Richmond v Norf @ Etihad, Friday night - round 23

[🏅Dooks]

Time to kick heads in. Get on the front foot and send a warning to any team who wants to play

[Stalin]

Afl. Sucks.

As does Norf.

Should have taken the 100m and peeed off to Queensland

[one-eyed]

From the enemy ...

Prior history and game styles
nmfc.com.au
September 3, 2015

North will face a different Tigers side to the one it defeated at Blundstone Arena back in May.

On that afternoon, the Kangaroos kicked 14 of their 16 goals from opposition turnovers. It appeared to be the catalyst for Richmond to tighten up its method of play.

The ball movement became more considered for Richmond, the disposal distance shorter and the tempo of a match largely ruled by their own doing.

In the two sides’ first meeting, the Tigers went long with almost 39 per cent of their kicks, approximately their season average to that point. Since then the number has dropped to less than 34, a substantial decrease.

In the first six rounds of the season, Richmond averaged two more minutes in possession than opponents. From Round 7 onwards, the number has more than doubled to 4:06.

Sides have been able to enjoy success against North in the past through holding possession and controlling the tempo of the match. In that respect, it’s almost a perfect tune up for the Kangaroos, able to test themselves against a challenging game style right on the eve of a finals appearance.

http://www.nmfc.com.au/news/2015-09-03/definitive-preview-rd-23

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Send in the reportables...

[mightytiges]

It'll be interesting how we play tonight tactically.

I thought during the Collingwood game that we were setting up differently defensively as team. We're usually a team that presses up on the opposition. However, against the Pies, we stayed back and defended from our back half. Once we gained possession, we then counter-attacked at pace into an open forward line. It was more like how North plays against us, where we would bombard our F50 but continually get sucker-punched on the rebound  . I wondered after the Collingwood game, if we were practising this 'stay back' team defence in readiness to use North's gameplan against themselves tonight. But now, with the chance to play North two weeks in a row and with them resting a heap of players, I wonder if we'll try to win tonight without showing our cards and hold off the 'stay back' defence until the Elimination Final.

[Yeahright]

Dimma has a plan B

[potsclub]

I'm starting to get quite excited for next week!!!
Dimma has done well to make sure the boys feed on who ever is in front of us each week.
I have to say when you play with fire you get burnt, said that a bit this week.
But North are doing us one big favour tonight by giving us a bit of an edge. North have had an extremely good run against us and you would expect for a club to go into a final with that form. Fortunately for us we are going to break that hoodoo and smash the Kangas tonight, not only smash but rip their hearts out.
How, because when next week comes and we beat them again they will use the smashing this week as an excuse.
I will be there tonight, and if any North supporter annoys me, I will be calling them soft and too shut up.

After we smash em tonight lets get on the gold coast bandwagon, that will make things interesting.

[TigerMonk]

Do members need a reserve ticket?

At this stage members without a reserved seat will be able to scan to gain access. We still encourage members to upgrade to a reserved seat to get the best possible seat.

& what waste money to feed club Coffers. Why would anyone want to spend extra money to watch a dead game full of North nuffers. Save ya money lads for the final

[one-eyed]

Lloyd is the sub tonight.


NO LATE CHANGES

FINAL INTERCHANGES

Richmond: Chris Newman, Anthony Miles, Nick Vlastuin

Substitute: Sam Lloyd


North Melbourne: Ryan Bastinac, Ben Brown, Sam Gibson 

Substitute: Brent Harvey   

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-09-04/final-teams-round-23

[one-eyed]

RICHMOND v NORTH MELBOURNE



Hot:

Ty Vickery has been Richmond's top-scoring player in the last month with 18.6 points per game - ranked 10th in the competition.

Drew Petrie has averaged 17.1 points per game against Richmond since 2010 - his best against any club.

Not:

Jack Riewoldt sits fourth overall at the club but was the club's fith-lowest scoring player last weekend from 92 per cent game time.

Robin Nahas has a career-high rating of 75th overall, but is outside the top 300 for average points per game this season.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-09-04/player-ratings-round-23-the-hot-and-the-not

[WA Tiger]

Need to go out and get stuck into the goals, be up at half time by 60 and then rest the stars!!!!

[mightytiges]

That'll be the ideal scenario, WAT. However, we are playing North  .

Main thing is we get through without injuries (touchwood)  .

[mightytiges]

Lennon crumb and snap misses.

1 - 0

[mightytiges]

Cotch almost had his head pulled off and no free  .

[mightytiges]

Awesome kick by Lids to Dusty. Goes towards TV but it's off his hands for a point.

2 - 1