Tigers turn tables on champion
Carley Jellett | March 30, 2008 | The Age
THE Coburg Tigers turned the tables on Geelong after a 74-point grand final loss last season, beating the premier by 75 points at ABD Stadium yesterday.
First-time coach Jade Rawlings was pleased with Coburg's win but said it had nothing to do with revenge. "We didn't speak about it at all," he said. "We spoke about how we want to be perceived going forward. Whatever happened today was never going to exact any revenge from last year because the damage was done in September last year."
Mitch Morton and Jack Riewoldt put their hands up to be selected for Richmond, kicked seven and six goals respectively. But Rawlings said their efforts in doing the team thing, as opposed to focusing on getting recruited to the seniors, was a key to the victory.
"One of the really good things with the Richmond-listed players today was they played the game as it should have been played instead of looking for results and what might happen if they played well.
"They actually just went and played and those guys have put performances out there that will be very competitive this week."
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