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Blues really missed Sam Walsh in that last game.
Tigers bottled up 3 years of wasted chances and made good, Blues should do the same.
Carlton should remember the pain but be optimistic for what the future holds
I think that is a pretty fair assessment.
Monday morning with one round to go and the AFL media is again, banging on about Richmond “Dark Horse / Wild Card” etc chance for Premiers – this is ridiculous.
Richmond have been good enough to secure a bottom 8 slotin 2022 and may win a final or even two and who ever gets the Tigers week 1 of the finals will perhaps prefer to play another of the bottom 8 teams but that is as far as the bunting goes to my way of thinking.
Put another 30-40 games under the belts of some of the Richmond youngsters and we may be Premiership material in a couple of years.
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Not headline news.
Not even news.
Society is so finely tuned to pulling the ‘outrage trigger’ at anything that is published in the media these days……..
Cheers Dimma.
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Friday night’s game was the perfect marker for where the Tigers are at. I don’t follow Freo so I can’t comment on where they are at and nor do I care.
There was a passage of play in the 2nd half (I think) when we got the ball over the top of the Freo defensive wall and out the back. Soldo had the ball at his feet well within scoring range with loose Tigers ahead and despite there not being an opposition player within 10m of him he fumbled the ball at boot height three times before muffing some fudged disposal as Freo closed in on him. It was comical, farcical and tragic and summed up Richmond.
They can take it up to most sides in the comp most weeks but right now they have completely lost their mojo. Balta’s glacial goal prep was another key moment – players minds are so worried about not losing (again) that they forget they are there to actual win. That goal was a gimme for Balta, he was locked into his own world and lost the plot literally.
Cumberland playing on at the death was just a rookie mistake and realistically he prob would have struggled to clear it through for a point near side let alone a goal as he was always going to be kicking from 55+m out with the man marking at 50m. On the night – one of our better players Cumberland – move on son.
As for a poor game of footy, this is highly subjective and some will like the closeness of it, maybe easier to enjoy for non Tigers / Freo fans but as a Tiger fan I thought it was Ordinary with a capital O. in that Q4 final stanza, both sides looked like they were more frightened of losing than actually trying to win.
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Another realistic Tigers fan.
I mentioned before in the previous (and warranted) let’s kick Richmond article that we never were top 4 material, let alone premiership material this year – unlike the media who had definite thoughts otherwise about 3-4 weeks ago and same media are now deflating their balloons rapidly.
The Tigers are now paying the price for a period of sustained success and need to transition past players like Jack, Trent and Dusty and hopefully find worthy replacements from a pool a decent players and a bunch of youngsters.
As for this latest shamozzle against North it did look like the play on mentality may be too hard coached into the players and it’s time to back off the chaos-o-meter a bit in order to execute footy basics a-la ‘Smart Aarts’ in the closing stages. I hope Dimma drops Aarts like he dropped Castagna the previous week – both simply not ready for the front line………..
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We were never “Premiership Chances” as purported by the hot air that is footy media these days.
I for one believe the Tigers started believing in their own media coverage and there is now a disconnect between the ears.
Granted the loss to Geelong was dare I say…………. ‘honourable’ especially with a somewhat injury depleted team list at the time but the showboating and devil may care attitude on display against the Suns along with the just turn up and we win attitude against the Kangaroos says to me some or all of the players think they are better than they really are. I also think the number of gimme goals missed against the Roos is another clear indicator that the brains are disconnected – no matter how well they are coached if the mind is not switched on you end up with farcical results like the last two Richmond games.
I predicted us to land positions 8, 9 or10 on the ladder before this season began and I hold to that prediction.
We have three tiers of players at Richmond :-
Golden Oldies – players like Jack, Cotch, Lambert, Edwards, Dusty (if he wants to seek quasi obscurity in Sydney) who have to find a way to retire or exit Punt Road gracefully in the next year or two.
Under Cooked Youngsters – players like Maurice Jnr, Ralphsmith, Cumberland, Ross, Collier-Dawkins, Sonsie, Brown, Banks, Dow etc who need more games under their belt before they can be expected to be anything like reliable under fire.
