Richmond vs Carlton --- Round 1, March 18, 2021

[mightytiges]

Still lairising and too much dumb footy. Lucky the Blues are missing shots. Thank our backline. Our forward entries have been poor allowing the Blues to rebound.
 

[mightytiges]

Floss off with a knee injury. How bad?

[Simonator]

Sloppy and bad passages of play but it’s rd1 and we get the win ! Good start.

[JP Tiger]

We take the 4 points & move on!  A few late goals blew the margin out a bit but we were far too good when it mattered. 
It was only a second half cameo as a sub player, but Jack Ross played some great footy when he came on.  Good work Jack!     

[Andyy]

Floss off with a knee injury. How bad?

Looked ok, hobbled off on his own.

[Andyy]

Riewoldt's set shot kicking tonight was mint. Reminded me of 2010-2012.

Bet the blues fans will be all like 'we pushed them all game but the kids got tired, we have the talent, just need to get another preseason into the boys' etc...

[mightytiges]

As JPT said we take the 4 pts and move on.

Played ordinarily tonight. Too much like millionaires at times which resulted in dumb turnovers but we stepped it up when we needed to in the last.

Biggest issue was our forward entries were off. Carlton were able to under pressure easily clear out of our F50 where they got most of their goals from tonight.

Thank goodness Dusty plays for us. 3 Brownlow votes to start the season.   

[georgies31]

Take the 4 pts move onalways close game Rd 1 we're not at our best early rounds to.

[tdy]

You never quite know what's going to turn up on round 1. Luckily we did. Is Astbury stuffed or what for next week? Who saw it?

[JP Tiger]

You never quite know what's going to turn up on round 1. Luckily we did. Is Astbury stuffed or what for next week? Who saw it?

The elbow from Astbury actually missed, light contact was made with the back of his arm. 
I gotta say the Carlton nuffie is in more danger of being done for staging thanks to his big dive!     

[WilliamPowell]

You never quite know what's going to turn up on round 1. Luckily we did. Is Astbury stuffed or what for next week? Who saw it?

The elbow from Astbury actually missed, light contact was made with the back of his arm. 
I gotta say the Carlton nuffie is in more danger of being done for staging thanks to his big dive!     

Have to disagree about Ashburton, was down in front of us and it looked bad live and worse when replayed.

Reckon he might get a week. Depends on how it is grade intentional or careless

They really should introduce stupid as grading because that clearly was 

[Tiger Khosh]

What I’ve learned over the past 4 seasons is it really doesn’t matter how we’re playing early on as long as we are banking 4 points. Pick up form as the season progresses and finish top 4 and we’ll be primed for another shot at the premiership.

Dusty 

[Tiger Khosh]

Jack Ross...what are a star!!!!

You must be grade A moron if you are a fan....

 

I’m guessing you posted this after his horrible kick inside 50? Hope you keep the same energy for all the other players who did the same numerous times tonight. Only difference being they didn’t have to run on cold and try to get into the flow of the match straight away or you know only have 15 career games to their name......

[MintOnLamb]

Jack Ross...what are a star!!!!

You must be grade A moron if you are a fan....

 

I’m guessing you posted this after his horrible kick inside 50? Hope you keep the same energy for all the other players who did the same numerous times tonight. Only difference being they didn’t have to run on cold and try to get into the flow of the match straight away or you know only have 15 career games to their name......

 

[one-eyed]

Team stats:

Disposals      377 - 376 ... ( contested: 146 - 139 ; uncontested: 216 - 225 )
Efficiency%  71.3 - 74.5
Turnovers       69 - 73
Marks             77 - 94 ... ( contested: 7 - 10 )
Clearances      40 - 34 .... ( centre: 19 - 10 ; stoppages 21 - 24 )
Tackles           43 - 38
Inside 50s       75 - 41
In50 eff.          52 - 61
In50 marks      16 - 10
In50 tackles       6 - 2     
Hitouts            32 - 35
Bounces          11 - 10
One %ers        57 - 52   
Frees              15 - 25

Individual possies:

Graham  33
Dusty  31
Lambert 28
Edwards 27
Bolton  25
Prestia 25
Short  23
Caddy 17
Baker 15
Castagna 13
McIntosh 13
Pickett 13
Aarts   12
Nankervis 12
Lynch   11
Balta   11
Vlastuin 10 ... subbed out injured
Grimes 10
Rioli     10
Astbury  9
Broad   9
Ross     8 ... subbed in for Floss.

https://www.afl.com.au/matches/2991#player-stats