We blew that!

[WilliamPowell]

Works hard at what?, he's a pussy play acting for frees most of the time.

you're not wrong there

Back onto Mitch.... he certainly is getting more attention this year, however that shouldn't stop him doing the things that he did last year. the 1% ers. His defensive pressure inside the F50 was what made him a standout in 2008 needs to start doing those things again. More attentionor not you've got to keep working hard, actually maybe you should work even harder

[Chuck17]

Back onto Mitch.... he certainly is getting more attention this year, however that shouldn't stop him doing the things that he did last year. the 1% ers. His defensive pressure inside the F50 was what made him a standout in 2008 needs to start doing those things again. More attentionor not you've got to keep working hard, actually maybe you should work even harder

Agree there, that side of his game does need to improve.

From memory he had 4 tackles last week and applied pressure but it needs to be consistent.

[WilliamPowell]

Agree there, that side of his game does need to improve.

From memory he had 4 tackles last week and applied pressure but it needs to be consistent.

Actually think if he got those things right a few other things may fall into place for him

[Stripes]

these are all bs excuses , you simply have to work harder!

stevie j at the cats seems to work hard and create and he gets heavily marked but always impacts

excuses excuses excuses

no wonder we never get anywhere at rfc

So you would argue that in the past when Richo was our ONLY forward option and was tagged by 3 to 4 defenders each game that he should have worked harder, we had no excuses why we struggled to score and that it was his fault.

Teams, particularly Richmond, have learnt the hard way that you need more than one or even two predictable targets regardless of their ability to generate the types of scoreboard pressure you need to consistently win games. Morton now find himself in a similiar position. Tell me if you were an opposition coach who would you turn your attention to first in our forwardline?

Sure he could improve his tackle count and defensive pressure but ultimately no one man can shoulder the responsibility alone.

We need our forwards to stand up and take the pressure off EACH OTHER so the load can be spread otherwise players such as Mitch, no matter how hard he works or how good he is, will struggle to score.

You're right the whole situation is bs.

Stripes

[wayne]

Mitch Morton is the new Pettifer. Lazy and selfish

bring back pettifer i say. Anything is better than Morton's last few weeks

Mitch needs to put the 'play on, snap for goal' back in the holster as well. Fair enough if you's 10 metres out on the boundary, but 45 metres out??

Just go back and have a set shot.... after you've done your stint at Coburg.

[TigerTime]

we had too many passengers yesterday, how many times when we had a player win a hard ball, he went to dish off a handball , but he had no support around him, this happened often in the fwd line too, only nahas seemed to try his guts out there yesterday.

we need a whole new fwd set up and structure , royal must wear some of this blame.  im sorry to say this but richos time may just be up , not his fault but whenever he plays fwd we are too predictable , we have too many stupid players who cant think quickly enough to find better options up fwd, its all to easy to bomb it long to richo

[mightytiges]

Just got back

Still gutted

 

Question where's the talk Mitch?

Lack of basic awareness by Jack as well to expect to have more time at AFL level to kick the goal but yep WP where was the talk from Mitch

[TigerLand]

we had too many passengers yesterday, how many times when we had a player win a hard ball, he went to dish off a handball , but he had no support around him, this happened often in the fwd line too, only nahas seemed to try his guts out there yesterday.

we need a whole new fwd set up and structure , royal must wear some of this blame.  im sorry to say this but richos time may just be up , not his fault but whenever he plays fwd we are too predictable , we have too many stupid players who cant think quickly enough to find better options up fwd, its all to easy to bomb it long to richo

Passengers.. If Jack kicked the ball 1 seconds quicker and it sailed through we probably woudl have ran over the swans. How can you be so negative and so cut throat with passengers and axings to Coburg when literally it was a matter of 1 or 2 simple if's. Your acting as if we got smashed by 100 points.

The boys gave a massive crack. If you know what it takes to play football at any level you'd understand this.

[Chuck17]

The boys gave a massive crack. If you know what it takes to play football at any level you'd understand this.

They sure did against a side whose ground gives their bigger body weights an advantage.  We know we have speed but combine that with the attack on the ball that was displayed against the Swans and hopefully we will be enjoying some wins soon. 

[mat073]

Spot on Pope....only a few "ifs" from marvellous victory and another "no change" team(apart from Richo)next week.The chemistry of the team at the moment is the best it has been all year.

[TigerLand]

The boys gave a massive crack. If you know what it takes to play football at any level you'd understand this.

They sure did against a side whose ground gives their bigger body weights an advantage.  We know we have speed but combine that with the attack on the ball that was displayed against the Swans and hopefully we will be enjoying some wins soon. 

In the past 5 years Swans would be the best contested football side in the comp. To match there intensity (after qtr time) and take it up to them is a huge positive. Swans inaccurate kicking kept us in it but I thought with a bit of luck we could have pinched the game. When that's a possibility it's certainly not panic stations and time for multiple axings.

[Francois Jackson]

The boys gave a massive crack. If you know what it takes to play football at any level you'd understand this.

They sure did against a side whose ground gives their bigger body weights an advantage.  We know we have speed but combine that with the attack on the ball that was displayed against the Swans and hopefully we will be enjoying some wins soon. 

In the past 5 years Swans would be the best contested football side in the comp. To match there intensity (after qtr time) and take it up to them is a huge positive. Swans inaccurate kicking kept us in it but I thought with a bit of luck we could have pinched the game. When that's a possibility it's certainly not panic stations and time for multiple axings.

coulda shoulda woulda im sick of hearing about ifs and maybes.

4 points went begging and down the drain. WE LOST END OF STORY!!!

[mightytiges]

Another one that got way this year. Last year it was these sort of close games that we won more often than we didn't. This year we haven't won any one of them - Geelong, Swans, Lions, Port. Not that we deserved to win them either as we haven't put together more than two quarters of decent footy in any one game all year except against North. Just goes to show how even/mediocre most of the clubs in the comp are and if you can plan right and add 2-3 classy key players to your side you can quickly turn things around.

[bojangles17]

we certainly did Olly

[mat073]

The game against Port was one of greatest examples of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ever.

During the last quarter on four separate occasions I was doing my rendition of a victory dance much to my dogs amusement.

Once Cotchin kicked that goal in the last all I could think off was how I was going tease WAT for his "Fat Lady" comments during the third.

Football can be so cruel at times.