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PuntRoadRoar
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Ok guys,
Lets be honest here, I'm pissed bigtime, living in Perth I generally only get to see my team play once, twice or not even at all some years so seeing that kind of performance tonight brought forward a whole bunch of emotions ranging from being proud early, then worried, concerned, anger , bitter then acceptance.
rosy you asked for a run down of the events well here goes:
Parked my car with my cousin (who is an eagles supporter and his best mate) walked down Hay Street a few hours before the game, wasting some time, i was ribbing them about what a fantastic game it should be and how its been 5 years since they last beat us. Then a large white bus come down hay street at about that moment, i must admit i was at first suprised but then i notice who was in the bus.. IT WAS THE MIGHTY RICHMOND FOOTBALL CLUB !!!! i was like 1 meter away from the boys, as they rolled passed, rodan and andy kellaway were giving us the right stare some looked down right angry, it was a real buzz and i pumped my fist up and yelled CARN THE TIGERS!!! as i was decked out in my complete YELLOW & BLACK colours... hey i was as pysched the boys looked.
Finally got into subi sat down behind the goals at the city end, watched as the many eagle supporters flocked in as the sheep generally do, i kept an eye out for the tiger fans that trickled in as the pre-game warm up occurred, i must say there was quite a few tiger faithful, the mighty RFC cheer squad was a tier up behind me and that excited me immensley, their singing is great!!!!.
Well as we all know, the game started eagles nailed the first, i was "oh well only the first goal", we kicked the next one they got 2 more and i wasnt to happy about that, but the boys came back and before i knew it we were in front and playing strong footy. Theres something that you pick up in interstate matches and thats how concerned a home crowd get when they arent kicking every single goal.. and for that first quarter, they were absolutely concerned, the silence was deafening.
Most eagle supporters after the match would disagree and say they were never concerned blah blah, let me tell you they were shitting themselves. I too was taken back considering campbell was on the sidelines, no stafford and coughlan before the matched started.
I at that moment wasnt getting 2 carried away, i have witnessed the eagles first hand way too many times to know that this game was over, i just wished someone had informed danny and the boys. we went into qrt time a few points up and i was very happy and so too were the richmond supporters around subi.
but thats when it dried up, we got the first goal and looked great but it stopped from there i sank, hoping this wouldnt occur but the eagles crowd lifted like with each goal 1 goal down then 2 then 3 4 5 6, the nightmare had begun. there were that many eagle supporters jumping on i swear i couldnt have counted the number of bandwagons lining up in the middle of subi.
All i could do was shake my head, i mean apart from trying an occassional "come on the tigers" which in a crowd of 40 odd thousand people only carried about 5 rows forward and 5 rows back.
We got slaughtered out of the middle, from the stoppages, we just could get first use of the ball and they just kept pumping the ball into their forward line and it was just to much for our strong defence to handle, the pace in which the eagles players would run away from our own was very concerning, it seemed like we had no answer to the constant wave of attacks.
it was about at the time, when we went 7 goals down that i began 2 get a bit annoyed and frustrated, i mean how many times does our great team promise so much and deliever little when the pressure to perform is really on us. I know for myself and probably every richmond supporter the thing that gets up my nose is the critics who have a go at us for not performing when it counts... reality checks they love to call it. IT PISSES ME OFF, i know we are better than that hell we proved it in the first quarter
now all the critics will be like i told you so, and that stinks. Anyway after i got over getting angry at the way we went 10 goals down, i began to really feel for the boys, they were copping a ribbing, and richo copes a pasting from everyone and the guy tries his heart out, to kick 4 goals from limited opportunities he needs to be applauded, i mean what does he have to do to get some credit? 30 possession 15 marks 8goals ????
anyway id dribble on about the rest of the match but then i'd be playing out the motions, we are very lucky we didnt lose by more.
I dont know if you guys feel my pain but the worst thing in perth is your team losing to any team over here, it makes me puke, they love both teams so much and give them the biggest raps with each win you would swear reading the papers it was world war II and the german propaganda machine was in full swing.
the most disappointing thing was know how good michael gardiner was, and that poor royce vardy had to go up against him. West coast must of been laughing, they showed us no respect they took gardiner off and playing Cox. seriously what was the richmond brains trust thinking? it doesnt suprise me that i found out they won 60 - 13 from the stoppages, hell theyhad the ball basically rammed down thier throats from the ruckman.
and i dont know about you but i think clinton king is the biggest waste of space in our team, ok so he gets the hard play, then kicks it..... but where does it go??? ill tell you to an opponent i swear sometimes he is colour blind and if it doesnt become a mongrel kick ahead its a perfect kick out of bounds.
Im just sick to death of getting my hopes up and then having to accept that *smile* perfomance, ok we fought back... big deal the game was long gone by then.
our best 2 players tonight was kane johnson and matthew richardson. the young guys newman and zantuck learnt tonight a lesson in what happens if your not maning up on your respective opponent and can only get better from that experiance.
We were seriously undermanned but when does that excuse begin to wear a bit thin? I love the richmond footy club to death but last nights performance i feel i was cheated.
We need to bounce back this week against sydney and *smile* that stupid "cant win after the week in perth" bull crap statistic thats floating around at the moment, and the tigers to bounce back after once again everyone has written us off.
