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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: mightytiges on May 06, 2006, 06:49:44 PM
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Sheeds has said the Bombers are treating tonight's game as a final. Bring it on! Good experience for our youngsters :gotigers
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Welsh for Johns for the Bombers surprise surprise.
Wayne Johnston won't be runner for us tonight.
Blingers, JON, Hughes and Foley on the bench.
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The 'G looks pretty empty from the looks of it.
Thought more people would have turned up.
I would have thought 60,000+ would have been a good attendance - interesting to see how many there are.
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Like Renee Geyer - never knew why she wasn't more successful. Great bluesy voice.
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The 'G looks pretty empty from the looks of it.
Thought more people would have turned up.
I would have thought 60,000+ would have been a good attendance - interesting to see how many there are.
3aw said 45,000. Disappointing. Fickle Bomber supporters.
Richo won the toss and Tiges kicking towards the Punt Road goals.
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Onya Tivs, great pass. Goal to Petts. Lids is having a blinder early :thumbsup
Tigers 1.2-8
Bombers 1.0-6
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MT, can we watch the scores on the tellie - i don't want to know the result lol
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MT, can we watch the scores on the tellie - i don't want to know the result lol
ok lol. I don't think I can wait for the delay telecast :nope
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It's a bloody long opening - didn't expect all this
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Is okay, MT, i'll go and watch downstairs and try not to watch here lol
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Prefer watching with you guys lol
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Poor Jon lol
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I don't know whether to :banghead or :rollin. This is even worse than last week :o.
1 goal 9 behinds :banghead. LOL @ today's players being professionals. What a joke! :scream. Thank god for the third week in a row we're playing sides as crap as us. How we are in front god knows.
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We must be slightly behind up here as on the tv it is half time and yet on the afl site it is the middle of the third quarter. Bowden and Cogs have had some clangers. JON's out on the full was disappointing. Pets has the yips. Lids been quiet.
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Young guns Clever and Polo are the only ones who can kick straight. Lids and Richo have been way off although Richo has been better in the last and he snags his second :gotigers.
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Is Hutchy an Essendon supporter?! :banghead
Crowd 58,000. Not bad.
Don't throw this away now Tiges :scream.
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What the? I come upstairs to check the scores and we're 24 in front and then when I next come upstairs we're 9 behind!! :banghead :banghead
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4 goals to them in 5 minutes :banghead. They're smashing us in the clearances.
Only got ourselves to blame kicking 11.17 after 12.20 last week. Pathetic >:(.
Tivs gets one back.
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Scores level. Please don't let us lose this one :pray :pray :pray
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Crowd 58,439
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I will scream if we lose by 1 point.
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C'mon siren go!!!
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Phew! That was too close for comfort. Now I can go downstairs and relax and watch the last quarter in peace :pray :clapping
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SIREN! :gotigers
JON the hero by kicking a point ;D
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How good was Polo?
JON kicking a vital point, but all in all, aside from Lovett-Murray, it wasn't a great advertisment for Aboriginal footballers.
If Joel Bowden was Aboriginal the commentators would have been raving. What about feining and then running around Lovett in our back pocket with scores level and only seconds on the clock. Does it 10 times a game yet opponents still cant read it.
Pettifers best game for Richmond I would have thought. Crucial intervention in the goalsquare third quarter. Shame he left the goalkicking boots at home.
Hughes looking the goods to me. If he can just keep presenting in the forward line while he builds himself up he will be pretty special I think.
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Great win. Poor efforts infront of goal. Polo sensational. Oakleigh-Nicholls a very good start. Hughes 2 goals very important- great agility and speed of the mark. Deledio and Tambling down tonight. Raines going well but needs to think more when running out of defence. Hartigan good hard running stuff. I think its fair to say that Ploughs next generation is well on the way.
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Was a fantastic win, scrappy but have to love that edge of your seat stuff.
JON looks good when he has the ball, great size for a footballer and will hopefully develop into a very dangerous player. Still raw though, but didnt he look composed when he had the ball in the last minute.
Hartigan was fantastic tonight, really ran hard and is coming along very nicely.
