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PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
This is the biggest post I've ever done and I won't do it again. I now have mobile phone mutant thumb.
The 2 marks after every potted assessment mean----
2008: how important the player is to the RFC winning a game out of 10
2011: the likelihood the player will still be with us out of 10
Feel free to chuck rocks.
1.NEWMAN - Has gradually become a fairly solid AFL player.Capable of really hurting the opposition with scorching right foot delivery and goalsense, however it doesn't really seem to happen that often.Many possessions gathered the Bowden way.OK overhead.Body shape is truly AFL standard.If he keeps going as is will fade to become just another average Richmond player.Let's see where the VC duties take him. A could do better.
2008: 7 2011: 6
2.THURSFIELD - Footy smarts galore.Classical spoiling technique. Solid kicking. Has recovered superbly from knee.
Never gonna be nasty. Plays in a scruplelessly fair manner.Is that a good thing? Still thin. I'm a fan.
2008: 8 2011: 9
3. DELEDIO - So who's nervous? Does he have IT or doesn't he? Drifted in and out of last season but finished off wellish. Had a broken hand too. Yeah, look, we'll see won't we.
2008: 7 2011: 9
4. RAINES - I never really thought running straight at a bunch of players full on getting tackled and watching the ball spill out luckily or not is really, really what we should be after in a player.I thought that this might have been his one trick in 2006 and certainly he tread water a tad in 2007.Still learning, could come on, maybe not.I've never worked out what the fuss is about. 2008: 4 2011: 6
5.SIMMONDS - We paid over the odds, got about 15 good games out of it before last year happened. Like we all are I hope for a 110% return to form, but Naitanui can't come fast enough for me.
2008: 9 2011: 6
6.POLAK - Can take a very very strong mark.And, he can...errr...don't tell me...ummm...nah I've got it, wait...ummmm....he's tall! Nah that's not it...ummm...someting about CHF right...???....
2008: 7 2011: 1
7. BROWN -We have most likely seen the best of this one.7 or 8 games in 2005 of sheer genius.I'm sure he's got some good footy left,but at that insane level? Here's hoping.
2008: 9 2011: 4
8.REIWOLDT - CHB? Too slow and short for the forward line simple as that. Probably has what it takes to be a good CHB. Early days. Will probably take a massive hanger at some stage this year.
2008: 3 2011: 8
9. COTCHIN - Highly rated untried teenager.
2008: 2 2011: 9
10. EDWARDS -My top 3 highlights of 2007 all came from Edwards.The Thomas baulk would be AFL folklore let alone Richmond had he kicked the goal.The screamer and goal against ummm STK(?).And a brilliant fake of 2 Ess players which sent both of them the other way as Edwards turned for home only to find guess who Richo also fooled by the same movement and he crashes hnto our man ending the fun. Almost every time he gets it (about 8 times a game at the moment) something extraordinary seems to happen. A screamer. An outrageous baulk. A wicked lookaway handball.And misses everything from 10m out. Possibly playing a completely different game to everyone else. More please.
2008: 4 2011: 9
11.BOWDEN - Yeah we all know the drill. I have a question though. Is there any other player in league footy who is as good a player as Joel is supposed to be, that is capable of playing as poorly as Joel sometimes does? Would still frustrate at a good side I spose.
2008: 9 2011: 4
12. RICHO - Aaaah, ya big lug! Hurry up and retire so we can get on with our lives will ya.
2008: 8 2011: 4
13. SANCHEZ - Gotta keep the name.I've seen virtually nothing of this guy. Any good? Hard as nails skilled ballwinner? Riccuto type?
2008: 5 2011: 5
14.POLO - Plenty of players have bounced back from lapsed second seasons and gone on to be good players.And plenty haven't. This is where it is for Dean right now.Get on with it and become a solid 100+ gamer in a mostly run with capacity but capable of hurting teams going the other way. Or go back to the farm.
2008: 5 2011: 5
15. PATHETTITRIFIEDIFER - I'm gonna say something pretty controversial here, hold on to your hats. Kane P is a better player than Nick Daffy.And how about this one, under the right circumstances could have a 9 goal game.And sure, much like Daffy, I'd like to kick the living sh!t out of him.I think it's the hair.
2008: 7 2011: 6
16.McG - A VFL footballer's brains and skill trapped in an AFL footballer's athleticism. Attempting to make up for having no idea at all by having the reddest of hot goes.Seriously, we've gotta do better than this.
2008: 4 2011: 0
17.JOHNSON - I'm not on board the hysterical worst captain ever wagon.Had some ordinary moments last year but also did many things most of our players wouldn't be capable of.And had a broken hand. Lot of that going round.
