Richmond vs West Coast @ Optus Stadium --- Round 13, 2021

[Gigantor]

Despite this loss it’s a monumental task to win two weeks running in perth

[Diocletian]

West Coast are overrated flat track bullies...should've won it easily and were winning it easily until we self-destructed through a mixture of fart sniffing glory hunting, utter stupidity and sheer panic unbecoming of a premiership side...

[mightytiges]

And an Eagles side that had only won 4 last quarters out of 12 and we're overrun in three of them.

[Rampsation]

Credit where its due guys they played well with a truckload of their players out or coming back from injury or concussion.

[pmac21]

Sleeping in their own beds and living a normal life would have helped as well.

[lamington]

If we are going to pull off a miracle premiership this is the loss we need. Bolton flying for a one handed mark, losing composure, not doing “Richmond things” I think if the team can honestly reflect on this then a premiership is possible. Realistically though Cotchin shouldn’t of played and Balta who is athletically talented should know you can’t let Kennedy do whatever he wants even if he is in his twilight.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Even Dusty not taking first option and hesitating or taking another sidestep 

I can’t remember so many crucial mistakes at various stages.

The last quarter was a debacle.

[camboon]

Might not be our year this year , usually someone stands up in the last quarter , we have dropped off a bit this year with all the injuries.

[one-eyed]

Team Stats:

Disposals:     384 - 353 .... ( contested: 137 - 137 ; uncontested: 250 - 216 )
Efficiency%:    75 - 75
Kicks:           233 - 223
Handballs:    151 - 130
Turnovers:      71 - 74
Marks:         113 - 112 .... ( contested: 11 - 11 )
Tackles:         53 - 41
Clearances:    29 - 36 ..... ( centre: 10 - 13 ; stoppages: 19 - 23 ) 
Inside 50s:     47 - 52
In50 eff.%:     57 - 44
In50 marks:     6 - 15 
In50 tackles:    5 - 3
Hitouts:          18 - 39 
Bounces:          6 - 4
One %ers:      48 - 44
Frees:            15 - 25 

Individual disposals:

Lambert  27
Houli    26
Short   26
Bolton  23
Martin  23
Vlastuin 23
Broad   22
Baker   19
Edwards 19
Graham 17
McIntosh 17
Pickett   17
Caddy   16
Balta    15
Riewoldt 14
Rioli    14
CCJ    13
Grimes 13
Cotchin 12
Aarts   11
Castagna 10
Chol    7
Ralphsmith  .... ( sub not used )

https://www.afl.com.au/matches/3705#player-stats

[Diocletian]

Even Dusty not taking first option and hesitating or taking another sidestep 

I can’t remember so many crucial mistakes at various stages.

The last quarter was a debacle.

If he'd just run another 5 metres he would've nailed that last shot..was probably worried the siren was going to beat him...

[Diocletian]

West Coast have been getting away with that crap since Cox was playing....cleaning up that dirty cheating big nosed prick was the best thing Vickery ever did on a footy field...

[Tigeritis™©®]

West Coast have been getting away with that crap since Cox was playing....cleaning up that dirty cheating big nosed prick was the best thing Vickery ever did on a footy field...

[one-eyed]

Seems the media are going easy on us for this loss because we've been on the road for the past 4 weeks.

[one-eyed]

David King with some extra stats from last night's game:

* We conceded 6 goals from stoppages ( WC 6.2-38 to Rich 2.3-15 ). Hardwick would be disappointed with that.

   So we lost the game due to West Coast's stoppage dominance.


* We scored 4 more goals than the Eagles via turnovers.

   So our turnover game was working. We just lacked composure and rushed our F50 entries and didn't score as much as we should have.


* We almost score a point for every intercept. We're #1 in the AFL for that and a fair way ahead of the next best.
 
   Points from 100 intercepts:
   1. Richmond     96.7
   2. Brisban        81.5
   AFL average     70.0

   Last night we scored 66 points from 74 intercepts. So we were a fraction down.

Source: Fox Footy

[one-eyed]

"Probably Richmond overall played a bit better than us for the four quarters, but when it mattered most I thought we made the most of it." - Adam Simpson.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/630588/eagles-accuracy-no-fluke-tigers-season-still-spluttering

Simpson also post-match apparently claimed that we were the best side in the comp. although he added on 3aw today that they haven't played Melbourne yet.