Richmond v Norf @ Etihad, Friday night - round 23

[mightytiges]

Half-time

Richmond     1.4      2.7-19
North Melb.   2.3      4.5-29

Goals: Ellis, Maric.


One word - shocking! 

[mightytiges]

When we have the ball 60-70m out, North are leaving the whole top of the 50 arc wide open. Instead we bomb it long to Jack or Vickery outnumbered with no crumbers front and square and North clear easily through the corridor they've left open  . 

[wayne]

We should have rested guys. They might have been a little more desperate.

[Lozza]

Simple case of between the ears, we want to win but expect to win given North rested so many players. North on the other hand not expected to win so fringe players come in and bust a gut knowing its most likely going to be their last game. This scenario is a classic loss loss for the RFC and one that if they can get over mentally then it will be a good boost for next week. If we lose then i think we are shot mentally and next week is basically a loss before we start. The worry for me is inside our forward 50, looks absolutely useless, Ty is having one of his shockers and with Jack being triple teamed we have very little left. In addition their run and carry out of 50 is the old slingshot where we seem to get caught every time. I think Newman (assuming he is playing) needs to be made sub as soon as possible and bring Lloyd on to at least get some of the loose ball inside 50.

[mightytiges]

Simple case of between the ears, we want to win but expect to win given North rested so many players. North on the other hand not expected to win so fringe players come in and bust a gut knowing its most likely going to be their last game. This scenario is a classic loss loss for the RFC and one that if they can get over mentally then it will be a good boost for next week. If we lose then i think we are shot mentally and next week is basically a loss before we start. The worry for me is inside our forward 50, looks absolutely useless, Ty is having one of his shockers and with Jack being triple teamed we have very little left. In addition their run and carry out of 50 is the old slingshot where we seem to get caught every time. I think Newman (assuming he is playing) needs to be made sub as soon as possible and bring Lloyd on to at least get some of the loose ball inside 50.

In defence of our forwards, the movement of the ball is too slow and worst of all predictable. Always down the line and then long high bombs deep where North is playing a spare man in defence. Need to switch the play, get some overlap going and find other forward hit-up targets 30-35m out so North defenders can't freely peel off onto Jack and TV.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Playing like a bunch of soft-cock pussies.....
I think all teams know how to bully the pansy of the AFL comp.   

[WA Tiger]

Vickery is not having a shocker, our ball movement is so slow that they are getting numbers back and playing two on one with the forwards, they are doing the same with Deledio and Jack. We need to spread more and get the ball in quicker and we need to plonk Ivan at FF, have Jack and Lids drag their backs out to,open it up and have Vicks in the ruck. If we keep bombing the ball in like we have been doing all night, it's over.

[WA Tiger]

Yep we didn't need that, just like the Crows game....stuff this pee ant team.

[julzqld]

  what else is on TV? 

[Tigeritis™©®]

19 points to halftime.

What a bloody joke of a club. 

[one-eyed]

Well that summed up our night. Ivan taps it backwards and Grigg and Lambert run into each other, allowing North to get the easy clearance for a goal  .

[WA Tiger]

Harvey will come on soon and pick up 90 possessions...

[one-eyed]

Dusty long bomb. Ball spills to Newy and his snaps it through  .

Understatement of the year  - we needed that!

Rich  25
North 35

[one-eyed]

Great play and goal, Bachar  .

Rich  31
North 35

[WA Tiger]

Now they are spreading.