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PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
As good a coach as i think Terry Wallace is and as promising as the young brigade of players are that will supposedly lead us to the promised land in the years to come I dont think Richmond will win a premiership with the running style of game Wallace wants Richmond to play. Not only Richmond but any side(eg Bulldogs etc) that play the running style of game. I think we will make the finals and be a force(NOT this year) but will not have the game plan to play a grand final and even if we did, win a premiership.
History shows that finals football does not lend itself to open running games. Finals football is close checking, hard ball gets, constant pressure football where space to run is rare. As sensational as the Doggies were last year the moment they came up against a close checking hard marking side(west coast) they got hammered. As dominant as the Power was during the regular season when it got to the finals it got hammerred. It wasnt until it hardened up, manned but and played dour football did it win finals and finally a Premiership.
One only has to look at the history of who has won the premiership and the side has regardless of its skill and poise been a close checking, hard ball gets, constant pressure team. It doesnt matter whether you are talking about the tigers of the 60s and 70s who played the long kicking game or the possession football of the 80s hawks or the lions of the 2000s. None of them played an open style that allowed for easy possessions and loose ball gets for the opposition.
For Wallace to lead us to a Premiership he would need to defy history and the thoughts of coaches like Roos, Worsfold, Matthews and Hafey who have all climbed to the pinnacle and have developed sides that played finals style football week in week out so that when the business end of the season came they knew what it look to go all the way.
History shows that finals football does not lend itself to open running games. Finals football is close checking, hard ball gets, constant pressure football where space to run is rare. As sensational as the Doggies were last year the moment they came up against a close checking hard marking side(west coast) they got hammered. As dominant as the Power was during the regular season when it got to the finals it got hammerred. It wasnt until it hardened up, manned but and played dour football did it win finals and finally a Premiership.
One only has to look at the history of who has won the premiership and the side has regardless of its skill and poise been a close checking, hard ball gets, constant pressure team. It doesnt matter whether you are talking about the tigers of the 60s and 70s who played the long kicking game or the possession football of the 80s hawks or the lions of the 2000s. None of them played an open style that allowed for easy possessions and loose ball gets for the opposition.
For Wallace to lead us to a Premiership he would need to defy history and the thoughts of coaches like Roos, Worsfold, Matthews and Hafey who have all climbed to the pinnacle and have developed sides that played finals style football week in week out so that when the business end of the season came they knew what it look to go all the way.