WESTCOAST EAGLES -THE LINE IN THE SAND GAME !

[Lozza]

The only entertainment for the whole night is still to come, Dimma's presser, let me guess, injuries and young players plus the huge experience drain we had at the end of last season....this guy is deadset delusional, is going to have the blowtorch applied well and truly over the coming weeks, interested to see when the cracks start to appear.

[mightytiges]

They just showed Peggy and Benny in the stands in discussion.


Final Score

Richmond    2.0    3.1     6.3     9.3-57   
West Coast  7.2  10.13  12.16  18.17-125

Goals: Riewoldt 4, Rioli 2, Lloyd 2, Lambert


West Coast have forced 47 Richmond turnovers in the midfield, scoring 8.4.52 as a result. Richmond has forced just 27 West Coast turnovers in the midfield scoring 1.1.7 as a result.

West Coast has kicked 13.13.91 from chains originating in the midfield zone. Richmond has kicked 8.1.49 from midfield chains.

http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2016/4/wce-v-rich

[Hellenic Tiger]

In 2012 we won 10 and apart from losing to Carlton in round 1 by 44 points and apart from that our greatest losing margin was 22 points to Fremantle in Round 20.

Back then we were full of optimism as apart from making elementary errors that cost us which many would admit were part of growing pains we played a much more fluent brand off footy.

Percentage finished around 117 too and we kicked scores of 100 or more 8 times.

Defensively we are more sound but that comes with Rance evolving to the beast that he is.

I think we lack flair. We play safe footy. We lack an ability for someone to take the game by the scruff of the neck. In trying to find consistency Dimma has taken away natural instinct over the course of the last 3 or so years which in that time may have given us a reasonable win loss record but has stifled also any further development or growth in players in the stage of their careers from year 3-6 and thus we find ourselves still making the same mistakes.

Furthermore curbing natural instinct leaves a player in two minds and thus more prone to error which then leads to the same old adage that we are mentally weak, which we are.

Lamentably it will still get worse this year before it gets better this year but by then the same old ending with a horrible loss exposing our deficiencies will only come to fruition, thus groundhog day.

[big tone]

How many guys do you think are actually up for the fight from our list?
We have so many insipid, soft players. All looking to give the footy off so they don't have to get body contact.
Houli
Ellis
Grigg
Griffiths
Hunt
Astbury
Hampson
Chaplin
Vickery
Lennon

Half our side from tonight. And 5 guys from our backline.

[Lozza]

How many guys do you think are actually up for the fight from our list?
We have so many insipid, soft players. All looking to give the footy off so they don't have to get body contact.
Houli
Ellis
Grigg
Griffiths
Hunt
Astbury
Hampson
Chaplin
Vickery
Lennon

Half our side from tonight. And 5 guys from our backline.

Yes but every one of them is a really nice guy 

[hyperlite]

laughable performance really...

A mixture of about 3-4 top end players (cotch, rance, Jroo) ... followed by some mid tiers who did OK (KMAC, Lambert, Astbury) ... followed by some VERY average players (HUNT, HAMPSON, B.ELLIS)... followed by some youngsters who showed glimpses (RIOLI, LLOYD).

A filthy night though. Many questionable decisions by our messiah coach SOFTwick.

Personally i feel more comfortable with a belting like this as i'm hoping it will open some wounds that have been stitched up in recent times. We aren't even close to winning a final. we are not a team. We have not learnt anything over the pre season. We are not playing for the coach. We will most definitely struggle all year.

Hardwick spent majority of his career in the backline, and he has kept the defensive mentality throughout his time with us. This is not the way forward. We must adapt to the attacking style that the dogs/hawks/port play or wait until the next revolution in football.

[camboon]

Our running efforts were pathetic, they didn't run hard to space or to team tackle which is where pressure and turn overs come from
Hartley , Richardson and Jackson just can't compete as most other sides are better at recruiting even though we now are a big club with big money. Why can't we land a decent player?

[dwaino]

Anyone just simply not give a stuff? Same thing every year. I am completely void of empathy and not even angry at the result. I switched it off about 15 minutes into the first. Richmond are a chore to follow and the only thing still holding me is the life time investment.

[Stalin]

How many guys do you think are actually up for the fight from our list?
We have so many insipid, soft players. All looking to give the footy off so they don't have to get body contact.
Houli
Ellis
Grigg
Griffiths
Hunt
Astbury
Hampson
Chaplin
Vickery
Lennon

Half our side from tonight. And 5 guys from our backline.

If keep lennon , astbury

[(•))(©™]

Anyone just simply not give a stuff? Same thing every year. I am completely void of empathy and not even angry at the result. I switched it off about 15 minutes into the first. Richmond are a chore to follow and the only thing still holding me is the life time investment.

I'm there.

[Yeahright]

Does vickery actually wear pink lace knickers?

Only if they're edible

[Yeahright]

Andrew Moore's defensive efforts read refusing to do any chasing is embarrassing not to mention pathetic

How did he get selected seeing as we are in the defensive efforts paradigm?

He some how fell over enough times that he landed on players and managed 15 tackles or something

[Chuck17]

Well that's enough self pity from all of you, let's pick ourselves up off the floor and get pumped for next week

[WilliamPowell]

Andrew Moore's defensive efforts read refusing to do any chasing is embarrassing not to mention pathetic

How did he get selected seeing as we are in the defensive efforts paradigm?

He some how fell over enough times that he landed on players and managed 15 tackles or something

Get out the tape and watch the third when he is less than 2 metres from his opponent he flaps his arms and tells Houli to chase who's 10 metres away. Poor, non existent 2nd effort. Then fast forward about 8 minutes later he just doesn't chase, takes 2 steps and stops, great effort right there.

At stoppages he tackled, in one on ones when he needed to chase he didn't

If what he dished up last night is what we've got to look forward to then we've wasted a spot on our list. Jed Adcock would give more than this bloke

[cub]

Great, just absolutely fabulous recruiting.
Spend the stuffing money tigers or you gunna have no club to spend it on soon