10-23-2017, 07:37 AM
(10-22-2017, 11:31 PM)tonyo link Wrote:As an interesting comparison point, I wonder how many posters on the Richmond websites were predicting premierships after the trade period last year?
I'm sure most of their comments would have been "How can we kick a score - we've got Riewoldt and that's about it...."
Injury luck, a manageable draw and belief. They can be the ingredients for almost anything.
The starting 6 in Richmond's GF team had the following games experience : 224, 51, 42, 36, 22 and 4.
Firstly, Riewoldt is a coleman medalist, Casboult far from it.
Secondly, The tigers got lucky. Had a blessed run with injuries and that allowed them to play a balanced settled side and pick whoever they wanted, whenever they wanted.
Finally, we had the same luck with injuries that the tigers did for the first half of the year, but we, obviously, didn't have the same impact on the scoreboard and win column.
We'd be at longer odds than the dogs and the tigers combined.