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Re: Tyrone Vickery [merged]
« Reply #2595 on: July 04, 2016, 09:48:14 PM »
If I was Hardwick I would give Tyrone a game this week with one rock solid guaranteed condition. Ty if anybody tags and disrespects your captain like last week you are to do what is needed Dean Cox style to sort them out....

Make them feel the pain they deserve for targeting the captain of Richmond.

Just a fantasy because nothing tough like that ever happens at Richmond anymore because we are the softest club in the comp.

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Re: Tyrone Vickery [merged]
« Reply #2596 on: July 05, 2016, 12:26:47 AM »
If I was Hardwick I would give Tyrone a game this week with one rock solid guaranteed condition. Ty if anybody tags and disrespects your captain like last week you are to do what is needed Dean Cox style to sort them out....

Make them feel the pain they deserve for targeting the captain of Richmond.

Just a fantasy because nothing tough like that ever happens at Richmond anymore because we are the softest club in the comp.

Dusty went into rescue Cotch many times & had to fight his own taggers as well. For Tiger players to allow the captain to get smashed on the boundary while on top of the Port player fighting was nothing more than pee weak & that is where the players are falling down. They are not prepared to play for each other but a few of them & a few don't win you games. Big game from Tyrone this week

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Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2597 on: July 05, 2016, 05:16:14 AM »
Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson

MARK ROBINSON
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July 5, 2016


TYRONE Vickery’s days at Richmond surely are numbered.

The Tigers can’t play finals, the Tigers are in a rebuild, so the football department must make hard decisions.

The decision on Vickery is an easy one: He can’t be at the Tigers next year.

That’s not to say his career is over. He is a free agent and he can go to a club willing to give him a spot on the list.

Fremantle might cut his dollars in half, but he would get an opportunity with Matthew Pavlich retiring and Zac Clarke probably out of luck and chances.

Melbourne maybe. Carlton maybe. Anyone else?

It’s slim pickings.

He can’t stay at Richmond.

While coach Damien Hardwick is wearing his honesty hat — finals are gone, he said — he has to be brutally honest with Vickery.

It’s been eight years for Ty. He’s a good, decent bloke, but it hasn’t worked out.

From the start, it seems he’s been a round peg trying to fit into a square hole.

When he was drafted, he was described in the AFL Guide as a player with “huge raps as a ruckman and potential power forward”.

Ty Vickery is not the answer to the Tigers’ woes and must be allowed to leave as a free agent at the end of the season. Picture: Colleen Petch
He was drafted No.8 in 2008, the first of the key forwards/talls in the draft.

The Tigers needed a second key forward and it’s why they plumped for the kid from Sandringham. They needed key position players, which is why they opted for Jayden Post at No.26.

And it’s why they left midfielders David Zaharakis (23), Dayne Beams (29), Dan Hannebery (30), Steven Motlop (39) and Rory Sloane (44).

It was an average draft for the talls.

He can be an easy target, Vickery, but his output this year has made him an easy target in a team which has become an easy target.

He’s averaging just eight disposals which puts him in the bottom 10 per cent of key forwards. It is his worst return since 2012.

He’s kicked 22 goals from 14 games, but is above average in marks inside-50m, with an average of 2.2 a game. He can mark OK, but other than that, he can’t find the ball.

This is not a character assassination; this is a football decision. If the Tigers opt to go forward with Vickery, and with Ben Griffiths, they will have opted to go forward with mediocrity in positions — the key forward posts — which can’t be allowed to be mediocre.

The Tigers won’t play finals, so Hardwick can be more brutal with his assessments and, anyhow, it’s not as if he hasn’t given Vickery every opportunity.

They must be brave, the Tigers. They must shop hard in free agency and at the trade market.

They must convince players the football club is a place of destination. They missed Hannebery and Adam Treloar, but they can’t miss Dion Prestia if the he wants out of the Gold Coast.

There’s nothing stopping the Tigers unloading Vickery and Griffiths and starting again in those two positions.

The alternative is to keep them both and hope they increase their impact on games.

That hope is waning.

Why not take a punt and go after, say, Geelong’s Nathan Vardy? The Tigers need another ruckman so why not Jarrad Witts? Why don’t they make Michael Hurley a godfather offer he can’t refuse? Don’t take no for an answer. Offer $800,000. If that doesn’t work, make it $850,000.

If Geelong can nab Dangerfield, Lachie Henderson, Zac Smith, Scott Selwood and Rhys Stanley within 24 months, then the Tigers have no excuses.

There’s a stack of mid-range players at Richmond — Taylor Hunt, Andrew Moore, Jacob Townsend, Chris Yarran, Reece Conca, Liam McBean, Jake Batchelor, Todd Elton — who seem to be neither coming nor going.

Not for the first time this season, the acid test is on everyone at Richmond.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/expert-opinion/mark-robinson/richmond-has-to-cut-ty-vickery-writes-mark-robinson/news-story/29e48122745e2d6c385bd2dc205602ae

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Re: Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2598 on: July 05, 2016, 06:21:32 AM »
FHO
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Re: Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2599 on: July 05, 2016, 07:15:31 AM »
We could have had Sloane

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Re: Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2600 on: July 05, 2016, 08:38:28 AM »
Id take an iphone 3 for him right now....
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Re: Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2601 on: July 05, 2016, 08:50:26 AM »
Get rid of Vickery and Griffiths.
pretty simple.

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Re: Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2602 on: July 05, 2016, 08:56:08 AM »
He asserts you can't have mediocre tall forwards which is rubbish. West coast won two flags without a decent half forward. Collingwood won their latest flag with their half back out. Sure it helps but very few sides have a Carey or Jon Brown.

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Re: Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2603 on: July 05, 2016, 09:02:00 AM »
I'd try and turn TV into a ruck. Well I would have 5 years ago. Probably he is right TV isn't the answer play a kid.

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Re: Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2604 on: July 05, 2016, 10:29:13 AM »
Maybe Robbo sees him as a good fit at the bombers with Deniherrr   :shh
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Re: Richmond has to cut Ty Vickery, writes Mark Robinson (Herald-Sun)
« Reply #2605 on: July 05, 2016, 10:40:00 AM »
We could have had Sloane
And Pav....
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Vickery wants to stay at Richmond
« Reply #2606 on: July 05, 2016, 02:26:42 PM »
 :lol

As reported in the herald-sun this afternoon  :lol

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Re: Vickery wants to stay at Richmond
« Reply #2607 on: July 05, 2016, 02:28:26 PM »
I'll bet he does, the only club he would get a game at with his insipid effort

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Re: Vickery wants to stay at Richmond
« Reply #2608 on: July 05, 2016, 02:44:59 PM »
I'll bet he does, the only club he would get a game at with his insipid effort
Any person with one iota of intelligence would want to stay somewhere where mediocrity is rewarded, goes without saying.

The minute he goes anywhere the eyes will be upon him, if he does go I cant imagine any club signing him to a contract of any longer than 12 months and with the contract being largely performance based, think his easy days are well and truly over.

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