Blue Sombrero wrote:
Most of what I would have said has been said already but I would like to add to a comment someone made about Dusty Martin.
After the soft 50m penalties we were pinged for, there was one where Murphy had a free in the middle and a scuffle ensued. When it was all over and the crowd had dispersed, Murphy was getting up and Dusty went back and had another go at him right in front of the umpire.
Now if entering the prohibited area is a 50m penalty, going into it and giving the recipient of the free a decent couple of shoves into the ground as an added bonus should be worth one.
Dusty is a protected species. The commentators even mentioned at on stage how he covered the ground to get involved in another scuffle later in the game to stand up for his team mates. That's OK, but last week in the praccy match when Doc did it, he had a free reversed.
I rarely bag the umps but their lack of consistency regarding the actions of some players, and Dusty is one of them, is pretty glaring.
I was fuming at the end of the first. it was all too easy and our back 6 looked completely lost as the goals came so easily and from close in.
I was fuming at half time at how we had wasted 15 minutes of the quarter to let it slip away in the last three or four.
I felt better at three quarter time when we decided to run the footy instead of bombing it to the defensive sweeper, which seems to have been a tactic of ours for a generation.
I felt nothing at the end because in my mind I can't see this season being anything more than a debacle from the perspctive of the AFL and the danger it poses to the viability of many clubs, one of which may be ours.
Someone posted above, take Reiwoldt, Lynch and Rioli our of Richmond and see how they go. That's us and we went OK apart from about 20 minutes.
I feel for Kreuzer but IMO we are going to b better without him going forward. The Dogs have Tim English, who is a young, mobile jumper and TDK should be more able to run with him and jump against him.
Enough has been said about the good and not so good contributions of the various players. I just hope we get to see an improvement against the Dogs. They are a good outfit when on song.
I also noticed after one of the melees Martin got up and carefully kicked Plowman (who was lying on the ground) all around the head while he pretend to stumble over him.