The insane records set in Richmond’s horrific 113-point loss (Fox)

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The insane records set in Richmond’s horrific 113-point loss to Sydney Swans in Round 23

Max Laughton
Foxsports
28 August 2016

IT was a game that had stats fans reaching for the history books at halftime.

And while Richmond did win the fourth quarter, it was all Sydney all day as the Swans wrapped up the minor premiership with a dominant victory, 25.14 (164) to 7.9 (51).

It was an utter disaster of a performance from the Tigers, who did come in as heavy underdogs against the ladder leaders but would have at least hoped to put up some fight in the opening three terms.

“It’s embarrassing, verging on unprofessional,” declared Fox Footy commentator Jason Dunstall.

His co-commentator Jonathan Brown agreed, saying of the Tigers in the third quarter that “they’ve given up (and are) showing no fight whatsoever.”

Dunstall compared Richmond’s showing to that of witches’ hats at training.

“And someone should at least move the witches’ hats out of (Lance Franklin’s) way,” he joked.

In fact the closest matchup of the evening was Buddy against the Tigers, with the Coleman Medal runner-up kicking 7.4 to Richmond’s 7.9.

Sydney’s complete dominance saw them leading by 81 points at halftime and ahead by triple digits with seven minutes gone in the third quarter.

The Swans led by 123 points at three quarter time, the eighth-biggest margin at that point of a match in VFL/AFL history.

The Tigers kicked five goals to Sydney’s three in the final term, but Dunstall certainly wasn’t impressed by the late recovery.

“This is just wallpaper over a couple of cracks, although most of them are still exposed,” he said.

Sydney’s score of 164 points was the club’s highest mark since Round 16, 2013’s 129-point win over Greater Western Sydney, when the Swans reached 171 points.

The final margin on Saturday was 113 points — the ninth-biggest ever for the Sydney Swans, and 12th-biggest when you add in South Melbourne’s long history.

However that means it wasn’t quite the biggest win for Sydney over Richmond ever — that record still belongs to a game back in Round 7, 2006 when the Swans got up by 118 points.

Not that Damien Hardwick or his players will be comforted by that.

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[Lozza]

Witches hats is Hardwicks gameplan in a nutshell. A game of chipping around and moving from one end of the ground to the other in a stilted methodical fashion much like you would play a game of Chinese Checkers.

The problem is that once we turn the ball over we then become targets for the killer Chinese Checkers move where the opposition just navigates from defense to attack and takes all our players out of play with minimal ease.

Everyone can see how easy his gameplan is to pick apart but he has this delusion that it works and when it doesn't he puts it down to the quality of the opposition or poor execution on the day. No Dumma, accept the facts, its a poor style of play and wont win you a premiership so why persist.

[The Machine]

They don't have quality in the coaches box to come up with anything else i am afraid.

[Beans]

These commentators poo me to death. They say the first thing that comes into their heads. Melbourne's capitulation yesterday was just as bad and they were playing near a full strength side. We clearly weren't. Don't get me wrong - our effort was pathetic and we were a rabble, but geeze if I were a Melbourne supporter I would be filthy on that performance- but the "commentators" make stuffing excuses for them - long season etc. Apply the same rules and logic you flogs FFS. Rant over.