VFL Semi: Richmond vs Essendon @ North Port, Sat. Sept 8

[mightytiges]

Ball-up def. side of the square. Miles long kick is read better by the Essendon defender. They go forward and goal.

12 - 15

29 mins Q1

Our forward line is struggling.

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Younan goal. WHo the stuff is that

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Ball-up def. side of the square. Miles long kick is read better by the Essendon defender. They go forward and goal.

12 - 15

29 mins Q1

Our forward line is struggling.

They're not getting good enough delivery. We are ballsing it up before we go inside 50 half the time.

[pmac21]

We have a lot of players who just aren't natural footballers
Soldo
Moore
Markov

Getting smashed in the clearances
Forwards not playing in front.

[Assange Tiger 😎]

What a stuffing grab by Lloydy

[mightytiges]

Making too many errors. We were out but Stengle's look-a-way handpass misses Ballard and goes out of bounds on the wing.

Free to silvestro at HB and his long kick is marked well by Moore 55 out. Goes deep. Ball-up 15 out.

Essendon's clearing kick is almost marked by Lloyd (courageous fly) who is pushed. Free after the siren from 50 out. Barrel goes and goes but it hits the post near the top.

Quarter time

Richmond  2.1-13
Essendon   2.3-15

Goals: Miles, Stengle.

[mightytiges]

Top possies:
B.Ellis 6
Menadue 6
Miles 6


Team stats:
Disposals:  80 - 79
Contested: 32 - 41
Uncon:      48 - 40
Tackles:    20 - 20
Clearances: 8 - 12
Inside 50s:  9 - 14
Marks:      13 - 22

McRae concerned by us losing the contested numbers. Equals losing territory.

[mightytiges]

Good spread. Much harder running. Morris switch to Ernest and he finds Miles 52 out. Goes deep but it's marked uncontested by an Essendon defender  .

We get it back and much better play. Lowered our eyes and find Markov 55 out. Big kick and it's straight through the middle  .

Rich  3.1-19
Ess   2.3-15

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Great snag by Markov

[pmac21]

Soldo turnover bomber goal

[mightytiges]

Aarts mowed down an Essendon player running forward.

Gets it to Soldo on the grandstand wing. But he turns it over. They run it forward for a goal  .

19 - 21

Soldo shouldn't be kicking. He's kicked it to Essendon players every time so far. Needs to hand it off to a mid running past.

[mightytiges]

Dropped mark by an Bomber on the wing. C.Ellis goes long inside 50. Moore outnumbered 1-to-2 but a fumble let's us in. CJ gets a free to sliding into the legs. Set shot 35 out misses.

Another Bomber down with a popped shoulder.

They go coast to coast from the kick-in for a point.

20 - 22

8 mins Q2

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Gotta got the ball into B.Ellis's hands at all costs. A class above

[mightytiges]

Some terrible efforts there. Soldo taps it to Essendon's advantage then Ballard's attempted punch allows the Bombers to go forward and take a contested mark 15 out. Goal to them.

20 - 28

11 mins Q2

Chol now in the ruck.

[pmac21]

Another 3 bomber clearances in a row bomber goal.  Gotta b be concerned.  In saying that we goal