Richmond vs Brisbane @ the 'Gabba --- 2nd Qualifying Final, 2020

[WilliamPowell]

No Lynch, no Soldo (who is probably a bigger loss than we realize given our tall stocks), playing underdone players in Titch and Dion and carrying a player who was woeful the week before in Chol. Coming up against a good side who were super hungry to finally beat us, on their home deck. The loss was not that surprising really. We will win our next game. Port in ADL will be tough though.

Yep

Wonder how CCJ is feeling right now?

[Rampsation]

Its going to take a mighty effort to win the flag from here

[georgies31]

If the desire is there no issue the players got to have hunger talent there.The ruck situation is downfall not many options loss that structure.

[pmac21]

Very worried about a straight sets exit but if we can make it through to preliminary final were a big Chance

[one-eyed]

The AFL is pleased to announce last night’s qualifying final between Brisbane Lions and Richmond attracted a national average TV audience of 1.541m, outrating Thursday night’s opening qualifying final and all Finals in weeks 1 and 2 of 2019.

The total television audience was up 4% compared to last year’s Friday night week 1 Final (Geelong Cats V Collingwood).

The Brisbane average free-to-air (FTA) audience was 149,000 and the total Queensland market average FTA audience was 208,000 making the match the highest Brisbane and Queensland audience for a final (non-Grand Final) in the last 10 years.

Melbourne’s FTA audience was up 3% compared to last year’s Friday night week 1 Final.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/513616/statement-strong-ratings-continue-after-lions-tigers-blockbuster

[Tigeritis™©®]

Apparently Hardwick used the NFL as motivation for the game giving all the players Special made NFL guernseys to wear before the game.

Fagan used Cathy Freeman’s 400 metre gold medal win at the Sydney Olympics.

I guess the NFL gift wasn’t as motivating for the boys as he intended. 

[Hard Roar Tiger]

People need to settle TF down on this match.
5 free kicks resulted in goals, 2 from 50m penalties.
Umpiring wasn’t to our favour at all. The holding the ball against Vlas, the 50 against Dusty are 2 stand out shockers.
The game was a hair breath from being in the balance - had that been a goal to Shai and then Jack goal well we’d have had a game.
Sometimes, it’s a game of inches.

In a final, at their home ground, they are going to have their patches of dominance.
Unfortunately, when we had ours in the early part of that 2nd quarter, we didn’t score.
Then, through acts of stupidity, we handed them momentum on a platter late in that quarter which gave up a match winning 3 goals and 1 point.

Our forward line had their asses handed to them on a platter by Harris Andrews.

We won’t let that happen again.

We had more ball, more contested poll, more tackles i50 and more i50.

It was winnable but they took their chances and deserved the win.

I’d love another crack at them in 3 weeks with Lynch in our side.

[Diocletian]

A few people round here channeling their inner-claw...

[MintOnLamb]

People need to settle TF down on this match.
5 free kicks resulted in goals, 2 from 50m penalties.
Umpiring wasn’t to our favour at all. The holding the ball against Vlas, the 50 against Dusty are 2 stand out shockers.
The game was a hair breath from being in the balance - had that been a goal to Shai and then Jack goal well we’d have had a game.
Sometimes, it’s a game of inches.

In a final, at their home ground, they are going to have their patches of dominance.
Unfortunately, when we had ours in the early part of that 2nd quarter, we didn’t score.
Then, through acts of stupidity, we handed them momentum on a platter late in that quarter which gave up a match winning 3 goals and 1 point.

Our forward line had their asses handed to them on a platter by Harris Andrews.

We won’t let that happen again.

We had more ball, more contested poll, more tackles i50 and more i50.

It was winnable but they took their chances and deserved the win.

I’d love another crack at them in 3 weeks with Lynch in our side.

Very good post HRT

[one-eyed]

Shane Crawford warned the Tigers need to get their "undisciplined" play into line if they're to reach their potential in their AFL finals campaign.

"I still think they're capable of winning the flag," he said.

"Those undisciplined acts have got to get out of the team. Giving away one 50 [metre penalty] really hurts, especially when it results in a goal, but giving away four...that's just not allowed. It's undisciplined.

"It doesn't look good from a coaching point of view. They've got to go hard at the footy, don't get caught up in it and play their own style.

"When they're up and about and with Lynch coming back in, they're going to be very very hard to beat."

https://wwos.nine.com.au/afl/afl-st-kilda-saints-v-richmond-tigers-paddy-ryder-injury-ben-long-jake-carlisle/422c5f4b-9a5d-463f-9b58-1fdc7770c4bb

[georgies31]

Watched the highlights again one thing that hasn't been mentioned much is our poor delivery in the forward 50.Andrews had a picnic and co were just bombing it long at times giving the footy away.

