.
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