2008: 7 2011: 0
18. RANCE - See Cotchin. 2008: 5 2011: 9
19. PUTT - See Rance.
2008: 0 2011: 7
20. MORTON - Oooh dear. I've got a bad feeling about this.So can anyone tell us exactly why WC let him go? sh!t we may as well go with "See Putt" if it wasn't for all the negative press.Has shown precisely sweet-F nothing at the higher level and yet is expected to play 22 games by many.Go figure.
2008: 5 2011: 3
21.TUCK - A hard man, a tough man, perhaps our only true ON baller, and yet again typically lacking a core ingredient to make him a really formidable talent; class.Should get a heap of it at any rate.Lets hope he's fully fit. 2008: 9 2011: 7
22.MEYER - Next.
2008: 0 2011: 0
23.JACKSON - I still can't completely work out why this guy is playing AFL.He doesn't really do anything particulary well, and yet on occaison in short bursts has looked thoroughly competent.Big solid guy,shouldn't he have like,more muscles? And swear?
2008: 7 2011: 6
24. COGS - Without ever having any prodigous talent, Cogs at his best is the only regular 30+ possy RFC footballer I can remember (Wayne Cambpell I never really thought of as a footballer,more like a chiuwawa with a moptop).2 knees.2.C'mon, what are his odds now,really?
2008: 9 2011: 4
25. I KNOW NAAASSSZING! - Lazy,unfit,slow,intimidated by his own team mates and uninterested in 1%ers.Yeah nah but he's a tall give him 2 more years.
2008: 2 2011: 0
26.PATTISON - Had a steep learning curve thrust upon him and did ok. Wants to play.Getting to know his limitations. Benny Gale written all over him.
2008: 7 2011: 7
27. COLLARD - Rookie.Rumors of zero work ethic and supreme unfitness.I'll believe he's a player when I see it.
2008: 2 2011: 4
29.JON - Would have been cut from most lists by now.Attitude and pet project status draw another salary.Has about a 10% chance of making it.Give BALCO a call.
2008: 0 2011: 0
30.TAMBLING - Where to start? Started getting himself into some positions to take fearful knocks later in the year.Still didn't emerge with the ball too often but it's a start I spose.I just don't think he knows how to play very well.He'll get it,try to run around a bloke who can't be run around,or take it off a spill and you think right here's your chance and instead he gives off an innocuous handball. He can play a bit,sure.The odd goal,hanger. But we still maybe looking at one of the biggest cases of misspent underage wraps of all time.FWIW I reckon he's got about 20% improvement left,which makes him a smaller faster Pettifer.But I don't wanna punch him up.
2008: 7 2011: 7
31.HYDE - Thin,slowish flanker with almost no tricks.Almost ranks as a senior player at RFC.
2008: 5 2011: 0
32.TIVENDALE - You know that he reminds me of Dean Kemp.But you don't have to worry about Titters THAT much do you.That left foot is pretty though.Will finish career with us. Not sure when.
2008: 7 2011: 0
33.GOURDIS - Moderately rated junior tall.Pacey.
2008: 2 2011: 6
34.HUGHES - I guess we are not playing Coburg magoos for nothing,right? Has talent apparently. Who knows?
2008: 5 2011: 4
35.WHITE - Has been injured I think? Looked ok in that so long ago initial burst of games. Not a world beater type but may make it.
2008: 4 2011: 6
36.SILVESTER - Rookie. Big bodied mature aged insurance.Hope he knows as much about footy as Jake King.
2008: 5 2011: 2
37. CASSERLY - Untried running kicking marking type. Injury prone?
2008: 2 2011: ?
38.CARTLEDGE - Rookie ruck insurance.
2008: 5 2011: 2
39.CONNORS - The most footbally looking footballer on our list for ages.I'm more sure about this guy making it than Deledio.Will be found in pool of own vomit at some stage.Can play.
2008: 6 2011: 9
40.MOORE - We are the only club with the biblical reserves of patience required to get a player to the stage where they show just enough promise to possibly come 7th in the JJ Liston medal but we throw another contract at them anyway.Feels like he's been there since about 1986.
2008: 4 2011: 2
41.FOLEY - A pleasure watching him become a player through sheer force of will.Needs a mate. 2008: 9 2011: 9
42.COLLINS - 2nd year untried.
2008: 2 2011: 5
43.HOWAT - Fit enough, delivers the pill well,so umm, why exactly hasn't he made it yet? Something about uncontested vs contested somethhngorother....
2008: 5 2011: 2
44.GRAHAM - Project ruck. Good attitude.The distance to Jupiter to go.
2008: 7 2011: 5
46. DIRTY LITTLE JAKEY KING - Knows more about football than half the side combined and I mean the older half.Has about 196 games left in his current role.Wish he was a bit bigger.Loved,laaaaarved his ignoring of Richo's lead I think in the Coll game so he could hit Deledio.You could almost see Jake's eyes roll back in his head as Richo did his usual sour puss and half dummy spit.
