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Game Day - Tigers v Swans

What do I say about that?

Awesome to cheer on the boys. Even better being in ear shot of the umps. They had an horrendous game.

Positives:

- Shai - needs to play permanent mid
- Broad - so underrated. Just does everything right
- Grimes - stood up in the last 5 minutes. Tough as nails

Negatives:
- Rioli - WTF has happened to him? No zip, looks slower and disinterested
- Marlion - made up for it a bit but one of the worst first halfs I've seen from a mid
- swans gameplan - no social distancing in our fwd 50. Nearly every swans player was down there

Bring on Metricon next week!
 
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What do I say about that?

Awesome to cheer on the boys. Even better being in ear shot of the umps. They had an horrendous game.

Positives:

- Shai - needs to play permanent mid
- Broad - so underrated. Just does everything right
- Grimes - stood up in the last 5 minutes. Tough as nails

Negatives:
- Rioli - WTF has happened to him? No zip, looks slower and disinterested
- Marlion - made up for it a bit but one of the worst first halfs I've seen from a mid
- swans gameplan - no social distancing in our fwd 50. Nearly every swans player was down there

Bring on Metricon next week!

Don't blame me for Rioli's woes.
 
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Hardwick has never coached well against a team that floods back & hits us the counter attack with run from behind the ball. Too often the mids, centre line & even half backs get sucked towards the ball & we get flogged going the other way.

Nth & the Dogs did exactly that to us last year. The solution is to hold our own lines & use extra numbers to run it inside 50. Don’t clog our own forward 50 with midfielders & wingers. Plus with numbers set back - it counters the fast break of the opposition.

Centreline players shouldn’t go inside 50 arc & halfbacks should form line across the centre. Agree with comment to have long kickers take shots from the top of the arc.

Yes, yes, yes. For every negative tactic there is a counter-attack but Dimma just isn''t a great strategist.
- Take your last point - Balta was wasted today: this guy can really mark it, runs hard and can kick it 60m. But Dimma never thought of utilising him just forward of the centre moving into CHF where he would have offered another threat that could have pulled some of the pack of defenders lurking deep just awaiting our long bombs into Tom/Jack territory. This was possible with Balta since Swans hardly had a tall forward in. Could have covered him by sending Pickett or KMac back.
- Could have gone really tall with Chol sent forward in bursts too while Soldo rucked. Surely someone could have clunked a few.
- Overall, if Swans playing so many back, equal up more to force a free, turnover, or just get snap shots at goal. Lock the ball in, scale up the pressure until their defence cracks.
- We are struggling to score because we have become so predictable in attack. Have very little presence on the ground I50; lack of pressure, lack of reading the ball off the packs, lack of shots on goal. (Felt Papley was the most dangerous forward in the game, always looked a threat. By contrast, our FL looks like a desert once the ball is spoilt in the air. Rioli no presence; Castagna continuall stuff-ups, can no longer read where the ball's going, poor positioning)
- Does he ever think of telling Tom to play the decoy; currently opp knows wher our kicks are going about 80% of i50s (today to a guy with a bung hand)
- Our only other option was marking in a forward pocket, but low % to score
- Too often guys won't just kick it over the pack for a goal when within range, instead just lob it into the melee in front of our goals - hot-spot, for another rebound out.

Overall, Dimma is a great people-person, not a great tactician. We really miss the astuteness of Caracella IMHO.
 
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gee sydney stink. Going to be *smile* for a long time

They have some good young players but yeah, the top end has thinned right out.

Player​
Age​
Franklin, Lance33y164d
Kennedy, Josh P. (inj)32y22d
Sinclair, Callum (inj)30y293d
Rampe, Dane30y40d
Reid, Sam B. (inj)28y198d
Gray, Sam28y162d
Naismith, Sam (inj)27y362d
Parker, Luke27y261d
Knoll, Michael (R)27y136d
Fox, Robbie27y87d

From Lloyd (26) down their list looks OK, but there's a lot of groundwork to be done and they wouldn't have learned much today.

Richmond actually had 10 players with under 50 games to Sydney's 9 today.
 
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4pts and no injuries, would take that every week at the moment as hard as it was to watch.
Good to see most of the Ins responded, Graham ran hard all day, Pickett used his body, Bolton worked hard.
Pick up the ugly wins now then launch late again, we'll be right.

Pickett could be on report though.
 
Can't see Caddy going anywhere. Thought he was great. He's very cool under pressure.
I thought both Caddy and Graham played ok, winning contested ball and presenting for passes. Yeah they made mistakes but they weren't alone in that.
 
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Reckon he will a week.
Hope i am wrong.
He improved as the game went on. Pity.

Deserves a week.
I would drop him regardless
He is just horrible to watch.
Can't kick, handballs like a 8 year old. Lazy, no 2nd efforts
Rioli bad
Not good enough
 
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gee sydney stink. Going to be *smile* for a long time

Serve's them right.
They sold the House to get Tippett
They sold the farm to get Franklin.
Don't worry the AFL will bail them out again.
I can't stand Sydney
Heeney is the only player i like.
Parker is cooked
Kennedy is finished.
Murphy and Lewis are finished too.
 
When we kicked our third goal, there was 9:43 left on the clock in the first quarter.
I wonder how many games have been won by sides kicking one goal after the half-way point of the first quarter?
 
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Well that was rubbish - rubbish umpiring, rubbish blocking up the game by Sydney, rubbish forward entries by Richmond.

4 points is nice but clearly they are not following whatever they are being told in terms of getting it into 50, either that or they are being given silly tactics.

DS
And Brian Taylor, holy *smile*, he's a blight on the game.
 
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Horrible game but like most agree it was their tactic and glad Dimma gave them a clip.

interesting votes this week, thought Broad was our best, he was everywhere, Lambert and grimes also very good!
 
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Horrible game but like most agree it was their tactic and glad Dimma gave them a clip.

interesting votes this week, thought Broad was our best, he was everywhere, Lambert and grimes also very good!

Yeh, Dimma did not miss Longmire. Good to get a win in such circumstances no matter how ugly. And more fuel to the naysayers means more egg on the face of the media "experts" come finals.
 
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