“Took the foot off the pedal”:
Dermott Brereton, Terry Wallace dissect Richmond’s shock lossBy SEN
1 June 2019Richmond’s inability to have every base covered was exposed by North Melbourne in their shock 37-point loss on Friday night, according to Hawthorn great Dermott Brereton.
The Kangaroos led at every change to run out convincing winners, with Ben Brown and Mason Wood booting nine goals between them against a hapless Tigers defence at Marvel Stadium.
“I think there’s a bit of the threadbare aspect,” Brereton told SEN’s Crunch Time.
“When you see them walk out on to the ground and they walk to their positions, before the first bounce you look at them sometimes and you go: ‘That’s going to be tough’.
“Just at the start of the game you thought: ‘They haven’t got every base covered, Richmond … good teams will be able to exploit this.’”
AFL Hall of Famer Terry Wallace believes certain Richmond players might been a touch complement after their recent run of good form.
“They had won five out of six, you get a few back and all of a sudden you pick up the papers and people are writing articles that we can become premiers again,” Wallace said.
“I just think that they might have had a couple that just took the foot off the pedal marginally. It’s never intentional, but it’s just one of those things that can happen at times.”
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Tigers “not up for the fight”AFL Nation commentator and former Melbourne captain Garry Lyon slammed Richmond for their performance in the second half.
“North Melbourne have made Richmond look like a very ordinary side tonight, and that is really hard to do,” he said.
“They haven’t been up for the fight and they haven’t been up for the aggressive game style that North has demanded of them.
“They’re a shambles the Tigers and it’s all due to the fact that the Roos have brought intent, intensity, willingness to work both ways and it’s too hard for Richmond right now. They’re not that interested.”
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2019/05/31/tigers-not-up-for-the-fight-as-rhyces-roos-pull-them-apart/