Soft Victory

[Lozza]

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

Good point MT, i think what happens is as RFC improve then our expectations each game will get higher, i think seeing the current improvement some of us might be thinking a little bit too far ahead of ourselves. Whilst as you say our second half was disappointing we did seem to be in control most of the time and goaled when we needed to. Against the Swannies this week it would be a good followup if we can apply pressure for the full four quarters given the quality of the opposition. If we allow a team like the Swans back into a game as we did against the Bombers then we will well and truly get run down, especially at the SCG where goals can be scored very quickly.

[Hellenic Tiger]

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

Essendon at that stage still had an aura about them whereas all we had was a prelim final and a losing wizard cup granny medal to gloat about and of course Danny talked us up much in the same way as Essendon talked themselves up until recently once reality has begun to set in. All we have to do is learn to put crap teams like Essendon to the sword each time we play them indoctrinate into the list a winning culture and hopefully we find our feet our way and achieve our team goals.

[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

Essendon at that stage still had an aura about them whereas all we had was a prelim final and a losing wizard cup granny medal to gloat about and of course Danny talked us up much in the same way as Essendon talked themselves up until recently once reality has begun to set in. All we have to do is learn to put crap teams like Essendon to the sword each time we play them indoctrinate into the list a winning culture and hopefully we find our feet our way and achieve our team goals.

I can still remember the back page of the Hun the day or two before with Dannytalking up how much tougher we were  .

We did put the bombers to the sword in the first half as we should had which was pleasing. We just need to learn to control the first 10 minutes after half-time to squash any sniff when the opposition cop the obvious blast and rev-up and then kick away again like we did against Freo when we finished off the game till the end. As Hawthorn (almost) found out on the weekend you can't treat any side lightly no matter what the class difference is.