Lets be honest here, I'm pissed bigtime, living in Perth I generally only get to see my team play once, twice or not even at all some years so seeing that kind of performance tonight brought forward a whole bunch of emotions ranging from being proud early, then worried, concerned, anger , bitter then acceptance.
rosy you asked for a run down of the events well here goes:
Parked my car with my cousin (who is an eagles supporter and his best mate) walked down Hay Street a few hours before the game, wasting some time, i was ribbing them about what a fantastic game it should be and how its been 5 years since they last beat us. Then a large white bus come down hay street at about that moment, i must admit i was at first suprised but then i notice who was in the bus.. IT WAS THE MIGHTY RICHMOND FOOTBALL CLUB !!!! i was like 1 meter away from the boys, as they rolled passed, rodan and andy kellaway were giving us the right stare some looked down right angry, it was a real buzz and i pumped my fist up and yelled CARN THE TIGERS!!! as i was decked out in my complete YELLOW & BLACK colours... hey i was as pysched the boys looked.
Finally got into subi sat down behind the goals at the city end, watched as the many eagle supporters flocked in as the sheep generally do, i kept an eye out for the tiger fans that trickled in as the pre-game warm up occurred, i must say there was quite a few tiger faithful, the mighty RFC cheer squad was a tier up behind me and that excited me immensley, their singing is great!!!!.
Well as we all know, the game started eagles nailed the first, i was "oh well only the first goal", we kicked the next one they got 2 more and i wasnt to happy about that, but the boys came back and before i knew it we were in front and playing strong footy. Theres something that you pick up in interstate matches and thats how concerned a home crowd get when they arent kicking every single goal.. and for that first quarter, they were absolutely concerned, the silence was deafening.
Most eagle supporters after the match would disagree and say they were never concerned blah blah, let me tell you they were shitting themselves. I too was taken back considering campbell was on the sidelines, no stafford and coughlan before the matched started.
I at that moment wasnt getting 2 carried away, i have witnessed the eagles first hand way too many times to know that this game was over, i just wished someone had informed danny and the boys. we went into qrt time a few points up and i was very happy and so too were the richmond supporters around subi.
but thats when it dried up, we got the first goal and looked great but it stopped from there i sank, hoping this wouldnt occur but the eagles crowd lifted like with each goal 1 goal down then 2 then 3 4 5 6, the nightmare had begun. there were that many eagle supporters jumping on i swear i couldnt have counted the number of bandwagons lining up in the middle of subi.
All i could do was shake my head, i mean apart from trying an occassional "come on the tigers" which in a crowd of 40 odd thousand people only carried about 5 rows forward and 5 rows back.
We got slaughtered out of the middle, from the stoppages, we just could get first use of the ball and they just kept pumping the ball into their forward line and it was just to much for our strong defence to handle, the pace in which the eagles players would run away from our own was very concerning, it seemed like we had no answer to the constant wave of attacks.
it was about at the time, when we went 7 goals down that i began 2 get a bit annoyed and frustrated, i mean how many times does our great team promise so much and deliever little when the pressure to perform is really on us. I know for myself and probably every richmond supporter the thing that gets up my nose is the critics who have a go at us for not performing when it counts... reality checks they love to call it. IT PISSES ME OFF, i know we are better than that hell we proved it in the first quarter
now all the critics will be like i told you so, and that stinks. Anyway after i got over getting angry at the way we went 10 goals down, i began to really feel for the boys, they were copping a ribbing, and richo copes a pasting from everyone and the guy tries his heart out, to kick 4 goals from limited opportunities he needs to be applauded, i mean what does he have to do to get some credit? 30 possession 15 marks 8goals ????
anyway id dribble on about the rest of the match but then i'd be playing out the motions, we are very lucky we didnt lose by more.
I dont know if you guys feel my pain but the worst thing in perth is your team losing to any team over here, it makes me puke, they love both teams so much and give them the biggest raps with each win you would swear reading the papers it was world war II and the german propaganda machine was in full swing.
the most disappointing thing was know how good michael gardiner was, and that poor royce vardy had to go up against him. West coast must of been laughing, they showed us no respect they took gardiner off and playing Cox. seriously what was the richmond brains trust thinking? it doesnt suprise me that i found out they won 60 - 13 from the stoppages, hell theyhad the ball basically rammed down thier throats from the ruckman.
and i dont know about you but i think clinton king is the biggest waste of space in our team, ok so he gets the hard play, then kicks it..... but where does it go??? ill tell you to an opponent i swear sometimes he is colour blind and if it doesnt become a mongrel kick ahead its a perfect kick out of bounds.
Im just sick to death of getting my hopes up and then having to accept that *smile* perfomance, ok we fought back... big deal the game was long gone by then.
our best 2 players tonight was kane johnson and matthew richardson. the young guys newman and zantuck learnt tonight a lesson in what happens if your not maning up on your respective opponent and can only get better from that experiance.
We were seriously undermanned but when does that excuse begin to wear a bit thin? I love the richmond footy club to death but last nights performance i feel i was cheated.
We need to bounce back this week against sydney and *smile* that stupid "cant win after the week in perth" bull crap statistic thats floating around at the moment, and the tigers to bounce back after once again everyone has written us off.
