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Taranto is big enough but has other issues I mentioned. He has improved, but still coughs it up too easily. Baker and Bolton big enough for mid field? Hopper is too delicate and is injured too easily for a heavy midfield role. I'm not sure why we persist with Dow, probably because of a lack...

Based on observation. Taranto has a great work rate, but has no poise and turns over the ball too often. Hopper is more an outside player. Baker and Bolton are too small for the midfield. It'll be interesting when we get some wet weather footy to see how they go in heavy traffic. Nankervis is a...

We desperately need quality on ballers. Prestia is cooked, Cotchin gone and we were always lacking in this dept anyway. Taranto and Hopper are not the answer. Hopefully Mcauliffe steps up. With Lynch, Lefau and Balta in attack, and with Bolton and Dusty too, we have the most formidable attack...

No way should Graham, Short, Pickett and KMac be dropped with all our injuries. You don't develop the new players better by throwing them to the wolves Hawthorn and Kangaroos style, without much senior player support. The Geelong model works better.

Hopper is polished and rarely turns the ball over. Taranto is the opposite.

Unlucky Tigers. Observations....... Campbell looks very promising Dusty what a gun as usual, noticeably a cut above everyone else on the ground Nank and Lynch impacted the team positively as expected Bolton a good ordinary player. Had a shocker today Ross showed why he;'s a good VFL player...

It never happened, completely made up. I have inside info through a close family member.

Listened to Sam Newman and Don Scott interview John Nichols on the You Cannot be Serious podcast recently. Nichols has an eye brow raising take on Balme. In summary, a lovely guy off field. Didn't respect him as a player, was a cheat who king hit people. A very Carlton centric view obviously.

Yes, Balme was on the news recently talking about it. Apparently he is one of the fortunate 33% of epilepsy sufferers for whom medication actually works to alleviate the problem.

Culture has been exiting for a few years. Jack and Cotch the latest and arguably the biggest on field part of the exodus. President gone, coach gone, great assistant coaches gone, Rance, Houli, Edwards, Astbury, Caddy, George, Grigg etc Who is going to step up to the leadership role on field...

I doubt this will end well for GC. Messiah coaches rarely do. AFL are clueless re GC and just selling false hope, something us Tiger fans know only too well from the forgotten years. They need a Benny Gale type up there, not a Hardwick. Issues at that club run deeper than the coach. The big...

Fascinating for me was not the fact that Jack was a pivotal part of our 2017 turnaround, but how he got there. He went from focusing only on his own performance pre 2017, to being primarily team oriented. He, like most of us, after the 2016 debacle, had written off any chance of finals success...

The on field issues are mainly coaching IMO. We've gone from a highly structured team, where everyone knew their role, to the complete opposite. I saw some of the Adelaide Crows game, and they are well structured. When the Lions took possession there were no free options to kick to. Then our...

I agree Gale is a major asset we still have to rebuild, but it's going to be a monumental task. Had to laugh at Dimma's podcast interview, where he took the credit for our massive turnaround in 2017. The reality is, it was the acquisition of Caracella, Balme, McRae, Leppitsch, Nank, Prestia...

Before any decision about Hardwick can be made, we need a thorough independent football dept review, to identify where the issues lie and how to rectify them. Is it the fitness dept. The list management. The coaching. Player development. Are they all working in sync, or does one hand not know...

Interesting comment by Hardwick that things can change pretty quickly, we could start winning again in a few weeks. Yes and no. Adelaide is proof that when you get sh*t list playing cohesively as a well drilled team, yes things can turn around quickly on field and suddenly you look like a good...

Certainly pre 2017. Reminded me of the days where we'd beat Hawthorn and Sydney then lose to Melbourne and Gold Coast. These days we're not beating contending teams, but having honourable losses.

What happened to our "process" What happened to everyone playing their role. What happened to "we don't want to rely on one player to score". No Lynch no win for Richmond these days. We are in disarray on field. Dynasty well and truly over. Peggy gone. Benny going. Cothin, JR, Grimes...

Robbo is correct. If you've read The Boys Club you will know why Benny can't get the top AFL job. He's not in the club, and therefore he'd be a threat to the club. He may implement something outrageous like appointing people to jobs in the AFL on merit, rather than boys club affiliations. No...

Hardwick subs out Miller, then moves Balta out of an already depleted back line. Result. Melbourne newby forward Van Roo dominates the final quarter kicks multiple goals. Richmond smashed around the ball and in defence following Dimma's shifting the magnets. Major coaching clanger.

Often they don't even show a replay of the howlers. Very different from the recent past when contentious decisions were analysed and commented on. Seems like an AFL directive to protect the umpires and AFL executives from well deserved criticism. Major censorship has crept into footy now. Only...

A more accurate description would be we were a train wreck of a club back in 2009. Hardwick was a big beneficiary of Richmond finally getting it's act together off field commensurate with him becoming coach. Gary March got the ball rolling, but things stepped up when Benny Gale took over as...

Hopefully the experience of 2016 will result in a quick turnaround for us into 2024. Hard decisions need to be made. Questions for me are, has Benny been distracted by the AFL CEO job last year and this year. Has the transition to a new club president been a distraction too, is the new...

Remember following the 2016 season, similar feelings after making the finals 3 years in a row to not make the finals and get smashed by 100+ points in the final round. All the hope that we were on the right track disappeared, and we rightfully blamed Hardwick. He famously radically changed his...

We made dumb arse basic skill errors when we won the recent flags too, but our team defensive pressure was so immense, that we could recover from those. Now, any error we make and the opposition goes coast to coast and kicks easy goals. Agreed our one wood was the turnover game built on...

I hope you're right, but from what I've seen both Clarke and Sonsie are too soft imo. Not the types you want in a team built on big defensive pressure. I notice Adelaide are building their game around team defence. This is an area we were elite at but now it's a shadow of what it was. For...

Can't agree. They were recruited as midfielders to improve a weakness we had last year. They have not improved our midfield issues, in fact it's probably gone backwards so far this year. The only caveat is our coaching, which may be exacerbating the situation.

Grimes and Vlas are missing Broad and Tarrant. Explains our seemingly disorganized back line. Young is doing ok for a new player, but he can't be expected to fill those 2 missing player's roles. Sampson is on the cusp of being a very good player, been thrown in at the deep end though with no...

Let's celebrate, they'll be with us for 7 years. We can build our next premiership team around them.

Our worst game since 2016. The lack of discipline from the likes of Bolton and KMac was astounding when the game was on the line. Early days, but selling the future for Taranto and Hopper is already looking a munumental failure, maybe Hardwick's getting list management advice from Clarkson...