We kept Richmond to 1 goal in each of three quarters of football, the third quarter cost us dearly, we need to play 4 quarters.

Had so many players make absolute howlers in clutch moments wasn’t funny - O’Brien should have kicked it out to McKay far earlier.

Can someone get Bruce Doull down to the club to train our defenders in spoiling to advantage- also need to increase our game awareness in tight situations where a deft tap rather than trying to take possession would be far better.

Still trying to work out how we contrived a draw.

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Just saw the last two minutes. For all the scapegoating we love to do here, if H hadn't slipped we'd be saying what a brilliant play by LOB to run down valuable seconds and split the defence for H to give us a winning lead. Just shit outta luck again. But following the score on the phone, it felt like a game we were inevitably going to get overrun in. But we weren't. Also, I'm not too worried about a scrappy start. Geelong halved their first 10 games last year, didn't they? Or 8. Point is, the top teams pace themselves, and we peaked early last year. Tonight was OK.

Looking back….

we really were lucky to get 2 points in the
end…!

didn’t play anything like last year…!

so it’s much better than nothing…but…!


kindest regards tommi






Guts churning…!

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Correct, but too many peanuts watching on TV didn't see it. H ran his absolute guts out into space. Unfortunately had to double back because lob decided to keep running instead of passing

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Watching on TV makes you a peanut?

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Thank you, very measured post

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187cm’s…!


kindest regards tommi

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Not at all, but many missed the lead up to the kick and the position Harry was in.

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Spot on.

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Congratulations CK95

To take our kick outs?

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This!!!!

Harry pretty much had the whole 50 to himself!!!

I blame Ed Sheeran for Harry falling over

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Read through the entire thread. A lot of negativity. Richmond are a solid team. They came at us hard and we held on. Probably should have won. Probably should lost too. Reckon the Richmond fans would be lamenting the result just as much as we are. The karma bus smacking that little smart arse suck Bolton was delightful.

Cowan and Hollands looked a little out of their depth at times. Tough initiation, but they'll be better for it.

Richmond fans compete with Essendon* fans for dumbest in the league. Learn the @#$%&! rules you morons.

Young I thought played a great game. Weiters got beaten on the night. I feel like everyone had some good moments but all had some poor ones too.

We also had a lot of passengers.
Fisher. I thought he must have been injured.
Martin. Mostly did nothing.
Sosos. Not much either.
Charlie. Got 3 but thought he lowered his colours on the night.
Acres. Needs to be better than that. Just Newnes mark ii.

Ultimately mistakes cost us but they also cost them. Draw seems about right. Hopefully better for the run

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Hmmm….

he did that against Colon-Woods in the practice
game…guess he wanted to try it again…!

again…it wasn’t one person…just thought the
whole team was flat…yet…2 points…!

that can’t be bad…!

the Captain was flat…many things weren’t right…
yet 2 points…!

we’d be feeling MUCH worse if we didn’t get
those 2 points…imagine that…!

kindest regards tommi

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There where amounts of good and bad tonight. Motlop looked improved. The new guys did OK, but Acres needs to do a bit more quickly. Though LOB looked promising in what he can bring. I thought Gov. also looks like he might be handy this year. Martin, fisher and cripps where unusually quiet, but hope they are warmed up now and bring it next week. One thing that I hope can be improved on is Young,,, When he picks up the ball, if he isn't sure what's around him he just sinks the boot into it and only looks at his foot. It usually goes straight to opposition. I don't understand why he needs to look at his foot. If he looks downfield instead, he will see there is an opposition player alone where he is going to kick it and can do something different so we dont at least 100% turn the ball over... Also, he rarely keeps with his forward opponent while on a lead. He's usually a mile behind. Opposition defenders wear our forwards like a glove and even double team us. Jacob can be a bit panicky with the no look kick from full back areas too.... hoping that can improve because he does have potential and also does good things already. It's just some of the back line fundamentals he doesn't abide by for some reason.. And it does cost us a few goals on a regular basis. Anyway, I enjoyed a close game where we didn't loose though so can't complain.. just really hoping he will read this and it will stop happening sometime this season. Lol

Something has changed dramatically. I can’t say what as I’m not good with analysing the games and I don’t get to see them live but we held them to 16 in a half of football and apart from those 3 quick goals in the third, Richmond just could not score freely.

It’s also easy to see there were some glaringly obvious mistakes from individuals that cost us and not the system.

Charlie and Harry got better as the game went on and that’s going to lead into next week.
McGovern hasn’t had enough match play so expect him to be better for it next week also. He was eye catching in both a good way and a bad way tonight.

I’m a little frustrated …frustrated we didn’t get any free flowing exciting footy.

It’s bigger picture stuff. I look forward to next week.

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Ordinary game

Although, expectation is both teams can only get better

My concern about ball movement is still valid

We move it too slowly and rely too heavily on Curnow and McKay for big marks

Need an injection of speed in the midfield

Desperately need a third marking forward for the hit up

Martin is too unreliable

Not sure what we do with Fisher. He has stagnated since his first year. Fortunate to be getting games.

This game reminds me of the last game against Collingwood last year all we needed was a point for a draw and kicked it out of bounds on the full. Against Richmond all we needed was a point to get the win and LOB kicks it to Harry who is surrounded by Richmond players. It seems that we have a lot of players that lack situational awareness and make poor judgement calls at the end of close games. That's an area that needs vast improvement as those close losses last year kept us from making the eight.

Funny/not funny, a draw in Rd 23 would have gotten us into the finals.

True. If Acres had held that mark, we'd probably have won too. Always a lot of what ifs in a close/drawn game.

I think a lot of us just really needed a win last night after the horror ending to last year, hence the frothing.