To Dimma,
Your press conference today was as disappointing as today game. I am not going to hide behind an anonymous Big Footy moniker and so have provided my name and membership number.
“We apologize” – this may sound disrespectful but you can shove your apologies Dimma, I only speak for myself, but as one of the tiger faithful you refer too so often I don’t want to hear it, do your job and get them to turn up to play next week against the Bombers, you don’t have to win – but you need to get them to die trying too. And then guess what! They have to do it the week after, and the week after, and the week after, and the week after, and the ………
I knew an empty apology was coming – I didn’t want to hear it, I wanted hear you say this - “To all the Richmond fans that came today please come next week against Essendon so we can show you what we are about”.
And to say that we aren’t going to do a review of the game and “bin it” isn’t good enough. Make the 22 who took the field today sit through it and watch it just like the fans, who the club begged to turn up, who the club begged to donate to the fighting tiger fund, had too. In fact invite 50 fans to come down and go through the game with them.
To say that today’s game “is not us” is inaccurate – unfortunately time and time again of recent years it has been.
Every single players match fee for the week should go into fighting tiger fund – not a single cent to go to any of them. Surely not one of them met the standards expected.
Some of your “favourites” which get a game are killing us:
Helbig – He has promise but he does little at Coburg and comes straight back in with next to no form behind him. Let him develop some form rather than sending him into action.
Hislop – Not good enough – When you have a spud you can boil it, you can roast it, you can mash it, you can cook it whatever way you want – but at the end of the day it’s just a spud.
Farmer – hasn’t got the pace to play small back, small forward or midfield – he can try all he want but he can’t get to the where the footy is often enough.
Finally, Andrew Browne’s performance was one of the worst I have ever seen in a black and yellow jumper – I was sitting still and quite in the crowd but my blood was boiling. I know he is only 20 but it was an absolute disgrace and somebody at the club needs to be honest with him, and with themselves, and just tap him on the shoulder and say “Sorry mate we can’t carry you any longer you aren’t going to make it”.
Why are we not willing to pay 500-600k for a ruckman? We haven’t invested anything into our ruck division for 3-4 years – maybe it’s time to sort it out.
The Tiger supporters turn up year in year out, we have sat through a lot of poor performances, a lot of poor performances, what disappointed me most was that this current group looked like it was different, like they would battle it out even if they are out gunned, but they towelled it today. When it got too tough they didn’t want to work, they are happy to wait a few weeks to scrap the odd win against lower ranked teams rather than rise and produce a ferocious all out attack on the better ones; to stay within their comfort zone and not dare; to hang their heads when it get tough rather than looking their opponents in the eye and saying I’m going to keep coming at you no matter what.
I think this all that any supporter of any football club would ask of their players. If you get the current group to do that then we will “never talk about this again”.
Regards
Karl Nemsow
Member # 1043246
Your press conference today was as disappointing as today game. I am not going to hide behind an anonymous Big Footy moniker and so have provided my name and membership number.
“We apologize” – this may sound disrespectful but you can shove your apologies Dimma, I only speak for myself, but as one of the tiger faithful you refer too so often I don’t want to hear it, do your job and get them to turn up to play next week against the Bombers, you don’t have to win – but you need to get them to die trying too. And then guess what! They have to do it the week after, and the week after, and the week after, and the week after, and the ………
I knew an empty apology was coming – I didn’t want to hear it, I wanted hear you say this - “To all the Richmond fans that came today please come next week against Essendon so we can show you what we are about”.
And to say that we aren’t going to do a review of the game and “bin it” isn’t good enough. Make the 22 who took the field today sit through it and watch it just like the fans, who the club begged to turn up, who the club begged to donate to the fighting tiger fund, had too. In fact invite 50 fans to come down and go through the game with them.
To say that today’s game “is not us” is inaccurate – unfortunately time and time again of recent years it has been.
Every single players match fee for the week should go into fighting tiger fund – not a single cent to go to any of them. Surely not one of them met the standards expected.
Some of your “favourites” which get a game are killing us:
Helbig – He has promise but he does little at Coburg and comes straight back in with next to no form behind him. Let him develop some form rather than sending him into action.
Hislop – Not good enough – When you have a spud you can boil it, you can roast it, you can mash it, you can cook it whatever way you want – but at the end of the day it’s just a spud.
Farmer – hasn’t got the pace to play small back, small forward or midfield – he can try all he want but he can’t get to the where the footy is often enough.
Finally, Andrew Browne’s performance was one of the worst I have ever seen in a black and yellow jumper – I was sitting still and quite in the crowd but my blood was boiling. I know he is only 20 but it was an absolute disgrace and somebody at the club needs to be honest with him, and with themselves, and just tap him on the shoulder and say “Sorry mate we can’t carry you any longer you aren’t going to make it”.
Why are we not willing to pay 500-600k for a ruckman? We haven’t invested anything into our ruck division for 3-4 years – maybe it’s time to sort it out.
The Tiger supporters turn up year in year out, we have sat through a lot of poor performances, a lot of poor performances, what disappointed me most was that this current group looked like it was different, like they would battle it out even if they are out gunned, but they towelled it today. When it got too tough they didn’t want to work, they are happy to wait a few weeks to scrap the odd win against lower ranked teams rather than rise and produce a ferocious all out attack on the better ones; to stay within their comfort zone and not dare; to hang their heads when it get tough rather than looking their opponents in the eye and saying I’m going to keep coming at you no matter what.
I think this all that any supporter of any football club would ask of their players. If you get the current group to do that then we will “never talk about this again”.
Regards
Karl Nemsow
Member # 1043246
