Can Richmond challenge again in 2022? [merged]

[Lozza]

Ahhh man rather than sitting 6th or 7th and a game clear in the eight heading into the bye, we instead finish the round off 9th. Not the end of the world looking at the big picture of our season but defs a downer.

Doesn't our lower ladder position provide us with a higher pick in the midseason draft, a slight positive if the case?

[Knighter]

We get to spend the bye week sitting in 9th.  Hope the coaches, players and club realize it was a massive opportunity lost and respond accordingly.

No more gifted games to favorites and ill discipline has to be punished

[one-eyed]

David King believes the 2022 AFL premiership race has been blown wide open, with up to seven clubs capable of winning this year’s flag.

“Right now you look at the ladder there, you could mount a case all the way down to even a wildcard option of Carlton (in seventh spot) going crazy for a month or six weeks at the end of the season and winning the flag.

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‘LADDER WITH THE LOT’ — RECORD AGAINST TOP-EIGHT TEAMS IN 2022

1. Fremantle (4-2, 109.1%)
2. Collingwood (3-2, 109.1%)
3. Gold Coast (3-4, 93.7%)
4. Brisbane    (2-2, 108.1%)
5. W.Bulldogs (2-3, 102.0%)
6. Sydney (2-2, 100.8%)
7. Geelong (2-3, 95.3%)
8. St Kilda (2-2, 89.4%)
9. Hawthorn (2-5, 84.1%)
10. Melbourne (1-2, 94.6%)
11. Carlton (1-2, 90.9%)
12. Richmond (1-4, 87.9%)
13. Port Adelaide (1-4, 78.1%)
14. West Coast (1-4, 50.6%)
15. Adelaide (0-6, 67.7%)
16. GWS Giants (0-7, 66.4%)
17. Essendon (0-6, 63.4%)
18. North Melbourne (0-7, 48.0%)

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-ladder-2022-clubs-against-top-eight-teams-rankings-finals-chances-run-home/news-story/ebbeeb360c3b7e5be869f9210afa7af7

[Andyy]

Gold coast lol

Amazing that we've played 5 top 8, and Deez/Blues only 3. Some clubs 7 that's rough

[one-eyed]

https://twitter.com/7AFL/status/1533617825474289667

[one-eyed]

THE RUN HOME: BREAKING DOWN THE TOP 8 CONTENDERS AND THEIR PATH TO SEPTEMBER

Nic Negrepontis
SEN
7 June 2022

Richmond

Current record: 6-5

Run Home: Port Adelaide (MCG), Carlton (MCG), Geelong (MCG), West Coast (MCG), Gold Coast (Met), North Melbourne (MS), Fremantle (MS), Brisbane (MCG), Port Adelaide (AO), Hawthorn (MCG), Essendon (MCG).

Decisive games: Carlton, Port Adelaide x2, Brisbane, Geelong, Fremantle.

Win range: 14-17

Ladder range: 4th to 8th

Richmond fans shouldn’t be too concerned by their current ladder position given their fixture from here. They get interstate teams like Port Adelaide, Fremantle and Brisbane on their home turf, and get Carlton at a good time given their injuries.

Geelong has a ‘home’ game against them at the MCG and they should pick up wins over the likes of West Coast, North Melbourne, Hawthorn and Essendon.

If things break right for the Tigers, they could easily finish with 16 wins and finish inside the top four.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/06/06/the-run-home-breaking-down-the-top-8-contenders-and-their-path-to-september/

[the claw]

Reckon there is 6 teams playing for 7th 8th which includes Tiges, PA, WB, GC, CO StK.
Of the 5 the dogs have a horror run where they play Bris away, Syd away, Stk marvel, Melb marvel, Geel away, Freo home. Thats as tough a block of 6 games as you can get. Think they will struggle to get there but will deserve to if they win against that lot.

Sydney have 6 games you would normally pencil in as wins so i think they are safe.

StKilda have a difficult run. syd 2 bris 2 ca, fre, geel all once. Plus wb at a time they will be up and about looking to win  every game.
Reckon they should win at least 5 to qualify though.

Carlton have a decent run home and should stay top 8.

Collingwood well they have melb twice carlton Sydney and no real gimme games apart from NM. They have GCS and Adelaide away and P/A who as they get players back will be coming hard at the 8 imo.They also have Essendon who always get up for these games.

