Richmond vs West Coast @ Optus Stadium --- Round 18, 2023

[mightytiges]

Turnover by the Eagles to Hugo. Bolton hits up Dusty inside 50. Siren. Goal! 

Won 98 - 60.

[pmac21]

Feels like a loss. 

[WilliamPowell]

Couldn't even get our % over 100 

[Tiger_In_Sicily]

Never ever felt so shittty after a win

[mightytiges]

Final Score

Richmond     2.6     5.9     10.12    14.14-98
West Coast   1.1     2.5       6.8       8.12-60

Goals: Bolton 2, Martin 2, Pickett 2, Riewoldt, Baker, Soldo, Ross, Prestia, Miller, Taranto, McIntosh.


Only positive is the 4 points. Won the game with those last two goals in two minutes before half-time and the first 5 minutes of the 3rd qtr when we piled on another 4 goals quickly. That's the 6 goal margin. The rest was trash. Dish up that lazy slop in any of our remaining games and we'll get thumped.

[mat073]

I would have taken a 38 point win when I woke up this morning. Having said that - that’s a very ugly win .

West Coast are going to win a game sooner or later .

I liked Soldo’s game . Balta was fantastic too .

Our poor conversion rate kept them in the contest for much longer.  Should have been up by 40 at half time.

[lamington]

Well the Soldo stat continues at least of him kicking a goal = win

[Tiger Khosh]

If we make/miss finals I highly doubt it’s going to be off %. Take the win and move on. Do the same against the hawks and then our fate will be in our own hands.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Missing toughness in the context. Why Mansell wasn’t picked ahead of half the team is beyond understanding.
We are playing soft so the more we get some uncompromising hard types the better we will be as a playing group.

I would’ve brought in Biggie and made him play forward pinch hitting in the ruck giving Miller a rest.

I can’t stand Soldo. It’s time to move on from him.

[WilliamPowell]

Take the 4 points and move on

Horrible game on so many levels


Haven't said it in quite a while

But....

Terrific, just terrificTM

[TigerLand]

It highlights our biggest issue. Scoring power, which comes from ball movement which has been poor all year however improved slightly.

I think we have the 2 of the 3 lowest scores against Eagles all year. We got a gift in playing them twice and could only score 190 points against them in 2 games.

Need to bring in some forwards who are natural instead of playing wingers, defenders and mids there. I'd honestly trade/draft in 5 new forwards into best 22, with Lynch the only one who stays. The rest go to normal position or as depth.

[MintOnLamb]

How many times were Taranto, Shai, Dusty and Prestia held off the ball?
A bloody disgrace

[Diocletian]

It happens every stuffin' week.

[one-eyed]

Team stats:

Disposals:    345 - 339 .... ( contested: 124 - 126 ; uncontested: 214 - 214 )
Efficiency%:   72 - 72
Kicks:          191 - 195
Handballs:   154 - 144
Turnovers:     61 - 68
Marks:          76 - 80 .... ( contested: 12 - 10 )
Tackles:        53 - 55
Clearances:   38 - 41 .... ( centre: 12 - 9 ; stoppages: 26 - 32 )
Inside 50s:    51 - 50
In50 eff.%:    67 - 46
In50 marks:   22 - 12
In50 tackles:   9 - 11
Hitouts:         59 - 26 .... ( Soldo 41, Miller 18 ; B.Williams 22, J.Williams 3, Darling 1 )
Bounces:         8 - 5
One %ers:     37 - 42
Frees:           12 - 15

Individual possessions:

D.Rioli   31
Taranto 27
Hopper 25
Bolton  23
Martin  23
Cotchin 21
Prestia  21
Balta    17
Pickett  17
Baker   16
Ross     15
Vlastuin 15
Graham 14
Riewoldt 12
Soldo    11
Banks   10
Grimes   9
Young    9
Broad    8
McIntosh 8
M.Rioli    6 .... ( subbed off during the last quarter )
Miller      4
Ralphsmith 3 .... ( subbed on during the last quarter )

https://www.afl.com.au/afl/matches/4937#player-stats

[mightytiges]

The worm provides a good pictorial summary. Played crap and butchered chances in the first 55 minutes  . Then slammed on 6 goals in 10 minutes either side of half-time. Followed by back to playing crap again for the final 55 minutes  .

Lucky we were playing the Eagles to get away with just 10 minutes of decent footy. That's not going to cut it in our remaining games.