Elimination Final - Richmond vs North Melbourne @ the M.C.G. - Sunday, Sept. 13

[dwaino]

We Choked guys. We can blame the umpires all we like but the reality is our players aren't good enough at this level.

Nope. We kept wasting our forward entries by putting it down Hansen's throat. But the one incident I'm harping on about is pure BS and it decided the game. Atrocious umpiring in that situation.

[No More]

We Choked guys. We can blame the umpires all we like but the reality is our players aren't good enough at this level.

Nope. We kept wasting our forward entries by putting it down Hansen's throat. But the one incident I'm harping on about is pure BS and it decided the game. Atrocious umpiring in that situation.

We choked ... we were 21 points up twice in this game. We choked. The sooner our supporters stop deluding themselves the better off we will be.

[WA Tiger]

We Choked guys. We can blame the umpires all we like but the reality is our players aren't good enough at this level.

Nope. We kept wasting our forward entries by putting it down Hansen's throat. But the one incident I'm harping on about is pure BS and it decided the game. Atrocious umpiring in that situation.

We choked ... we were 21 points up twice in this game. We choked. The sooner our supporters stop deluding themselves the better off we will be.

YES!!!!!!!

[Hellenic Tiger]

15 wins in 2 of the last 3 seasons.
Good leads in two of the last 3 elimination finals.

0 wins 3 losses.

Unacceptable.

You can twist it how you like. Failure of the highest order.

Nothing more to say.

[dwaino]

We Choked guys. We can blame the umpires all we like but the reality is our players aren't good enough at this level.

Nope. We kept wasting our forward entries by putting it down Hansen's throat. But the one incident I'm harping on about is pure BS and it decided the game. Atrocious umpiring in that situation.

We choked ... we were 21 points up twice in this game. We choked. The sooner our supporters stop deluding themselves the better off we will be.

No we didn't choke. We were beaten by the same game plan that has beaten us every time we play this mob. We don't do anything to break their checking of our midfielders and we don't do anything to stop them setting up in front of us. In fact we actually play it right into their hands. Game was lost before the first bounce.

[No More]

It can only be a CHOKE and a FAILURE ... there is no other words to describe it.

[Rodgerramjet]

We Choked guys. We can blame the umpires all we like but the reality is our players aren't good enough at this level.

Unfortunately you are correct.

Players that got found out today were:

Batchelor, had an absolute shocker, we should try and trade him while he has some perceived currency.

Hunt, again another one, that just isn't up to finals footy.

Grigg, had a shocker, not up to finals footy.

[No More]

We Choked guys. We can blame the umpires all we like but the reality is our players aren't good enough at this level.

Nope. We kept wasting our forward entries by putting it down Hansen's throat. But the one incident I'm harping on about is pure BS and it decided the game. Atrocious umpiring in that situation.

We choked ... we were 21 points up twice in this game. We choked. The sooner our supporters stop deluding themselves the better off we will be.

No we didn't choke. We were beaten by the same game plan that has beaten us every time we play this mob. We don't do anything to break their checking of our midfielders and we don't do anything to stop them setting up in front of us. In fact we actually play it right into their hands. Game was lost before the first bounce.

We choked big fella. You cant be in control like we were and lose like that. Our players made stupid error upon stupid error. Go have a look at the replay. Youll see in the cool light of day that we choked.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

We Choked guys. We can blame the umpires all we like but the reality is our players aren't good enough at this level.

Nope. We kept wasting our forward entries by putting it down Hansen's throat. But the one incident I'm harping on about is pure BS and it decided the game. Atrocious umpiring in that situation.

Agreed Dwaino. You're just right.

We choked ... we were 21 points up twice in this game. We choked. The sooner our supporters stop deluding themselves the better off we will be.

No we didn't choke. We were beaten by the same game plan that has beaten us every time we play this mob. We don't do anything to break their checking of our midfielders and we don't do anything to stop them setting up in front of us. In fact we actually play it right into their hands. Game was lost before the first bounce.

[(•))(©™]

Miles is the best

[sdc01]

blame the players all you like

this system dimma likes CANNOT stand up in finals

why did we lose??? look at the contested possessions count

3 strikes and out...he has to go

[No More]

the club isn't gonna payout $600-$700k for nothing. Hardwick will see out his contract and I believe they will give him a 2 year extension which will be announced shortly.

[Muscles]

We got beaten just about everywhere
- beaten in the ruck
- beaten in the clearances inside and outside
- beaten,; no, smashed in the contests
- beaten in the air down the line
- smashed in scoring shots

It was a comprehensive whalloping.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Miles is the best

x2 

[dwaino]

We Choked guys. We can blame the umpires all we like but the reality is our players aren't good enough at this level.

Nope. We kept wasting our forward entries by putting it down Hansen's throat. But the one incident I'm harping on about is pure BS and it decided the game. Atrocious umpiring in that situation.

We choked ... we were 21 points up twice in this game. We choked. The sooner our supporters stop deluding themselves the better off we will be.

No we didn't choke. We were beaten by the same game plan that has beaten us every time we play this mob. We don't do anything to break their checking of our midfielders and we don't do anything to stop them setting up in front of us. In fact we actually play it right into their hands. Game was lost before the first bounce.

We choked big fella. You cant be in control like we were and lose like that. Our players made stupid error upon stupid error. Go have a look at the replay. Youll see in the cool light of day that we choked.

We got up on the scoreboard but still were never ever comprehensively beating them. Go watch it yourself and see how often we blazed away from centre bounce straight to them. In the final quarter they even took the pee by putting another again spare in defense to start their overlaps since they knew if we couldn't beat their system for 3 quarters we weren't going to do it in the last. IMO this is solely on Hardwick.