Prelim Final: Richmond vs Collingwood, Friday night, Sept. 21.

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First time we've met them in a final since the 1980 Grand Final  .

First time we've met them in a Prelim Final since 1973 when Royce Hart came off the bench at half-time and we came from 6 goals down to win and then went on to win the flag .

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Finals frequently asked questions

Tickets to Richmond's preliminary final will go on-sale as per the following...


One ticket per member barcode

Ticket on-sale

Club Members – 9am, Monday September 17

General Public –  2pm, Monday September 17

AFL Members – 9am, Tuesday September 18

Website: www.ticketek.com.au           
General Phone: 132 849   
Find a Ticketek Agency, click here             
For Wheelchair and Accessible Seating: 1300 665 915 

Tickets cannot be purchased through the Richmond Football Club.

How are tickets sold?

Tickets will be sold on a first in, next best available basis and will be subject to availability.

You will be able to purchase based on your preferred price category for the first three weeks of finals. However due to the demand for tickets, all ticket agents are advised to sell ‘next best available’ to make the allocation process fast and convenient for purchasers.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/finals/finals-faq

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Brandon Ellis a certainty to play now. No match up for The Broad Sword

[pmac21]

Brandon Ellis a certainty to play now. No match up for The Broad Sword

Broad could play on a number of their forwards.  DeGoey, Mihocek, Stephenson.  Reckon he plays

[Chopstix]

From Ticketek Website:

Both clubs on sale at the same time. What could possibly go wrong...

When do tickets go on sale?
2018 AFL Finals Series - Week 3
COMPETING CLUB MEMBERS:
Mon Sep 17, 9am (AEST)
GENERAL PUBLIC:
Mon Sep 17, 2pm (AEST)
MCC MEMBERS:
Mon Sep 17, 12noon (AEST)
AFL MEMBERS:
Tue Sep 18, 9am (AEST)

[mightytiges]

Brandon Ellis a certainty to play now. No match up for The Broad Sword

Broad could play on a number of their forwards.  DeGoey, Mihocek, Stephenson.  Reckon he plays

Agree, pmac. Broad plays on either Mihocek, Stephenson or even Mayne. Depends on who the Pies play as their high forward that leads up to the wing.

Grimes or Floss gets DeGoey.

 

[Fluffy Tiger]

After watching both games this weekend and the games lat weekend  Melbourne is the team that that worries me the most.

As a Tiger for over half a century I have learned never to be over confident.  Best chance for us is West Coast in the GF.

[Lebowski]

Brandon Ellis a certainty to play now. No match up for The Broad Sword

Broads a much better matchup on their medium quick fwds.

[mightytiges]

The hardest match-ups are in our forward line. The Pies have similar types around 6'2" who don't match-up on our quicker small forwards. We can exploit the Pie defenders with our pace and forward pressure.

B:  Dylan Grimes        David Astbury      Alex Rance
F:  Jordan De Goey      Mason Cox      Jaidyn Stephenson

HB: Jayden Short          Nathan Broad       Nick Vlastuin
HF: Will Hoskin-Elliott   Brody Mihocek      Josh Thomas

C:  Kane Lambert         Trent Cotchin       Kamdyn McIntosh
C:  Adam Treloar        Scott Pendlebury       Tom Phillips

Foll: Toby Nankervis    Dion Prestia          Jack Graham
Foll: Brodie Grundy     Taylor Adams     Steele Sidebottom

HF: Josh Caddy         Jack Riewoldt       Shane Edwards
HB: Jeremy Howe     Tyson Goldsack       Jack Crisp

F:    Daniel Rioli          Dustin Martin     Jason Castagna
B:  Brayden Maynard   Tom Langdon       James Aish
 
I/C: Bachar Houli, Jack Higgins, Reece Conca, Shaun Grigg
I/C: Chris Mayne, Travis Varcoe, Levi Greenwood, Brayden Sier

[Francois Jackson]

yeah bux nice try mate. "Ooh yeah i think its tough on the tigers just waiting around for their opponents"

uum we did the same build up last year einstein.