[one-eyed]

Every club's run home: Finals beckon Pies and Suns, Blues have it tough

Michael Whiting
afl.com.au
8 June 2022




https://www.afl.com.au/news/776087/every-club-s-run-home-finals-beckon-pies-and-suns-blues-have-it-tough

[one-eyed]

Ladder predictor: Perfect run has Tigers dreaming big

The top-eight will be looking nervously over its shoulder as Richmond primes itself for a finals tilt. Can the Tigers make it? And, who drops out? See our run home predictor.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-2022-every-teams-run-home-rated-where-your-club-will-finish/news-story/4c1c1cd12574802b690445dc5c75aaf9

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How ‘ordinary’ Richmond became ‘Tigers of old’ by embracing chaos footy

Catherine Healey
Fox Sports
June 8th, 2022 10:19 pm

Fox Footy’s Leigh Montagna believes the “Tigers of old” have returned as Richmond start their run for finals after last week’s bye.

Richmond sit just one win outside of the top eight after 12 rounds, with games up their sleeve against bottom three West Coast, North Melbourne and Essendon.

Seven of their final 11 games are against teams currently outside the top eight – with just two of those games interstate.

“This team could be the sleeper,” Montagna warned on AFL360.

“I think this is the Tigers of old.”

Montagna said after an “ordinary” opening six rounds where the club really “struggled”, the club had turned a corner.

“They weren’t intercepting the ball,” he said.

“They were a bit more methodical and predictable. More kick-mark and playing more boundary.”

The former Saint said it appeared the Tigers said “this is not our DNA” and opted to go back to fast-flowing footy.

“They are now playing in chaos games – the highest turnover games in the competition,” he said.

“That is suiting how they want to play, their forward half game is off the charts.

“They are embracing the chaos.”

With only big forward Tom Lynch missing from their best 22, Montagna warned Richmond were going to come hard for a spot in the top eight.

“They’ve got their brand back,” he said. “It’s a scary proposition for the rest of the comp.”

Missing a host of premiership players including Nick Vlastuin, Dustin Martin and Kane Lambert early in the season, the Tigers were ranked 16th without the footy, 18th in clearances, 17th in intercepts and 12th in turnovers.

Since Round 7, Richmond are ranked number one in the competition for intercepts and turnovers, and sit first for teams with the footy.

It is no surprise Martin made his return from a mental health break in Round 8, and is now averaging 20 touches a game.

Lynch is expected to be just one more week away with his hamstring injury in promising signs for the club for the remainder 2022.

The Tigers have missed the finals just twice since 2013 – finishing with three premierships in that time.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/how-ordinary-richmond-became-tigers-of-old-by-embracing-chaos-footy/news-story/4bb148afb033af8d98554edb65400d73

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‘It’s Richmond DNA’: Tigers reveal tactical shift that helped spark resurgence

David Zita
Fox Sports
June 10th, 2022

The “Richmond way” is back and, for at least one of the side’s mainstays, not a moment too soon.

After a spluttering start to the year, the Tigers have now won five of their last six matches and, for the time being at least, are back in the top eight following a win over Port Adelaide.

Key to the side’s turnaround from a 2-4 start to the season has been a reversion to the turnover game that has served them so well over the last five years.

Since round seven, the Tigers are the best side in the competition at scoring both from intercepts and turnover.

Forward half intercepts also see the Tigers rank best in the competition - a position they held when they won the 2020 premiership - after being the second-best side in that area in 2019 and 2021.

A mainstay of the Richmond line-up, Nathan Broad was well and truly aware of the side’s tweaks in recent weeks.

“We went away from the Richmond way a bit (at the start of the year),” he told foxfooty.com.au after Thursday night’s win at the MCG.

We tried to change and were starting to be a bit more methodical, a bit slow, which isn’t us.

“We’re chaotic and fast, so we just went back to the old Richmond way; fast, chaotic footy, get it in our forward half and then set up and keep it in there.”

The Tigers coming into 2022 after a disappointing 2021, Broad said, had looked to change things up tactically, which had led to the markedly different game style that ultimately proved ineffective to start the year.

“Yeah (by choice) a little bit. We thought we needed to tweak the way we played a bit, we thought that might’ve been the way forward so through pre-season we trained it, but come round one it didn’t really work so we had to go back to our old ways,” he said.