Good Solid Units :- Grimes, Nank, Prestia, Bolton, Vlastuin, Short, Lynch etc are no brainers but players that have proved themselves worthy of picking every week like Broad, Dan Rioli, Graham, McIntosh, Balta and I also include Josh Gibcus among the Good Solid Units.
Tigers are another 18 months to 2 years away from getting sufficient experience into our younger players and hopefully finding a pearl or two among them before they are top 4 material.
Richmond keep losing the unloseable
Difficult for me to be objective (Go Tigers!)
However, if the AFL is true to form and are are keen on the dollars before anything else then surely 50k Tigers fans plus a handful of Melb. based GWS true believers at the ‘G’ is a better financial outcome than less than 20,000 all up at Docklands.
If there is a contract in place to say thou shall play three games per week at sub standard stadium then it’s a stupid contract – AFL misses out on their dollars and fans miss out on their favoured (and legitimate) home ground game venue. AFL – dumb.
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Midfield decimation……….. No Cotch, no Lambert, no Prestia no Edwards and now no Bolton………..
Nank taps it to Dusty and that’s it………..? Ross and Graham?………….
Good grief, it never rains but it pours.
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Dusty has feet issues. Dimma alluded to a foot injury/problem as to the reason he has not let rip in his past two performances. I suspect the foot issue goes deeper and further back. Dusty has been openly seen changing his boots mid game and then back again to the original pair and I suspect it’s related to the alleged ‘current’ foot injury. God bless his cotton socks, he is awesome and owes the club nothing.
Tigers get to prove that RFC is not just about one player next week. Midfield has to lift work rate and intensity for longer / backs have to be more disciplined and forwards esp. Shai Bolton have to kick straight for goal…………. Tom Lynch nailing a few of those contested marks would help massively too. His ground work was well above average last night but the body on body aerial marking situations has to improve.
I Can’t stand the Dees but I hand it to them, they held the skills and intensity levels high enough for long enough to make us look ordinary – and we were just that – ordinary. As a Tiger’s fan it was humbling and felt like a shift in stature for both sides.
Time for the Tigers to really get their season going and get over the top of the ladder leaders next week or else it’s 5th to 8th at best or worse – that dreaded 9th ladder position again.
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The umps have been consistant in putting the whistle away in the dying stages of games and allowing more of a what will be will be flow to the game.
Hardwick put on the best public face – acknowledge there were some ‘interesting’ umpiring calls but leave it at that.
I saw a couple of high tackles and a throw (TV viewer) the Tigers got away with in the 2nd half – hardly critical point, goal face stuff but there is yin and yang in 100+ mins of a football game and certainly over the course of 22 games.
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I too think Nathan Broad is unlucky to not to scrape into the list. He does not set the world on fire, however he has improved his play under pressure with far fewer clangers than he did in 17 &18 and his running game has also improved – maybe he has learned to run harder and further from watching Houli? I value Nathan Broad’s consistency in the later part of his career to date.
To answer the question – who comes off the list…..very tough to take Kamdyn Mackintosh off the list esp. with his goal sneaking ability which seems to have become part of his regular game since he spent a period in the VFL team.
Nathan Broad just unlucky not to be on the list……….
The order of merit: Richmond Tigers 2021 season
Exciting game and def. worthy of a final but not the greatest ever……………. c’mon……….
Yes, the Tigers were ripped off with the Tom Lynch goal review and yes, the system is overly flawed but I seem to recasll a free kick being paid to Tarrant late in Q4 which was marked by a Lions player and would have resulted in a nice gettable shot on goal but was reversed into a free kick for a push against the Lions and they were denied by the umpiring too. As a Tiger fan I felt like that was a huge get out of jail moment for us and a 2 point loss is prob. about right – close-ish but certainly no cigar for 2022.
Tigers played 4 first year players, maurice Rioli was his usual self but faded a little at the end I felt, Sonsie looked steady enough and kicked straight for a goal, Gibcus and Cumberland looked like the occasion got to them. All four youngsters will be better for the run as will a host of others who are long term Tigers.
Prestia might be cooked if his soft tissue damage is another high grade injury, we need Grimes back and fit, Dusty – well who knows………… I feel good about Tigers in ’23
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