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Rd 6 2016 Game Day Thread
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asian tetley said:
Its a *smile* mans game. Sick of all this political correct crap that we have to be good corporate citizens and have a women in charge. The fact is she signed up in signing hardwick for two years. Tine for a civil war and get rid of her and Gale. All they give a *smile* about is wining tge membrship ladder
Deledio, Edwards, Rioli, Menadue have pace but no one else showed any tonight. Most were getting caught, crowded, spoiled, just not quick enough or skilled enough to get the ball out of congestion. What happened to their plan for getting pacey mids who can kick?
asian tetley said:
Errr...do you, or Nero, know, other than by virtue of her office, whether she had much involvement in that decision. Was a Presidential Edict sent to the footy department that "by order of the president Hardwick must be re-signed"? What a bunch of crap. Were you questioning March when we were crap?
diggler said:
See, that's how you man up and admit you're a misogynistic dinosaur who loves to give the prez a smack just for being a sheila. Big ups Diggler. :clap
tigermike said:
It felt like the first time I've seen a Hardwick coached Richmond that didn't play to final siren. It's damning if true.
Yep i admit it. And she takes my blame for the most idiotic decision to sign up a coach after 3 finals failures for 2 more years. When no other clubs wanted him. Now if we sack him early it stays in our cap. Any wonder we are the laughing stock of the comp because of these moronic decision.KnightersRevenge said:
Rather have Caro in charge. At lease she has a profile and balls.
I think our game plan is completely broken. You don't just drop off that quickly. Opposition know to pressure us hard and we will crumble. 99 tackles by Port tonight. They know we are slow on the rebound. Rucks and back line particularly slow. We are predictable, so predictable the opposition reacts to where the ball is going to go next before we do. Scary thing is Port, who aren't a great side atm, were on average a year younger per player than us and had 17 players with less than 100 games under their belt to our 12. Look at the ladder right now, who would we beat on current form. Maybe Brisbane on a bad day and maybe Essendon. Worst thing after 6 rounds is we still haven't played 6 of the current top 7 sides. The run is over, I can't see anything but a rebuild from here. Harsh but I think true.
Went to VFL game as well as AFL game and similarities were startling - no definable game plan; lack of effort; lack of intensity; skill errors galore; underachieving players with some completely giving up in the end.
Seriously there's no coming back this year - list not good enough and have been exposed. Time to overhaul entire football operation. Massive turnover needed in recruiting, player development and coaching.
Chaplin & Maric are gone - Father Time has caught up with both; like quite a few others Hampson simply isn't good enough; Astbury too easily beaten and keeps dropping marks he gets hands to; Vickery useless as stated on his thread; Batchelor too slow and so on and so on.
This year it'll take our top 6 to star to be competitive let alone win games.
Thought Corey Ellis was good and Brandon Ellis rediscovered his gut running in the second half. Deledio looked ok first up & Jack tried hard against the odds. Houli, Miles and Grigg did what I'd expect from mature age, solid AFL players and that's it - nothing else to mention.
Seriously there's no coming back this year - list not good enough and have been exposed. Time to overhaul entire football operation. Massive turnover needed in recruiting, player development and coaching.
Chaplin & Maric are gone - Father Time has caught up with both; like quite a few others Hampson simply isn't good enough; Astbury too easily beaten and keeps dropping marks he gets hands to; Vickery useless as stated on his thread; Batchelor too slow and so on and so on.
This year it'll take our top 6 to star to be competitive let alone win games.
Thought Corey Ellis was good and Brandon Ellis rediscovered his gut running in the second half. Deledio looked ok first up & Jack tried hard against the odds. Houli, Miles and Grigg did what I'd expect from mature age, solid AFL players and that's it - nothing else to mention.
tigerlove said:
Yep. Team selection from hereforth should be based on next years round 1 probables. The 2017 campaign begins now.
I never played footy. At any level. So my comments are only from watching the game. What stands out to me, and has been a feature of Hardwick's tenure. Is that we don't set up at stoppages to attack the goals. We look to get it to Cotch in tight and then look to transfer it out by hand through 2 or 3 players before we kick it long. Port tonight, and most othe r "good" sides seem to set up with a good inside player but with multiple running options to take it away from the contest.
When Healy kept talking about Richmond looking slow I believe this is what he was seeing. We set up stationary players at different levels while our oppontents are already on the move. That is why they break tackles. It is much easier to break a tahkle when the tackler is stationary and the tacklee is on the move.
Ditto the turnovers. Dimma is confused about why we leak goals on turnover. Same reason. Moving players can change direction quicker and jump higher and have more impact than stationary ones. But that is about confidence and trusting your teammates. When do you see Rance, Jack, Martin stationary? Rance looks so good because he always backs himself. But the list as a whole have lost confidence. So they play to a zone and hold their position while our oppontents run around us like witches hats.
When Healy kept talking about Richmond looking slow I believe this is what he was seeing. We set up stationary players at different levels while our oppontents are already on the move. That is why they break tackles. It is much easier to break a tahkle when the tackler is stationary and the tacklee is on the move.
Ditto the turnovers. Dimma is confused about why we leak goals on turnover. Same reason. Moving players can change direction quicker and jump higher and have more impact than stationary ones. But that is about confidence and trusting your teammates. When do you see Rance, Jack, Martin stationary? Rance looks so good because he always backs himself. But the list as a whole have lost confidence. So they play to a zone and hold their position while our oppontents run around us like witches hats.
One thing I noticed in both the VFL game and the AFL game was that our tall forwards play way too close to each other. Griff, McBean and Chol in the VFL were keeping a structure less than 10m apart. Same wit lh Jack, Vickery and Hampson/Maric.
No wonder we have no space in our forward line
No wonder we have no space in our forward line
Tigers2011 said:
Shouldn't be surprising. This is the Richmond Way. Both Hardwick and McRae have mentioned it.