The ball bounces, and Kreuzer ...........
Getting spanked by Nankervis.
McGovern looks worse since the camp.
That was a crap first qtr.
We are just deplorable at defending the centre square against hard running teams.
just look slow and disinterested....
manning the f... up would be a good start!
Look crap. I really thought we were a chance in this.
Hopefully we settle. Usually suspects doing SFA.
Very, very, very poor decision making and delivery into F50
Agreed there were a lot kick and hopes from us in that quarter
The smashed to pieces game we haven’t seen for a while is in our sights today. I seriously can’t see where a goal for us will come from.
Plowman’s kicking is a liability
Ed, Simmo, Plowman, just bombing the ball forward to Nthmond's extra numbers over and over and over again and again and again!
Around the contest opponents run straight past our players unchecked.
Umpires pathetic. Our players pathetic. What else is on TV?
They look disinterested
If it keeps raining we may not score :-\
Daisy wth??!!
Harry awesome tackle, Daisy WTF shot on goal? This is fecked.
Our tactic seems to be stand back and hope they fumble or mis kick.
Teague - don’t be like Bolton. Abandon the zone and get some tight accountable wet weather footy going
What is our lowest score ever???
Any chance O’Brien will get involved today.....geez his shorts look very very white >:(
SOMEONE MAN UP FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
What we score today. I am embarrassed to tell people which cub I support by this game. This is just humiliating.
One of 9 players we have with fewer than 5 touches in a half of footy.
Not good enough
0.6 v Collingwood, R5, 1898.
Kreuzer saves the day
I'm watching the Storm ... they have no passenger's
One Richmond player has doubled our score
our smalls have gone missing O'brien 1 touch lang 2 and fisher and gibbons just 4 each.
could be a long afternoon if this keeps going
Actually thought our effort was ok, tackling was pretty good, just our skills are deplorable, and decision-making not much better. Forward line looks very unbalanced, and all of a sudden looks very slow again, they are waltzing the ball of half back, running in waves through the middle and overwhelming us
Not ideal on a wet ground either
It's not about that Barb.
They've got us comfortably covered for foot speed and we aren't taking them out of the chain of play, which means we are left out of position and out of the contest all over the ground.
You can't be slower, and be losing your feet or letting the opposition keep theirs, it's a lose lose scenario.
If you are going to concede foot speed, you have to be physical to level the playing field.
McGovern looks like he just completed a gruelling preseason camp. Should not be playing.
Tigers using the same tactics West Coast did.
Teague would want to stop this uncontested rebounding football.
Our lighter bodies are just not capable of doing it, not in the dry and certainly not in the wet.
We need precision with the football, and we aren't getting it.
nothing to do with body size. everything to do with effort.
LOB 1 touch, Lang 2 touches, Fisher 4, Gibbons 4.
Not good enough. Came in the wrong attitude and it has persisted.....
Richmond aren't even ding anything.
We are just diabolical.
I think it was Jimmy Bartel who nailed it.
They are playing 1 behind the ball, and we are using that 1 in the contest. So we get the ball out of the contest, but rather than run and carry from the contest, we throw it on the boot and get it forward.....to their spare man and away they go. Said we are not 'mature' enough to think through what we need to do....run and carry. That includes Cripps who has been guilty of throwing it straight on the boot as well.
I reckon SPS is the only one who seems to be taking his time and trying to find a good option out of the contest.
They don’t have us beaten for speed, they have us beaten for effort.
We give them space to start and then they work harder.
Rubbish, in the wet mass and momentum is king, it's a straight line game.
You can level it out by doing work off the ball to make your opponent late to the contest, or take them out of the chain so you get the numbers, but we play bruise free off the ball and get taken out by them so they have spares everywhere!
Nthmond are winning the contested football! :o
I just heard news from a reliable source. Ronald McDonald will be signed as our new coach next season. Well deserved to run this current circus show.
uncontested possessions 88-56.
Says it all. We are playing dumb footy and not working hard enough.
Winning the contested football is not just about contested possession counts. The stats count a contested possession as a two on one when the one gives it off to the two
The reason Nthmond are behind in the contested possession count is because we are not close to them once they get the football in space.
Nthmond are all over us at stoppages.
I can't think of anything constructive to say. Most distressing ????
Here's a thought.
If we haven't got the ball, tackle the bloke who has. We had 12 players with 1 or 0 tackles ????
Is gov off injured or just has the jacket on to stay warm?
It's clearly uncontested rebounding football that is killing us.
What’s wrong with Mr 4 week conditioning McGovern...Fair dinkum this bloke has been a major disappointment ????
Ok we’re playing Insipid but boy I hate Richmond. Their players constantly whinge to the umpires every ball up and they do not get pinged for anything!
Think he just ran back on
The thing is the majority of our team are very average skill wise so unless we bring 100% effort all game we can’t get close to the better teams. There’s a reason we are sitting 3rd last.
Probably shouldn't be playing after an intense training bloke.
Don’t be a prick. He is suffering split ends and a paper cut. Some Vidal Sassoon extra body hair conditioning and a band aid will have him as good as gold in the last quarter.
Lang is surely taking the p1ss
How many chances does a bloke get.
Won’t be missed, will be forgotten
Its because he is a smart footballer who shows you glimpses, but largely goes missing.
The take and give to cripps (?) while in mid-air shows his smarts.
Not sure if he had a decent pre-season or not, but if we could get him fit and up to speed, he'd be the small forward we need. He just seems too far off the pace the majority of time currently.
We've kicked 4 of the last 6.
Another of those 6 goals to zips starts doesn't help.
Stopped the bleeding and showed a little heart.
Go Blues
Ohhh Please!!! He has touched it 4 times. His not smart his sh1t. Enough excuses. Hes cooked and won’t be picked up when delisted.
The same old culprits committing the same old sins .... BUT, this is much better than I expected.
Perspective guys.
100 metre penalty goes our way for once
That mark was well after the siren
100%
Not sure what grounds we'll have for appeal, but one day that will cost someone the game, so better to be making some noise about it now.
Remember Harrys mark after the siren against the hawks....they bloody heard that one didn't they! >:(
Ugh wtf - Harry taken out of the contest, back to them for a goal
Mark well after the siren, paid? Wtf
Too many went missing today (LOB, Lang, Fisher).
Plus a woeful first half and a whole heap of poor decision making - why didn't we copy what they do in the wet - get it forward as fast as possible?
Move it over to the post match folks
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