(08-12-2019, 12:50 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:Our current plight is best summed up by one passage of play from early in the game. Kick in. Plowman goes to the pocket hits up Daisy. Daisy passes it to Simpson who has it at half back. Simpson elects to go inboard to the corridor to hit Setterfield. Misses the target and a Richmond player standing inside the corridor of Setterfield is able to waltz into 50 and kick the goal quite easily.
Yes I agree, it's the older heads that have become conditioned to the turnover. Most fans see the courageous intercept marks and other bits of glitter here or there, but our old heads are not reliable enough under pressure, they should be the ones steadying the ship, but they are actually the weak point.
But I do feel sorry for them, decades of losing does this to players, it's a big hole to climb out of!
Reality is, until they are gone, our chances of ultimate success will remain constrained.
One of the answers to the weekend is to have someone like Mitch Robinson or Jed Lamb out there, but that seems to be undesirable to our politically correct crew. We just accept a player like Riewoldt pummeling into one of our players backs without even going close to the ball, then it's play on!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"