I thought two clubs intimidated Nthmond last season, Adelaide and St Kilda, on both occasions it was the opposition smalls who ran riot against them. Rance was poor in both games, partly because both opposition sides had more than 10 goal kickers and Rance cannot cover them all. Which is one of the reasons I think expecting two or three talls to kick bags against Nthmond is a losing strategy. The two times opponents really got hold of them medium / smalls kicked bags.
Nthmond reversed the trend when it mattered.
Yes, no doubt. But I bet other teams watched those games, and tried to repeat the dose, and failed. Even the Crows themselves couldn't repeat it. The sign of a good team when you can right the ship the way the Tigers did.
According to Planet America, the USA makes up 4% of the earth’s population yet 48% of the privately owned firearms on earth are in the USA. I reckon that smashes the Swiss effort. Firearm ownership in the USA is limited to a relatively small percentage of the population but gun owners often have many firearms.
Without reading the article there are some issues that highlight the difference between the US and Switzerland.
Switzerland has a high level of gun ownership because it has mandatory national service for men and everyone gets to keep the rifle or small arms they were issued with after service is complete. Many homes have a gun of some sort, just one usually. In a time of conflict they can be called up to service at any time, until they are middle aged at which time they may be required to form the home/national guard in times of war.
Secondly the weapons they are issued with are generally single shot sniper type rifles or small arms, they are not all issued with SIG semi-automatics. I believe there has been a change, or proposed change, to disallow the retention of the semi-automatic weapons at the end of service.
Thirdly, you cannot carry firearms in public concealed or in the open, in Switzerland it's illegal to carry firearms of any sort in public. In the US I've sat in bars were people are wearing handguns like Hollywood cowboys or shoulder holsters like Dirty Harry!
Swiss police, care of national service, are all heavily trained, do not wear sunglasses at night and are respected by the general public!
Perhaps the US should introduce national service as a pre-requirement for gun ownership!
Take your point on mass gun ownership but a Homicide rate of zero is hard to argue against....Swiss are also very fussy who they let into their country on a permanent basis, no doubt a culture for the more well to do who dont like change..
Yes, I guess a 0% rate is hard to argue against, but it still feels like a ticking time bomb to me......
The other point re letting or not letting people in is a huge, meaty topic that too often veers into easy racism, so I say proceed with caution.
Yes I agree, we do seem to be lacking in the opposition analysis department. But I think part of the problem is our medium sized players are generally too slow. Last season guys like E. Curnow, Kerridge, Lamb, Thomas, Plowman, White, Smedts, Graham, Gibbs, etc., just couldn't keep up with the oppositions breakaway players.
Add to that, we let defenders run off guys like Wright, Thomas and Silvagni while bombing the ball predictably to either Casboult or Kreuzer instead of looking for the loose players. We can have all the talls we like, but if we fail to make use of those in the open we won't win many games.
Hopefully the new guys like Pickett and Garlett will help in this regard. But we are generally a slow team. You need exceptional talent like a Sam Mitchell type to offset a lack of speed. And the game seems to be getting faster.
Of course, one needs to "know how to use it". Thanks for stating the bleeding obvious
Rance to rag doll Harry. BS.
Rance likes to be unaccountable and play the run off role.....seldom is he made accountable one on one....
In any event, he's the likely match up for Charlie, leaving them one short for Levi and Harry.
They are really short on other tall defender types - Chol?
Let's look at their list - who would I like at Carlton - outside Martin, Cotchin, Riewoldt (maybe when yuonger), Prestia (?), Caddy?, Rance (sure)
Houli had a great 2017 and GF, for sure but there's a lot of average stuff in that list....
2017 Richmond Disposals Per Game Leaders (Minimum 5 Games Played) Rank Name Games Average 1 Dustin Martin 25 29.76 2 Bachar Houli 21 23.62 3 Trent Cotchin 25 23.60 4 Dion Prestia 22 23.23 5 Shaun Grigg 25 23.08 6 Brandon Ellis 25 22.28 7 Kane Lambert 24 21.46 8 Anthony Miles 5 19.40 9 Reece Conca 6 18.00 10 Shane Edwards 20 17.65 11 Josh Caddy 22 17.27 12 Alex Rance 25 16.00 13 Nick Vlastuin 16 15.50 14 David Astbury 25 15.00 15 Kamdyn Mcintosh 24 14.92 16 Toby Nankervis 24 14.79 17 Jayden Short 16 14.75 18 Nathan Broad 10 14.00 18 Jack Graham 5 14.00 20 Sam Lloyd 8 13.62 21 Jack Riewoldt 23 13.26
The Tigers are a very good example of the dangers of focusing on individuals rather than the collective. They are a very good team, and they play as a genuine collective. Focusing on how many A graders, B graders etc. they have is not really the issue.
They finished 3rd last year, then went on to win the flag by 8 goals, against a team many regarded as warm favourites. They've come out and smacked an underdone Bombers team by nearly 15 goals in a ps hit out.
We finished 16th, had another big turnover of players, with plenty of focus on youth. If we play plenty of kids, and the Tigers apply that manic pressure, those kids will be shell shocked.
Your allegiance to the Navy Blue cause and the new regime is admirable, but I think we're still miles away from competing with the Tigers and their ilk.
Just been reading about the situation in Italy where some of the African migrants are beginning to get distinctly nervous as the anger and antipathy of the locals rise. The recent case of the murder of a young woman by an African migrant has highlighted this. It triggered a revenge attack by an Italian man that has been praised by some, especially by the girls parents. Very very concerning imo as to how subsequent events may unfold.
A lot of people focus on Trump, but world politics has been moving to the right for a good while. Racist, tit for tat revenge attacks solve nothing.
Lobbe and Casboult move like molasses. Jones is very athletic, and Krooz has great mobility for his size.
Nobody likes the idea, but I'd like Krooz on ball if Lobbe rucks. Krooz, Cripps, Curnow, Kennedy and others starts to look a lot tougher as a midfield.
Just a personal opinion with no real figures to back it up but....
I don't know whether there are any figures for "gun ownership by profession in the USA" floating around but I would hazard a guess that "teachers" would figure at the lower end of any such chart.
In terms of gun control advocates they would probably figure prominently and most would vote or favour Democrat candidates.
