Pretty simple

[big tone]

Did any of you guys watch the game last night?
It is pretty simple to see why both Essendon and North beat us most times we play lately, (when the games count anyway), it's because they both work much, much harder than we do. They run BOTH ways and have guys that WANT to tackle and that's something the RFC only does when thing go their way.
And it's been that way for a long time! (1995 I would say)
We can talk about Jack this or Tyrone that but the simple fact is we don't work hard enough.
Thoughts?

[Mr Magic]

Yep that's pretty simple.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Step 1;

BEAT THE SCUM!

...that is all.

[Diocletian]

Clarko's Cluster is so 2008.....

Forward press is fraught with danger when you carry so many downhill skiers and non-tackling one-way bludgers.

Corralling is for cows, zones are for parking, we need more tacklers, less drovers & traffic controllers....

When Hardwick first started he had us hunting in packs, a revelation after the Wallace years, now I find myself yearning for some of the fight we showed in our "best ninth ever" year of 2008.....also the year we became to first side to dismantle Clarko's cluster.

Yes.... there's hole in the bucket, dear Dimma, a hole.....

[bojangles17]

Why didn't they  win as many games as we did last year, it's not that simple 

[RollsRoyce]

North have a game plan against us which yields results for them every time. They crowd our forward line with every available body, forcing us into laborious, labour-intensive build ups that usually end in us having to take impossible shots from the pockets and boundary line. Then when they rebound, they continually find the space in their forward line that they deny us, because as big tone says, a lot of our players are too lazy to follow their opponents out and apply pressure. The confined dimensions of Emptyhead stadium where we always seem to draw them always aids their style of game too.
I'm hoping that this will be the year that Hardwick comes up with a plan to dismantle their game, and the team decides collectively to get on their bike and do the two way running and tackling necessary to put an end to this. Dropping the likes of Grigg and Petterd would be a solid start. But somehow I think this is just wishful thinking on my part. 

[mat073]

Pretty simple....it's not 2007/08 anymore- so dump the " injury prone never gonna get back to his best" Axel Foley and give a young kid like Miles/Gordon/Arnott  a go.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Pretty simple....it's not 2007/08 anymore- so dump the " injury prone never gonna get back to his best" Axel Foley and give a young kid like Miles/Gordon/Arnott  a go.

Can't give Miles a go unfortunately.  He cannot be elevated from rookie status unless there is a LTI.

[Dice]

Did any of you guys watch the game last night?
It is pretty simple to see why both Essendon and North beat us most times we play lately, (when the games count anyway), it's because they both work much, much harder than we do. They run BOTH ways and have guys that WANT to tackle and that's something the RFC only does when thing go their way.

 

Essendon and Richmond's head to head record over the past five years is pretty even. We've flogged them twice in the past two years so not sure where you're coming from with that one ?

As for North , they were horrible on Friday night. In fact their workrate which you applauded in your post was ****ing woeful !
Thank god we didn't play that badly , with such a pathetic lack of effort , or this site woulda really gone into meltdown.

Hopefully Dimma is smart enough not to get badly outcoached against North this year....again 

[yellowandback]

Dice, at a very minimum our work rate was the equal of the Roos - our last quarter fade out when having one extra fresh player was particularly disappointing.

[big tone]

I knew some bright spark would say we have beaten them the last two years, so that why I put in brackets "when the games counted anyway"
The last two seasons they have beaten us in both Dreamtime games when the season was still alive for both teams and we have beaten them late in the season when they had nothing to play for.
Pretty simple for most!

And as for North, not sure what you were watching but IMO they were very good in keeping in touch on Friday night, they ran and chased and they never gave in. We would have tried hard for a half and then it would have got all to hard. They IMO are not as talented as we are but they work a lot harder than we do. And have for a long time.
Same with the Bombers.

Anyway you seem to be the only poster so far to disagree.

[Dice]

I knew some bright spark would say we have beaten them the last two years, so that why I put in brackets "when the games counted anyway"
The last two seasons they have beaten us in both Dreamtime games when the season was still alive for both teams and we have beaten them late in the season when they had nothing to play for.
Pretty simple for most!

I said the last 5 years ! pretty simple for most to understand that ? And whaddya mean they had nothing to play for ? lmao. We beat them at the time of season when the whips are cracking. And we wouldve thrashed them if we'd got to play them in last years finals. I'm sure of it

And as for North, not sure what you were watching but IMO they were very good in keeping in touch on Friday night, they ran and chased and they never gave in.

Are you for real ? I sure did watch that game and me , like every single scribe and general supporter , thought North's ' effort ' for want of a better word , was absolutely pathetic ! 
 If they were so good how come even their prez said they shoulda lost by over 100 points ??
Sorry mate but they were the worst performed team of the round.

[(•))(©™]

Richmond throw stat tackles. Just enough to bring any given incident to the umpires conscious.

I don't see any solution either, given the list lacks any genuine mongrel bar 1 or 2
and that's not going to carry a team.

[bojangles17]

Pretty simple....it's not 2007/08 anymore- so dump the " injury prone never gonna get back to his best" Axel Foley and give a young kid like Miles/Gordon/Arnott  a go.

Not as silly as it sounds ,

[Diocletian]

Why didn't they  win as many games as we did last year, it's not that simple 

Correct ...it's not that simple....