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On the 50 metre penalties, I know it wasn't a good look but there were too many Richmond players running through the protected area without an opponent in sight.
The rule is the issue there not the application.
Holding the ball was a shocker. How you can judge a player holding the ball when he was being sat on before he even took possession and it bounces up into his hands leaving him no option is beyond me. Charlie Curnow and Kennedy got pinged frequently for it.
The unsung contributions from Thomas, lamb, and mullet who all worked their dots off is under appreciated on this forum. I think all three would play next week.
Blokes out at this stage Byrne, Weitering, Silvagni. Levi gets a pass because Kreuzer might not come up. He's the biggest worry for me. He's had two injury free season in the last ten years and this one isn't going to be one of them.
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So... Let's talk about the elephant in the room.
Was anyone happy with weiterings game last night?
Did he have a matchup?
Was he slow to get the ball moving out of the backline?
Did playing him cost us the chance of including another mid... Say cunningham who couldn't helped us cover the loss of Kennedy early?
Did the opposition play through his opponent?
Did I suggest to everyone that this would in fact happen?!
Is anyone going to put their hand up and apologise?
I get no pleasure for seeing weiterings put in a performance like that and I don't blame him. I blame the coaches who selected him. No spot for him in that side against the tiges.
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We played a vastly superior team, and the result was never going to be anything different. Their form line is very impressive, all through the finals series last year, the GF, and the JLT series this season. They had good, sometimes big, victories in all those games, without really kicking all that accurately.
I like the new flair, and the fact that we are finally trying to hit the scoreboard in some meaningful way. Attack is a very good plank in an overall defensive strategy, since you will win many more games kicking 120 points than you will kicking 80.
Much work still to do, but at least I can finally see a small dim light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully it's not a train.
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Thought it was a terrific performance against the best side in the comp.
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(03-22-2018, 11:33 PM)kruddler link Wrote:So... Let's talk about the elephant in the room.
Was anyone happy with weiterings game last night?
Did he have a matchup?
Was he slow to get the ball moving out of the backline?
Did playing him cost us the chance of including another mid... Say cunningham who couldn't helped us cover the loss of Kennedy early?
Did the opposition play through his opponent?
Did I suggest to everyone that this would in fact happen?!
Is anyone going to put their hand up and apologise?
I get no pleasure for seeing weiterings put in a performance like that and I don't blame him. I blame the coaches who selected him. No spot for him in that side against the tiges.
I don't know how you can advocate playing the kids by taking out a kid from the side.
Still you were right about this week's selection but that doesn't change the fact that weitering should play when he's available.
He's not much older than Curnow (if he is at all).
Do we want to have weitering find out why he's getting dropped from some games or do we tell him it's for the best that he doesn't play and leave him wondering? As far as I'm concerned this year is another education year and we don't benefit by not playing weitering.
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I was surprised by Richmond's behind tally as the game went. They didn't seem to be missing easy goals and seemed to nail set shots. We managed 15.5 but there was about 4 shots that didn't score at all.
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More attacking style leads to more turnovers, got caught moving the ball to slow in the second half
Caddy and Martin scare our blokes who won't fully lay the body on the line to tackle them.
Losing Kennedy really stuffed our system...
Mullet is too soft and you can see why Scott let him go.
Weitering is slow and confidence shot.
Byrne is a panic merchant.
Jones was the old Jones...No nous
Sosos needs some Sprint work...he is treacle like.
Williamson and OShea should play next week.
