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Re: Kane Lambert retires [merged]
« Reply #765 on: October 03, 2022, 12:34:02 PM »
Agree we need some more boys for men's team. Plenty of future girls already.
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Re: Kane Lambert retires [merged]
« Reply #766 on: October 03, 2022, 12:45:31 PM »
Call me selfish but I'm hoping for a boy

Why? If the have a girl she can play for Richmond too  ;) ;D

Because I prefer watching men's football at this stage.

In 19 years that might change!
Hopefully they're all as good as Monique Conti by then and it will be a pleasure to watch

Agreed and I think it will happen one day when grassroots girls football is more established and all our AFLW players have been playing since they were kids.

At the moment there's a lot of latecomers to football playing and it's similar to watching overseas recruits like Mason Cox running around. Great athletes, decent skills, but they don't have the ingrained natural ability that comes with 10+ years of practice.

Also the AFL has done the AFLW a disservice by expanding it much quicker than the talent pool can grow.

Hopefully Cotchin's girls have a go!

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Re: Kane Lambert retires [merged]
« Reply #767 on: October 21, 2022, 03:08:30 PM »
The footy journos underrating Kane Lambert once again naming him on the bench of a 2022 'retirees' team. His absence this year demonstrated how much we missed him. In the seven games he did play before he retired, we won all of them.

RETIRED BEST 22 OF 2022
B: Jarryn Geary, Jordan Roughead, Luke Brown
HB: Shaun Higgins, Michael Hurley, Liam Shiels
C: Dan Hannebery, David Mundy, Shane Edwards
HF: Robbie Gray, Tom Lynch, Josh Caddy
F: Steven Motlop, Josh J. Kennedy, Luke Dahlhaus
Foll: Paddy Ryder, Joel Selwood, Josh P. Kennedy
I/C: Ben McEvoy, Jack Redden, Kane Lambert, Matt De Boer

https://www.afl.com.au/news/858704/farewell-to-champions-the-retired-best-22-of-2022
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Re: Kane Lambert retires [merged]
« Reply #768 on: October 21, 2022, 03:52:18 PM »
The footy journos underrating Kane Lambert once again naming him on the bench of a 2022 'retirees' team. His absence this year demonstrated how much we missed him. In the seven games he did play before he retired, we won all of them.

RETIRED BEST 22 OF 2022
B: Jarryn Geary, Jordan Roughead, Luke Brown
HB: Shaun Higgins, Michael Hurley, Liam Shiels
C: Dan Hannebery, David Mundy, Shane Edwards
HF: Robbie Gray, Tom Lynch, Josh Caddy
F: Steven Motlop, Josh J. Kennedy, Luke Dahlhaus
Foll: Paddy Ryder, Joel Selwood, Josh P. Kennedy
I/C: Ben McEvoy, Jack Redden, Kane Lambert, Matt De Boer

https://www.afl.com.au/news/858704/farewell-to-champions-the-retired-best-22-of-2022

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Re: Kane Lambert retires [merged]
« Reply #769 on: October 21, 2022, 05:18:17 PM »
They don’t get a lot right, mustn’t have watched many of our games if they don’t rate him

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Re: Kane Lambert retires [merged]
« Reply #770 on: October 21, 2022, 06:16:26 PM »
Looks younger than the Geelong team.

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Re: Kane Lambert retires [merged]
« Reply #771 on: October 21, 2022, 06:48:51 PM »
They don’t get a lot right, mustn’t have watched many of our games if they don’t rate him
So these are journalists! They rarely know anything for sure  :snidegrin

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Hardwick lauds unheralded hero Kane Lambert's role in uplifting Dusty (ZH)
« Reply #772 on: June 27, 2023, 02:26:36 PM »
Damien Hardwick lauds unheralded hero’s role in uplifting Dustin Martin

“He was one of the greatest role players, if not the greatest role player that our football club has ever seen.”

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Decorated three-time Richmond premiership coach Damien Hardwick has opened up on a host of intriguing topics including Kane Lambert's crucial one-two-punch partnership with numerous offensive-minded Tigers, the controversial nature of Jason Castagna's early retirement, and his meaningful thoughts on superstar Brownlow medallist Dustin Martin.

Hardwick, who shockingly ceased his storied Tigerland tenure after Richmond's narrow 'Dreamtime at the G' defeat to Essendon in Round 10, also flagged his desire to "step back in" to AFL coaching during a jam-packed discussion on the Dyl and Friends podcast.

The host of Dyl and Friends, ex-GWS and Carlton footballer Dylan Buckley, surfaced the topic of Lambert and the unheralded defensive role the midfielder-forward played in complementing the attack-heavy game styles of Martin, Shai Bolton, Shane Edwards, and others of the like, throughout his highly-appreciated Tigers tenure.

'Dimma' stated they were hard relationships to describe, detailing Lambert's critical defensive job of supplementing a host of Richmond's attacking guns.

"Spot on, it's very, very hard to explain, even as a coach, we used to call (the partnership) 'Barry', it was a 'Barry and Larry' sort of thing," Hardwick began explaining.

"The reality is, Dustin's got some strengths in the game. Offensively, he's incredibly gifted, [but] defensively is where he's okay, but it's not his number one strength, so instead of getting Dustin to play as a defensive element of the game, because if we did that we'd be taking away his strengths [and] we'd lose the offensive impact, whereas Kane, offensively, was okay but defensively had a great understanding of role clarity, about what was required at certain times, and so those two worked in conjunction the whole time so Dustin could just play, Kane would basically be thinking for [him].

"Dustin's a bad example, [Lambert] did that for Shai (Bolton) and Shane Edwards and all that sort of stuff, but his role was really, really important because it complemented other roles, and that's what he did really, really well, and that's why those role players are so important to the fabric of, not only our footy club but every footy club, really."

https://www.zerohanger.com/damien-hardwick-lauds-unheralded-heros-role-in-uplifting-dustin-martin-laments-guilt-over-early-jason-castagna-retirement-139072/

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Re: Kane Lambert retires [merged]
« Reply #773 on: April 05, 2024, 06:58:31 PM »
The low-key Tiger who sparked a modern footy trend

It's time this humble yet 'super critical' role gets the plaudits it deserves, writes Cal Twomey



Kane Lambert almost redefined the half-forward role for Richmond alongside Dan Butler, Daniel Rioli and Jason Castagna. The Tigers' batch of hard-working half-forwards changed the position as rivals tried to unearth the same qualities in their own in that role. Others failed in their bid to implement Richmond-like gameplans without the players who could carry out the hard-running roles.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1100132/its-not-glamourous-footys-most-underappreciated-role