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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #210 on: April 24, 2017, 11:25:58 PM »
If hogan could have caught the ball in that last quarter the Dees could have won. He dropped 3 or 4 about 30m out. All contested hard gets in the wet but we were lucky it wasnt his night.

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #211 on: April 24, 2017, 11:27:01 PM »
If hogan could have caught the ball in that last quarter the Dees could have won. He dropped 3 or 4 about 30m out. All contested hard gets in the wet but we were lucky it wasnt his night.

Wouldn't have dropped it if someone threw him a pack of Winnie Blues  :shh
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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #213 on: April 25, 2017, 06:43:40 AM »
Good game by Caddy. Great to beat Dees.

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #214 on: April 25, 2017, 08:13:15 AM »
Great night, great atmosphere, great win, enjoying the ride

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #215 on: April 25, 2017, 08:14:12 AM »
Fantastic
The will to win says it all

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #216 on: April 25, 2017, 08:36:47 AM »
A great win that one. You have to single out Houli and Grigg. Others probably played better but they both played quality games.

Re: Elton. He is the worst player I've seen in 20 years. Wtf is wrong with that bloke. Ball bouncing off his head was comical.

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #217 on: April 25, 2017, 11:23:43 AM »
Houli was excellent last night - particularly in the last. Cops it a lot on this board but he's comfortably best 22 and will be for a couple years yet.

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #218 on: April 25, 2017, 02:24:47 PM »
I thought Nank was outstanding. His second efforts and tackling great to see. Really happy we got him to this club. Butler continues to impress as does Rioli.

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #219 on: April 25, 2017, 03:04:28 PM »
I think we can add Astbury to the list of Hero's tonight as well!
Kept hogan to one goal and free'd up Rance to run riot in defence.
Was unlucky with the rushed behind call and had an absolute brain fade when he tried to Shepard the ball through and Hogan kicked it but that aside he was more than solid.

Hogan kicked 3. Astbury can be very dumb at times, but he's going ok this season.

2 of those goals were from frees

Yep 2 goals from stupid brain fades from Astbury. And then as someone else mentioned,  to allow a human tea towel in Garlett to out body you was well embarrassing.  It was an Elton moment. You know last week -v- Bristol when little Claye Beams out marked Elton  :rollin
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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #220 on: April 25, 2017, 03:05:29 PM »
While Melbourne was down 2 in the 2nd half

We were one short for the entire game. :snidegrin

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #221 on: April 25, 2017, 03:10:40 PM »
 :lol

I would also like to make special mention of markov, was isolated one out about 4-5 times in the goal square and got the spoil away each time, you could feel the pressure he was under and came through with flying colours - its moments like that that help a player grow and develop

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #222 on: April 25, 2017, 03:25:35 PM »
Markov will never die wondering, thought he was going to get hospitalised a few times but he keeps rolling with the hits.
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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #223 on: April 25, 2017, 04:06:49 PM »
Glad we won.
Always nice to beat Melbourne.
Adelaide over there will be a massive letdown.

We are still unproven against quality opposition.

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Re: Richmond vs Melbourne - Round 5, 2017
« Reply #224 on: April 25, 2017, 11:30:56 PM »
If hogan could have caught the ball in that last quarter the Dees could have won. He dropped 3 or 4 about 30m out. All contested hard gets in the wet but we were lucky it wasnt his night.

Someone always comes up with a reason we were "lucky" and the favourite is usually "lucky the other team didn't kick straight. Well, Melbourne were lucky it wasn't our night in front of the sticks. Can find "what ifs" for any scenario, at the end of the day it doesn't matter