VFL R8: Richmond vs Box Hill Hawks @ City Oval, Sun. May 15

[WilliamPowell]

Watched and decided to leave making any comments until the game was over

Disgraceful, pathetic and non competitive (take your pick) in the last

Game was gone at the start of the last after the Box Hill bloke took the ball away in the first 10 seconds and goaled

Ross was his direct opponent at the bounce. Aarts did chase but Ross just jogged. Unacceptable. At that point I thought game over, zero pressure right there

Why did Morris not start Ryan in the middle? That's just poor coaching

I’m  not sure the kids are as good as we thought

I think that's incredibly harsh bordering on foolish.

Our kids have been good most of this season. One poor quarter doesn't mean they aren't any good

[The Machine]

Not the best day for Morris in the box

[WilliamPowell]

Have to say I watched Cumberland with interest today

And I can now see why The Machine has said he won't make

First word that comes to mind right now is selfish

[Rampsation]

We have good kids. We have some talent issues with our VFL listed players. Theyre not good enough.

[pmac21]

Unfortunately the young mids in RCD, Dow, Ross, Martyn have some major flaws that looks like they will never be overcome. 
However, they're still young enough to come good. 
Cumberland looks good at times but he does some ridiculous things out there.  Bit like Castagna. 

[JP Tiger]

One thing stood out today - there wasn't a whole lot of leadership out there!  The oldest head was Tarrant & he only played the first half, then ... there was nothing!  Nobody stood up & set an example, plenty tried hard but they were mostly putting up losing efforts - the almost mark, the kick that just missed, the handball that went nowhere ... then the umpires had two rule books ... 
Its not anybodies fault in particular, its more about our list getting very young & very thin in the VFL.
All we can do is keep working on it ...   

[georgies31]

Unfortunately the young mids in RCD, Dow, Ross, Martyn have some major flaws that looks like they will never be overcome. 
However, they're still young enough to come good. 
Cumberland looks good at times but he does some ridiculous things out there.  Bit like Castagna.

Don't agree on Dow his shown it at afl level the rest maybe.

[camboon]

What’s foolish is when you bag our kids that’s ok but have an issue when others suggest they may be a good as / we thought. You don’t even know which ones I was referring to.  Who made you captain of the world

[WilliamPowell]

What’s foolish is when you bag our kids that’s ok but have an issue when others suggest they may be a good as / we thought. You don’t even know which ones I was referring to.  Who made you captain of the world

I'm assuming the above is directed at me?

So if it was...

Correct I have no idea who you were referring to because you used the collective term "the kids".

And please do tell me outside of Ross and Cumberland today, who of  "the kids" have have I bagged? I've actually been bagged for defending some of our younger players this season

So I have to ask who actually makes up the collective of "the kids"?

[1965]

WP you jumped in too quickly methinks. Check out JP Tiger's post.

[Knighter]

What’s foolish is when you bag our kids that’s ok but have an issue when others suggest they may be a good as / we thought. You don’t even know which ones I was referring to.  Who made you captain of the world

I'm assuming the above is directed at me?

So if it was...

Correct I have no idea who you were referring to because you used the collective term "the kids".

And please do tell me outside of Ross and Cumberland today, who of  "the kids" have have I bagged? I've actually been bagged for defending some of our younger players this season

So I have to ask who actually makes up the collective of "the kids"?

Ross deserves to be bagged.  Disappeared after halftime and refused to put his body on the line in the last qtr.

[The Machine]

Have to say I watched Cumberland with interest today

And I can now see why The Machine has said he won't make

First word that comes to mind right now is selfish

Selfish indeed WP. He burns so many it is not funny and he needs to stop drinking his own bathwater.

[pmac21]

Unfortunately the young mids in RCD, Dow, Ross, Martyn have some major flaws that looks like they will never be overcome. 
However, they're still young enough to come good. 
Cumberland looks good at times but he does some ridiculous things out there.  Bit like Castagna.

Don't agree on Dow his shown it at afl level the rest maybe.

Lets just say he's not an elite kick and dump kicks it a fair bit.  Give him time though

[camboon]

You basically agreed with me by naming kids that you thought needed to be bagged  . You/ we are entitled to our opinion without the rudeness .

[torch]

Did Sonsie play?

This was a very disappointing result for us.

RCD, Dow, Ross, Ralphsmith, Stack all should've dominated this match and to produce this below average performance is very disappointing for our future.

You can't help but question this.

Disappointing!