03-24-2018, 06:19 AM
After watching and painfully re-watching the game I'll make the following observations:
1. Expectations. We just played last years premiers. We were a bottom team in 2017, traded out Gibbs, no Docherty and Kreuzer went down. Played a lot of young guys too. We fought hard and pushed them but lets be realistic in 2018.
2. There were 2 turning points in this match. First was Richmonds first goal from Jack when he got in got in the backline' faces and although they fought back they then collectively lost their focus and dropped down a gear. Second was Kreuzer going down. We stopped being as competitive in the ruck after that and missed his second efforts.
3. I get the criticism of Weitering. He had a shocker but I'm more critical of Plowman. He's had more time in the afl system but continues to miss tackles, get out of position and get beaten too easily. I can't figure out if he's trying to be a half back or play tall and gets caught not quite doing either. I agree we picked the wrong line up for this match, but I'd have gone with Weitering and dropped Mr Plow for a smaller more mobile defender.
I also get the criticism of Silvagni, not a great game but to be fair he did seem to spend a lot of time being manned by Rance and dragging him away. I think that says more about what Richmond think of Casboult.
4. When we executed the more attacking game plan it seemed to work well. Getting it forward to Charlie quickly was just inspiring. But, once we got tired and the work rate dropped the overlapping run ended and we resorted back to long kicks to contests or just kicking in hope. They had the fitness edge to keep running harder late and we couldn't keep up.
5. Our skills still need work. Especially tackling.
6. Welcome back to the afl Jarred Garlett. 17 touches and 2 goals after a year out is a fair return.
1. Expectations. We just played last years premiers. We were a bottom team in 2017, traded out Gibbs, no Docherty and Kreuzer went down. Played a lot of young guys too. We fought hard and pushed them but lets be realistic in 2018.
2. There were 2 turning points in this match. First was Richmonds first goal from Jack when he got in got in the backline' faces and although they fought back they then collectively lost their focus and dropped down a gear. Second was Kreuzer going down. We stopped being as competitive in the ruck after that and missed his second efforts.
3. I get the criticism of Weitering. He had a shocker but I'm more critical of Plowman. He's had more time in the afl system but continues to miss tackles, get out of position and get beaten too easily. I can't figure out if he's trying to be a half back or play tall and gets caught not quite doing either. I agree we picked the wrong line up for this match, but I'd have gone with Weitering and dropped Mr Plow for a smaller more mobile defender.
I also get the criticism of Silvagni, not a great game but to be fair he did seem to spend a lot of time being manned by Rance and dragging him away. I think that says more about what Richmond think of Casboult.
4. When we executed the more attacking game plan it seemed to work well. Getting it forward to Charlie quickly was just inspiring. But, once we got tired and the work rate dropped the overlapping run ended and we resorted back to long kicks to contests or just kicking in hope. They had the fitness edge to keep running harder late and we couldn't keep up.
5. Our skills still need work. Especially tackling.
6. Welcome back to the afl Jarred Garlett. 17 touches and 2 goals after a year out is a fair return.