Terry Wallace says please explain DimmaJoshua Papanikolaou
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11 Apr 2016, 12:23PMThe comment made by Richmond coach Damien Hardwick after the loss to Adelaide that his team may need to take half a step back to go two steps forward is confusing, says Terry Wallace.
After finishing fifth last season with 15 wins it would be reasonable to suggest that the Tigers would be pretty much set on who is doing what on the field regarding their game plan.
“I found it a very strange statement because Richmond won 15 games last year, so to be saying that you need to take a step back to go forward – if I was there I would have asked ‘please explain’,” said Wallace on SEN radio.
“Structurally, I see Richmond play their best football when they free flow… I’m not sure what’s going on with them at the moment.
“Well they won disposal by 42, uncontested possession by 39, won marks by 35, they had 15 to four marks inside 50 and got slaughtered.
“But it was turnovers, twelve goals to four against them for turnovers.”
Kevin Bartlett was also confused with Hardwick’s comments in the post-match press conference when he tried to downplay the six-goal defeat by mentioning the various statistics his team had won.
“The game has been ambushed a bit by stats because on the weekend I heard Dimma Hardwick tell us that the Tigers won every stat known to man but they got smashed on the scoreboard and never looked like winning,” explained Bartlett.
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