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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on March 31, 2005, 06:48:56 PM
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In: Stafford, Hartigan, Raines
No outs as yet.
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Pretty much what everyone thought :thumbsup.
Raines in for Roach. Tivs could be the big "name" to go.
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I'll stick my head up and say Tivendale will play, no names will be dropped.
Hall, Pettifer and Roach will miss
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Hard on Pettifer, I know he didn't do much, but you'd take 3 goals from your forward pocket as a decent return.
My tips for the outs are Roach (needs form in the 2's, was a surprise selection last week), Hall (no need for the extra height in defence against the Hawks) and Tivendale (needs the Bowden 2004 treatment).
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Hard on Pettifer, I know he didn't do much, but you'd take 3 goals from your forward pocket as a decent return.
My tips for the outs are Roach (needs form in the 2's, was a surprise selection last week), Hall (no need for the extra height in defence against the Hawks) and Tivendale (needs the Bowden 2004 treatment).
On the ball as usual jezza thats how i see it too.
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No garuntee all 3 will come in.....
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My thoughts
Hall out
Stafford in.
Bowden to go back to CHB roving - get his hands on the footy. Knobel to drop back when Stafford Rucks around the ground.
Roach out
Hartigan in
Roach was asked to run with James Kelly for periods last week. I cannot help but think Hartigan would have been much more suited to this role than Roach.
Pettifer Out
Raines in
Pettifer, whilst kicking 3 last week, did not assert himself in the forward line at all. Brown, coming off the flu, should have a better game this week, and with the addition of Raines in the midfield, it keeps Brown on the forward line the whole time, Jonno back in the guts, Chaff to tag Crawford (who still manages a heap of possessions) - and Tivva out on the wing to play a much more open brand of breaking the line footy. Newman and Hyde will take the rest of the on ball duties
My thoughts anyway :thumbsup
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Fair enough LT. Personally I'd prefer to see Pettifer get another go, whilst not doing much, I'd take 3 goals from a forward pocket any day. I think Tivendale could use the Bowden treatment to get his form back, I know he's been told he's got 2 months max to prove himself, but he's played a long streak of consecutive games now whilst being in pretty poor form, continuing to play him hasn't worked, dropping him is the obvious next step.
I agree with your positional changes though, and that to me is more important than the players in and out. Tivendale needs to be moved out of defence, as does Johnson, both have more to offer the team elsewhere and deficiencies won't be exploited as blatently. Bowden should be moved back into defence, as it is only when he is there that he becomes accountable. It should also lift the standard of disposal out of our backline. No need for Hall given Stafford should come in and the Hawks are fairly short, so Joel would be a good match for someone like Holland or Barker, whom he can run off easily.
Forward line still looks good to me and should be given another game to work together. Richo, Simmonds, Brown, Krakouer, Campbell and Deledio make a great starting 6.
I still like the midfield combo of Cogs, Tuck and Hyde and think they have a lot of improvement as a group. Tuck and Hyde have been the two best players at sticking to the gameplan and deserve credit for that while so many others abandoned it when the going got tough. A key will be who comes into the midfield in the 2nd quarter, things fell away when we changed it against Geelong. A fitter Brown and Johnson should help in this area.
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Jezza, absolutely agree on the midfield.
Cogs, Hyde, Tuck.
Chaff run with Crawford off a wing
Raines or Tivva on the other wing. (Tivva to start on the ground - if he cannot get into the game on the wing - banished to the bench)
Newman, Bowden, Jonno running off the Half Back flank
Hartigan, Gaspar, Graham (or Kellaway) last line of defence
Knobel following Everitt down forward, or dropping loose man in defence.
Looking forward to this game.
Nearly took the Tigers at over 39 points....
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Agree with Jezza that Pettifer should get another go. Although I've never believed he is forward, he did get 3 goals in a forward line on the end of pitiful delivery from the midfield. Tivs should be dropped back to Coburg or played off a HFF (but not on Joel Smith). He's doesn't have the accountablity to play in defence (rather Pettifer there in fact). Personally I don't think Wallace will throw out the pre-season structure so I don't reckon Bowden will be moved back to CHB.
As for the midfield it was interesting to see that Newman had 6 centre bounce clearances last week. Daylight ahead of anyone else.
Hawks midfield will be stronger this week with Sam Mitchell back. We need to nullify Everitt although we have 3 ruckman this week instead of just Ben Marsh and Razor last time :help. No wonder Spider had a field day. Other Hawks we seem to have trouble with is Joel Smith off a HBF, Crawf and Mitchell in the centre, and Williams up in their forward line. That's why I'd like to see both Hartigan and Raines come in. We need more ballwinners to rotate through the midfield.
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hall, roach and jackson wil be dropped for the 3
but hartigan says he isnt ready and will play in the 2nds this week so i think if thats the case, hall and roach/jackson will miss out and staff and raines will come in
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I'd like to see Kellaway, Chaffey and Krakouer out. The first 2 not up to it (TW will find out the hard way that Chaffey cannot tag) and Krakouer needs a severe fick up the ar$e.
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X why do you say Jackson will go out? I'd be more than a bit surprised if he was one of the players to lose his spot, especially given what TW's been saying about trying to get as many games into these young players as quickly as possible and how he praised his efforts late in the game last week.
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In: Stafford, Hartigan
Out: Hall, Roach
Apart from thinking Raines should have got a go not unhappy with those changes.
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i know that Robert Campbell is injured for them and wont play, but if they put Spider forward we have no one to play on him. I would have thought that would have got Hall a game that reason.
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Dissapointed Rainesy isnt playing. He deserved a crack this week and Im sure T-Dubya could have found someone else to drop. Staff will add bite....and Hartigan some grunt. Hall being dropped is a good decision. Also strengthens my faith in TW.
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i know that Robert Campbell is injured for them and wont play, but if they put Spider forward we have no one to play on him. I would have thought that would have got Hall a game that reason.
That's a worry Bull but if they push Spider forward they won't have a ruckman in the centre so hopefully we can stop the ball getting down to him.
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Word is Vandenberg will be missing for them.
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Word is Vandenberg will be missing for them.
Yeah Maher on the fifth quarter apparently said Vandenberg will miss. On the Hawks forum they said one of their emergencies (Clarke) didn't play for Box Hill yesterday so could be some truth to it.