Josh Caddy has retired [merged]

[MintOnLamb]

Could Miles have been in last nights team as well as Caddy?
Caddy probably is more versatile?

[Tigeritis™©®]

Caddy doesn't have to be a superstar and doesn't have to be quick.

He is there as big body in and under midfielder. Vlastuin and Miles have similar roles.

Allows Martin and Cotchin to be more damaging, which worked ok last night

That's what was said about Townsend. 

[mat073]

Townsend wouldn't get a regular game at Geelong

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Townsend wouldn't get a game in Geelongs reserves

[Diocletian]

Caddy is several levels above Townsend.

[the claw]

Didn't like his short steps under that highball into our forward 50 in the last though that allowed the Carlton defender (forget who it was) to take the uncontested mark...anyone else see that?

Other than that I think he'll be a good pick up, just don't expect a star....a bigger Miles who can go forward...will get caught htb more than Miles does because he's too big too scam the head-high frees......

Now your starting to understand my looks like tarzan plays like jane quotes.  Also for a bloke his size he gets pushed around an awful lot.

Miles or Caddy fmd Miles has always been a street in front of him.Is really sold short by most tiger supporters is Miles.

[big tone]

Caddy did well for his first game as a Tiger.
He will get better and better the more the season goes on and will be really valuable allowing a couple of our more skilful midfielders to get the footy more outside, and allowing them to spend more time in our forwardline.
I'm tipping he will kick 25 plus goals to himself.
Very very valuable pick up for the club imo.

[Lozza]

To be honest every time he got near the ball last night he was mauled, didnt seem to have any space, does happen sometimes, sure he will be better for the run and will improve. He still had a moment of brilliance and its having more players who can do something out of the ordinary that wins games that previously we wouldn't have won. We now have a squad with a bit of X-Factor, something that's been sorely missed for quite some time.

[Andyy]

Yes I think there's space for both him and Miles.

Miles is actually quite a good kick for goal too.

No reason we can't just have one in the middle at a time if people are worried about pace.

Keeping Caddy in the side, don't tell me you wouldn't rather swap out the likes of Hunt for Miles...

[tony_montana]

I watched the replay and watched his game closely as this guy is copping a fair bit of criticism. He was quietish with 17 touches but kicked a goal, almost a second,set one up and had 9 CP. Pretty much did what he was recruited to do minus a handful of possessions. He'll be a good pickup for us.

[Dougeytherichmondfan]

I watched the replay and watched his game closely as this guy is copping a fair bit of criticism. He was quietish with 17 touches but kicked a goal, almost a second,set one up and had 9 CP. Pretty much did what he was recruited to do minus a handful of possessions. He'll be a good pickup for us.

Fair call TM but I'll wait to make my decision after we play some decent opp. We got a lot of guys that go missing when we need them to stand up *Cough* Grigg *Cough* Ellis*

[The Machine]

Was not sighted in the first 3 quarters but his last was very important and that one handed pick up late was huge

[Simonator]

Yeh was quiet. I'll tip him come back. One thing I've noticed.. does anyone else reckon he hasn't had much midfield time ? Supposedly he came to Richmond to get more mid time

[Gracie]

Yeh was quiet. I'll tip him come back. One thing I've noticed.. does anyone else reckon he hasn't had much midfield time ? Supposedly he came to Richmond to get more mid time

Have a look where they are using him.

The plan is to retain one mid deep forward all the time and 2 or 3 stay in centre wing. So we are only defending with 14 or 15 in the defensive area. We make up the short fall with manuc pressure (yeah who would have thought that would work?)

From the fox footy at half time they had a graphic of Martin's possessions and he had more in defense than thecprevious two games.

Now Caddy and Martin will swap roles. So if Martin was forced to spend more time in defence then Caddy was left stranded in the forward line for considerable time.

The stats say he had 87% game time so this and the low possession count supports this.

[FLATearth]

Was good in the last when it mattered

I don't mind him. His big body fits in well with the small young forwards.

We have certainly had lesser role players