VFL R9: Richmond vs North Melbourne @ Arden St, Sat. June 1

[one-eyed]

Naish wins the HTB free on the edge of the square. Goes long and Ballard marks 15 out. Kicks this one  .

Rich  2.1-13
NM   3.2-20

25 min Q1

[one-eyed]

Naish bursts out of the middle but Ballard drops a sitter on the lead. North clear.

We get it back. Graham's centering kick goes off the pack. Two Tigers wait for each other and then Mannagh's tackle is ordinary and North clear.

We get it back again but Towner's kick inside 50 is poor straight to a North defender. North clear again.

Eggy in defence off to Naish. Nice pass to Graham on the wing. We're out and Chol is all by himself up forward but the siren goes before he can mark.

Quarter time

Richmond   2.1-13
North Melb. 3.2-20

Goals: Ballard, Mannagh.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Chol runs up and down the ground and looks absolutely stuffed after only 1 halfhearted effort.

Doesn’t look fit or is very lazy.

When up forward Chol efforts are Lynch like in its lethargy.

[one-eyed]

First 20 mins was a replay of last night. Beaten around the contest, in the air and when we did go forward we butchered our forward entries. Last 5 mins was better around the contests and our forward pressure was good but still we stuffed up our inside F50 kicks or in Ballard's case dropped marks.

Inside 50s: 16 - 8 .... so that's 3 scoring shots from our 16 entries to North's 5 from 8  .

Similar disposal and tackle stats.
North's Campbell dominating the hitouts against CCJ and Chol.

Leading ballgetters:
Graham 10
Weller 10

Naish would've been our most effective with his possies.

[one-eyed]

Tackling practice this week. The number of times North players are able to get their arms free  .

North with one behind to start the 2nd qtr.

13 - 21

[one-eyed]

RCD off with a knock to the calf but they think he'll be okay.

We rebound off half-back. Naish bounces and runs to HF where he gives off to Rioli. Rioli stops and try turns back and it's a loose ball. Naish picks it up and clever awareness kicks it out to Silvestro all by himself 35 out. Goal! 

Rich  3.1-19
NM   3.3-21

[one-eyed]

We go forward again via Naish but his kick isn't marked (not sure who dropped a gettable one). North rebound and goal. Two Tiger defenders ballwatching and the ball was marked uncontested by North between then. .

19 - 27

[cub]

Was going to go
Too angry after last night

[one-eyed]

Grewar out of the middle and high inside 50 but North defender in front marks it.

We get it back at HB. Switch play ends up with Menadue who runs to HF and goes long. North players moving at the fall of the ball while we're flat-footed. North clear.

Terrible from the throw-in on the wing. Silvestro easily pushed off the ball allowing North to go forward. Then our defenders were 15m off the North forwards. Easily goal for them.

19 - 33

[one-eyed]

For those not watching. This is the 2nd qtr:

Tigers win centre clearance after a North goal, bomb it long, North mark and clear.
If we can get it back, North flood back and wait to pick off our long aimless bombs inside 50.
Repeat until North can pressure us into mistakes, hit us on counter and goal.

[Diocletian]

Do Norf wear some kind of special substance that only works on Richmond?

[one-eyed]

I think we've seen this horror film before. Like last night  .

[one-eyed]

Not pretty but we get one back. Just hacks forward but Graham and Rioli. Ball comes off the bacl and Silvestro soccers it through  .

Rich  4.1-25
NM .  5.5-35

21 min Q2

[Diocletian]

Wow - Egg just did the exact same idiotic play on that Ballard did last week - in the exact same spot on the ground....

[one-eyed]

Coffield out of defence and Eggy takes a good leaping mark. However, he then handballs it straight to his North opponent trying to get the ball moving. North get a goal out of it  . That's two bad goal costing errors by Eggy today.

25 - 41