Echuca to host Tigers

[tiga]

Thanks for the report fluffster! Excellent effort!

[one-eyed]

Brown sits out
Bendigo Advertiser
February 8, 2008

RICHMOND coach Terry Wallace’s self-confessed paranoia was the reason behind superstar Nathan Brown sitting out the Tigers’ intra-club match at Moama yesterday.

Brown was a notable omission from Richmond’s intra-club match at Jack Eddy Oval, but will play in the Tigers’ NAB Cup opener against St Kilda at the Telstra Dome next Friday night.

‘‘It was probably more my paranoia than anything else (as to why Brown didn’t play),’’ Wallace told The Advertiser after yesterday’s two-hour match.

‘‘With the circumstances of him over the past few years, I didn’t want to take any risks with him.

‘‘He will play next Friday night, so there’s no dramas with him, but it’s probably just the coach’s paranoia after a fairly average 18 months for him.

‘‘We assure our supporters he will be out there next Friday night, but it was just me as a coach thinking a game in the country versus a game at the Telstra Dome next week, so we will wait for the Telstra Dome.’’

Brown, a former Golden Square junior and Bendigo Pioneer, has been restricted to just 21 AFL games since breaking his leg in round 10 of the 2005 season.

Yesterday’s intra-club match was the final event of Richmond’s three-day community camp to Echuca and Moama and a massive crowd of about 2000 watched the Tigers go through their paces in the full-scale hit-out.

Among those to play well were Chris Newman, who provided plenty of dash off half-back and kicked a goal in the last quarter.

Key forward Cleve Hughes finished the match with four goals, three of which he kicked in the first term in a blistering start.

Rookie Clayton Collard was lively as a small forward and kicked three goals in the third term.

Brett Deledio showed in the third quarter why there is talk of him spending more time permanently in the forward line this season.

Deledio kicked three goals in the third term, including a superb left-foot snap from 40 m out that was one of the goals of the match.

http://bendigo.yourguide.com.au/news/sport/general/brown-sits-out/1178221.html

[one-eyed]

for those interested...

A group of 10 players from the Echuca area were given the opportunity to also play in yesterday’s match, which was held as part of the Tigers’ community camp.

Liam Guinan (Echuca), Troy Muir (Echuca), John Foskett (Moama), Damien Dalziel (Echuca United), Nick Iorianni (Echuca United), Luke Dunham (Moama), Craig Frost (Echuca United), Duane Hueston (Echuca United), Thomas McKitterick (Echuca) and Chris Casey (Echuca) all played.

Dunham kicked a goal in the final quarter, while Frost found plenty of the ball in the midfield.

http://bendigo.yourguide.com.au/news/sport/general/connors-impresses-fans/1178225.html

[mightytiges]

Well guys here is my humble acessment of the Intra Club Practice match at Echua. I say that becasue I am no expert in these things and I get to see very little live football so might be a crappy judge. I also found it very hard seeing everything that was going on from ground level yesterday. Another thing was that there was 24 players listed for each side and many of our better players might of played only a half a game so it was hard to judge who was the better players

Goods things

1 . NO IJURIES  that I saw anyway - this was the best thing to come out of the day
2.  Good crowd, free admission, great surface
3.  The team looks bigger and taller on the whole, we have many taller boys on the list.
4.  They went hard at it most of the time which was good to see.

MY best player are the ones I noticed the most doing good things. As I said before, lots of our top players didnt play anywhere near full games so you cant realy judge. Some of these guys I didnt expect to be in the best.   JON. Patto, King, Morton, Lids, Tuck

I loved Patto. I realy dont now what postion he has in the side but he will be a nightmare for opp coaches to matchup on because of his height and his motor, He just gets around the ground.

JON was good running out of defence and he hit his target mostly. He sometimes didnt take the first option and ends up running around in circles but he has the speed and look confident today.

King was his usaul self and although I generaly favour big players I just love the way this guy plays.

Morton got a couple of goals and looked like he has something. Will be interesting to see if he breaks into starting 22 in R1.

Tuck got a lots of the ball inside which was good.

Lids kidded three I think and show his class at times. He was on the lossing side and he wasnt playing agaist a top defender so again its hard to judge if this is the right move for him to FF.

There were other performance that were ok but these are my top 6 (hey who am I to judge)

Bad Things

1. Game Plan.  In that there didnt seem to be one. I know they are all tigers playing each other but I expected to see some sort of structure and didnt. Agian I will say I was at ground level and not sitting up looking down so it can be hard to see.

2. Skills.  Many a target missed again.

3. Players missing were   Tambling, Brown, Thursfield, McGuane, Cotchin, Graham, Myer. As far as I know that was all.

4. I dont see any of the players we drafted this year making a impact this year. Silvester did some good things so he might get a chance if we have injuries.

5. What I would of though was close to our best forward line setup for the season was in the black team and the were soundly beaten by nowhere near our best backline. I am talking of Richo, Pettifer, Polak, Deldio, Riewolt. It was very  windy so it was hard for these bigger guys but it was the same for both teams.

6. Simmo looked fit but his ruck timing seemed off. It could be a lack of actual contact practice and lets hope he get back to his best. He didnt play that much of the game.

6. We went to the huddle at 3/4 time of the white team (thas why you didnt get 3/4 time report). Before David King (coach of this team) arrived there was no talk at all. The just all stood there, no leader seemed to stand up in the group.

I had a good time seeing the boys but it was one of the strangest things where all these people watching and nobody realy cheering for anybody. All these car parked around a ground and not a single horn hooted .  I also discovered that somebody in my age bracket cant do text reports of a game (well some might but I text about once a month). Between changing glasses and looking a team sheets etc its just not for me. So sorry for the crappy reports.

Well "Go Tigers" is all I can say but I am not confident we can turn it around this season

Great reporting Fluffy    . Once again thanks for the updates yesterday.

I remember going to the Learmonth intra-club game 2 years ago and yep it's a weird feeling watching footy with a crowd there more for a up-close look of AFL players than barracking.

Just a couple of questions...

Where did Morton play mostly?

How did Polo go?

How was Patto's kicking?

[Fluffy Tiger]

Just a couple of questions...

Where did Morton play mostly?

How did Polo go?

How was Patto's kicking?

Morton maily played HFF/FP and got a couple of goals for the white side.

Polo seemed fit and certianly was in the game, Just didnt do anything that made him standout to me.

With Patto only once did I see him kick and say , that was bad. The rest of the time it seemed ok to good. It was windy and many targets were missed by many players

[mightytiges]

Morton maily played HFF/FP and got a couple of goals for the white side.

Polo seemed fit and certianly was in the game, Just didnt do anything that made him standout to me.

With Patto only once did I see him kick and say , that was bad. The rest of the time it seemed ok to good. It was windy and many targets were missed by many players

Cheers Fluffy. 

Seems we've scratched the Morton on a HBF idea already  ???. Good news about Patto.