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It appears we play the Tigers only once in 2014 on Grand Prix weekend. There are 3 groups of 6 teams based on finishing order last season. We are in the top 6 group and must play the Cats and Power twice. We have Bombers and Pies twice also.
Seems Mick did the right thing...who would've thought!Carrots??? Carrrots where are youuuuuuuu
OMG you guys must be seriously dumb to even suggest those comments mean anything. LMAO he was asked the question, can you imagine if he'd come out and said "Yeah fk Mick he's an absolute tosswad knows nothing about player management". Towing the party line.
The round one game has been skating on thin ice for years anyway. With a couple of exceptions, usually the game gets built up all Summer long by Tigers fans, KB, and the media, and the game, along with Richmond's hopes for the new year, are usually over by half time.
I want to see our final list before making any predictions or decisions..
he has played a dozen games of footy lets not praise or beat him up to much... One thing for certain we will find out alot about levi, Bell Andy Mac and Menzel today. We wont win the flag this year but we need to build compentency to support our elite players. Finals are the best furnace
Not ideal?
The truth is we simply could not get our hands on the ball for much of the first half, same against Port.
I'm sure if we're halving the contests we'd would have most likely halved the score.
Absorbing pressure is something you do when you don't have the football, every team does it.
Other wise known as rope-a-dope, and yes I agree with you, that has been our game plan for at least the last month or so.
I'm not sure that it would hold up for a full season, I will be interested to see if we try to take it into next season.
Exactly.
Stay cool, calm and collected and let them punch themselves out. Then fight back.
I know Mick has changed the plan since the pre-season and this seems to be our last incarnation. We actually saw it in R1 against the tigers.
First half, defensive, don't get blown out of the water.
Second half, open the floodgates and run all over them.
Obviously, we saw that against the Tigers, twice since then, and Port recently.
I actually think this is a bit of a hybrid between what Mick implemented at Collingwood and what Ratten had here previously. It suits Micks style, our list, and finals football.
In Mick we trust.
What about the 40 points down bit?
Not sure that's part of the plan .
Other wise known as rope-a-dope, and yes I agree with you, that has been our game plan for at least the last month or so.
I'm not sure that it would hold up for a full season, I will be interested to see if we try to take it into next season.
Fantastic effort from of the most underrated players in the AFL.
Well done mate !
Note how Jamo referred to him as a spiritual leader - Captain anyone ?
No, you don't need the title to play the role, IMO he is a very good support to Murph who will be around a lot longer than what Simmo has left.
BTW Congrats to Simmo !! For a pick 65 (I think it was!) he has done very well, as the saying goes, it not how you start that matters, it's how you finish, and Simmo is finishing beautifully !!!
Vossy nominated him as this weeks Finals Unsung Hero. Makes some points that have already been said here.
From AFL.com.au
Carlton v Richmond
Tom Bell
An in-and-out player at Carlton this year, Bell was a consistent contributor all day in just his 15th senior game and first final.
Originally from my junior club at Morningside in Brisbane, he was just about the Blues' best player at half-time, when they were 26 points down and should have been dead and buried.
A mountain of a young man making full use of his huge motor to get up and down the ground, he was running when most of his Carlton teammates weren't running in the first half. For a player who didn't know he was even playing until final selection on Saturday his was a really telling effort, helping to lay a platform on which a lot of more senior teammates cashed in after half-time.
Sure, he let himself down when he had a couple of chances to finish off his work, and a big turnover just before half-time which set up a Trent Cotchin goal could have been critical. But without him across the half-forward line and in the middle Carlton would have been in trouble.And when he starts to use the footy a little better he's going to be a player. A similar role awaits this week, when at least he should be confident of getting a game.
