Team vs. Eagles

[TigerTime]

Infamy, Simmo has never dominated the ruck, at best he draws even with his opponent- and he not once has even done that this season.
Tuck has been more effective in the ruck this year than Simmo.
How is that structurally important?

totally agree dallasC

[mat073]

               Richmonds most experienced players in Rd 12  

1) Ben Cousins....243 games
2) Chris Newman....144 games
3) Shane Tuck....102 games
4) Brett Deledio...95 games  
5)Richard Tambling....84 games
6) Nathan Foley....81 games  

Could not be happier with the strong message made by the RFC today.            

[one-eyed]

Five dumped by Rawlings
Martin Boulton and Steve Butler | June 12, 2009

Richmond's football operations manager Ross Monaghan denied there was anything sinister in the axings and said there was still a future for the five players at the club.

"I'm sure if they're prepared to work hard and set their mind to it, they'll work their way back into the side," he told The Age last night.

"We had five players that really deserved an opportunity to be in the side."

He said Bowden, Simmonds and Coughlan, who only returned in round five after missing almost three years with serious knee and hamstring injuries, could all play again this season.

Unlike Johnson, who retired from playing this week and stepped into a development role, McMahon (five games this year) and Pettifer (four games), continue to be available, Monaghan said.

"It just so happens that the guys who missed out are guys who probably haven't been in their best form," he said. "They're all great characters who know what they're about, they know the footy business and the ups and downs.

"Sides each week are selected on form … there's no particular theme and there's nothing sinister, it's just the normal selection process that we normally go through."

He said Rawlings had brought a different selection perspective on players he was coaching at Coburg, but the changes had been agreed on jointly by the match committee.

In the wake of Wallace's departure, speculation has grown about the future of Ben Cousins, Matthew Richardson, Nathan Brown, Bowden and Simmonds, who are all over 30 years old. Coughlan and McMahon are both 27. Cousins is the only player in the team to play the Eagles who is over 30.

President Gary March said last week he expects Richardson, who is recovering from a hamstring injury, to play later in the season and to continue playing next year.

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/five-dumped-by-rawlings/2009/06/11/1244664795155.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

[wayne]

wayne is that an image created by the band tool being used as your display picture?? (im not sure of the age range here but tool are amazing)
can i just ask, why is there such adoration for edwards here? he is a good VFL player, that is it. he dosent have the size, awareness or skill to make it as genuine AFL player.
And on cogs being slow, im sorry but he could walk the entire game and show more than most.
last week he had 21 touches and NINE tackles, thats more than delidio, cotchin, tambiling, collins and mcmahon combined

i kinda rate toughness, heart and smart ball use over wishy washy speedsters..

Yeah it's from Lateralus.

I thought Edwards showed some good signs early, but wasn't used properly by Wallace. His first game was good I thought, and remember he destroyed Essendon one night, would have had 5-6 goals if he kicked straight.

11 weeks to go, we'll see if some players are out and out duds, or if some weren't used properly by Wallace and start to bloom without him.

[Tigermonk]

In: Vickery, Edwards, Nahas, Graham, Hislop
Out: Joel Bowden, Troy Simmonds, Mark Coughlan, Jordan McMahon, Kayne Pettifer

this is the worst at the selection table l ever seen & the start of the biggest downfall in the clubs history
all that experience gone for a hand full of games & skinny kids like Edwards please

bringing in Edwards & Hislop must be a joke

Dropping Bowden    how can you drop a player who has been in good form 
Richmond going the tank for sure they dont want to win games & the Eagles will smash them

Richmond are a complete joke of a club this year,  the comedy really strikes me

Good luck to Vickery

[WA Tiger]

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 if he kicked straight.


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Thats what I am saying about Edwards, he just can't kick straight, even field passing he can't hit his targets.

[WA Tiger]

In: Vickery, Edwards, Nahas, Graham, Hislop
Out: Joel Bowden, Troy Simmonds, Mark Coughlan, Jordan McMahon, Kayne Pettifer

this is the worst at the selection table l ever seen & the start of the biggest downfall in the clubs history
all that experience gone for a hand full of games & skinny kids like Edwards please

bringing in Edwards & Hislop must be a joke

Dropping Bowden    how can you drop a player who has been in good form 
Richmond going the tank for sure they dont want to win games & the Eagles will smash them

Richmond are a complete joke of a club this year,  the comedy really strikes me

Good luck to Vickery

Well I don't believe I am saying this and I may need to slap myself in the face but I do agree with most of your points TM. Like I said in many other posts, too many changes too quickly and for less experienced weaker players. Appart from Vickery of course and yes good luck to him again.

