Tigers vs Bombers game thread

[mightytiges]

Is Hutchy an Essendon supporter?! 

Crowd 58,000. Not bad.

Don't throw this away now Tiges  .

[julzqld]

What the?  I come upstairs to check the scores and we're 24 in front and then when I next come upstairs we're 9 behind!!

[mightytiges]

4 goals to them in 5 minutes . They're smashing us in the clearances.

Only got ourselves to blame kicking 11.17 after 12.20 last week. Pathetic  .

Tivs gets one back.

[julzqld]

Scores level.  Please don't let us lose this one

[julzqld]

Crowd 58,439

[julzqld]

I will scream if we lose by 1 point.

[julzqld]

C'mon siren go!!!

[julzqld]

Phew!  That was too close for comfort.  Now I can go downstairs and relax and watch the last quarter in peace

[mightytiges]

SIREN!

JON the hero by kicking a point

[the_boy_jake]

How good was Polo?

JON kicking a vital point, but all in all, aside from Lovett-Murray, it wasn't a great advertisment for Aboriginal footballers.

If Joel Bowden was Aboriginal the commentators would have been raving. What about feining and then running around Lovett in our back pocket with scores level and only seconds on the clock. Does it 10 times a game yet opponents still cant read it.

Pettifers best game for Richmond I would have thought. Crucial intervention in the goalsquare third quarter. Shame he left the goalkicking boots at home.

Hughes looking the goods to me. If he can just keep presenting in the forward line while he builds himself up he will be pretty special I think.

[PuntRdRoar]

Great win. Poor efforts infront of goal. Polo sensational. Oakleigh-Nicholls a very good start. Hughes 2 goals very important- great agility and speed of the mark. Deledio and Tambling down tonight. Raines going well but needs to think more when running out of defence. Hartigan good hard running stuff. I think its fair to say that Ploughs next generation is well on the way.

[Bulluss]

Was a fantastic win, scrappy but have to love that edge of your seat stuff.

JON looks good when he has the ball, great size for a footballer and will hopefully develop into a very dangerous player. Still raw though, but didnt he look composed when he had the ball in the last minute.

Hartigan was fantastic tonight, really ran hard and is coming along very nicely.

Petts also continuing his good form, kicking not the best but atleast he is getting it.

Bowden was very good again tonight, Lucas only played that 10 minute patch.

Was great to stick up all the Essendon scum supporters when Ray Hall marked the ball.

[one-eyed]

Team Stats

Kicks        220 - 219
Marks       107 - 106
Handballs  152 - 124
Tackles    37 - 50
Hitouts     19 - 20
Frees        9 - 12

Individual Stats

Player K H D M HO T FF FA G B
J.Bowden         14 17 31 2 0 2 0 1 0 0
D.Polo             11 17 28 6 0 1 0 0 3 0
A.Raines          14 10 24 5 0 2 0 1 0 0
S.Tuck             12 12 24 8 1 4 0 1 1 1
G.Tivendale       17  5 22 3 0 2 0 1 1 1
M.Coughlan       11 10 21 4 0 2 1 2 0 0
B.Hartigan         14  7 21 6 0 3 0 0 1 1
C.Hyde             13  7 20 7 0 2 0 0 0 1
K.Pettifer          16  4 20 11 0 0 0 0 1 5
T.Simmonds      12  8 20 8 9 3 1 0 0 0
P.Bowden         10  8 18 9 0 0 0 0 0 1
C.Newman        15  1 16 5 0 3 1 0 0 0
M.Richardson      8  8 16 5 0 1 0 1 2 2
R.Hall                3 12 15 5 0 1 0 1 0 0
A.Kellaway          8  6 14 7 1 3 1 0 1 0
B.Deledio            9  2 11 4 1 1 2 0 0 2
N.Foley              4  7 11 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
A.Krakouer          8  2 10 2 0 3 1 1 1 1
G.Stafford           4  5  9 4 7 2 0 1 0 0
R.Tambling          6  3  9 3 0 0 0 0 0 1
J.Oakley-Nicholls   7  0  7 3 0 1 0 1 0 1
C.Hughes            4  1  5 0 0 0 2 0 2 1


Top 5's

Rankings

Joel Bowden    152
Polo                148
Lucas              142
Lovett-Murray   130
McPhee           118

Contested Possies

Polo                11
Richo              11
Hille                10
J.Johnson       10
Joel Bowden     9

Effective Kicks

Lovett-Murray   19
Lucas               16
[color=yellowTivendale          15
Pettifer             15
Newman           14 [/color]

Inside 50

Tivendale          7
Pettifer             7
Simmonds        6
Heffeman         6
Hyde               5

Rebound 50

Joel Bowden       8
Welsh                7
Fletcher             5
Heffeman           4
Raines               4

[tiogar]

Who cares how scrappy it was. I don't. it was a win against essendon and I'll take closely fought scrappy wins against them all year to be honest.

[julzqld]

What was with playing the Essendon song when our team was running out?  Then it switched to a couple of bars of "Tigerland" and then it seemed to go back to the Essendon song?  Also at the beginning of the commentary, they were talking about Richo but all we could see on the screen was David Hille?  And what's with the media's love affair with James Hird?  In the dying minutes of the last quarter they kept going on about how this is when James Hird is at his most dangerous.  Thank goodness for Newman - what a great job he did!