It's on like Donkey Kong / Friday, Sept.8 QF: Richmond vs Geelong @ the 'G

[🏅Dooks]

Let's get poo faced

[Go Richo 12]

What is donkey Kong anyway?

R u taking the pee?

Yes I was. Great win Tigers. I couldn't believe how much we outnumbered the Geetroit supporters.

Reckon we played finals footy tonight!

[Andyy]

9 players tonight with between 2-50 games of AFL experience.

Had a chat to Finey. Love the way the guys are playing instinctive football and enjoying it too. This is the kind of momentum and spirit that won WB a flag last year.

And fmd it's good to watch. I just hope it's not a one off like with WB and this is instead the beginning of an era...

[one-eyed]

VIDEOS:

Match highlights: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2017-09-08/qf-match-highlights

Tigers' ferocious finals pressure: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2017-09-08/qf-tigers-ferocious-finals-pressure

Team Song: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2017-09-08/team-song-richmond

[tdy]

Prestia and caddy just about the difference

Very true howuch two bigger bodied blokes makes to this style of tackling game.

[one-eyed]

Richmond is always front page news  .


https://twitter.com/damonheraldsun/status/906144999967940609
https://twitter.com/WLudbey/status/906136016825618433

[one-eyed]

Geelong midfielder Scott Selwood says that his side had to significantly alter their gameplan for the venue of their losing qualifying final to Richmond on Friday night.

“We did have to alter stuff, but we thought we had the right structures and systems in place to do that and unfortunately we just couldn’t get it done.

“The width of the ground usually gets different teams. It’s a different sort of look. There’s bigger areas you need to protect in team defence and a lot more space in between contests when the ball was outside your area. You’re constantly looking at trying to squeeze the ground and trying to make it as short as possible.

“Richmond played it a lot better and knew it a lot better than we did.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/09/09/mcg-forced-us-to-change-gameplan-selwood/

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Robbo:

1. CATS UNDER HEAT

It must be the blueprint: Pour on the pressure and the Cats are fragile with the pill. The Tigers pressure was through the roof on Friday night, recording a pressure factor of 209, their highest amount of pressure recorded since 2012. Once again, the Cats failed the test. They coughed up 68 points from turnovers, their most in a game this season, and recorded a kicking efficiency 48.9 per cent, their lowest efficiency ever recorded.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/the-tackle-mark-robinson-reveals-his-likes-and-dislikes-from-week-1-of-the-2017-afl-finals/news-story/0ca4eba66a63b0787f43f2066cee8ad9

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Overall, Richmond players ran 4.85km further on the night and 1.65km more at high speed, at times making the Cats look slow.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/tracking-data-shows-geelong-covered-the-least-ground-of-any-team-in-week-1-of-finals/news-story/378df0ceee325f0b8ef6fabb2a45e883

[Diocletian]

Get ya hand off it Selwood...Geelong play at the MCG nearly as much as most of the Melbourne sides and more than Footscray & St.Kilda....

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Get ya hand off it Selwood...Geelong play at the MCG nearly as much as most of the Melbourne sides and more than Footscray & St.Kilda....

Doesn't really matter but he's sounding like a Cats fan - which they forget means at some point they end up at the G if they want to win the whole thing.
The AFL have already conceded that the H&A game would've been at the G but for our poor 2016 - so it's simply moot.
At 10 and 2, to their 3 and 3 our record at the ground stands up ok.

[tony_montana]

Geez Im loving the saltiness of Geelong as a whole - theyve played all of one final down at their goat track, and never had an issue playing finals at the G until now.

[Owl]

welcome back handbaggers, the world has been returned to it's correct axis

[one-eyed]

AFLCA Gary Ayres Award: Votes, finals week one

GEELONG v RICHMOND

9 Dustin Martin (Rich)
8 Trent Cotchin (Rich)
7 Nick Vlastuin (Rich)
4 Dion Prestia (Rich)
1 Kane Lambert (Rich)
1 Alex Rance (Rich)

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-09-11/aflca-gary-ayres-award-votes-finals-week-one

[lamington]

AFLCA - tick
AFLPA - most likely in the bag
Brownlow - as above
Gary Ayres - 
Norm Smith - 
Premiership - 

[Slipper]

Did I hear correctly that the other night be scored 11 goals from Cats turnovers?

[one-eyed]

Did I hear correctly that the other night be scored 11 goals from Cats turnovers?

Yep that's right, Slipper. 68 points to be exact.