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A win is a win - but lets also keep and eye on the footy standard

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Yep - Oh we're from Tigerland, A fighting fury, We're from Tigerland.........

I am still singing and humming the tune this morning.

But in truth - I also know that the game last evening was not of the greatest AFL standard - and for that matter it was not of the middle-of-the-road normal AFL standard either.

Both teams squandered opportunities through poor disposal of the ball, through poor decision making, through over handballing and at stages the game became a comedy of errors.

There were passages of play that made me sit up a few times - when we moved the ball quickly and directly through the corridor to our forwards we looked good and Mitch Morton kicked 5 because of this. Whilst these were great to see there really was not the usual AFL pressure on the ball carrier and we have always looked good when we click and we are not under pressure.

The other thing that caught my eye was our ferocity at the ball and the opposition when they had the ball - our tackling went up a notch - but again both teams had 6 players aged 20 or less - it was boys against boys.

I know and I reckon you know too that when it becomes our boys against the men of St Kilda next week we may see a different result. But I hope our ferocity at the ball and the opposition is still there - I hope the young guys acquit themselves well.

This could be the birth of the new tiger - heaven knows it has been a long gestation and we have been in labour for the last 5 years - and like all fledglings I hope our guys grow strong and tall whilst gaining the right experience - learning from clashes like our next game against St Kilda - so one day they can bare their mature tiger claws and tear apart the competition........
 
Yep. But I'd say Jade knew the skill issue was a long term problem. His priority would have been to improve morale and team-work to battle our fade-outs. Good start, but ugly game.
 
Azza said:
Yep. But I'd say Jade knew the skill issue was a long term problem. His priority would have been to improve morale and team-work to battle our fade-outs. Good start, but ugly game.
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Well put
 
i reckon it was west coast that turned the game ugly. we should have led by at least 6 goals at quarter time... then they decided to play man on man to stem the bleeding. it got them more of the ball but they failed to impact on the scoreboard.
 
As it stands ATM
You can take Richmond out of Wallace but you cant take the Wallace out of Richmond.........Just yet.
 
CptJonno2Madcow2005 said:
As it stands ATM
You can take Richmond out of Wallace but you cant take the Wallace out of Richmond.........Just yet.
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You're right, but they are working on it. Edwards did well. Cousins, normal gut busting game. Jackson shut Kerr out of the game (he's improved considerably this year hopefully he will go on with it), Morton kicked 5 but missed a couple, Riewoldt missed a couple of easy set shots after taking good contested grabs. Both Graham and Pattison seemed a little quiet but they should get into the swing of things. The defenders did okay, RT was all over the place, Thursfield was quiet.

The game itself had some good moments when the Tigers moved the ball really quickly, but it also had those TW moments of chip it, kick it backwards, sideways, up in the air or handball it to an opponent. Those areas need to be worked on.

Young Vickery showed a little bit, he was nervious and looked nervy all night, but he'll be better for the run and the win will do his confidence no harm.

St Kilda will be a real test. If the team lose by less than 30 points against an opponent yet to be beaten this season, I'll be satisifed with that, as long as they go in with an attitude of everything to gain nothing to lose mindset, tackle and run hard all night, go direct, then we might be starting to turn the corner just a little bit.
 
CptJonno2Madcow2005 said:
As it stands ATM
You can take Richmond out of Wallace but you cant take the Wallace out of Richmond.........Just yet.
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The sooner the better skipper
 
CptJonno2Madcow2005 said:
End of the Year MB.....Hopefully
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One thing noticeable after the game yesterday was the interaction between Rawlings & th eplayers.Appeared to be non-existent under Wallace.
 
mb64 said:
One thing noticeable after the game yesterday was the interaction between Rawlings & th eplayers.Appeared to be non-existent under Wallace.
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The players now know the spotlight is on them.Alot of Brown nosing perhaps MB ;D
 
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