In the last quarter, he also won the two tap outs that went straight to FC players leading to the two goals that leveled the scores.
He tried to block Jones but got around him then ball watched
Hate to say it but I thought it last season and again start of this season.FC are ahead of us . They play like a â â â â â team but can learn we play like a â â â â â team but too many too old to learn.
I havenât seen them a second time, but I thought the 2 ruck frees against TBC in the last (the second of which directly led to Casboult kicking a goal) were both examples of 2 ruckmen grappling by wrapping arms around each other, with an equal level of âfaultâ on both parts.
Anyone else think this?
Secondly, I thought at the time (havenât seen a replay), the goal kicked from the boundary line after Hurley threw it on the boot and kicked out on the full, was abysmal manning the mark. The ball was marked as OOB at about 45-47m from goal, and whoever was on the mark kind of wandered inboard, as they do. The FC player ended up actually kicking the ball from about the 47m mark, which is where the man on the mark should have been standing. I just hate it when you concede metres which puts a guy within range when he shouldnât be.
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They do seem to be making progress, and so do some of the other cellar dwellers we always look down on. Just not seeing the consistent buy-in and commitment you need from our whole group.
You expect a few ups and downs, and occasional individual under-performances, but we have consistent inconsistency and consistent under-performers with no obvious consequences.
No. They were both clearly free kicks. The second one both me and my missus called it even before the umpire did.
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I thought what I saw from Carlton was sh-t and less impressive than what I saw from Sydney against us
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You are a quality troll.
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You should see the screen grab of Murphy climbing the post at the same time.
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Oh, and one other point Iâd like to make about the coaching. It might seem a bit old-fashioned, but to me the primary role of the coaches is to inspire a strong and consistent effort from the players. On this point, they have failed miserably and irrefutably.
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Now this man should be coaching us! Why can half the supporter base see this but not the actual coaches?
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Having Shiel tagged out of the game was a huge downer for us. Hardly saw him all night.
I thought it was a coaching error to leave Saad on Betts.
I would have also looked at ways to help Shiel shed the tag. Noticeable that these two were ineffective in the loss.
He was the one who got more of the ball than everyone on our team except McGrath.
He has no impact whatsoever.
Weâre lucky FC canât kick straight; we should have lost by 5 goals. We simply didnât play very well.
Perhaps some of our general flat-footedness, rusty skills, and missed handballs could be attributed to our interrupted training schedule, but there are some things that canât be excused by that:
Selecting a 22 that meant we didnât have a tall forward when Smack went into the ruck\bench (Stringer doesnât count; I know heâs big, but he doesnât play like a tall. Iâve never heard of him described as an arial threat.)
Mispositioning of players (Walla at FF, Parish in the forwardline, Stringer in the middle, Langford rucking.)
Taking Langford off in the last quarter.
Doing nothing about that FC #35 flog who was scragging Shiel the whole game. To me, it felt like Shiel wasnât playing at all.
Thatâs all before we get to the issue of selecting players in our 22 who have had consistantly sub-standard performances recently.
There were very few (dim,) silver linings.
Ridley
Saad
Langford
We had a couple of nice passages of play.
Although it was Walla at FF, at least we had someone ahead of the ball, which is an improvement on last year.
Although we might scrape home against a few of the less good sides, and possibly even make the 8, the standard of football we exhibited last night will not see us winning a final against any half-decent team.
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Last night seemed like we went backwards which is very concerning,
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The most disturbing part of last nightâs debacle for me was just how tactically bereft we were.
Itâs been the hallmark of Worsfoldâs reign, and there it was againâŚ
Inability to counter a spare in defence. Again!
Lack of a true tagger. Again!
Inability to counter our midfielder getting tagged. Again!
The only apparent plan we had was for Cripps. We broke even (justâŚ) with that, but it concurrently robbed us of drive of our own.
Itâs early days, but I have the same concerns Iâve had for five years. The Richmond chaos ball game plan is fine if you have 22 committed players with hunger and heart. Weâre nowhere near that.
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Weâve reverted back to old habitsâŚespecially the senior players.
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What a comedy of errors in the last minute if you are a FC supporter. Talk about trying to fark it up.
Cunningham misses a fairly easy set shot which would have sealed the game.
Betts give away 50 when we were no chance of going coast to coast.
FC fail to man the mark where the umpire marks it, allowing an extra 20m.
Defenders allow a chest mark from an up an under miskick from Saad.
Both Dockerty and Weitering hold an opponentâs arm in the marking contest in the square.
Pittonet misses the ball trying to touch it.
Saved only by Jonesâ falcon.
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