Why aren't we better?

[WilliamPowell]

I enjoyed 2015 for the most part - Demons and Roos x 2 - aside.
These brain fades - selection of Conca and Griffith, kicking into the wind etc are baffling because they are SO unnecessary.
Isn't the game already hard enough lads?
I question Richmonds savvy - we appear naïve as to when is the right time to take risks and then what risk is worth taking.
I'm not as concerned at the list as some are on the forum.
The right talent surrounded by the right leadership and the best development would make a difference

Can't argue with any of that

Though I think our development is a lot better than it was, certainly room for improvement but it has improved thanks to Choco Williams

But for me a lot of it comes down to leadership on field.... disappears too quickly in finals. People can say what about the Sydney game, what about the Hawthorn game in the H&A season but they mean little when you fall apart like we did in the EF.

[Stalin]

It's not that one team was fresh while the other played the previous week...

It's not that Norf are better than us or have a more even side...

It's da 'leadership' lol

[tony_montana]

More than anything else the EF debacle was lost at the selection table imo.

[Stalin]

The selection table, the previous week

[Hard Roar Tiger]

The selection table, the previous week

Maybe but we'd play Adelaide over there instead.
I reckon that was a 50:50 call although they did run over us in the 2nd half.
BTW, if Norf are so good then how'd the GC smash em by 9 goals last season?

[Stalin]

Norf are in "no mans land", "middling" side like us, thàt happen to spank RFC regularly

Can't find anyone saying they are so good

[tony_montana]

The selection table, the previous week

No conca no griffiths = win, very confident about that, we were 3 short Ffs and still should have pinched it at the death

[yandb]

The selection table, the previous week

No conca no griffiths = win, very confident about that, we were 3 short Ffs and still should have pinched it at the death

Thirty shots to twenty we should have been belted on the scoreboard but our unusually accurate kicking kept us in the game.

Lets not delude ourselves unless we change our gameplan the next result will be the same against North.

[mat073]

The selection table, the previous week

No conca no griffiths = win, very confident about that, we were 3 short Ffs and still should have pinched it at the death

Thirty shots to twenty we should have been belted on the scoreboard but our unusually accurate kicking kept us in the game.

Lets not delude ourselves unless we change our gameplan the next result will be the same against North.

North were the better team on the day but included in their 30 "shots" were 5 rushed behinds .

[mat073]

Norf are in "no mans land", "middling" side like us, thàt happen to spank RFC regularly

Can't find anyone saying they are so good

At least we are not an ageing " middling " team that has peaked .

Age at the start of the 2016 season.

Ivan  30              Harvey  37
Lids.  28              Petrie. 33
                          Del santo 32
                           Firrito  32
                           Waite.  33

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Add Wells 31 next year, McMahon 30 and Sam Gibson also 30.
They also rookied Farren Ray lulz

[Stalin]

Most of who would walk into our best side

[mat073]

Most of who would walk into our best side

And by the end of 2017 all will be gone

Meanwhile Jack , Rance , Dusty , Vickery , Cotchin , Vlaustin , Grimes , Miles etc all still in their prime.

[tony_montana]

The selection table, the previous week

No conca no griffiths = win, very confident about that, we were 3 short Ffs and still should have pinched it at the death

Thirty shots to twenty we should have been belted on the scoreboard but our unusually accurate kicking kept us in the game.

Lets not delude ourselves unless we change our gameplan the next result will be the same against North.

Not the point, the game as it stood we were in it up to our eyeballs with a few mins remaining and should have pinched it bc we had momentum. Better selection would have got us over the line as the game stood -  imo of course

[Stalin]

Shoulda
Coulda
Didn't