Richmond vs Essendon - Dreamtime at the 'G - Round 11, 2025

[Tigeritis™©®]

Great to see another one of our VFL players dominate in another team. 

[mightytiges]

Great to see another one of our VFL players dominate in another team. 

I wouldn't use tonight to rate players. One of the poorest standards games.

Bombers are downhill skiers. Beat on young inexperienced bottom sides yet get exposed against any decent side as we saw last week. I'm still convinced if Nank, Lynch & Balta played tonight we would've won.

ps. Who was the idiot at AFL HQ who moved this game away from Saturday night to Friday and then had us playing the Sunday before it?!

[one-eyed]

Taranto on Ch 7 said we ran out of legs.

[Tiger Khosh]

Taranto on Ch 7 said we ran out of legs.

TT needs to focus on getting his touch back. His avg kicking is talked about a lot but he was fumbling the footy so much today and his handpasses have been horrible this past month.

[WilliamPowell]

Taranto on Ch 7 said we ran out of legs.

Reckon he was spot on.

Cubs certainly ran out of juice by 3 qtr time. Coming off a 5 day break, no surprise

Our forward line was dysfunctional. People are complaining about Lalor being in the F50 for must of his time on the park. No surprise there either as he was our only effective forward. Last night proved how important big Tom is.

Reckon Sims needs a rest, he was non competitive at times.

ps. Who was the idiot at AFL HQ who moved this game away from Saturday night to Friday and then had us playing the Sunday before it?!

Can put the move to Friday night down to the new TV broadcast deal.

Despite the AFL saying (boasting if we're being honest) marque games that are played on Saturday's would be exempt from Fox Footy's exclusive access to Saturday games and would be shown on FTA citing Dreamtime at the G as an example, they as expected didn't follow through with that and they moved it to Friday to get it on FTA and appease Fox Footy. As always fans don't matter

[one-eyed]

Team Stats:

Disposals     341 - 442 ..... ( contested: 121 - 141 ; uncontested: 212 - 283 ) 
Efficiency%   69 - 74
Kicks           200 - 249
Handballs    141 - 193
Turnovers      67 - 76
Marks           94 - 102 .... ( contested marks: 6 - 7 )
Tackles         54 - 71 
Clearances    23 - 45 .... ( centre: 6- 8 ; stoppages: 17 - 37 ) 
Inside 50s     48 - 54
In50 eff.%     40 - 48
In50 marks      6 - 8
In50 tackles    2 - 15 .... hello went missing small forwards 
Hitouts          30 - 56
Bounces          2 - 15
One %ers      56 - 45
Frees            16 - 15

Individual possies:

Banks    29
Vlastuin 24
Hopper  23
Taranto  23
Broad    22
Brown   21
McAuliffe 21
Smith    19
Ross      18
Ralphsmith 17
McIntosh 15
Miller    14
Campbell 11
Dow      11 .... subbed off at half-time
Gray     11
Mansell 11
Ryan    11
Faull     9
Green   9
Sims    9
Trainor  8
Rioli     3 .... subbed on at half-time
Lalor    2

https://www.afl.com.au/afl/matches/7056#player-stats

[one-eyed]

No Tigers received votes in the Yiooken Trophy.

Voting breakdown
Nic Martin (Essendon) – 12 votes
Sam Durham (Essendon) – 6 votes
Zach Merrett (Essendon) – 5 votes
Archie Roberts (Essendon) – 1 vote

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1327613/2025-dreamtime-at-the-g-yiooken-trophy-results

[Francois Jackson]

MRJ is an embarrassment to the jumper.. if he is going to roll around eating pies and looking like an unfit bastard then he is surely on borrowed time. 

The only thing that may save him for one more year is some  of our other smalls aren't much chop either.

[Damo]

MRJ is an embarrassment to the jumper.. if he is going to roll around eating pies and looking like an unfit bastard then he is surely on borrowed time. 

The only thing that may save him for one more year is some  of our other smalls aren't much chop either.

The only thing that’s saved him is his name

If his name was John Smith he’d be gone already

[pmac21]

Agree. MRJ is simply not up to it. 
Runs around where the ball isn't.  All the time
When he does get it he normally fumbles it. 

[Damo]

Agree. MRJ is simply not up to it. 
Runs around where the ball isn't.  All the time
When he does get it he normally fumbles it.

Had 3 possessions in a half coming on fresh as the sub

And one of his fumbles nearly got Trainer obliterated

[Tigeritis™©®]

MRJ is an embarrassment to the jumper.. if he is going to roll around eating pies and looking like an unfit bastard then he is surely on borrowed time. 

The only thing that may save him for one more year is some  of our other smalls aren't much chop either.

Turtle Pies to be precise.

[Diocletian]

Thought our tackling & shepherding would improve with Caracella back but it's somehow gotten even worse.

[georgies31]

I came here thinking were a top 8 side, ready to make finals with some of these comments, people in fairyland." We're showing traits of a typical rebuilding side in and out of games a forward line of 17 games between them. I was disappointed st a few senior players who let us down not the kids.

[pmac21]

Seen enough of Juddy, Alger & Lefau. 
Bring them in next week