That’s why I started with “IF” you’re going to play him.
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Think you’re right there.
So let’s go full metal jacket with our indigenous group and let 'em weave their magic. It’s Dreamtime, and its time for Voss too. If Kelly can’t make it and Shiel is an out I’d go with:
Baldwin BZT McG
Redman Ridley Hind
Martin Merrett Durham
Snelling Weideman Perkins
Stringer Langford Tippa
Draper Setterfield Hobbs
IC Voss Caldwell ADJ Heppell
Sub Tex
In: Ridley Voss Snelling Tex
Out: Phillips Menzie D’Ambrosio Shiel (inj)
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Like that side, I would even make Heppell the Sub to give Tex the full experience.
And Hep can basically cover any position. And we can sub out a tired Davey or Wangas.
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He played one of his least noteworthy games for the year last week.
Can’t be him. No eggs.
At least in the Dreamtime game we do not have to deal with two 2metre tall forwards with our undersized defence. Richmond will bemoan the absence of Tom Lynch completely ignoring the fact that 2MP is out for us.
Its at the other end, players like Balta will ensure that our “tall” forwards are nullified.
It will be interesting to see what BDB comes up with to deal with Richmond.
We have really not adopted the low forward entry to players on a lead. We are still bombing the ball in wanting our small forwards to “go to work”, while we fondle rosary beads and say hail Mary.
Rioli is not playing for the Tigers
IF WE GET SMASHED…YOU GET SMASHED!!!
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Our forward 50 entries will be key, we just don’t have the marking targets to be kicking it high to packs and hoping for someone to take those contested marks. We have been woeful are contested marks around the ground and in the forward line. We are currently sitting at -13.3 marks as compared to our opposition and ranked 17th for marks differential. So ‘hail mary’ kicks will result just result in rebound turnovers. What has also been a concern is our inability to lock the ball in our forward half. Our small forwards have got to make it more difficult for teams to exit out of our forward line.
Balta will be too strong for Weed, so Weed will have to get on his bike. Grimes will go to Langford at some stage and that will be an absorbing contest.
Source? Where did you hear this? Huge out if true.
Maurice Rioli Jr is injured.
Daniel Rioli is playing.
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He is probably talking about Maurice jnr! Not playing due to a hammy
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That’s all the incentive we need!
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Tigers eye AFL’s best winning streak in Dreamtime clash
Richmond will look to extend its winning streak against Essendon with yet another victory in the Dreamtime at the 'G clash
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Shai Bolton celebrates a goal in Richmond’s win over Essendon in round 10, 2022. Picture: AFL Photos
RICHMOND is a chance to claim outright ownership of the AFL’s longest current winning streak against a single club when it faces Essendon on Saturday night.
The Tigers have won a whopping 13 games in a row against the Bombers, dating back to round 20, 2014, with an average victory margin of 29.3 points.
It’s by far Richmond’s longest current winning streak against any rival, with the next best being three straight victories over West Coast.
Yartapuulti is also currently riding a 13-game winning streak against Gold Coast, the Power having never been beaten by the Suns since the initial match between the pair in 2011, which was the expansion club’s first-ever win.
The Suns feature four times in the list of the biggest current losing streaks, having also struggled to beat Narrm, Brisbane and St Kilda.
The Power will next face the Suns in round 17.
The AFL’s biggest current winning streaks
| Club | Opponent | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Yartapuulti | Gold Coast |
| 13 | Richmond | Essendon |
| 11 | Narrm | Gold Coast |
| 10 | Geelong | North Melbourne |
| 8 | Brisbane | Gold Coast |
| 8 | Essendon | North Melbourne |
| 8 | St Kilda | Gold Coast |
The all-time VFL/AFL record for consecutive wins against one club is the 29 times in a row Collingwood beat Hawthorn between 1925 and 1941.
The last time the Bombers saluted against the Tigers was round 11, 2014 – a Dreamtime at the 'G match – where Brendon Goddard won the Yiooken Award in the 50-point triumph.
Dustin Fletcher, Paul Chapman, Paddy Ryder, Ivan Maric and Nathan Foley were some of the players to feature in that game at the MCG.
Jake Kelly after Essendon’s loss to Richmond in round 10, 2022. Picture: AFL Photos
Richmond champion Dustin Martin is the only player to have won multiple Yiooken Awards, named player of the match in both 2016 and his Brownlow year of 2017.
He’s a typically strong performer against the Bombers, averaging 26.2 disposals (his third highest against a club) and 1.3 goals (fifth), the only club to feature in both of Martin’s top five for touches and majors.
Shane Edwards was the first Indigenous player to win the award, with Shai Bolton following up in 2020 at TIO Stadium, Darwin.
The Dreamtime game was also played at Optus Stadium the next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has been at the MCG every other season.
Yup. Certain clubs absolutely own us.
Richmond & Bulldogs love playing us.
Man, the Kangas really do suck.
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Pies on ANZAC Day. Lost 13 of the last 17.
Geelong obviously lick their chops when they play us.
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