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Interesting to see the Tigers get out of the blocks much more promptly in this Prelim than in the 3 where they’d had a week’s rest and trailed early. Time to scrap the pre finals bye which robs the best teams of momentum.
I don’t mind deliberate/ insufficient intent paid where the player goes directly at the boundary but there were a couple last night, for both sides, where 40m kicks down the line happened to bounce late at 45 degrees over the line. Paying those shows no feel for the game.
Lambert's last-quarter strikes put Tigers into the decider
What do Demons’ supporters think of the inclusions of Clayton Oliver & Christian Petracca? Both are top 10 in the league for total disposals, 1 & 2 for contested possessions, Oliver 1st for clearances & 2nd for tackles, Petracca 8th for goal assists but they are 1st and 5th for clangers, with Viney also in the clangers top 10.
Port Adelaide and Geelong dominate All Australian squad of 40
Calling Matthew Richardson a prodigious mark is almost an understatement. Record holder for:
– Career average contested marks at 2.77 per game, next on the list is Anthony Rocca at 2.13.
– Marks inside 50 at 3.84 per game, runner up is Barry Hall at 3.64 per game.
The AFL all-time great alphabet teams: Letter R
Watching Maxi play cricket makes me happy. More sixes than fours is no longer something to remark upon. Dave Warner, like his initials-sake Doug Walters, simply can’t handle English conditions and should be ignored for any future tours there.
WATCH: Maxwell and Carey magic stuns England as Australia win ODI series
At just 40 seconds down Pogacar is a live chance. It’s a pity his and Richie’s teams couldn’t take better care of them in the Stage 7 cross-winds, where both lost 1:21.
Roglic and his team have been rock-solid but after a rest-day, you just don’t know how the body is going to react, unless of course you are Teejay.
Indulge me, because this is the best Tour de France in years
V’landys is already the de facto CEO. Why not make it official?
Then appoint an independent commission, charged with acting in the long-term best interests of the game, not the short-term cravings of the individual clubs. The chairman of that commission should be someone who doesn’t say much in public, keeps an eye on the game’s direction yet carries a big stick for times of emergency or strategic challenge. Richard Goyder is the AFL Commission chairman. Never heard of him? That’s exactly as it should be. The NRL still goes not get the key tenets of corporate governance.
As Todd Greenberg exits, what will happen next for the NRL?
Would love to time travel back to watch O’Reilly bowl in his prime. I really enjoyed his cricket writing. He spotted Warne’s talent early doors and predicted he would revive the lost-art of leg spinning and become a millionaire in the process. I wish he’d lived a few months longer to witness Warne’s Ashes debut.
Pick The Roar's greatest Ashes XI of all time: Shane Warne vs Jim Laker
Warne is the second player picked in any Ashes team. I’ve never seen a player more likely to turn the tide of a match. One example, from the twilight of his career was Adelaide 2006. England lost after making 6/551 (dec) in their first innings. First, Warne’s 118 run partnership with Michael Clarke got Australia back within shouting distance, then his confidence infected the dressing room and finally on the last day, with ball in hand, he terrorised the English batsmen, mesmerised the umpires and the Aussies cantered to a 6 wicket win.
Reading Ashley Giles tour diary, where he confesses going sleepless on the fourth night of that worrying match about facing Warne when England were in effect 1-97, gives an insight into the psychological hold he had over them.
Pick The Roar's greatest Ashes XI of all time: Shane Warne vs Jim Laker
2,482 Covid deaths in the USA yesterday after 2,407 on Tuesday. We don’t want to be them. Our leaders should err on the side of caution. I’m hopeful that if we hang tough for another few weeks elimination becomes a real option and with that a gradual return to normal life, within our borders. In the meantime let’s just chill. Would love to go to the footy this year but I’m not dying to go to the footy this year.
"We're not going to see the State of Origin this year": Queensland Premier
Watching the AFL/ NRL rounds where there were no crowds was an empty, unsatisfying experience for me. I even found it hard to get excited about my own team. I wouldn’t mind if there were a couple of “ramp-up” rounds without crowds on resumption but if we face the prospect of the bulk of the season with no spectators, I’d say don’t bother, come back next year.
A message to the big leagues: Don't play until we all can
Suspend now. Send the players back to their families. Save lives!
D-Day arrives as NRL and A-League to make coronavirus postponement decisions
I would have been inclined to agree with you at the end of 2019 Thatsashame and I’m a Richmond supporter, but over the off-season I re-watched the Tigers’ post-bye unbeaten run. I lost count of the number of times Martin intervened while the game was at a tipping point and a lot of the work was unobtrusive. A ball would emerge from a pack on to the chest of player running at goal, only on replay did you see that it was Martin who’d ripped it out of the contest and somehow threaded the eye of the needle in the blink of an eye to create the opportunity.
I think Wayne Carey and Shane Warne are the last two sportsmen I’ve seen whose “winning aura” compares, inspiring teammates, demoralising opponents and thrilling crowds.
The statistic that matters here is that Richmond has won 7 of its last 8 finals, with Martin in the top two players in each win. In the one loss he was totally hobbled and shouldn’t have been on the ground.
The Roar's AFL top 50 players: 10-1
It’s hard to beat the SA & WA vs Vic matches of the mid 80’s. Stars everywhere. Some of the highest quality, most competitive, thrilling footy I’ve ever seen played.
’82 South Australia 18.19 (127) Victoria 21.13 (139)
’84 South Australia 16.8 (104) Victoria 16.12 (108)
’84 West. Australia 21.16 (142) Victoria 21.12 (138)*
’86 South Australia 18.17 (125) Victoria 17.13 (115)
’86 West. Australia 21.11 (137) Victoria 20.14 (134)
’87 South Australia 12.13 (85) Victoria 11.15 (81)
’87 West. Australia 13.14 (92) Victoria 16.20 (116)
*Introducing Gary Ablett Snr to the football world: BOG, 8 goals after only 9 games at Geelong
The greatest AFL State of Origin of all time
Richmond had to win 12 in a row, after the bye, to win the premiership, during their “charmed run”, including victories over all other teams in the top 6. Any loss would have seen them drop out of the top four and probably contention.
I’m grateful that during that phase we didn’t have to play the Eagles in Perth or the Dogs, whose speed worries us.
On the verge of an unlikely dynasty
I doubt that any team has achieved so much with so little as this Richmond group. Their pure footy talent just doesn’t compare to the Geelong and Brisbane dynasty squads. As illustration, Kamdyn McIntosh finished fifth in our B&F this year, despite missing a slab of matches. I’ve never seen him do anything I’d describe as silky but he knows his limitations and plays his role to perfection, week in, week out. Richmond are more like Hawthorn where they play as a team, extracting every ounce of potential and if they’re behind, then never mind, because they’ll fight and fight and win!
Brisbane, Geelong, Hawthorn or Richmond: Which dynasty has been the best?