Petts also continuing his good form, kicking not the best but atleast he is getting it.
Bowden was very good again tonight, Lucas only played that 10 minute patch.
Was great to stick up all the Essendon scum supporters when Ray Hall marked the ball.
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Team Stats
Kicks 220 - 219
Marks 107 - 106
Handballs 152 - 124
Tackles 37 - 50
Hitouts 19 - 20
Frees 9 - 12
Individual Stats
Player K H D M HO T FF FA G B
J.Bowden 14 17 31 2 0 2 0 1 0 0
D.Polo 11 17 28 6 0 1 0 0 3 0
A.Raines 14 10 24 5 0 2 0 1 0 0
S.Tuck 12 12 24 8 1 4 0 1 1 1
G.Tivendale 17 5 22 3 0 2 0 1 1 1
M.Coughlan 11 10 21 4 0 2 1 2 0 0
B.Hartigan 14 7 21 6 0 3 0 0 1 1
C.Hyde 13 7 20 7 0 2 0 0 0 1
K.Pettifer 16 4 20 11 0 0 0 0 1 5
T.Simmonds 12 8 20 8 9 3 1 0 0 0
P.Bowden 10 8 18 9 0 0 0 0 0 1
C.Newman 15 1 16 5 0 3 1 0 0 0
M.Richardson 8 8 16 5 0 1 0 1 2 2
R.Hall 3 12 15 5 0 1 0 1 0 0
A.Kellaway 8 6 14 7 1 3 1 0 1 0
B.Deledio 9 2 11 4 1 1 2 0 0 2
N.Foley 4 7 11 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
A.Krakouer 8 2 10 2 0 3 1 1 1 1
G.Stafford 4 5 9 4 7 2 0 1 0 0
R.Tambling 6 3 9 3 0 0 0 0 0 1
J.Oakley-Nicholls 7 0 7 3 0 1 0 1 0 1
C.Hughes 4 1 5 0 0 0 2 0 2 1
Top 5's
Rankings
Joel Bowden 152
Polo 148
Lucas 142
Lovett-Murray 130
McPhee 118
Contested Possies
Polo 11
Richo 11
Hille 10
J.Johnson 10
Joel Bowden 9
Effective Kicks
Lovett-Murray 19
Lucas 16
[color=yellowTivendale 15
Pettifer 15
Newman 14 [/color]
Inside 50
Tivendale 7
Pettifer 7
Simmonds 6
Heffeman 6
Hyde 5
Rebound 50
Joel Bowden 8
Welsh 7
Fletcher 5
Heffeman 4
Raines 4
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Who cares how scrappy it was. I don't. it was a win against essendon and I'll take closely fought scrappy wins against them all year to be honest.
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What was with playing the Essendon song when our team was running out? Then it switched to a couple of bars of "Tigerland" and then it seemed to go back to the Essendon song? Also at the beginning of the commentary, they were talking about Richo but all we could see on the screen was David Hille? And what's with the media's love affair with James Hird? In the dying minutes of the last quarter they kept going on about how this is when James Hird is at his most dangerous. Thank goodness for Newman - what a great job he did! :clapping
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i think the mcg is playing funny buggers with its new design. the wind must swirl like a tornado out there on teh park, wind gets trapped in teh stadium and has no escape route and i think thats why goal kicking has been a shocker! many of our kicks just swug away from the goals after looking good.
the bowdens grew up playing with aboriginals , and u really can see it in their playing style!
petts, fantastic bar his accuracy at goal
raines and harts continue to take them on
hall improving
bowdens both played well , esp joel but paddy can hold his head up high
tuck......gun
kids .......fantastic
richo........god!
we now have to beat sydney and really get the cabuse rolling! all aboard! we beat sydney , and give the crows a good run 4 their money, we are definately in town!
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The other games played at the 'G don't seem to be affected by the new design though.
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Round six ponderings
9:58:36 PM Sun 7 May, 2006
Paul Gough
Exclusive to afl.com.au
1. Is this the making of the Tigers and Dockers?
No two teams in the competition have been as unsuccessful as Richmond and Fremantle over the past decade or in the Tigers' case two decades but could their stirring wins this weekend finally prove the making of these two success-starved clubs.
