Autopsy 2024 Round 1 Blues hold on in yet another heartstopper

[luke livingston seagull]

TDK kept at it, got on top of Nank and flipped the game on its head. That will be huge for him.

 

[NavySteel]

Harry with 7 tackles.

TDK with 6 tackles.

Love seeing these stats from our talls.

H in sparkling form.

I’m sure coach will highlight that during the week

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Start the Norf preview thread already I need to get my ins and outs out of my system!

 

[ZabsBlues]

Curnow robbed a goal. The ball moved

Curnow needs to get some composure. Why would you play on in the goal square not knowing who’s behind you.

 

[Beyond Blue]

Sometimes it’s as simple as just getting the WIN. I could highlight half a dozen instances of things just going against us that literally could have been the difference between a 5 point win and a 5 goal win. No doubt we have to get better but there’s plenty of time for that and in the meantime we’ve banked the maximum from the first 2 games without our 2 best players. Let’s celebrate and reload for North in a couple weeks.

 

[reg_lower91]

Can someone please explain what the hell is going on here?

 

[Aphrodite]

Start the Norf preview thread already I need to get my ins and outs out of my system!

Nah we’ll have a Bye thread

 

[NavySteel]

Curnow needs to get some composure. Why would you play on in the goal square not knowing who’s behind you.

I agree, but rules are rules….

 

[Garters]

If I am concerned, what I am concerned about is Tom De Konning.

Nankervis - to be honest, every single Richmond ruck - treated him with utter contempt tonight. He didn't just assume the space, he stood there and invited Tom to do whatever he wanted. In his position, his ribs were available, his head was available, his knees and groin were available; what does Tom do? Absolutely ******* nothing. He doesn't try and force Nank to do anything different; Nankervis just ******* set up under the ball and ******* grabbed it out of the ruck.

To say that the rule change which removes HTB as an option in that situation is dumb is missing the point. Despite the goal he kicked and his last 10 minutes, Tom got smashed tonight by his refusal to get dirty. He wants the clean tap, the massive leap, the globetrotters play, but there's more to rucking than just tapping the ball.

You need to be willing to hurt your opponent some. At the moment, Tom's a labrador when we need a rottweiler.

Thought TDK was massive tonight. Very good game.

 

[NavySteel]

Nah we’ll have a Bye thread

Thy, pls…. We’re waiting…

 

[I bleed Blue]

The last two games in 2022 when we lost to Melbourne and the Pies in the dying minutes may just have been the making of this side.

Really made us go away and work on learning how to close out games.

Our structures to hold leads under immense pressure are so much better.

Those 2022 losses hurt like hell , but hopefully the learnings bring us the ultimate success and joy we have been wanting for so, so long.

 

[teagueyubeauty]

Orazio not injured according to Voss, just a like for like change

That’s good, AFL app had him as “sub injured”


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[The Old Dark Navy's]

We won despite our best efforts to throw that one away.

Richmond are a bottom 6 team and that was a very poor effort by us.

They still had 14 premiership players in the side. They are on the decline but they haven't bottomed out yet and are still capable of big games, especially against old enemies.

They beat the Swans, Saints, Giants in Sydney, Crows in Adelaide, Cats and pushed Collingwood and Melbourne. They're not exactly dogshit yet.

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

From the Age write up:

But it was ruckman Tom De Koning rather than the goalscoring quartet who chimed in with the match winning effort when required with a team lifting tackle and then minutes later a goal to give the Blues the lead in the last quarter.

Carlton show they are the new Collingwood, Gibcus out for the season

In a devastating blow, Richmond confirmed that young defender Josh Gibcus tore his anterior cruciate ligament in the narrow loss to Carlton at the MCG.

www.theage.com.au

He won the hitouts, had 5 inside 50s (3rd best on ground - Nank zero), 5 score involvements and was critical in the key moments. A big part of the reason we won the game was TDK. And you think he was toweled up? Nank is a very good player at what he does. Extremely strong over the ball but not much polish. You have to acknowledge they're different types of players but on the whole TDK did more than enough damage.

TDK was great when it mattered. Nank was underdone and he worked him over in the end. Glad he nailed that set shot, that will give him a lot of confidence.

We could always roll out Mirkov if we simply wanted to win the taps, but the best ruckman are so much more than that.

 

[katmanblue]

******* BT.

Walks straight past Weiters to ask Brad Lloyd about… Weiters

Knows he's going to get donuts from Weitering.

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[Thrawn]

******* BT.

Walks straight past Weiters to ask Brad Lloyd about… Weiters

Probably thought it was Ross from Friends.

 

[I bleed Blue]

How bloody good was that Cerra smother

Will get a good viewing and highlighted to the group during the match review

 

[Stig O'Hara]

…..& that bastard that cut Charlie’s beautiful, beautiful face.

In the book.

 

[Pablito]

TDK was great when it mattered. Nank was underdone and he worked him over in the end. Glad he nailed that set shot, that will give him a lot of confidence.

We could always roll out Mirkov if we simply wanted to win the taps, but the best ruckman are so much more than that.

Spot on. TDK has proved in the past 2 games why we only need one ruckman.

He's stepped up. We'd never see this growth if certain people got their way here and we played Pitto alongside him consistently.

 

[Bluella]

That was the worst game I've seen for a while. Lucky to get away with that. Our defence was diabolical at times and I deadset wanted to inflict some temporarily uncomfortable misery on a couple of them.

But we got the 4 points. We found a way to win.

 

[athensblue]

Ugly win, but full of Character
We tried hard to keep them in the game
Classy, gutsy outfit Vossy has put together
Rest up and work on our 3rd win
Go blues

 

[Uncle Fester]

Bank the four points.

Never watch that game again. Ever.

Ive been out all night a kids sport. Saw the last 5 minutes, listened to the radio for the rest. Not sure i can watch the replay

 

[cripppa9]

Winning ugly at this stage of the year is fine. Up the baggers.

 

[Bluella]

Ok some positives - TDK was awesome. Glad to see Harry playing well. Charlie saved our bacon at the end. Ollie did some nice things.

 

[teddy-hopkins]

They still had 14 premiership players in the side. They are on the decline but they haven't bottomed out yet and are still capable of big games, especially against old enemies.

They beat the Swans, Saints, Giants in Sydney, Crows in Adelaide, Cats and pushed Collingwood and Melbourne. They're not exactly dogshit yet.

Agree - they were a team last year who can look terrible for a few weeks then "get up" for 1 game and scratch out a good result. Tonight they were up for the game. Still not happy with our attempt at self-harm tonight.