Chaplin was on SEN this morning ...
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Chaplin: Tigers working harderJoshua Papanikolaou
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11.15AM 4-6-2014Richmond are in a big hole after 10 rounds of football and Troy Chaplin told SEN that only hard work is going to see them improve on their 3-7 record.
The Tigers defender says the players have been working hard to turn around their poor form but it has not yielded a change in results so far.
“I think the toughest thing is that you do extras, you work hard at training.
“You’re training harder, doing one-on-ones and contested footy then you come to game day and it’s just not coming together.”
They are placed a miserable 13th on the ladder in a year where expectations were high and will likely miss out on playing finals this year.
Chaplin told Morning Glory they haven’t stopped working hard at training to get the team back on track because that is the only choice they have.
“That’s the most frustrating bit that you’re working really hard, and you can either go two ways – you can stop or you can continue doing it because hard work is the only thing that’s going to get you out of it.”
http://www.sen.com.au/display-article-2013/Chaplin-Tigers-working-harder/65137“We’re all in this together,” Chaplin said.
“We speak about the four walls at the footy club, and we’re inside those four walls, obviously.
“What matters to us the most is what’s going on within those four walls.
“We don’t worry about outside influences because, if we start worrying about them, then it just affects the camaraderie of the group.
“The group’s actually been extremely positive, given the circumstances.
“Monday, and a Tuesday, it can be pretty tough, obviously, going through the reviews. But when we hit the track on Tuesday it’s, forget about that, let’s get on with it.
“There’s no use dwelling on it because, otherwise, we’re just going to fall into a greater hole.”
“We feel for ‘Dimma’ because he’s got to go in and face the media when, as a player, you feel like we should be facing the media,” he said.
“At the end of the day, we’re the ones out there that are letting the Club down.”
The 28-year-old veteran of 172 league games, admitted his own form had, overall, been well below expectations throughout the first half of the 2014 season.
“Individually, it’s been a pretty poor start to the year,” Chaplin said.
“The last couple of weeks have been pretty good . . . the GWS game and then again on the weekend, was pretty consistent, which was good.
“Probably the Melbourne game, my first half was atrocious. It was just one of those games where everything just went against me. But the second half, it started to turn a little bit, and the last couple of weeks have been good.
“It has been a slow build-up, and probably my form reflects the team’s form as well. There are a few of us like that at the moment, and we’re trying to find a way out of it.”
“We just have to continue to take the game on, and we can’t go back into our shell,” he said.
“That’s the only thing that’s going to get us out of it . . .”
Full article at: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2014-06-04/tigers-stick-tight
