Change of plan: What your club has done differently this year (AFL site)

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Change of plan: What your club has done differently this year

Nathan Schmook
AFL.com.au
3 August 2016

RICHMOND

Game-plan
There has been little consistency to the Tigers' game-plan. They started as a high play-on team, but changed tack after round five. During a positive stretch between rounds eight and 14 they moved the ball through the corridor, but that has also been replaced now with more conservative ball movement.

Whiteboard
Key forward Jack Riewoldt is lining up higher up the ground and averaging a career-high 15.1 possessions. However, with 41 goals to his name, he could finish the season with fewer than 50 for the first time since 2009. Shaun Hampson has taken the No.1 ruck role from Ivan Maric, and injuries have dictated a rotating cast of half-backs, including Jayden Short, Corey Ellis and Brandon Ellis at times. Youth has been the priority since finals were taken off the agenda in early July.

You might not have noticed
Twice this season (in rounds five and nine) the Tigers have failed to win a possession in the centre corridor after a rebound from their defensive 50, meaning they are generally being forced wide. They rank 15th in the AFL for this category.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-08-03/change-of-plan-what-your-club-has-done-differently-this-year

[eliminator]

The statement Youth has been the priority since finals were taken off the agenda in early July not backed up by the evidence. If we were focused on youth Grigg and Houli would not be playing. Games would have been given to players like Butler.   

[naturaldisaster]

So you're ignoring the youth we have played and focusing on the one player we haven't?

[eliminator]

Mentioning Butler was just an example. Look at our team against GWS it was hardly a young team. Look at the team composition thorough out the year before making judgement on whether we have focused on youth.

[Diocletian]

So you're ignoring the youth we have played and focusing on the one player we haven't?

Moore & Griffiths this week.... Vickery getting chance after chance while McBean gets all of 3 games to prove himself, despite the former's consistently worse returns and lazier efforts at an older age....dropping Lennon, after two games, and Menadue but never B.Ellis, Edwards or Grigg....

Yeah kudos to Halfstep and his "Sweet 'berg of Youth".......

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All these big guys and nit a ruckman in sight.