Richmond vs W.Bulldogs @ the MCG --- Round 4, 2023

[georgies31]

To many excuses here umpires this and the outs we had blind freddy can see we're struggling skills poor , disposal , pressure and the poor decisions.Match committee all over the place resting players in rd 4 lol if there not good enough to play on from rd 4 they should have retired simple and get fresh blood on the list smelled of arrogance to me.Dimma is carrying to many players past it

[pmac21]

sonsie clarke cumberland positives from today

Tylar Young was a positive also.

[sdc01]

sonsie clarke cumberland positives from today

Tylar Young was a positive also.

absolutely

[Broadsword]

I do enjoy the 17-day wait for the 4-minute post-match interviews. Must be uploading them on the NBN.

[FooffooValve]

sonsie clarke cumberland positives from today

Cumberland??! Goodness me I must have attended a different game.

[Willy]

Trying to look for individual scapegoats is silly

It’s a whole team issue right now

[FooffooValve]

Tylar Young was a positive also.

Agree, thought he did a great job.

[Broadsword]

Not a great look again this week during the press conference. Blaming all and sundry. Apparently we just lost the contested ball and that's the be-all-end-all. Nothing about foot skills, decision-making, and footy smarts.

[Tigeritis™©®]

sonsie clarke cumberland positives from today

Cumberland??! Goodness me I must have attended a different game.

Was not good.

[WilliamPowell]

I've calmed down a fair bit since I got home

Bitterly disappointed with today's result. For 20 minutes we played our best footy of the season so far.

But you cannot kick 2 goals in the 2nd half and expect to win. Our 3rd qtr was awful. Think MT said it Kicking across the HB line what was our co-captain thinking?

My biggest gripe is the lack of leadership in crunch moments. Where was it exactly? We smashed them in hitouts but yet again our centre circle set up meant those taps were being gobbled up by the opposition. It happens week after week. Nank is in there it is up to him to fix it.

Irony wasn't lost on me that when Ryan went in there we got on top in clearances

Biggest positive for me was Tylar Young. Thought he was really good today. Just one little thing he should not under any circumstances take the kick INS

Graham was massive loss, it meant Sonsie had to take on that role and it didn't work because he doesn't have the body strength yet

[FooffooValve]

The biggest stand out for me was our terrible ball-handling. Can anyone other than Dusty and Bolton pick up the ball without fumbling it? Forget about game plans and other rubbish, if we could be as clean as them below our knees, we'd have won that game by 4 goals.

[Gigantor]

I thought doggies deserved to win , they were smarter with ball use, cleaner with hands and feet etc.
Very disappointed to see our trade mark of run and carry and manic pressure is fast  being eroded . Resting jack on a day when footy smarts was paramount seems very odd to me.

[the claw]

To many excuses here umpires this and the outs we had blind freddy can see we're struggling skills poor , disposal , pressure and the poor decisions.Match committee all over the place resting players in rd 4 lol if there not good enough to play on from rd 4 they should have retired simple and get fresh blood on the list smelled of arrogance to me.Dimma is carrying to many players past it

Absolutely spot on.
Easy to blame the umps when other more concerning and damaging things are at play.

[georgies31]

We had 7 players under 25 that's great bit of a shift of opinions now I'm seeing , let's not forget we went all out recruiting Taranto and Hopper and gave up the farm for them to win a flag which we thought we could and maybe we still can that was the objective correct.

[Francois Jackson]

we wont be winning a flag anytime soon Georgie, i can assure you of that.

We have so many holes and each week since that Sydney loss they are increasing.

dusty, nank, grimes, almost all of our players are a shadow of their former self.