Author Topic: Pass mark for 2025?  (Read 761 times)

Offline TigerLand

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Re: Pass mark for 2025?
« Reply #15 on: November 10, 2024, 07:57:01 AM »
Need to finish last

Anything else is a fail

Then and this is just my opinion  ;) I think you might be disappointed

I see us winning at least 6 games

Why? We are going to get an incredibly soft draw. With the youth coming through, they bring enthusiasm that IMHO will filter through the group.. so based on that I reckon we will get off to a fast start, struggle in the middle and finish with a flourish

Agree with all you've said WP, however I think what is needed above all to all of that to translate to wins is a successful game style. The side is a Frankenstein mixture at the moment and who knows how they will feel together straight away. Mitchell at Hawks clicked this year with their unique identity and football style. North haven't done that yet, yet have better talent.

So whilst agree that enthusiasm and soft draw will help enormously if we don't build a certain way of playing football, a new, clear Richmond style the Ws will be rare until we do.
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Re: Pass mark for 2025?
« Reply #16 on: November 10, 2024, 12:13:30 PM »
Football hasn't really changed all that much since the 60's & 70's.  How so?  Because the thing that crushes all opposition is direct football.  Get the ball any way you can, run as far as you can with it then kick the F* out of it!  That is the patented Richmond style of football, its our invention & its why we are so feared. 
There are more highly skilled players & sides than us who play pretty football, do pretty things & collect awards & accolades for it, but at Richmond we do things differently!  A quick, direct, ruthlessly decisive kill beats everybody, our style has to be based on that idea. 
So, I want to see the new Richmond side under Yze do all of those typically Richmond things because its a winning formula.  It wont win awards or praise, but it will win premierships!  It will take time to develop the young talent we are about to draft, so this wont happen quickly, but it will happen inevitably.   
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Offline georgies31

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Re: Pass mark for 2025?
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2024, 01:53:22 PM »
Forget about wins we're looking for green shoots and a identity and structure.