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I wonder what Daniel benches. The man is one hell of a unit
He’s flattened both Max Gawn and Sean Darcy. Strong fella.
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I wonder what Daniel benches. The man is one hell of a unit
He is leaning back on a few of his set shots 40-50 out, losing momentum at the strike point.Its a shame he left a few relatively easy ones out on the field.
If there was any doubt he's arrived in a big way and will only get better from here.
He is leaning back on a few of his set shots 40-50 out, losing momentum at the strike point.
Oooohhhh to have a decent forwards coach. It’s so obvious.
I honestly thought Scott was having a really good game up until he got concussed. Pressure was good, he was more aggressive than normal and stuck a few really strong tackles, the touches he had were clean. He's been in a bit of a rut of form lately, but looked like he was aware of that and really trying to turn it around.West needs to remain in the team, no more floating in and out or as the sub. While not overly quick he’s a tackling maniac and has excellent hands that translates to him being a damaging score involvement player.
Time to fully back him in.
Related - it’s also time to phase Scott out. He’s extremely courageous but small yet not quick or skilled. West, AJ and Clarke are that future in that area for us, I’d love to see all three in the side vs west coast in a couple of weeks. AJ may have to have a couple more goes at sub, but I think that’s a good option for him until he gets another preseason in.
I have a great fear that Libba and English are going to take too many votes off Bont and that's how Daicos and Petracca will beat himNek Minnet Petracca comes from the clouds to take it out
Richmond's changes were self inflicted though. They chose to manage Cotchin and Dusty. Same as when we played them earlier in the year with Cotchin as sub. They either don't respect us or they are helping usThe way Richmond played early had more to do with coming off a really tough game against Melbourne, combined with a 5 day break and missing 3 key players in Cotchin, Martin and Grimes. They just couldn't keep up with our running game.
Coming off such a disappointing loss in Ballarat, I thought the boys would come out fired up, and ready to shop early - the Tiges just couldn't / wouldn't do the hard yards to match us. As a consequence, the result was a fait d'accompli by 1/4 time.
It is but I feel that the shots are starting to come from better spots I.e. not wide in the pockets all the time. Getting more direct Shots and often closer to goalNaughtons set shot kicking is improving I reckon
Forget the Brownlow, Bont started the round 21 coaches votes behind Daicos and 10 behind Petracca. He's now 11 behind Daicos and level with Petracca in 2nd with both of those yet to play this round.I have a great fear that Libba and English are going to take too many votes off Bont and that's how Daicos and Petracca will beat him
Nank and Vlaustin are two scumbags of the highest order.Good to see the Tiggers taking their usual cheap shots. Knees in packs, head high and late contact when beaten for the ball.
Bunch of pricks.
Bont will be fine, historically Macca, Libba, Dunks haven’t stolen too many votes off him. English tends to fly under the radar, even last night he was solid but Bont, Libba, Marra will take the votes.I have a great fear that Libba and English are going to take too many votes off Bont and that's how Daicos and Petracca will beat him
They brought up a stat on screen last night, he’s something like 36.15 from set shots this year. I was genuinely stunned he’d been that accurateNaughtons set shot kicking is improving I reckon
Except for that last one. There were a few disappointing misses in the past including one from Cody that he’d usually kick. No doubt fatigued though.Naughtons set shot kicking is improving I reckon
Tips out for the ladsMaybe he's trolling us and the tatts are literally just the two little tips we can see.
Buddy kicked 73 goals in his 3rd year (and 116 in his 4th) so not quiteI think he's still tracking ahead of where Buddy was at the same age. If someone has a comparison it would be good to see
Yeah I’ve said it since VFL days, that he just seems to be the type that he’ll come in and avg 2 goals a game straight away - his first two years were slow at times and didn’t play out like that but that’s starting to shine through now. He just generates bulk scores.Honestly it could be 2024. He’s 3rd in the league in marks inside 50 and 11th in total score involvements across the league. He just generates a significant amount of scores and scoring positions.
Marra isn’t just a mark and goal player either, he has a very well rounded forward game already. If he’s kicking 50-60 goals with the rest of his game, it puts him in the conversation.
Dusty “managed”.Richmond's changes were self inflicted though. They chose to manage Cotchin and Dusty. Same as when we played them earlier in the year with Cotchin as sub. They either don't respect us or they are helping us
You've got to wonder why this wasn't tried months ago when nothing else was working or even attractive to the eye. Our own fans were switching off. Meanwhile the best teams in the comp were playing this way. Not only winning, but drawing oohs and aahs from the neutral onlookers.What the hell happened last night? Did Bevo show some humility and concede that we we've wasted the season on a s**t gameplan, and decide to throw caution to the wind? There was clearly an attitude last night of just moving the ball aggressively and accepting the risk. At times we looked uncomfortable and awkward doing it because we aren't practiced in that style. But the outcome was a great win and an enjoyable spectacle.
At the end of the first quarter I still felt like the game was 50/50 given our recent history of great starts leading to disappointing losses. But we didn't go into our shells like we normally do once the momentum swings, and we just kept attacking and the lead stayed healthy all night.
Yeah I’m sure some will argue that we just executed better last night, and maybe true to an extent - but that was clearly a different mindset in almost all facets of both our offensive & defensive games last night IMO.You've got to wonder why this wasn't tried months ago when nothing else was working or even attractive to the eye. Our own fans were switching off. Meanwhile the best teams in the comp were playing this way. Not only winning, but drawing oohs and aahs from the neutral onlookers.
I don't buy the argument that we didn't have the personnel. That's been way overstated. We have had all of last night's personnel for much of the year even if not quite all at the same time. Liam Jones only missed 5 games. The biggest string of missed games was JJ (8 games) but he alone doesn't make the difference.
It was pretty apparent that the players really enjoyed last night too. Seemed like the shackles were off.
They are both at or very close to the endRichmond's changes were self inflicted though. They chose to manage Cotchin and Dusty. Same as when we played them earlier in the year with Cotchin as sub. They either don't respect us or they are helping us
Who said he wasn't trying to win?Why is it that people think this victory somehow proves, with fancy words, that "Beveridge was not trying to to win before but he tried really hard to win this game, and that's why the Dogs won"?
I think that it was just a consequence of the mc being forced to abandon the stupidity of playing Bruce, Keath and Gardner in the same defensive half.What the hell happened last night? Did Bevo show some humility and concede that we we've wasted the season on a s**t gameplan, and decide to throw caution to the wind? There was clearly an attitude last night of just moving the ball aggressively and accepting the risk. At times we looked uncomfortable and awkward doing it because we aren't practiced in that style. But the outcome was a great win and an enjoyable spectacle.
At the end of the first quarter I still felt like the game was 50/50 given our recent history of great starts leading to disappointing losses. But we didn't go into our shells like we normally do once the momentum swings, and we just kept attacking and the lead stayed healthy all night.