2008: 8 2011: 8
The 2 marks after every potted assessment mean----
2008: how important the player is to the RFC winning a game out of 10
2011: the likelihood the player will still be with us out of 10
Feel free to chuck rocks.
1.NEWMAN - Has gradually become a fairly solid AFL player.Capable of really hurting the opposition with scorching right foot delivery and goalsense, however it doesn't really seem to happen that often.Many possessions gathered the Bowden way.OK overhead.Body shape is truly AFL standard.If he keeps going as is will fade to become just another average Richmond player.Let's see where the VC duties take him. A could do better.
2008: 7 2011: 6
2.THURSFIELD - Footy smarts galore.Classical spoiling technique. Solid kicking. Has recovered superbly from knee.
Never gonna be nasty. Plays in a scruplelessly fair manner.Is that a good thing? Still thin. I'm a fan.
2008: 8 2011: 9
3. DELEDIO - So who's nervous? Does he have IT or doesn't he? Drifted in and out of last season but finished off wellish. Had a broken hand too. Yeah, look, we'll see won't we.
2008: 7 2011: 9
4. RAINES - I never really thought running straight at a bunch of players full on getting tackled and watching the ball spill out luckily or not is really, really what we should be after in a player.I thought that this might have been his one trick in 2006 and certainly he tread water a tad in 2007.Still learning, could come on, maybe not.I've never worked out what the fuss is about. 2008: 4 2011: 6
5.SIMMONDS - We paid over the odds, got about 15 good games out of it before last year happened. Like we all are I hope for a 110% return to form, but Naitanui can't come fast enough for me.
2008: 9 2011: 6
6.POLAK - Can take a very very strong mark.And, he can...errr...don't tell me...ummm...nah I've got it, wait...ummmm....he's tall! Nah that's not it...ummm...someting about CHF right...???....
2008: 7 2011: 1
7. BROWN -We have most likely seen the best of this one.7 or 8 games in 2005 of sheer genius.I'm sure he's got some good footy left,but at that insane level? Here's hoping.
2008: 9 2011: 4
8.REIWOLDT - CHB? Too slow and short for the forward line simple as that. Probably has what it takes to be a good CHB. Early days. Will probably take a massive hanger at some stage this year.
2008: 3 2011: 8
9. COTCHIN - Highly rated untried teenager.
2008: 2 2011: 9
10. EDWARDS -My top 3 highlights of 2007 all came from Edwards.The Thomas baulk would be AFL folklore let alone Richmond had he kicked the goal.The screamer and goal against ummm STK(?).And a brilliant fake of 2 Ess players which sent both of them the other way as Edwards turned for home only to find guess who Richo also fooled by the same movement and he crashes hnto our man ending the fun. Almost every time he gets it (about 8 times a game at the moment) something extraordinary seems to happen. A screamer. An outrageous baulk. A wicked lookaway handball.And misses everything from 10m out. Possibly playing a completely different game to everyone else. More please.
2008: 4 2011: 9
11.BOWDEN - Yeah we all know the drill. I have a question though. Is there any other player in league footy who is as good a player as Joel is supposed to be, that is capable of playing as poorly as Joel sometimes does? Would still frustrate at a good side I spose.
2008: 9 2011: 4
12. RICHO - Aaaah, ya big lug! Hurry up and retire so we can get on with our lives will ya.
2008: 8 2011: 4
13. SANCHEZ - Gotta keep the name.I've seen virtually nothing of this guy. Any good? Hard as nails skilled ballwinner? Riccuto type?
2008: 5 2011: 5
14.POLO - Plenty of players have bounced back from lapsed second seasons and gone on to be good players.And plenty haven't. This is where it is for Dean right now.Get on with it and become a solid 100+ gamer in a mostly run with capacity but capable of hurting teams going the other way. Or go back to the farm.
2008: 5 2011: 5
15. PATHETTITRIFIEDIFER - I'm gonna say something pretty controversial here, hold on to your hats. Kane P is a better player than Nick Daffy.And how about this one, under the right circumstances could have a 9 goal game.And sure, much like Daffy, I'd like to kick the living sh!t out of him.I think it's the hair.
2008: 7 2011: 6
16.McG - A VFL footballer's brains and skill trapped in an AFL footballer's athleticism. Attempting to make up for having no idea at all by having the reddest of hot goes.Seriously, we've gotta do better than this.
2008: 4 2011: 0
17.JOHNSON - I'm not on board the hysterical worst captain ever wagon.Had some ordinary moments last year but also did many things most of our players wouldn't be capable of.And had a broken hand. Lot of that going round.
