Just some of the headlines floating around this time last year about Richmond and why you take preseason results with a grain of salt when round 1 starts
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Gloomy outlook on Punt Road horizon - Karen Lyon (Age)"IT’S still February and already the claws are out for Richmond.
An awful performance against an undermanned St Kilda in the opening week of the pre-season competition has sent the passionate and volatile Tiger faithful into a tailspin.
Still weeks away from the opening bounce of the real stuff, the Richmond masses are already venting their collective spleen since the half-strength Saints took an almost full-strength Richmond side to task last week and won by 40 points.
The word in football circles was that the Saints had no interest in winning the match and the betting followed suit, with Richmond backed from $2.30 into $1.50 favouritism. Before being beaten — badly."
Tony Shaw....Shaw, like most observers, was keen to see what changes Richmond had made in the off-season but felt what was presented was more of the same. "I didn’t see a lot of style changes," he said.
"They were very indirect going into their forward line, a lot of wide passes instead of hitting the top of the square. I think they have got to start even thinking about playing a big body in the top of the square, whether its a Simmonds or somebody else, who can stand there and just straighten them up a bit, because they are indirect.
"You will really worry if it happens in the first round (of the premiership season)."
Nathan Buckley"I saw the wooden spooners on the weekend - Richmond"