But ok it's done now so we need to back them in and hope they can rise to the occasion, this game will test the spirits of these players both physically and mentally more so than any other game this year IMO.

[Smokey]

Well I don't believe I am saying this and I may need to slap myself in the face but I do agree with most of your points TM. Like I said in many other posts, too many changes too quickly and for less experienced weaker players. Appart from Vickery of course and yes good luck to him again.

Might be because they are better suited to the new game plan?   

[WA Tiger]

Well I don't believe I am saying this and I may need to slap myself in the face but I do agree with most of your points TM. Like I said in many other posts, too many changes too quickly and for less experienced weaker players. Appart from Vickery of course and yes good luck to him again.

Might be because they are better suited to the new game plan?   

Ah good morning my old foe, no doubt that is why they are in, no doubt at all, with the same game plan under a new coach.. I just hope the poor buggers can run the game out and still execute the game plan at the same time.

[TigerLand]

Stop your sooking TM and WAT.

Simmonds - Too slow and lost his leap, finished. Simple as that. Get Gus in has been the better ruckmen all year anyway!

Bowden - How successful have we been while Bowden has played at the club? He's been a great servent but it's time to see how other player go when they start stringing 4,5 even 10 games together. Connors has only played 10 career games, I'd like to see what he does after 4 or 5 in a row.

Get the old out, Pettifer and McMahon wont be playing next year, either will Simmonds or Bowden. All 4 pose no positives to playing this year.

You can argue Joel leadership is needed but I'd like to see Luke McGuane stand up and play the leadership role Joel has played for 10+ years.

Running a club is all about coming together and making compromised majority decisions. I'm sure a few people wanted Coughlan in the side as well as Joel but the majority comprised that this is the direction we want to head in and thus its the right call.

Move on gentlemen.

[Tigermonk]

there is more to players outs than just playing football  Several players have issues with the club 

[Tigermonk]

Stop your sooking TM and WAT.

Simmonds - Too slow and lost his leap, finished. Simple as that. Get Gus in has been the better ruckmen all year anyway!

been telling you all year Simmonds is retiring end of season & maybe before l agree with his out

Bowden - How successful have we been while Bowden has played at the club? He's been a great servent but it's time to see how other player go when they start stringing 4,5 even 10 games together. Connors has only played 10 career games, I'd like to see what he does after 4 or 5 in a row.

Bowden has been in good form & you dont drop players who are still contributing
Conners is not a team player & is selfish thats why he cant get a game & his ego has crashed landed

Get the old out, Pettifer and McMahon wont be playing next year, either will Simmonds or Bowden. All 4 pose no positives to playing this year.

Told Pettifier to his face some years back his not a AFL player so that dont worry me about him & McMahon l never supported him ever his always been a 1million loser

You can argue Joel leadership is needed but I'd like to see Luke McGuane stand up and play the leadership role Joel has played for 10+ years.

McGuane leadership haha fuckoff his opponant does more damage every week with him being caught out up the ground on turnovers, trys to outmark power forwards thats smart


Running a club is all about coming together and making compromised majority decisions. I'm sure a few people wanted Coughlan in the side as well as Joel but the majority comprised that this is the direction we want to head in and thus its the right call.

will let you know what l found out this morning about whats really going on down at Tigerland with unhappy players now you think they all bonding  & are out because they are dropped or injured. think the club will burn soon

Move on gentlemen.

Hope that helps

[Moi]

there is more to players outs than just playing football  Several players have issues with the club 

Stop being an agent provocateur, TM
Unless of course you want to name the players and the issues.
Boring 

Getting my Palmolive now 

[Tigermonk]

dont care if you dont beleive me Moi, l'm not a Hutchy  l'm a Richmond supporter who tells it as it is. Big leaks when people aint happy.

[Moi]

dont care if you dont beleive me Moi, l'm not a Hutchy  l'm a Richmond supporter who tells it as it is. Big leaks when people aint happy.

If you really cared, darl, you'd fire off an email to the club and tell them what you know.  And then we can stuff them off as well as the ones dropped last night