2008: 7 2011: 0
18. RANCE - See Cotchin. 2008: 5 2011: 9
19. PUTT - See Rance.
2008: 0 2011: 7
20. MORTON - Oooh dear. I've got a bad feeling about this.So can anyone tell us exactly why WC let him go? sh!t we may as well go with "See Putt" if it wasn't for all the negative press.Has shown precisely sweet-F nothing at the higher level and yet is expected to play 22 games by many.Go figure.
2008: 5 2011: 3
21.TUCK - A hard man, a tough man, perhaps our only true ON baller, and yet again typically lacking a core ingredient to make him a really formidable talent; class.Should get a heap of it at any rate.Lets hope he's fully fit. 2008: 9 2011: 7
22.MEYER - Next.
2008: 0 2011: 0
23.JACKSON - I still can't completely work out why this guy is playing AFL.He doesn't really do anything particulary well, and yet on occaison in short bursts has looked thoroughly competent.Big solid guy,shouldn't he have like,more muscles? And swear?
2008: 7 2011: 6
24. COGS - Without ever having any prodigous talent, Cogs at his best is the only regular 30+ possy RFC footballer I can remember (Wayne Cambpell I never really thought of as a footballer,more like a chiuwawa with a moptop).2 knees.2.C'mon, what are his odds now,really?
2008: 9 2011: 4
25. I KNOW NAAASSSZING! - Lazy,unfit,slow,intimidated by his own team mates and uninterested in 1%ers.Yeah nah but he's a tall give him 2 more years.
2008: 2 2011: 0
26.PATTISON - Had a steep learning curve thrust upon him and did ok. Wants to play.Getting to know his limitations. Benny Gale written all over him.
2008: 7 2011: 7
27. COLLARD - Rookie.Rumors of zero work ethic and supreme unfitness.I'll believe he's a player when I see it.
2008: 2 2011: 4
29.JON - Would have been cut from most lists by now.Attitude and pet project status draw another salary.Has about a 10% chance of making it.Give BALCO a call.
2008: 0 2011: 0
30.TAMBLING - Where to start? Started getting himself into some positions to take fearful knocks later in the year.Still didn't emerge with the ball too often but it's a start I spose.I just don't think he knows how to play very well.He'll get it,try to run around a bloke who can't be run around,or take it off a spill and you think right here's your chance and instead he gives off an innocuous handball. He can play a bit,sure.The odd goal,hanger. But we still maybe looking at one of the biggest cases of misspent underage wraps of all time.FWIW I reckon he's got about 20% improvement left,which makes him a smaller faster Pettifer.But I don't wanna punch him up.
2008: 7 2011: 7
31.HYDE - Thin,slowish flanker with almost no tricks.Almost ranks as a senior player at RFC.
2008: 5 2011: 0
32.TIVENDALE - You know that he reminds me of Dean Kemp.But you don't have to worry about Titters THAT much do you.That left foot is pretty though.Will finish career with us. Not sure when.
2008: 7 2011: 0
33.GOURDIS - Moderately rated junior tall.Pacey.
2008: 2 2011: 6
34.HUGHES - I guess we are not playing Coburg magoos for nothing,right? Has talent apparently. Who knows?
2008: 5 2011: 4
35.WHITE - Has been injured I think? Looked ok in that so long ago initial burst of games. Not a world beater type but may make it.
2008: 4 2011: 6
36.SILVESTER - Rookie. Big bodied mature aged insurance.Hope he knows as much about footy as Jake King.
2008: 5 2011: 2
37. CASSERLY - Untried running kicking marking type. Injury prone?
2008: 2 2011: ?
38.CARTLEDGE - Rookie ruck insurance.
2008: 5 2011: 2
39.CONNORS - The most footbally looking footballer on our list for ages.I'm more sure about this guy making it than Deledio.Will be found in pool of own vomit at some stage.Can play.
2008: 6 2011: 9
40.MOORE - We are the only club with the biblical reserves of patience required to get a player to the stage where they show just enough promise to possibly come 7th in the JJ Liston medal but we throw another contract at them anyway.Feels like he's been there since about 1986.
2008: 4 2011: 2
41.FOLEY - A pleasure watching him become a player through sheer force of will.Needs a mate. 2008: 9 2011: 9
42.COLLINS - 2nd year untried.
2008: 2 2011: 5
43.HOWAT - Fit enough, delivers the pill well,so umm, why exactly hasn't he made it yet? Something about uncontested vs contested somethhngorother....
2008: 5 2011: 2
44.GRAHAM - Project ruck. Good attitude.The distance to Jupiter to go.
2008: 7 2011: 5
46. DIRTY LITTLE JAKEY KING - Knows more about football than half the side combined and I mean the older half.Has about 196 games left in his current role.Wish he was a bit bigger.Loved,laaaaarved his ignoring of Richo's lead I think in the Coll game so he could hit Deledio.You could almost see Jake's eyes roll back in his head as Richo did his usual sour puss and half dummy spit.
2008: 8 2011: 8