Murphy at both ends of that play as I recall....
He played well,
BUT we need the mongrel element from an on field leader that I alluded to above. It's lacking atm.

Go you good things

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

The fact he played several very good games last year and deserved his B&F isn't really the point. Focusing on the word "cooked" also really is t the point.

Several people believe his game last night was poor. 1 tackle for the game. Compared to the rest of the midfield of Cripps 7, Dow 5, SPS 5, Curnow 4. He got 20+ disposals but none stand out in my mind as damaging.

He's our captain. He will bounce back. He will finish well again in the B&F. But he had a poor game last night.

Wright finished with the goal. Murph was in the chain in the middle. Fish with the long damaging kick to Wright.

Murph is best 22. He's best 10. He's our leader. Not the type on the field we all want but the club reappoints him every year for good reason. He's not perfect but he's ours.

And yet the players and coaching staff select him as Captain!!. I wonder whose judgement is based on fact rather than opinion.

Cotchin one was glaringly obvious, pro-Richmond commentary team glossed over it.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Nothing in the rules that says you can't back into your opponent. Its just that usually it is a backman doing it to a forward. And for those with football smarts there are easy ways to get around this.
Jones needs to curb his enthusiasm just a little or better give some of it to Weitering.

We were expected to get smashed, and may have snuck a win if not for injuries.

Jack Riewoldt is a flog.
I'm already tired of the commentators fapping over Martin. Circle jerk every time he fends someone off but completely ignore him giving Thomas a two handed shove in the back into a marking contest.

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It's interesting. Because handballing is one of the easier skills, but we do seem to miss a lot more than we should. I assume that's partly adjusting to the new style of play.

We should have lost that game by 10 goals or more.

We allowed a team to have 71 inside 50’s (AFL average is 51)
The tigers had 16 more scoring shots
28 scoring shots to 13 after quarter time
We kicked 7 goals from free kicks

If it weren’t for that first 5 minute goal blitz and the Tigers not kicking straight it would have been close to 100 points.

Charlie was a positive and so to Marchbank.
Cripps is a gun and I like the Kennedy and Cripps combo in the guts.
SPS was good early. Clean hands
I like that attacking style of play but it comes at a cost. Teams with speed will destroy us

Jack is a liability. Pickett takes his spot
Weitering is not a one on one defender. Marchbank has taken his role as that intercept defender.
Luck of pace off half back is a major problem.
2 veterans were out better players

I've never quite understood why it works this way. But some players, like Rance, are basically allowed to do whatever they like. I think it's partly about reputation. But also just about how certain players 'look'. They look like 'fair' players. And so any hint of contact against them, and they get a free. But they're allowed to make as much contact with other players as they like.

Half agree.
Rance would have wiped his arse with Weitering.

Umpiring to reputation has been a thing for as long as I can remember.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Hmmm ... it should have been a 10 goal win to Richmond.

We played too tall down the back ... and once again could not stick our tackles. We need more speed in the side.

Oh yea ... terrible decision making.

Nonetheless, without injuries we would have been a lot closer.



Curnow bog imo. Cripps fantastic.

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I am as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!!!

Seen this posted a couple of times and genuinely wondering why.
If it's because they were inaccurate in front of goal and had lots more forward 50 entries, then that's just bad footy and terrible efficiency.

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Lots to like. Certainly wasn't disappointed.

Some younger players had poor games, but it's only round 1, they'll bounce back.

Some younger players had absolutely outstanding and even breakout games...this is the exciting part.

Bring on next week, hopefully injuries aren't too bad across the board because I think there'll be a lot of pleasing viewing this season.

Oh yeah, just wanted to add that Grigg is a shit truck and it makes me embarrassed for the AFL as a whole that he's a premiership player.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

.

Definitely a conversation we had last night, "worst premiership midfielder ever" was thrown around. Also it was a difficult decision for us to decide who was the worse Brownlow winner, Cotchin or Woewodin

Are you trying to justify your embarrassing prediction from earlier in the week?
Once again, you are demonstrating that you have no idea about the game. You cant disregard our first 5 goals.
Going by your logic, if it weren't for Richmond kicking their goals we would have won by 80 points.

FMD, I read some stupid stuff from football supporters but we have more than our share of uninformed nuffies as well.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.