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We are the easiest side to play against because of our lack of pressure.

We are the easiest side to play against because of our lack of pressure.

Thanks, but I won't be watching that. If I want my daily dose of lazy, cherry picking shock jock, I have many better choices than him.

I put it to you, my learned colleague, that our issues are far more centred around skill execution, and far less around toughness, niceness, giving up chases, not remonstrating with opponents etc. Improve our general skills, kicking into F50, and the ball movement that leads to that, forward leading pattens, goal kicking and the like, and our position and W/L will improve.

Take the time to watch McClure.  You obviously do not like him but I doubt you would find much to criticise.

With regard to skill execution, we lag far behind opposition clubs because (a) we specialise in recruiting players with poor skills, and (b) we make no effort to improve what limited ability they have.

It has been that way for years and our solution seems to be to change the coach every few years.

Take the time to watch McClure.  You obviously do not like him but I doubt you would find much to criticise.

With regard to skill execution, we lag far behind opposition clubs because (a) we specialise in recruiting players with poor skills, and (b) we make no effort to improve what limited ability they have.

It has been that way for years and our solution seems to be to change the coach every few years.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this has been your opinion for about 10 years ?

Take our score in the Port game and reverse the G/B. 14.9 instead of 9.14. Naturally the naysayers will say the scoreline flattered us etc., but I say that's only because we can't kick straight. It's not like they had twice the tackles, twice the I50's, twice the marks inside 50, half the turnovers etc. They were fast, clean and kicked straight, and we were the opposite.

We've been smashed on all the footy shows this week.

The common themes are Recruitment, Development and Effort.

David King said it about 4 years ago and had the data to back it up, I'm just rehashing what he said. Everyone wants to play a certain way and the opposition's pressure is what is getting in the way of that. We are consistently a poor pressure side and this year rank last. If you play a team of equal talent and they provide significantly more pressure than you how are you supposed to win?

I assume no further effort is required to kick 14.9 than to kick 9.14 ?

I'm not suggesting everything is hunky dory, nor am I suggesting we don't have plenty to work on, but all this sky-is-falling stuff is IMO premature, not really backed up by the last 15,20 games and for a trigger happy club like the CFC, is virtually guaranteed to lead us into trouble.

Now Pauly, that is 'what if' thinking. Reality is if one of those points of ours is a goal, it goes back to the centre and a different game commences.

And please do watch what Sellers has to say... it sure aint lazy. What comes across is hurt, not sensationalism, not shock jock, not shallow... but real McCoy hurt that a club he loves so much is floundering so badly. And his solution suggestions have serious merit.

Paul...Premature??...think Sellars time frame was 20 years wasnt it?
re: Stats...Richmond often lose a lot of the main stats in home and away games and still win Premierships.
IMHO Port played a gear down and only did what they had to do given they only had 20 fit players to rotate.....last time we lost by one kick to them, if you want to argue stats they beat us by 4-5 goals this time, how is that progress? Does that mean Port have improved more than us or we have gone backwards?