Changes for next week against the Power?

[WilliamPowell]

INS: Miller, Brown, McAuliffe, Banks

OUTS: Gibcus, Young, Prestia, Pickett

[Tiger Khosh]

In: Brown, Miller, McAuliffe, Banks, sonsie & clarke

Out: Gibcus, Young, Prestia, Kmac, Pickett & Mansell

[Tiger_In_Sicily]

INS: Miller, Brown, McAuliffe, Banks

OUTS: Gibcus, Young, Prestia, Pickett

McIntosh must be dropped also

[the claw]

Ill start early and despite being brave if we had won, it would have just papered over the cracks.

Have a look people our depth will kill us no matter what.

Okay my team for next week and of course im looking at the future and players who have a chance of making it while addressing serious needs and injury.

Vlastuin 187/87 - Miller 196/96 - Grimes 193/90
W Rioli 177/75  - Dixon  200/105 - Georgiades 191/90

Brown 18?/??  - Koschitzke 196/96 - Trezise 188/??
McEntee 176/76 - Marshall  198/?? -  JH-F 185/81

Pickett 184/84 - Taranto 187/87 - D Rioli 178/78
Jones  186/89 - Wines 187/89 - Boak 183/85

Nankervis - 199/101 - McAuliffe 187/87 - Bolton 175/??
Soldo 204/106 - rozee 185/?? - Butters 181/??

Clarke 179/?? - Balta 194/100 - Campbell 182/??
Bergman - 189/83 - Allirr 193/94 - Houston 186/83

Martin 187/90 - Lynch 199/99 - Naismith 206/104
Burton 191/90 - Ratogolea 194/95 - BZ-K 195/??

Hopper 186/86 - Baker 175/ ?? - Ross 186/85 - #### - ####

[Diocletian]

You don't need to list the player's heights & weights every single time you name your team....

[the claw]

You don't need to list the player's heights & weights every single time you name your team....

No i don't mind there is a reason.

[Diocletian]

Our main problems atm are lack of pace, skills and poor tackling - listing their sprint times,  DE% & avg tackles would be more relevant....

[Hard Roar Tiger]

If pace is a problem for us then it’s a huge problem for Blues.
Tackling and general pressure on the ball carrier is the big deficiency that needs fixing.
It looks a little better this year and was a heap better Thursday vs round zero however Carlton walked the ball through the midfield far too easily and their forwards had way too much space when ball was locked in there. Some of our ball watching is u11’s standard

[WilliamPowell]

INS: Miller, Brown, McAuliffe, Banks

OUTS: Gibcus, Young, Prestia, Pickett

McIntosh must be dropped also

Based on the Coach's presser I don't think either will be dropped but IMV if one was going to be dropped I'd go Pickett because of his huge momentum killers in the last qtr and because he doesn't cover the kms that Kmac does and we need.

[Tiger_In_Sicily]

INS: Miller, Brown, McAuliffe, Banks

OUTS: Gibcus, Young, Prestia, Pickett

McIntosh must be dropped also

Based on the Coach's presser I don't think either will be dropped but IMV if one was going to be dropped I'd go Pickett because of his huge momentum killers in the last qtr and because he doesn't cover the kms that Kmac does and we need.

Fair point and observation

[Andyy]

Agree, take out the goal brain fade, Mansell was a solid contributor in that negative small forward role. People love to hate him.

So we are playing two purely negative small fwds then. No wonder we cannot kick big scores.

Mansell was ordinary and mrj hardly touched the ball at least one of them needs to go.

My changes would go

Miller - Gibcus
Kosi  -  Young
McAuliffe - Prestia.

So far all like for like replacements.

Clarke - Mansell.  Clarke just played a blinder and is an actual fwd.
Brown - McIntosh. enough of the fumbles and mistakes please. Rioli to wing and Brown to hb.

People are going to defend MRJ because he actually laid some tackles for once, but he had just 4 touches, you could count on your fingers the number of times he has touched the ball in two games he  gives very little offensively.

Nathan Broad is another who has done stuff all in two games along with Grimes.

I thought broad was ok. Flew for everything and put his body on the line when we were outsized for height

[the claw]

You don't need to list the player's heights & weights every single time you name your team....

You don't say . Have that covered with my ins. Besides the most pressing need we now have is finding not one but two kpd's for next week.
And yes i do need to list players weights and sizes. Its pretty obvious why.

[Diocletian]

You also don't need to reply to same post twice.....

[the claw]

You also don't need to reply to same post twice.....

Did i ? 

You don't need to list the player's heights & weights every single time you name your team....

Our main problems atm are lack of pace, skills and poor tackling - listing their sprint times,  DE% & avg tackles would be more relevant....

[one-eyed]

Tall Tiger Ben Miller's time could be now after defender's ACL heartbreak

By Sarah Black
afl.com.au
18 March 2024

AFTER playing 25 games over seven years, the door may now be open for Ben Miller to firmly and finally establish himself in Richmond's best side, following Josh Gibcus' ACL rupture.

Miller, 24, was selected with pick No.63 in the 2017 AFL Draft, a mixed draft haul that landed Richmond Noah Balta, Jack Higgins (St Kilda), Callum Coleman-Jones (North Melbourne) and Pat Naish (delisted, via West Coast).

Liam Baker also joined the club via the Rookie Draft at the same time.

While Baker and Balta have cemented themselves as fan favourites and among the first picked every week, Miller has spent the vast majority of his seven-year career in the VFL.

He made his debut in the final round of 2021, adding 24 games over the next two years.

Miller has been called upon in every conceivable situation – cover for ruck Toby Nankervis, filling in for Tom Lynch in attack, and slotting into the backline when Dylan Grimes or Balta have been unavailable, but would end up back in the twos when the more senior player returned.

The automatic assumption is that coach Adem Yze will immediately return Balta to the backline, but in the absence of cloning technology, the Tigers arguably have a greater need to keep him in attack, with other forward options being dropped duo Jacob Koschitzke and Samson Ryan.

"[Balta has] produced two really strong games, and for him, it's around consistency – he's got a goal around being really consistent. I'm really buoyed about what he's doing as a ruck and a power forward, so if we have to cover the other end, I'll be leaning towards bringing in another key defender, and not throwing him back just yet," Yze said.

"Just based on the fact we've only seen [Balta and Lynch play together] once, and in the first half it looked really potent.

"I think Ben Rutten (backline coach) might want him down back to cover for 'Youngy' (Tylar Young) or for 'Gibbo', but I'm really enjoying what I'm seeing from Noah and 'Lynchy'. It's only been a small sample size, but I hope we can keep going with it."

Tylar Young will miss at least this week's match against Port Adelaide due to concussion, meaning the Tigers will need to bring in another defender alongside Miller.

While there's no real other key defensive option, Koschitzke has spent some time in the backline during his time at Hawthorn.

Mid-sized defensive options include Tom Brown and James Trezise, with Nathan Broad and Nick Vlastuin capable of switching to a lockdown role, allowing one of the younger pair to provide rebound.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1086702/tall-richmond-tiger-ben-millers-time-could-be-now-after-defender-josh-gibcus-acl-heartbreak