Is something wrong in The Tiger Den?

[the claw]

The sign of an on field lapse has not just been the last few weeks. Honesty compels me to say they have been ordinary all year.

As for people coming for them i think most of the time most people have been very reserved about our form its nearly always you cannot write the tiges off they will turn it around. Its only reall been the last few weeks after horrendous peerformances that people are starting to say they cannot win it.

Sporadic Jack only the last few weeks i disagree mate. You dont lose it in a month mate you have lost it most of the year and as for skills some who got regular games  over the last 4 years have been devoid of them almost.

So what is wrong well its not just one thing and it certainly is not a short term thing.

Rule changes and one in particular the new kick out rule has almost single handedly stopped our ability to lock the ball in the fwd line and stopped repeat entries.To a lesser degree standing the mark and 6-6-6 has not helped us either.

Skills too many too reliant on the old system a system that is now almost impossible to maintain. These blokes have always had ordinary skills or other serious weakness that the team ethos managed to gloss over.

Age its a biggie as much as the club and supporters wan't to ignore it, the simple fact is half the side is at a point where its all down hill.

To exacerbate the age problem too few kids have come on to force them out. I also think those in charge have become too enamoured with those who played in the premierships, so there is a big reluctance to drop them when they have been poor.

Injuries have been cruel mostly to the better players and usually at the wrong time.

Hunger it has to be a factor 

List management i really dont think we have got it right in several areas regarding the types we are drafting and the areas being targeted.
This has also filtered down to team selections imo.

Can anyone think of other reasons pleas add to it.

[camboon]

Something is wrong at Richmond , we have lost our soul and passion to win
We might as well play every kid now as even if we made the eight we would be wasting our time
We need the best picks we can get because some older players just can’t shoulder the load any more.

[Damo]

Something is wrong at Richmond , we have lost our soul and passion to win
We might as well play every kid now as even if we made the eight we would be wasting our time
We need the best picks we can get because some older players just can’t shoulder the load any more.

If we make the 8 we definitely wouldn’t be wasting our time , as we will need to win 5 from 6 minimum to make it .. but that won’t happen you wouldn’t think

[Tigeritis™©®]

We won’t make the eight.

Season was over in Perth against WC.

[georgies31]

The board need to spend $$$$ get some highly rated assistant coaches all we been doing is loosing them and get fitness bloke also at swans gone.

[WilliamPowell]

The board need to spend $$$$ get some highly rated assistant coaches all we been doing is loosing them and get fitness bloke also at swans gone.

I'm sure the board would love to spend plenty of $$$ in the footy department but there is this pesky little issue called the soft cap that means it is not possible

What do you want to cut?

[yandb]

The soft cap is a soft cap. if you want to exceed it you will be taxed but if you are happy to pay the tax you can exceed it to the level that you can afford.

[Knighter]

Other clubs can afford good assistants. Why can’t we?

Dimma signed for too much?

[Tigeritis™©®]

The board need to spend $$$$ get some highly rated assistant coaches all we been doing is loosing them and get fitness bloke also at swans gone.

I'm sure the board would love to spend plenty of $$$ in the footy department but there is this pesky little issue called the soft cap that means it is not possible

What do you want to cut?

It is “possible” WP, the richer clubs that do it just have to pay a tax on the extra spend.

If we want we can spend the extra money and make sure the players are looked after like they have been in previous years.

In the end I think it’s the fatigue of playing grand finals year after year has taken its toll. Timing is everything in this game and this year the timing of injuries and FatherTime catching up to the seniors has proven our downfall.
Pull the pin and look to the future. I would’ve done this after Stkilda game.

[Francois Jackson]

Other clubs can afford good assistants. Why can’t we?

Dimma signed for too much?

something has gone wrong

lnness gone
leppa gone
caracella gone
truck gone

who is taking up all the cash?

[Tigeritis™©®]

Other clubs can afford good assistants. Why can’t we?

Dimma signed for too much?

something has gone wrong

lnness gone
leppa gone
caracella gone
truck gone

who is taking up all the cash?

Mrs Hardwick and the new GF 

[georgies31]

The board need to spend $$$$ get some highly rated assistant coaches all we been doing is loosing them and get fitness bloke also at swans gone.

How do other clubs do it then yet we got record membership etc this that I can understand one assistant,  but 3 of them slowly this has been affecting us.

[rogerd3]

The board need to spend $$$$ get some highly rated assistant coaches all we been doing is loosing them and get fitness bloke also at swans gone.

I'm sure the board would love to spend plenty of $$$ in the footy department but there is this pesky little issue called the soft cap that means it is not possible

What do you want to cut?

Hence why club weren't happy about cuts.
We had built up a Footy dept that other clubs could only aspire to have.

[WilliamPowell]

The board need to spend $$$$ get some highly rated assistant coaches all we been doing is loosing them and get fitness bloke also at swans gone.

I'm sure the board would love to spend plenty of $$$ in the footy department but there is this pesky little issue called the soft cap that means it is not possible

What do you want to cut?

Hence why club weren't happy about cuts.
We had built up a Footy dept that other clubs could only aspire to have.

Exactly,

People wanted Emma Murray to remain. She has but something else or someone else had to go

Think People are also forgetting the fine from the CCJ/Stack COVID breach last year also impacted on our soft cap. It was another 100k out of our cap

So while other clubs had to cut 3 million or whatever it was our cut was even more...

[one-eyed]

BARRETT: Forget a fourth Tigers flag

Mathematics says Richmond is still alive in 2021, but footy logic says otherwise, writes Damian Barrett

By Damian Barrett
afl.com.au
12 July 2021

THE CUMULATIVE toll of defying odds, fatigue, scandal, injuries, form and maybe even footy karma now seems insurmountable.

And while I am too-wedded to the mantra that Richmond remains alive in the 2021 premiership battle until mathematics proves it isn't, football logic says it is dead.

Richmond sits 12th after another loss, this time to Collingwood at the MCG on Sunday, and has Brisbane and Geelong in its next two assignments.

Since leading West Coast by four goals with half a quarter to play and then conceding those four goals to record a dismal loss, the Tigers have seemed shot. They then managed just two goals – again, absorb that slowly, the team which has won three of the past four flags scored only two goals in a match – against St Kilda in round 15, then lost to Gold Coast the following week.

Against the Pies at three-quarter time, they were 20 points clear, but managed one goal to seven thereafter.

In the 2020 COVID-19 impacted season, Richmond drew extraordinary power from self-inflicted adversity, including behavioural breaches which deeply angered the AFL and rival clubs.

But mounting a premiership charge one more time now appears a task too great. Richmond just doesn't have the aura that played more with the minds than bodies of opponents.

Even making finals seems beyond the Tigers right now.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/646569/barrett-forget-a-fourth-tigers-flag-a-new-contender-rises