Hope we whipe the floor with these smug pricks

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Brandon Ellis a certainty to play now. No match up for The Broad Sword

Broad could play on a number of their forwards.  DeGoey, Mihocek, Stephenson.  Reckon he plays

Stephenson the only one I'd even consider playing him on. DeGoey would kick 8 on him dude.

Grimes/DeGoey
Vlas/Mihocek
Astbury/Cox
Rance to play off Mayne and take intercept marks all night long.

Can't afford to carry someone like Broad who'll likely struggle on a dry night against a decent opponent and also rack up less than 5 kicks. Need another runner. This time last year I'd have full confidence in Broady...not right now 

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If the ‘G was big enough, they’d get 150,000 on Friday night.

Mark Robinson,
Herald Sun
16 September 2018

TALK about colossal.

It’s Richmond versus Collingwood on Friday night in the preliminary final and for the next six days all of Melbourne, and all of Victoria, will froth with anticipation and more than likely frustration.

The hunt for tickets will be as furious as Charlie searching for the golden ticket from the friends of Willy Wonka.

Ticket prices will soar as scalpers, thought to be outlawed, multiply the price.

Brothers of friends who are daughters of the bootstudder at both Richmond and Collingwood will be asked for favours.

Fans will beg, borrow and steal — and no pun intended in the face of a million jokes — to get themselves to the MCG.

There will be tears and ecstasy as fans celebrate and commiserate, and fingers crossed Ticketek doesn’t blow a gasket.

When these two teams last met in a big final — the 1980 Grand Final which was attended by 113,461 fans — the teams probably had 5000 members.

Today, it’s 100,000 for Richmond and 80,000 for Collingwood.

If the ‘G was big enough, they’d get 150,000 on Friday night.

For all their history fuelled by suburban hatred across 120 years, they have only played nine finals matches with Richmond winning six and losing three.

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire was thrilled. “We’re going Tiger hunting,’’ he said in the rooms.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/collingwood-and-richmonds-preliminary-final-would-draw-150000-writes-mark-robinson/news-story/45e2037759789fff47039c38ddd084d6

[one-eyed]

yeah bux nice try mate. "Ooh yeah i think its tough on the tigers just waiting around for their opponents"

uum we did the same build up last year einstein.

Hope we whipe the floor with these smug pricks

'Tigers are beatable': Pies' best can match the best, says Bucks

By Daniel Cherny
The Age
16 September 2018

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has declared Richmond are beatable ahead of Friday night’s preliminary final between the clubs.

The Magpies booked their place in the penultimate weekend of the season with a 10-point win over Greater Western Sydney on Saturday night.

Attention has quickly turned to Friday night’s meeting of the traditional rivals, a clash likely to draw more than 95,000 to the MCG.

The Tigers finished two games clear on top of the ladder this year, and haven’t lost at the ‘G since midway through last season, but Buckley insisted the reigning premiers could be toppled.

“They’ve been the best team in the comp since a month or two months leading into the finals series last year,” Buckley said.

“And they’ve finished top in the home and away this year. Everyone’s waiting for them to fall over, they’re not going to fall over. They’ve got to be beaten. We believe they can be beaten. We believe our best footy will stack up, but talking about it and doing it are two different things.

Buckley also played down the potential impact of a six-day break between games for the Pies, compared to Richmond, who will enter the match off a 15-day break.

“They might be a bit dusty,” Buckley pondered.

“Too long without playing. Who knows? I mean you can write it up however you want. But we know what our break is, we’re looking forward to the challenge. They know what their break is, they’re looking forward to the challenge, and whoever wins gets an extra day of preparation for the granny.”

He also suggested the Pies didn’t run themselves into exhaustion against the Giants.

“We didn’t have to run our guts out necessarily. We still had to work hard, but I think we were relatively efficient in what we did.

“What you do is you recover them, and you give them the chance to get over the game. And you handle it the same way you handle it in home and away.”

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/tigers-are-beatable-pies-best-can-match-the-best-says-bucks-20180915-p5041g.html

[MintOnLamb]

Will be huge, once again hope the umpires don't affect the result.

[georgies31]

Got to make Howe accountable to not let him chop out everything last game Towner did it not to sure now.