tbh we made Cotchin, Martin and Rance look great by handballing / kicking straight to them
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Can I remind everyone that Richmond is a team who knows how to play together? Same leadership group for the past 4-5 years who can confidently lead by example. Ours has been axxed a little and Iām not exactly getting confidence city vibes from the likes of Jobe hep or zerrett at this point in time. I meanā¦ a year kind of kills off all progress made.
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Of course some of it is his fault. Hooker was putrid, how about moving him?
Cotchin, Ellis, Martin and Caddy slaughtered us yet no one is made accountable. How about running someone with 1 of them atleast. Hardwick set up his zone brilliantly and Woosha didnt counteract it. He would want to swing the axe majorly this week
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Would you have moved him back to drop those marks in the back 50 and cost easy goals?
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Part of the journey tonight, a painful blow but not surprising. Not the worst loss, not even close. For me the freedom to ājust loseā without anything more sinister is still precious. Looking forward to Mick Hurley and Andy McGrath taking us deep into finals over the next few years.
Yeah it sucks to lose to this mob on a big night, but we are tracking upward, plenty to be happy about IMO, bring on next week.
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Should I read this thread?
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Hopefully we kick the ball next week whilst 60 meters outā¦ we are ā ā ā ā and b1tchmond ā ā ā ā too
So Geelong didnāt lose, we won, but tonight, Richmond didnāt win, we lost. Lol.
Jobe didnāt do a bad job but I feel he was a tad slow with decision-making - almost every time he had ball, heād look around to ensure he has space or run into space and wait 2-3 seconds to make a decision, whereas McGrath was the opposite - he didnāt rush but he was quick to make a good-enough decision.
Coyler reminded me tonight why I wasnāt a fan of him.
Is it just me or didnāt Daniher play up the ground way too much?
There were players on them, they just werenāt playing accountable footy this week that they were playing the previous weeks. Also they plays coming out were designed to overcome the block but those with the ball kept absolutely butchering the thing and turning it over. the plan was there, the team as a whole just stank it up. Not sure any moves would have made all that much difference.
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Words canāt express how much we needed that win. With GWS, Port and Sydney in our next 3, our season may as well be over. We never looked like coming out on top. Sad thing is we shouldnāt expect much to change. Our game plan is going to get us nowhere. We have no plan B.
We canāt expect our defence to try and hold-up a ridiculous amount of I50ās every week. Theyāre under too much pressure, yet Woosha is almost asking opposition teams to have as many shots as they like, and if they donāt take their chances, weāll punish them. Will we ever be a team capable of guaranteeing finals football anytime soon?
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Well, at least richmond wonāt exactly be pleased with where they are atā¦ they wonāt make finals.
Walla had too much media attention for a shy bloke, Bellchambers for trade bait at the end of the year. Also, Hooker had a shocker tonight no doubt about it, but heās in a new role and learning his position. Did anyone draw a line through Watson when he got like 3 touches on his debut? Or did anyone think we should trade daniher cause of the Melbourne game? Cut him some slack. Every player has off games.
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He is a momentum player and needs to be in the game a lot more. Didnāt touch the ball for the first 40 minutes. Atleast he can spoil unlike Hartley who stood around like a stunned mullet.
No matter what the hoi polloi say Hardwick is a very good coach. Very good defensive coach anyway. He closed down our options tonight, and nullified our strengths.
The only reason we stayed in it tonight was our efficiency, despite Hooker, and especially Stewart, being poor and our smalls being short.
Not the end of the world though, despite the usual doomsayers. Take the long view. Weāre building towards something. Tonight we were outcoached more than anything else, but I reckon weāll learn from that and will be better next time.
Walla, Fanta, Hooker, and Stewart were non-contributors basically, and we lost by 15 points. Put in Ambrose and the gap narrows. Itās a loss, but weāre in the running.
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Yeah, I honestly didnāt see tonight as a step back, maybe just a reality check.
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Essendon need to bring their berserker game to win against the better the teamsā¦ in fact, all the teams do. You canāt keep up berserker for more than a few weeks, hence the evenness of the comp. Essendon are middle of the road and win against better teams occasionally when they meet them on their downward cycle as theyāre on the way up in theirs. Plenty of ārestingā next week but realistically they are 9th or 10th this year.
I have been saying for a few weeks that Hartley isnāt doing that well, certainly not as well as some seem to be saying. e need Ambrose back badly. I donāt think moving Hooker would have been the right option, he was so putrid that the only option was to leave him forward or move him into the ruck. Down back would have been even worse imo.
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The issue that was gloassed over cos zaka did get it more the last 2 weeks, he still made ahell of alot of poor decisions the last 2 weeks, but they were covered by the fact the team as a whole played well.
The geelong game iām preety sure i counted at least 5 kicks he bombed to green on a taller opponent.
Heās getting the ball more the last 3 weeks, but his skill and decision making is just sub par, but what do you do, they arenāt gonna drop him, and way too many people will pat him on the back simply cos 35 touches, but man he butchers the ball way too much, Heās almost turned in to rhs palmer v 2.0
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He refuses to run a tag which reeks of stubbornness. Once BJ started dropping out of the game he should of been moved on to Cotchin and demanded to give a hard tag.
If players are being unaccountable bench them, give them a spray and let them know they are playing VFL if they donāt pull their finger out. They had loose men everywhere tonight
Way too harsh on zaka. He messed up a couple badly especially the one where he blazed at goal when there were 2 other options, but other than that he delivered we some good passes and was at least providing options and getting involved in some linking plays to try break the zone. And laid 6 tackles. Plenty others did a whoooole lot less.
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