[one-eyed]

Coaches votes (Hardwick & Fagan)

BRISBANE v RICHMOND
10 Daniel Rich (BL)
6 Charlie Cameron (BL)
6 Harris Andrews (BL)
6 Hugh McCluggage (BL)
2 Jarryd Lyons (BL)

https://www.afl.com.au/news/514802/aflca-gary-ayres-award-perfect-10-for-lions-veteran-superstar-eagle

[one-eyed]

Footy Classified's review our Qualifying final:

* Brisbane were able to counter our ability to intercept mark. Cameron and Hipwood pushed high forcing Grimes and Balta to go with them and preventing them being able to get back and intercept mark.

   Richmond's intercept marks stats:
   2020 average       +14.5
   R10 2020 vs Bris  +14.0
   QF 2019 vs Bris    +20.0
   QF 2020 vs Bris      -8.0

* Richmond were off in terms of their usual discipline and focus:

   "I thought they lost the plot." - @matthewlloyd18 and @kanecornes take a look at Richmond's ill-discipline on Friday night v Brisbane.
   Watch here: https://twitter.com/FootyonNine/status/1313073707670286337

   - Lloyd said Hardwick has been to so many finals that how did he forget to turn up to the national anthem. You don't see such a mistake from Richmond when they are on and focused. Caro said she doesn't mean to pick on Tim Livingstone again but she has mentioned before these issues seem to be stemming from having a rookie footy manager at Richmond this year. Coaches can be on edge and go crazy at times so the footy manager should have made sure the coach was at the national anthem when he should have been.

   - Lloyd went through each 50m penalty we gave away. Lloyd said Dusty and Bolton would've known there was a free against. Caro thought the one against Dusty was stiff. Cornes thought the Bolton one involving McInerney on the ground was the softest of the four and probably not there. Lloyd said Pickett's one was just dumb.

    - While not costing 50, Lloyd also singled out Cotch's high tackle on Lyons as just a poorly attempted tackle and you need to be better than that.

   - Cornes was more concerned with the lack of basic tactical discipline in play:
     1) Rich's first goal - no Tiger on or even near Rich despite him standing next to McCluggage for a long time.
     2) Cameron's 3rd goal  - Grimes left Cameron to go to the contest but didn't impact on it which allowed Cameron to goal.
     3) Bailey's goal - similar to Cameron's. Grimes leaves Bailey, fails to spoil and impact the contest which allowed Bailey to goal.
     Cornes said that's 3 conceded goals just there alone that Richmond can go away and fix.

[one-eyed]

Craig McRae's review:

Tough night at the office

“We reviewed the game yesterday and there is a lot of things that we just normally expect to see from a Richmond side, and we went away from those things. Credit to Brisbane they were outstanding in a lot of areas but we went back over the tapes individually yesterday and just thought there is so much growth still left in us which is exciting.”

Connection with forwards lacking

 “It’s been a bit of an issue for most of the year to be honest. There’s a couple of parts to it; the patterning from our forwards which we can do better, but (also) just the execution was really poor on the night in particular. We gave away a lot of unforced errors and we addressed that yesterday as well, we will be working on that during the week.”

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/822957/coaches-corner-qualifying-final

[mightytiges]

Connection with forwards lacking

 “It’s been a bit of an issue for most of the year to be honest. There’s a couple of parts to it; the patterning from our forwards which we can do better, but (also) just the execution was really poor on the night in particular. We gave away a lot of unforced errors and we addressed that yesterday as well, we will be working on that during the week.”

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/822957/coaches-corner-qualifying-final

We've had a few games this year where we have dominated inside 50s yet struggled to score. Usually it has been against bottom sides (eg: Swans & Freo) who flooded back while we continued to lazily bomb it in to our out-numbered tall forwards. It happened again on Friday night for the first 10 mins of the second quarter. Brisbane were forced to put numbers behind the ball and we kept just bombing it long rather than lowering the eyes or switch kicking quickly across the arc. Then when the momentum turned thanks to the 50s which gifted Brisbane goals they started to get on top in the midfield which meant we had to start attacks from defence. As others have said, we blew the match in that 2nd quarter.

The other issue is our small forwards aren't consistently scaring opposition defences anymore either on the scoreboard or with their forward defensive pressure. George has had an ordinary 2020, Aarts was promising in his first months or so of games but has fallen away, while Rioli has fleeting moments during games. Bolton would've come into the year as a small forward option but he's now a midfielder. If Harris Andrews was spoiling longer than usual then our smalls needed to adjust. There were a number of times when there front and square opportunities against the Lions but none of our smalls were there.

Another thing that disappeared from our repertoire on Friday night was long goals. Sure we usually get our goals from close in but when the opposition are out-numbering or on top of our forwards then it's an alternative avenue to goal and a way of spreading out the opposition zone. Brisbane nailed a few from downtown while aside from Kmac's goal from 45 out in the first qtr I can't think of one other long-ish goal we kicked and the only other attempt was by Dusty which he sprayed OOTF.  In a two-goal game it was costly.