Soft Victory

[Mr Magic]

I love beating Essendon. Everytime.

Now on to Sydney..

[Stripes]

I'm happy we won and we won without any true standouts. Everyone contributed evenly and we won the gave in the first few minutes. Essendon are a rabble! The only down side for me was our third quarter let off and the inclusion of Petts. I would have prefered to see Morton or even Collins/Connors play rather than good old average Petts.

Stripes

[mjs]

There were more Richmond supporters there than Essendon.

With due respect  I have to say that when Lloyd licked their first goal the noise was quite a lot louder than anything that went before or after ....there were plenty of them there - you could see the entire second level of the Northern stand had emptied out 10 secs into the Tiger song.

I thought McMahon was terrific. pity he didn't kick that goal on the run.

When are we going to take the kid gloves off Tambling? Even Richo said he started us off last night which is really stretching it a bit because he was ok early but after that?

[Smokey]

There were more Richmond supporters there than Essendon.

With due respect  I have to say that when Lloyd licked their first goal the noise was quite a lot louder than anything that went before or after ....there were plenty of them there - you could see the entire second level of the Northern stand had emptied out 10 secs into the Tiger song.

Not worth an argument but I disagree.  Every Richmond goal was cheered much more loudly than any Essendon goal.  And the reason the stand emptied?  Re-read my post.  I was in the Ponsford Stand and hardly anyone left there before the end.

[Francois Jackson]

There were more Richmond supporters there than Essendon.

With due respect  I have to say that when Lloyd licked their first goal the noise was quite a lot louder than anything that went before or after ....there were plenty of them there - you could see the entire second level of the Northern stand had emptied out 10 secs into the Tiger song.

I thought McMahon was terrific. pity he didn't kick that goal on the run.

When are we going to take the kid gloves off Tambling? Even Richo said he started us off last night which is really stretching it a bit because he was ok early but after that?

he has got daniel wells written all over him at this stage..does a few good things here and there but its not enough.

[mjs]

Not worth an argument but you'd like the last word nevertheless - ok you win - we outnumbered them 

[mjs]

Re Tambling - when I refer to kid gloves - he does heaps of media, gets to take the toss, is given undue praise in my opinion and it wories me that he might start to believe that he's already made it. He has a long long way to go. Even a big ruckman in Hille sold him a sucker dummy -

[Francois Jackson]

Re Tambling - when I refer to kid gloves - he does heaps of media, gets to take the toss, is given undue praise in my opinion and it wories me that he might start to believe that he's already made it. He has a long long way to go. Even a big ruckman in Hille sold him a sucker dummy -

u said it and totally agree.. a few in and under tackles and clearances is not enough IMO..

He needs to work harder and put in CONSISTENT 4 quarter efforts..

right now im seeing a player who comes in and out of games..

[WilliamPowell]

Re Tambling - when I refer to kid gloves - he does heaps of media, gets to take the toss, is given undue praise in my opinion and it wories me that he might start to believe that he's already made it. He has a long long way to go. Even a big ruckman in Hille sold him a sucker dummy -

I don't think he thinks "he's made it". He is kid with his head defintely screwed on the right way. 

And he was the catalyst at the start of the game in the middle - his quick hands got us a number of clearances

BTW he copped a nasty knock in the 2nd ....

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Re Tambling - when I refer to kid gloves - he does heaps of media, gets to take the toss, is given undue praise in my opinion and it wories me that he might start to believe that he's already made it. He has a long long way to go. Even a big ruckman in Hille sold him a sucker dummy -

u said it and totally agree.. a few in and under tackles and clearances is not enough IMO..

He needs to work harder and put in CONSISTENT 4 quarter efforts..

right now im seeing a player who comes in and out of games..

 u r very much underrating tamblings efforts

yet u overrate king the gems efforts

king should be dropped , 4 weeks running now he has been very poor

u keep bagging tambling but i want to know when are u going to put the acid on king.
very bad game again on sat night, all he did was get angry, lay a few tackles, give away many free kicks, and shank  many of his own disposals, yet u have sugar and blingers in the gun week in week out

[Mr Magic]

I don't think he thinks "he's made it". He is kid with his head defintely screwed on the right way. 

And he was the catalyst at the start of the game in the middle - his quick hands got us a number of clearances

BTW he copped a nasty knock in the 2nd ....

Interesting about the knock. Kicked in the hand wasn't he WP?

I totally agree he was amazing in the first quarter & a half.

[Judge Roughneck]

Re Tambling - when I refer to kid gloves - he does heaps of media, gets to take the toss, is given undue praise in my opinion and it wories me that he might start to believe that he's already made it. He has a long long way to go. Even a big ruckman in Hille sold him a sucker dummy -

u said it and totally agree.. a few in and under tackles and clearances is not enough IMO..

He needs to work harder and put in CONSISTENT 4 quarter efforts..

right now im seeing a player who comes in and out of games..

Tambling won a fair bit of hard ball in the packs in the first 1/2.

His inside game is quite solid.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Generally speaking our abilities to get the disputed hard ball in the last 5 or 6 weeks has been great and we have been in the top 2 or 3 in that period so it would be remiss to label the team as soft. Perhaps mentally fragile my still be a tad harsh given the four quarter effort we put in against Freo but nevertheless the team needs to develop and carry out a ruthless killer instinct so that next time we find ourselves 50 points up at half time we win by 80 and not find ourselves biting our fingernails late in the 3rd when the margin is back to 27.

[WilliamPowell]

Interesting about the knock. Kicked in the hand wasn't he WP?

I totally agree he was amazing in the first quarter & a half.

Yeah that's what i heard and was also told that's what came through on the replay

[mightytiges]

I was disappointed with our second half on the weekend but after a few days I see it as if beforehand we were told we would beat a side we should beat by a comfortable 38 points and the margin throughout the night wouldn't slip below 4 goals after bursting out of the blocks in the first quarter we would've taken it.

I remember a similar game where we were the rabble  in the first half back in 2002.
Round 2, M.C.G., 05-Apr-2002
Essendon   7.2 13.7 14.12 16.16-112
Richmond  0.3   2.6   5.9    8.12-60

Winning the second half was just a token effort by us as the opposition (Essendon) took the pedal off and it was the same story but with the roles reversed on Saturday night.

Winning is always a positive...... unless it's round 22 and you're tanking for a priority pick lol