They showed two boo-boos we made in the last 90 secs. Lyon first showed Morton kick OOTF and then at the throw-in on the wing it looked like it was Mitch? who ran away from the stoppage leaving two Port players on their own who gained possession of the footy and then he and two other Tigers were caught in no-mans land all alone at CHB as the ball went over their heads to 1-on-1 contests 20m out from Port's goal where Tredrea took the mark.
Hutchy said he still thinks we have a sneaky chance to make the Eight
given our completely different midfield with Cuz, Cotch and Cogs. The draw opens up now and Richmond came home strongly in the second half of the season last year. He said the Board should tell Plough tomorrow night that this is his last year no matter what happens but that he'll coach the rest of the year out and for us to go all out to win. Hutchy said all this about us straight after saying Melbourne who are also on 1-7 that although they are good enough to beat half the competition based on the past few weeks they should tank to get the priority pick and the leadership group should be told off if they start winning
. Lyon got touchy and tried to act in denial that it happens.
Just as an aside they put up an interesting graphic showing all the indigenous small forwards recruited since 2004 (first one was Aaron Davey) in an effort to apply defensive pressure within the forward 50 were all either late picks (60+) or rookies. Thomas added that Milne albeit non-indigenous was also a rookie and Caro of course added Nahas as another small rookie off the rookie list.
Caro said Nahas' performances since coming into the side off the rookie list are an indictment on their rest of our forwards who need to do something.
