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We sat third level aisle 45. Highest we've sat in ages because we're level 1 at the G and got to see things we normally don't get to. We couldn't believe how stagnant Richmond were whenever we had the ball in the back half. Like you said, bugger all movement besides some hand waving. One time someone even kicked it Cotchin while Wallis was standing there trying to dry root him. I don't even think he called for the ball
Commentators don't actually pay much attention to our list or players outside of headline fodder Riewoldt & Martin- I mean they keep saying what success recycled players like Grigg & Houli have been. Do they actually watch our matches?
Quote from: Diocletian on April 06, 2014, 02:27:35 AMCommentators don't actually pay much attention to our list or players outside of headline fodder Riewoldt & Martin- I mean they keep saying what success recycled players like Grigg & Houli have been. Do they actually watch our matches?No they don't, they read the Stats and are seduced by them. They see that Grigg touches it 25+ times and decree he's had a good game. They see Houli launch a 50 metre bomb to someone running hard on the wing (rare I know but happens sometimes) and lauded his precision long kickingThat's what commentators do
What ever tactics or game plans there are, don't mean jack, the players are just pathetic at their disposals. Fix that, then we'll see where any, if any, plans actually do exist, and if they actually do work.Start dropping players that continually turn the ball over and/or players that continually miss targets, it's a friggin disgrace and stuffing embarrassing. And especially players that just STAND AND WATCH
On the way to the train station heading to the game I was listening to Alastair Clarkson on MMM. They were trying to give him credit for blokes like Hill, Langford, Ceglar etc who have been in their system for a while and can come in and play their role in absence of first choice guns but he said their senior players are actually in fact an extension of their coaching group and should get the credit. He said it's guys like Hodge and Mitchell who know everything there is to know about their game take charge at training and then take it on to the field. When they're under the pump it is then not up to Clarkson in the box to relay the orders, rather those leaders who are very much coaches manage to get the game back under control themselves. I imagine it's the same thing at Geelong. We don't have anything of the sort at Richmond. Past regimes rooted the club and the squad so bad we don't have anyone. It's the only reason I can even try and grasp at why Newman can still get a game but he's more harm than help these days. We still rely on Dimma having to leave the box to order the players from the bench (late final quarter vs Blues) and telling the players at half time to pull their fingers out and actually play the way they've been instructed to play (second half vs Bulldogs).Us and the other poo clubs should have 4 or 5 of these gun kids running around for the expansion teams each which doesn't help the cause. I don't blame the club or the coaches. Something stinks in our playing group and I can't put my finger on it. Any time we're expected to win they go into cruise control. Then they come out and have a dip against good sides (at least for 3 quarters) because they know they don't have a hope in hell otherwise.
