It comes down to how much Bellchambers really cares.
He plays one of his lackadaisical games, ultra lazy games (as distinct from his normally lazy game) then even a very average ruckman like Pittonet will take him to the cleaners, give Cripps first use of the ball and the Blues will win.
lol. I can see why. Take it easy man. Not worth the heart attack…especially this year.
In any case definitely agree with you re Zaka. If Richmond (and most other teams) can drop their senior players, why can’t we. Zaka is long overdue for a rest.
tend to agree.
it was either he lied about the state of the list
or
thought it had potential, and wanted to cull the ageing players over multiple years in theory to ease the transition.
Whereas seems like dimma’s theory was just gut it in one foul swoop and start again.
looking back may not have been the bad choice, less players to undermine you when they see the writing on the wall.
Tend to agree about the rest re knights, look at the calibre of players moved on before or during his reign.
Hird left just before he took over
Mark johnson traded
by the end of 08 had to move on
Jason johnson
pev
Rama
by the end of 09
lloyd
lucas
That is a fair chunk of senior ageing players who were apart of the best side (bar pev) from any one season, who were sadly on the decline by that stage, and knew the writing was on the wall.
Whoever took over was never gonna have any real chance of success, let alone keep their job, the simple fact was, in alot of peoples eyes he just wasn’t sheedy, so he was afforded lil to no luxury.
Funny how with hindsight, how different would the club be today, if instead of fearing a few players leaving, albeit club royalty names, if they backed him in, even if he had failed after say 5 years.
Play the kids. We need to get games into them and I’m not that concerned about the outcome of 2020. Yeah of course I’ll take a flag but given it’s unlikely and the GF will be in front of a bunch of security guards I’d like to see the young‘uns rotated through the side.
it’s funny cos i reckon the richmond gamestyle, and from what we’ve seen this year ours too now, is pretty much the same run and gun football from back then.
There’s just better coverage defensively for it with richmonds era.
Was great to watch but then we got scored on the rebound so quickly when a turnover happened lost count how many coast to coast goals the oppo kicked when we turned it over. It was a terrible game plan the definition of down hill skiing.