keogh wrote:
bondiblue wrote:
bluechampion wrote:
It was a frustrating win, but it wasn't dire.
Richmond wanted to win - to make up for last week. They came out ready to go.
Also, we struggle with them and their style of play at the best of times.
They got three good players back, and had a little early help from the umps.
But we still won. We should have won by more, but you could see it wasn't due to a lack of effort on our part. If anything some of them were trying *too* hard - too hard to move the ball quickly, to play to instruction, to bring other players in, to turn a 50/50 shot at goal into a certainty. And because of Richmond's pressure, they made mistakes.
But we still won.
Well said.
Like last week, all we wanted was the 4 points, and the boys delievered. Winning all of the last 6 close games shows character and belief from the 23 selected.
We have 6 best players missing through injury/ suspension, and we should appreciate the challenge our developing young players are prepared to take on, and deliver.
We are winning without our best 23 on the ground, proving the depth in the list is good regardless of all the Plowman like vitriol young developing players like Young, Kemp, Carroll, Durdin and Ollie have copped from yesterday's game. Unbelievable to think some of these young men were heroes last week in our historic win at the Gabba, and Durdin came in as a sub for his first hit out of the year.
We won. Tigers lost. Thank god.
In last year's draw Lynch kicked 3 goals 3 behinds against Weitering. He outmarked Weiters several times. The year before Lynch kicked 3 goals against Weiters in a loss.
Lynch is an AA. He's kicked bags of 7 and 8 goals against Jones and Weitering when at the GCS. The umpires gifted Lynch 2 first quarter goals, and 194cm 100kg Balta going full face, whilst turning Young was able to break Young's stretched arms in an attempt to tackle and kicked a goal. Tackling against the odds happens to every player. It wasn't pathetic, it was footy. It was great play by Balta.
If someone was to tell me Lynch would kick 2 goals against Young from 2 free kicks (one against Rioli
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and the other against TDK and another by Balta, I would take that in a blink. I thought Young was good and glad to have him developing on our list. Yetserday's game was great for his and Kempy's development. Carroll might not have a right foot, but he's showing signs he could be something. They all did OK to help us win.
We learn and we move forward.
Richmond won the clearances contested possession and turn over
We won but we’re very lucky
As usual umpiring favored the Tiggies according to some
That’s bullshit
In fact Carlton had 7 more free kicks
The 50 DeKoning got was debatable
The bottom line is all supporters should realise deep down that no game is a gimmy They can bang on about how they are going to smash the opposition
But it’s manufactured blind faith
We still must improve our ability to cause turnovers and score from them
We rely too much on winning stoppages and contested possession
Richmond lacked the polish of the better teams but were a bit unlucky on Thursday night
Good post keogh
I know most people like to use the word luck, but I dont believe in luck in footy.
The bounce of the ball...some can judge it, some can't. Jezza was a master.
The ball goes anywhere because of its shape and physics; not luck.
Umpire mistakes or bias are mistakes or bias; not luck.
A mark sticks on the end of finger tips is a mark; not luck.
The game is about millimetres. We all know thay.
Tht's why 1 percenters are so important.
We use to lose close games because we weren't good enough.
We have won our last 6 gams by a goal or less, because we were good enough.
We have matured. We have learned the lesson.
wayne carey on x said
Quote:
“Everyone wants blues to win including umpires”.
after the 50 metre penalty that led to a goals.
Article in Herald sun made it clear
Quote:
But both sides benefited from questionable umpiring calls. A pair of soft free kicks gifted Richmond spearhead Tom Lynch two straightforward goals to help the Tigers stay in touch with Carlton early.
Lynch was awarded a free kick when De Koning was judged to have pushed him in the back in a ruck contest.
Its where those frees were given that really matters. ie the result of the frees.
Former Carlton player Daniel Gorringe tweeted:
Quote:
“That Lynch TDK free kick might be the worst call of all time.”
Have to mention we lost clearances and in the first 3 quarters Nankervis had the most clearances
There's something in that, we can learn from.