It wasn't just the manner of their gutsy last minute victories that was so impressive but which clubs they were achieved against given that Essendon and West Coast have heaped more misery upon Richmond and Fremantle respectively than any other clubs in the competition during their long periods in the wilderness.
The Tigers have made the finals just twice in the past 23 years and throughout that time have suffered mercilessly at the hands of Essendon during Kevin Sheedy's long reign as coach.
Incredibly Saturday night's stirring two-point win over the Bombers – coupled with last year's round 15 success – meant the Tigers have now won their past two games against Essendon for the first time since 1982 – the last time the club reached the grand final.
During that time the Tigers have won just nine of 40 clashes against the Bombers but the way the team was able to fight back in the final term on Saturday night when all looked lost showed the kind of resolve that has been missing for so long at Punt Road.
The Tigers trailed by ten points deep into time-on – after having squandered a 16-point lead when the Bombers kicked four goals in six minutes – but somehow fought back to level the scores.
Then the Tigers bravely withstood three minutes of sustained pressure as the Bombers had the ball inside their forward 50 but couldn't score before taking the ball the length of the field to win the game through a behind from first-gamer Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls.
What also made the Tigers' win so impressive is it was achieved without so many of their on-field leaders with captain Kane Johnson and vice-captain Nathan Brown and their most experienced defender Darren Gaspar sidelined while they did not have to rely on a big performance from Matthew Richardson to get them home.
Instead it was the Tiger cubs who proved to be the heroes with Oakley-Nicholls scoring the winning behind on debut, while second-gamer Cleve Hughes kicked two goals and first gamer Dean Polo was simply magnificent with his 28 possessions and three goals – including the goal that tied the scores in time-on – representing one of the finest debuts seen in the AFL for many years.
There is still a long way to go before Richmond and Fremantle emerge as genuine powers in the competition but if they do then both clubs can look back to round six 2006 as a major turning point in their history.
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=feature&spg=display&articleid=263826
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It all points to a new AFL record
By Geoff McClure
The Age
May 9, 2006
AND well may Kayne Pettifer hang his head in disappointment. The Tiger forward shows his frustration at kicking a behind against Essendon on Saturday night, not just one of five he finished with for the game but one of four he kicked (including a poster) in the second quarter alone, all of them in the first 10 minutes. Mind you, it wasn't just Pettifer who didn't have his kicking boots on in that forgettable second term — the 1.17 booted by the two teams in a match billed as "Dreamtime at the 'G" could only be described as a nightmare display of goalkicking, a search of record books revealing it was in fact the most inaccurate term in the history of the game, eclipsing the previous worst, 1.15, which was scored in one quarter of three games, back in 1937, 1947 and 1955. Worse still, what Saturday's scoreboard does not tell you is that Pettifer had two other shots at goal that didn't even make the distance, including one from about 40 metres out which, thankfully for Richmond, was finally gathered in by teammate Matthew Richardson, who slotted it through for the only goal of the term. Truth is, we knew something was up with Pettifer's kicking for goal early on — even though he scored the first goal of the match his first shot at the big sticks, 20 seconds into the game was, you guessed it, a point.
WORST QUARTERS FOR ACCURACY
1.17 2006 (R6) Q2 Ess 0.8 v Rich 1.9
1.15 1937 (R9) Q3 Carl 0.11 v Haw 1.4
1.15 1947 (R16) Q2 Coll 0.6 v Mel 0.9
1.15 1955 (R9) Q3 South Mel 1.5 v Coll 0.10
0.14 1959 (R9) Q3 St K 0.1 v Geel 0.13
Source: statisticians Martin Windsor-Black, Bruce Kennedy
Hyphen a Tiger first
Richmond new boy Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls certainly made his mark in his league debut at the weekend, and we're not necessarily talking about him scoring the point which put his team in front of Essendon in the dying minutes of the game. He is the first Tiger in its 121-year history with a hyphenated surname.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/geoff-mcclure/it-all-points-to-a-new-afl-record/2006/05/08/1146940477042.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1