The Tigers have shown great composure, team spirit, steadfastness to the game plan and total belief in each over the last 4 years.
The capitulation against West Coast bought to mind the losses we used to have from seemingly unlosable situations some 5/6 years ago.
The lack of cohesion and intensity against St Kilda was, to me, very strange and did not ring “Tiger True”
Was last night a massive perfect storm against Richmond or are other forces in play?
Possible scenarios, Loss of coach? Player movement to rival club/s? Change in management?
Time will tell, BUT, I don’t like it. Something fishy is going on.
Agree with these.
It’s the fumbling and atrocious skills under no pressure when was the last time we saw this crap?
The biggest issue is lack of collective team pressure on the ball carrier.
It’s our niche, our one wood and our Richmond way and without it we are a mid range team.
Someone has lost the one wood, unless we get back to our high pressure best we will struggle to make the eight as we aren’t that good without it.
I agree, something fishy going on.
Is it a coincidence that since he turned his back on his wife for some younger woman the team haven’t been able to recapture our normal intensity? Has he lost his voice through lack of integrity?
Who knows? But sometimes these things could even be
subconscious like if he speaks of “sticking fat” or being “players of integrity” or “don’t abandon your mates”, maybe these words just fall to the ground because they lack the same honest purity that they once did.
Who knows the psyche of the players, especially how much the leaders may have loved Mrs Hardwick.
Cotchin especially
