l rate Tuck very highly as a footballer. His body work & desperation to win the ball is second to none. While his kicking has let him down, he is a great kick at goal.
Moving him on would hurt the club as thier aint nobody who does the type of work he does.
He was not the one to ask for a trade, It was the club who told him he would be traded around.
l give huge credit to Tuck returning cause if it was me l would be moving on. You cant tell me other clubs weren't interested in him.
It would have depended on what Richmond was asking that never attracted any deals.
Richmond have a bad habit of shafting players & this is just another bad decision by them. You dont move players on like that who make the top 22.
If players like Tuck are in our best 22 and especially in our top 6 mids then no wonder we are a bottom 2 side and continually get smashed at centre clearances. He's an honest trier, a hardnut, and like his dad his body is resilient given the crash and bash position he plays. However he just throws the ball on his boot without thinking so is an ordinary kick, he's too slow for footy now so gets burnt off on the spread from stoppages by his direct opponent, and he has difficulty following instructions. Unfortunately for us in trade week every other club knew his weaknesses as well and weren't interested at all 
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Thier are plenty who need to go before him like McMuffin the worst turnover king in the AFL 
True but we couldn't give Jordie away even if we paid another club to do so.
its obvious you dont rate Tuck MT
but a man who seems to get the ball in the centre & is always on the bottom of packs would tell you his a good reader of the game & his AFL stats clearly showed that before he was shafted seeing your a stats person.
Its time to start blaming some of the other players in the centre who are not consistant players each week
Look at players like Foley, Brown, Deledio, & a few others who should not even be in the centre. King, McMahon
who dont work hard enough while Cousins, Tuck, Jackson are doing the work the others are not with it most weeks. Then you can also blame the Ruckmen who have been poor this year. It all mounts up on game day. Most important the gameday coach who plays his players out of position trying to save his ass cause his game plan is wacko
l been watching a few replays & l noticed our players when they dont have the ball run back away from attacking players instead of going at them & forcing a mistake.
You cant win the football or force mistakes if you continuely get pushed backwards & lose 30 metres instead of going at the attacker with preasure.
When opposition teams push forward from centre clearances our whole back 6 are sitting off thier men & if you go to games you clearly see this cause you wont see it on TV
It didnt matter who was coaching, Wallace or Rawlings both duds & aint got a clue anyway how to preasure the opposition, as this is clearly what they think is the way to play.
Staying close to your opponant & put the preasure on him & stopping him from getting clean hands in the contest is better than no contest at all. Newman is a main offender of this.
When your captain is clearly being beaten & scored against it kills the moral in the side. Newman might have played 3 good games all year & dont deserve to be captain in 2010.
l dont rate Foley who might play 2 good games a season. l would trade him at the drop of a hat. Gets pinned most times while at least Tuck gets the ball off when his tackled because he is strong & knows to get his hands up before the tackle & takes a open hit just to keep the ball flowing, but the problem is his teammates aint flowing with him & should be.
If everyone really watched the game Tuck gets caught from behind most times because his teammates dont talk.
If Tucks direct opponant is getting away at the clearances its because Tuck has been in the contest & one of his teammate should read the game better & run with Tucks opponant because you find his is in the contest on top of Tuck.
l know for a fact at centre bounces some teams switch & after they get the clearance & score, they will switch back to thier lining up opponant & thats all he is a lineup opponant.
Some teams have a few quick goals on the board before this is noticed but our coaches never seem to get it right cause they have no idea
So it all boils down that the faults they are making are the BASICS of the game. They cant perform basic tasks of Watching your man, Applying Preasure, Talking Tackling, Handball, Kicking. all in that order. & one that is most important
Half of them cant read the game & view thier options upfield because they are always under the pump & make silly mistakes. Why because the other team is applying the preasure.
The result shows on the scoreboard & on the ladder at seasons end & the moral falls & infighting starts
result a sacked coach
Richmond Football Club
Tuck is not the man who should be copping the stuff because Tuck does not get cheap stats. His AFL stats show a hard worker. Yes he does make mistakes but you will find its his teammates who aint talking and are chasing thier opponant because they are always off thier man. Thats why teams move the ball quickly out of the backline against us. But when we kick in from a behind we are manned up & make mistakes, the play always the same. the results always a turnover & a goal.
Tuck would look good in a side like Carlton because Richmond are poo & the players are only there for themsevles to get easy $$$ McMahon on all that money & Cousins a Brownlow medalist / Premiership & ex captain is getting salted peanuts
l love the Richmond football club but fair dinkum its getting harder each year