“We feel we’re slowly building now, we’re getting troops out on the park, we’ll get Lynchy (Tom Lynch) back next week, we’ll be at full strength so hopefully we can hit the second half of the season hard.”

Belief has never been hard to come by for this modern Richmond side, but one gets the sense Broad truly believes his words when he paints a picture of their premiership hopes this season.

“I think in 2017 we were 13th at the bye, 2019 I think we were ninth or 10th at the bye, this year we’re ninth or 10th at the bye. We’ve been here before, we’ve got the evidence to back it up and I feel like we’re really building now we’re getting our old style of footy back,” he said.

“It took a few weeks to get used to being back to the old style but I feel like we’re really building now.”

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/richmond-tigers/afl-news-2022-richmond-tigers-win-over-port-adelaide-stats-finals-chances-fixture-change-in-game-style-nathan-broad-interview-damien-hardwick-press-conference/news-story/8772f457e7e0de4c475c6071f2ff8cbb

[one-eyed]

WHY 2022 HAS A “SIMILAR FEEL” TO RICHMOND'S 2019 PREMIERSHIP RUN

By Nic Negrepontis
SEN
10 June 2022

David King is bullish on Richmond as we enter the second half of the season, following their Thursday night win over Port Adelaide and the general health of their list.

The Tigers kicked out to an early lead against the Power and held them at bay in a low scoring, high pressure game.

King believes they’re starting to put the pieces together at the right time of the year.

“I thought (Richmond) was very good. It was a 12-point margin in the end, but they smashed them really. It felt like a 35–40-point win really,” he told SEN Breakfast.

“If Shai Bolton kicks a couple of those five points, he blows the game apart.

“I thought they were very good. They’ve got their game back. They’re really only waiting for Tom Lynch and they’re at absolute full health. There are very few teams who are full health at Round 14.”

Kane Cornes looked ahead to the Tigers’ draw, wondering whether they have a path to the top four and potentially a fourth flag in this era.

Richmond plays Carlton and Geelong in the next fortnight, as well as Fremantle and Brisbane in Victoria in the final few months.

“Richmond’s draw is wide open now. There’s only a couple that will really challenge them in Geelong and Carlton. They probably win at worst three out of their next five. They don’t miss finals from there,” Cornes said.

“Can they do damage? Is there a premiership there to steal? Melbourne is stumbling, you look at Brisbane and Sydney and Geelong and you’re not sure about them, where do Fremantle sit in all of this.

“Is there a premiership to steal or not?”

To which King responded: “Let’s look at Round 14, 2019. Where do you reckon Richmond was on the ladder? They were ninth.

“They were outside of the eight at Round 14 in the premiership year. I think this has got a similar feel to it.

“Get everyone back and healthy, not in terms of winning premierships, but in terms of the design of the season. Get everyone as healthy as you can, if there’s any risks rest them and get them 100 per cent right.

“Then make a charge in the back six or seven weeks of the season building into a finals series.

“Damien Hardwick knows that formula. They’ve been here before.

“Health is your best player. They are looming large.”

The Tigers are expecting to get Lynch back for next Thursday’s clash with Carlton, while Kane Lambert was the medical sub in his return from a hip injury.

They are the only two players on Richmond’s injury list at the present time.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/06/09/why-2022-has-a-similar-feel-to-richmonds-2019-premiership-run/

[Tiger Khosh]

There was a graphic last night on the fox footy broadcast that showed we were AFL no.2 for quarters won and AFL no.3 for time in front or vice versa. Maybe it’s just hopeful thinking but we are a better team than our ladder position and record suggests. Just need to stop switching off for quarters at a time and when we aren’t in control not allowing the opp to get a run of goals which we are magnificent at in the premiership years.

[Broadsword]

I mean Melbourne were never in trouble and Carlton and St Kilda beat us by 5 goals, which doesn't happen by accident.

But the umpiring was atrocious in the Adelaide game (-20 differential from memory) and the Sydney game we threw away.

It would have been completely unremarkable for us to be 9-3 with a percentage of 120 right now, placing us in the top 4. From 4th, anything can happen in the last 6 weeks of the season.

We have sure been patchy though.

[Tiger Khosh]

Carlton we were up by like 4 goals midwayish through the 4th quarter.

Saints we were up at 3 qtr time.

Pretty much 1 garbage quarter cost us in both those matches.