Furious Chaplin tells Tigers to 'grow up' ........ (afl site)

[one-eyed]

Chaplin's press conference today ...

VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2015-05-11/chaplin-press-conference-may-11th

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Furious Chaplin tells Tigers to 'grow up'

Peter Ryan 
afl.com.au
May 11, 2015 11:51 AM


ANGRY Richmond defender Troy Chaplin says the Tigers need to "grow up and act like men" if they are to turn their spluttering season around.

The 29-year-old said it was time to get to the heart of why the Tigers sat 13th on the ladder with just two wins from six rounds.

"We need to challenge one another and take the feedback and be honest with one another," Chaplin said.

"We have got respect for one another. We need to challenge one another and put it on one another to improve as a group and individually as well and that goes for me as well."

The frustrated defender said the team was making critical mistakes that enabled the opposition to score from turnovers.

He said the Tigers knew they were not performing to expectations, both internal and external.

"I'm spewing with the way we've been playing at the moment and I'm not the only one," Chaplin said.

"There are not one or two players to improve. It's every single one of us."

Chaplin emphasised that the group needed to remain united to address the challenges they now faced.

He said it was the players, rather than coach Damien Hardwick, who should be feeling the heat for the performances.     

"At the moment we're letting him down as a playing group," Chaplin said.

Despite the hard conversations ahead, Chaplin remained confident the group would stay strong and emerge better for the experience.

"The journey is never going to be easy," Chaplin said.

"If we start to fracture as a group, that is when the club can unfold and go back to the dark days and we don't want that as a group."

Part of the solution was to train under pressure even more than they have been in a bid to eradicate mistakes made in games, he said. 

Dropped marks and poor kicks during the third quarter against North Melbourne were costly as the team conceded seven goals.

"Those errors are silly mistakes that are undefendable at times," Chaplin said.

Richmond had as many handballs as kicks against the Kangaroos, and 28 more handballs than kicks against Geelong, but Chaplin said that wasn't part of the Tigers' game plan. 

"For some reason we've forced ourselves into trying to play quick flat out football," he said.

"We need to execute a lot better and that doesn't mean playing that handball happy game. We're a good, skilful team by foot."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-05-11/furious-chaplin-tells-tigers-to-grow-up

[Lozza]

Chaplin would have to have more than his fair share of clangers since coming to the club, for someone in the leadership group its players like him who should be leading by example but instead continue to make the same fundamental mistakes made by others. Cotch is another who seems to have gone from elite to a kicking hack, do we really have anyone who can nail a 30 metre pass, i don't think so to be honest and maybe that's the centre of our problems, we simply cannot execute the basic skills of the game especially when under pressure. We as supporters know that and opposition players and coaches know that so we become easy beats as we are at the moment, just wait for us to make the mistakes and make us pay.

[wayne]

"For some reason we've forced ourselves into trying to play quick flat out football," he said.

Huh? 

If what we're doing at the moment is quick football, I'd hate to see slow football.

[Phil Mrakov]

  Make it stop make it stop

 

[JVT]

He wants them to 'grow up'?   WTF does that have to do with anything?

The one thing even more frustrating then the way we are playing is the players coming out and making these sorts of comments during the week.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

At least he is showing some emotion - now for match day

[Diocletian]

Coach & match commitee need to grow up and drop old hacks like Chaplin. The players just need to shut up and start playing decent football.

[Penelope]

the problem is that each club is required to provide for a certain amount of interviews to the media so they are obliged to do so.

Yeah, actions do speak loader than words though.

[TigerMonk]

What he means is the seniors players are playing like bunnies & should be playing the ball harder. They are playing scared & you can tell the way they want to get rid of the ball quickly without thinking & using the skills & mindset that got them to AFL football. Common sense really.

[1980]

Shut up Chaplin

[TigerLand]

This is what happens when you draw too many lines in the sand.

Grow up and stop playing with buckets and spades.

[Darth Tiger]

RFC drawing lines in the sand inside the tent.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

They've drawn a trench this time!

[🏅Dooks]

Wot a joke

[tony_montana]

wow, this bloke of all blokes really has no business having a crack at the playing group, he is a leader and is responsible for some of the biggest clangers on field each week. His pedestrian loping to the loose ball when he's 20metres clear only to be beaten to the ball is just plain embarrassing, seen him nutmegged by the ball twice this year when he was the last man or sweeper, got covered by Rance one of the times otherwise would've been the biggest blooper goal of the season.