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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2008, 10:28:55 PM »
Please Terry keep the team as is.
Dropping someone after a four quarter team effort last week would not be right.
Hope Bowden stays at Coburg in the ensuing weeks. He will be an asset for them.
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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2008, 11:23:38 PM »
Collins has been good but i dont think he is ready for AFL yet, needs to develop his body still.

To me he is one who you would blood towards the end of the year to give him a taste.

He has been doing ok at Coburg but needs to stand up when the going gets tough.

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2008, 11:48:41 PM »
Went to Coburg last week, thought Tivs has earnt his recall, if he does get a game.
Wheres Connors ?????

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2008, 02:19:45 AM »
Went to Coburg last week, thought Tivs has earnt his recall, if he does get a game.
Wheres Connors ?????

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Daniel showed last year he has got terrific talent. He had a real setback in the pre-season with a stress fracture in his foot that kept him out for eight weeks plus. He’s getting himself as fit as he can and once he has done that, we’re looking forward to him playing AFL footy.

Although he may play some games towards the end of the season, 2009 after a full preseason is looking more likely as the time he breaks into the senior side. Daniel virtually has had no preseason or practice matches this year.
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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2008, 07:38:28 AM »
Just hope Edwards gets in :pray

I'd be really annoyed if he didn't.

I thought it was pretty telling that the team last week was the closest we had fielded to the team we were fielding at the end of last season bringing some of the younger boys in. I think it shows that the small momentum we were building towards the end of last year was in no small part to the efforts of our young cubs. Also shows up the quality of our seniors. The team at the beginning of this season really made me yawn. The team last week against Freo was exciting. I have a feeling when our young players click this club will really explode as a football team (in a good way of course). It may be a few years off yet but, IMO, the first signs are good.

Stick with the kids Terry!!

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2008, 07:51:26 AM »
Went to Coburg last week, thought Tivs has earnt his recall, if he does get a game.
Wheres Connors ?????

Daniel Connors:
Daniel showed last year he has got terrific talent. He had a real setback in the pre-season with a stress fracture in his foot that kept him out for eight weeks plus. He’s getting himself as fit as he can and once he has done that, we’re looking forward to him playing AFL footy.

Although he may play some games towards the end of the season, 2009 after a full preseason is looking more likely as the time he breaks into the senior side. Daniel virtually has had no preseason or practice matches this year.

Come on guys. That's those pesky fact thingys again. You've been warned about littering the board with them. Pull your socks up you let the whole side down with posts like those.

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2008, 08:08:11 AM »
Would it have made more sense to list Richo in the forward line but change him to the wing come game day?  Keep the opposition guessing.  Why alert them in advance of what you are going to do?  Make it so unpredictable that the opposition are left scratching their heads.

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2008, 08:10:30 AM »
Would it have made more sense to list Richo in the forward line but change him to the wing come game day?  Keep the opposition guessing.  Why alert them in advance of what you are going to do?  Make it so unpredictable that the opposition are left scratching their heads.

Naa that horse has bolted now, they know he will play either but they done but still dont know where exactly.
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« Reply #23 on: April 18, 2008, 08:19:47 AM »
Would it have made more sense to list Richo in the forward line but change him to the wing come game day?  Keep the opposition guessing.  Why alert them in advance of what you are going to do?  Make it so unpredictable that the opposition are left scratching their heads.

Naa that horse has bolted now, they know he will play either but they done but still dont know where exactly.

Rocket will have a plan for both situations now. Doesn't matter where they list Richo.

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2008, 08:43:38 AM »
Would it have made more sense to list Richo in the forward line but change him to the wing come game day?  Keep the opposition guessing.  Why alert them in advance of what you are going to do?  Make it so unpredictable that the opposition are left scratching their heads.

Naa that horse has bolted now, they know he will play either but they done but still dont know where exactly.

Rocket will have a plan for both situations now. Doesn't matter where they list Richo.
Yeah, I don't think any opposition coach takes one bit of notice of where players are named in the teams made public.  They know where players are likely to play and will have a number of plans to cope with the possibilities as they see them.  They may not foresee the occasional one (like Freo with Richo last week) but it wouldn't have mattered where he was named - they have their own intelligence sources and gut feel and would generally run with that.

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #25 on: April 18, 2008, 09:53:43 AM »
Still if I was Plough, I'd have Richo all over the place, just to make manning up on him as hard as possible.

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #26 on: April 18, 2008, 10:39:18 AM »
Still if I was Plough, I'd have Richo all over the place, just to make manning up on him as hard as possible.

 :thumbsup Like your thinking julz. Name him at full back and let them waste their time thinking up a plan for something that will never happen. lol.

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #27 on: April 18, 2008, 10:59:22 AM »
Only out would be McGuane if he dont come up
X Tivendale has returned  ;D his haunting you  :thumbsup just showing you that his top VFL player,  but his AFL days are maybe over the pace of the game has caught him, But if he breaks in he deserves it.
Wallace has left the making a statement on Bowden a year to late on many other players that should have went before him but Joel's mistake riddled last season & early this season has taken its own toll on him & l beleive he is one of the players guilty of not playing to game plan structure with chip kicking, overuse & turnovers. chipkicker Hyde will be next to go & Johnson well his retiring with Tivendale years end anyway  ;D Conners one man team not worthy of a game this year.  Hughes should be brought in for this game at the place of McGuane l think he really needs to take the chance now. if not a unchanged lineup to what gunna be a good contest. fittest team & accurate kicking for goal wins, as long as we stop them midfield cause they kick 20 goals easy a week
Akermanus & Johnson will line up, It dont matter what plan thier got for Richo he will beat his opponant anyway its hard to match a great marking mobile player up,  so depends they might expose it & play off him themselves open the corridor up with a running player.
Insiders might bring the Bulldogs plans screaming back to earth  :thumbsup  :bow
 

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #28 on: April 18, 2008, 11:16:28 AM »
I would line Richo up in the goal square at the start of the game and then have him run upto the wing once the siren has sounded, then get him to go back and then run forward. The more unpredictable we can make Richo the better we can utilize his strengths. Foremost I would like to see Richo used as a link players around the middle who floats forward.

It will be interesting to see if Rocket tries to 'tag' Richo. I just can't see how any player could keep up with him who is of comparitive size and marking ability.

We need to keep rotating our big forwards and have as much movement and team work in our F50 as possible. The minute we leave a stay at home forward (who ever it is) in the goal square we will become predictable and our midfielders will bomb it to them regardless of how many opposition are on them.

I would love to see more smaller players rotated through the forwardline - we need crumbers!

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Re: Richmond selected team for Round 5
« Reply #29 on: April 18, 2008, 11:39:47 AM »
I reckon Mc Guane is the only player you could drop from last week.

Jackson will probably return, but Hughes may be a smokey to expose the Dogs lack of defensive height.
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