AFL Community Series 2021: Richmond vs Collingwood

[georgies31]

Exactly let's not forget this is his second full season as a defender still learning on the job Balta.CCJ is the one we need to break in the side can give us alot more then Chol.

[Tigeritis™©®]

He crashed the pack a couple of times just couldn't take the grabs...

Balta and Bolton very disappointing. Balta had to be moved off a 2nds player that took him to the cleaners and Bolton tried to do too much and stuffed things up. Chol hasn’t improved at all.

On the positive side Short, Baker, Graham and Grimes dominated.

Balta gifted them 2 goals from silly decisions BUT did some nice things and yet did get beat in 1v1s!

Got to keep playing him.

He was ok tonight.

 Still miles ahead of Rance at the same age....

We had babies in the centre square against their A listers which got them first use and Once grimes went off the ground our defenders didn’t have the same leadership in defence and we were caught out a few times in that last quarter.
Nothing to worry about and it was good to have a look at the cubs.

RCD played on deGoey at centre bounces. He is far too skinny to be trying to bust through packs but I like it that he tries to do it.
Martyn was tackling and scragging everyone. He actually reminded me of a young dusty from behind (same number same hair when dusty was 18) he is no dusty though so don’t get too excited but he seems to go in.
We clean up our forward 50 entries we win by a minimum 6 goals tonight.

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Team Stats:

Disposals:     420 - 378
Kicks:           263 - 210
Handballs:    157 - 168
Cont. poss:   134 - 135
Uncon. poss: 287 - 246
Efficiency%:   76 - 77
Turnovers:     78 - 87
Marks:         136 - 93 .... ( contested: 15 - 11 )   
Clearances:   20 - 30 ..... ( centre: 14 - 9 ; stoppages: 6 - 21 )
Tackles:        45 - 47
Inside 50s:    64 - 57
Eff% in50:     47 - 46
Marks in50:    15 - 9
Tackles in50:    9 - 5
Hitouts:         18 - 32
Bounces:         9 - 2
One %ers:     42 - 49     
Frees:           24 - 31 

Individual possessions:

Short    43
Caddy   27
Edwards 26
Graham  26
Baker    23
Dusty    23 ... played 3/4ers
McIntosh 20
Lambert 18
Vlastuin  18
Bolton    16
Grimes   16 ... played 3/4ers
Riewoldt 16
Aarts      15
Pickett    14
Rioli       13
Astbury  12
Balta      12
Castagna 12 .... plus 4 goals
CCJ        12
Broad     10
Cotchin   10 ... played first half
Chol       9 ... played second half
RCD       8 ... played second half
DES       8 ... played second half
Nankervis 8 ... played first half
Martyn    5 ... played last quarter

https://www.afl.com.au/matches/2977

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Match Highlights:

Watch here: https://www.afl.com.au/video/556981/highlights-collingwood-v-richmond?videoId=556981&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1614945033001

[camboon]

It’s a practice match, the club would be happy with most if not all the players.

[mightytiges]

It’s a practice match, the club would be happy with most if not all the players.

Yep. Our premiership stars played well, we got through unscathed, and Collingwood did us favour trying to win it by keeping Pendlebury and DeGoey in the centre against our cubs in the second half. Good footy education for RCD and Martyn.

I'd be worry if I was the Pies. Their forward line is trash. When we had our best side on the park in the first half they could only kick 3 goals. If matches this year are going to higher scoring then teams with poor forward lines that struggle to score are not going to win too many games. Can see the Pies not making finals and Bucks not having Eddie to save him.

[one-eyed]

Footy looks like ‘a different game’, just as the AFL wanted: What we learned this preseason

Matt Balmer, David Zita, Max Laughton and Ben Waterworth
Fox Sports
March 8th, 2021

It’s always hard to take too much out of the pre-season - especially in 2021, when it only lasts one week. It’s a small sample size for individual players.

But in the big picture, one thing was clear from the opening bounce on Thursday night: footy has changed.

It’s not just the return to 20-minute quarters; and it’s not just the rule changes, most notably the ‘stand’ rule which forces the man on the mark to do just that. It’s a combination of a bunch of things, all adding up to a faster, more open game; at least in the AAMI Community Series.

However there might be another factor at play with all of this - the chase to catch the back-to-back premiers.

The Tigers’ mad-cap ball movement has spurred them onto repeated premiership glory, and with a full pre-season and relatively normal training sessions behind them, Brownlow medallist Gerard Healy believes clubs are simply copying what works.

“Maybe the competition has woken up and seen that Richmond has won three of the last four flags, and that they have to play like this,” he said on Fox Footy.

But he later added: “There’s no doubt that the rule change has provoked the play-on factor.”

Tiger time doesn’t look close to ending

You’d be brave to tip against Richmond after a mighty impressive showing by the reigning premiers against Collingwood.

While the margin appeared close, there’s no doubting the Tigers have a number of gears to take a game forward and possess depth that no other side across the competition has.

Jayden Short had 43 disposals in a side that is primed for an attempt at an elusive third premiership in as many years.

Jack Riewoldt showed no signs of father time catching him, slotting two goals from five attempts, while 27 disposals and a goal should bring Josh Caddy back into consideration after missing the 2020 finals.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2021-preseason-analysis-what-we-learned-rule-changes-faster-ball-movement-every-club-analysed-news-best-players/news-story/f2927b7d377fe59ee7a0a0722c8c9321

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Matthew Lloyd says reigning premiers Richmond were the most impressive side he saw play during the AAMI Community Series pre-season games.

On the back of all 18 teams featuring in their one and only official pre-season match before the season begins on March 18, Lloyd said it was the Tigers who caught his eye.

He said their attention to detail and willing to adopt a team-first mentality – even in a pre-season match – stood out.

“My best for the weekend was Richmond,” the Essendon great said on Sportsday.

“I thought their best was better than anyone else and they didn’t roll into it like a pre-season game – it was coming off the back of St Kilda versus Carlton (on Thursday night) which was a goal fest.

“In the first half when Richmond had their best team out there, you couldn’t get past (Dylan) Grimes and (the way) Trent Cotchin smothered a ball in the first (few minutes was telling).

“I watched Toby Nankervis give away a free kick and then ran 80 metres to get back into the hole in front of Mason Cox to fist it.

“I saw (Josh) Caddy and (Kamdyn) McIntosh played as wingers, they defended as they should.

“It was Richmond again saying that ‘we’ll do all the little things better than you’ and then you have guys like (Jason) Castagna who chipped in with their four goals.”

The Tigers defeated Collingwood by six points at Marvel Stadium, opting to rest a number of their stars in the second half as they look ahead to the traditional season-opener against Carlton on March 18.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/03/09/matthew-lloyd-names-side-who-impressed-him-the-most-during-pre-season-games/