08-16-2020, 02:53 AM
The media have the memory of a gold fish. Clearly they are incapable of remembering the two shockers Freo got in the first quarter that gifted them goals. Not part of the narrative I guess.
The umpires didn't pay deliberate all night but I think they are instructed to be red hot in the last quarter if the game is tight. The free was there. You cannot crash into a player after he has kicked the ball, the free down field was there. Gibbons should have taken the kick.
Against Port I thought they were probably the better side on the day, though we should have closed it out in the end. Lat night I thought we were the better side on the night. Curnow was enormous, Cripps is starting to get into form, I thought against Hawthorn he played a selfish game, the last couple of weeks he has got back to being team orientated as well as getting the ball. He needs to nail those shots on goals if he wants to elevate from a very very good player to being a great. There seemed to be a media conspiracy to denigrate Sam Walsh earlier in the season but he has demonstrated what a fantastic player he is and going to be for a long time. There are a lot of Murphy haters on this site but he continues to get the ball and do a lot of work that goes unrecognized. Fisher added a bit of pace around the ball which was good. We really need to get more pace into the side. Dow, Cuningham, Honey, Philp and O'Brien should give us that run into the future. Cottrell looks a hard footballer. I like him.
Sos's last draft looks a real winner, on top of the young players we have brought in Betts, Martin, Newnes and Pittonet for a future 4th round pick and the trading of Andrew Phillips. We also seem to be nailing the late picks and the rookies, which has been the basis of Richmond surge to the top. Cottrell, Honey, and Gibbons are all rookies, and Williamson a late pick, along with Curnow, Casboult and Betts gives the team an underlying strength of players who had to work hard to get success.
The umpires didn't pay deliberate all night but I think they are instructed to be red hot in the last quarter if the game is tight. The free was there. You cannot crash into a player after he has kicked the ball, the free down field was there. Gibbons should have taken the kick.
Against Port I thought they were probably the better side on the day, though we should have closed it out in the end. Lat night I thought we were the better side on the night. Curnow was enormous, Cripps is starting to get into form, I thought against Hawthorn he played a selfish game, the last couple of weeks he has got back to being team orientated as well as getting the ball. He needs to nail those shots on goals if he wants to elevate from a very very good player to being a great. There seemed to be a media conspiracy to denigrate Sam Walsh earlier in the season but he has demonstrated what a fantastic player he is and going to be for a long time. There are a lot of Murphy haters on this site but he continues to get the ball and do a lot of work that goes unrecognized. Fisher added a bit of pace around the ball which was good. We really need to get more pace into the side. Dow, Cuningham, Honey, Philp and O'Brien should give us that run into the future. Cottrell looks a hard footballer. I like him.
Sos's last draft looks a real winner, on top of the young players we have brought in Betts, Martin, Newnes and Pittonet for a future 4th round pick and the trading of Andrew Phillips. We also seem to be nailing the late picks and the rookies, which has been the basis of Richmond surge to the top. Cottrell, Honey, and Gibbons are all rookies, and Williamson a late pick, along with Curnow, Casboult and Betts gives the team an underlying strength of players who had to work hard to get success.