Preview Preliminary Final - Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Fri 16/10 7.50pm AEDT

[Karp3_dm]

please win
A mate of mine (Sydney fan) has never been to ao before so we're going (paid for your corporate package)
Lets make the experience great with a smashing similar to Geelong vs Collingwood

Would love to watch Port fans go home crying at half time

Both of you will be wearing a tigers scarf I assume? We need all the fans we get there!!

 

[aislegi]

Wallaby “Winning the flag in 2017 was like finally punching the airlock that flushed the alien into deep space”:

 

[tugga]

Superb Wallaby bravo

 

[muzhogg]

The pumping up of port over here is well and truly underway. You’d think they’d won 2 of the last 3 flags. Not an ounce of respect for their opposition. It’s all about how port have been the best team all year and how they destroyed us last time even though that’s completely irrelevant. Pressure on them to win will be through the roof.

Tom Jonas has already booked an Uber to get home after the game. Has asked them to ensure there is a spare seat for their Preliminaryship cup.

 

[Foley#41]

Kick. With. The. Wind.



Even Bob Seger knows what against the wind leads to. And he’s never even been to Australia, let alone an AFL game.

 

[Jono_Hain97]

In 2017 and 2019 Rafa won a grand slam during our finals campaign and we went on to win the flag! I get the feeling that if Rafa wins Roland Garros tomorrow morning we go all the way !

 

[Serenity_Now]

I thought 69 was the random number people came up with..

 

[_Wang_]

Can't lose from here!

 

[smasha]

In 2017 and 2019 Rafa won a grand slam during our finals campaign and we went on to win the flag! I get the feeling that if Rafa wins Roland Garros tomorrow morning we go all the way !

Vamos!

 

[GoTigers2015]

Trent Cotchin due to play his 250th game (170 as captain).

 

[tigerdan]

Rewatched the semi. We look good. Think the extra game suits us getting game time into the prime movers.

Unchanged lineup and I think we'll be good enough to win by about 3 goals.

 

[Wazza69]

Trent Cotchin due to play his 250th game (170 as captain).


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[KeilorUnder9s]

If I were this poor at my job I would be on Job "seeker". Jesus Christ!

 

[Angus Young]

Tickets on sale 9am

No one got a coupe of members barcodes they are not using?

 

[Hoos]

If Dixon has a blinder we are done for.

Won't happen.

 

[sante]

Tickets on sale 9am

No one got a coupe of members barcodes they are not using?

Doesn’t work due to Covid I think?

From the email I got:

As per our membership terms and conditions, membership cards and associated benefits are for personal use only and may not be transferred to another person under any circumstance. Due to COVID-19 tracing, the member name must correspond with the ticket purchaser name.

 

[Ceehook]

no rest for the big Nank

Scott Lycett will prove a testing opponent
if one of that pair comes out on top on the night it could go a long way to deciding the match

when we played them last time Soldo was the man but he copped multiple heavy knocks during the game
and looked like he was struggling

the intensity of that game was enormous and I told any one who would listen , grand final like
but can they reproduce
I dont think the Port Cats game was as hectic but it was played like a true final
so we have to respect Port and they will have a rabid home crowd willing them on
and with that will come the affect on the free kick count

since 2000 there has been a lot of tough close prelim finals , almost like the norm

I dont want that , need a lead at half time and to edge further away during the second half so the guys have something left in the tank for the big dance

 

[Angus Young]

Doesn’t work due to Covid I think?

From the email I got:

As per our membership terms and conditions, membership cards and associated benefits are for personal use only and may not be transferred to another person under any circumstance. Due to COVID-19 tracing, the member name must correspond with the ticket purchaser name.

seriously doubt that. that's what they say. But u get a ticket and scan barcode from ur phone when u enter gate. no one checks names.

 

[Angus Young]

Anyway here's hoping Tigers smash them. Looking like scattered showers and some wind. Feel like that suits Richmond.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

We need to start really strong. Port have a habit of making us play catch-up.

 

[GastevsBeard]

A few things I think we need to win

1) Nullify performance of Ports key talls (Dixon, Ladham, Lycett) - probably our biggest vulnerability
2) Dusty to hit the scoreboard more
3) Either Jack or Tim Lunch, whoever gets off the chain to kick straight

 

[DontArgue4]

A few things I think we need to win

1) Nullify performance of Ports key talls (Dixon, Ladham, Lycett) - probably our biggest vulnerability
2) Dusty to hit the scoreboard more
3) Either Jack or Tim Lunch, whoever gets off the chain to kick straight

I reckon these would be my top 3 keys too

Have to take our chances when we get them, scoreboard pressure is going to be king

 

[joelsyt]

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If I were this poor at my job I would be on Job "seeker". Jesus Christ!

Also while I agree, our win against St Kilda was underwhelming, we need to improve a lot, how is a 15 point win at home comprehensive? I mean maybe it’s just me, but Port didn’t really prove anything to me, they won because Geelong were shocking when kicking for goal.

 

[joelsyt]

Tickets on sale 9am

No one got a coupe of members barcodes they are not using?

You won’t be able to use Victorian barcodes for this game and I imagine a lot of South Australian Richmond members would be going to the game. Good luck finding that barcode though, sorry man.

 

[Grrr]

Morning all.

If you are reading this, please help. I’m currently trapped in a dungeon, held prisoner by a Dastardly Dictator who seems determined to prevent me from making any contact with the outside world. I haven’t breathed fresh air for the last 6 months, and my physical and mental health is suffering from an unhealthy overdose of unidentifiable animal and vegetable compost, served in what appears to be a plastic hubcap from a 1965 Valiant Regal, heated in an elctrickery-radiation box and eaten with whatever non-fatal conconction I can produce from any paint thinners and assorted cleaning products that I can find. If you can help, please send fresh water, soap, razor blades and food (but no kebabs).

Ok, it’s not quite that bad. The caravan in Mum and Dad's back yard is reasonably comfortable, the wi-fi’s good, working from home has some compensations, and as a Richmond supporter (particularly one active on BigFooty) I have spent much of the last 40 years keeping my head down while dealing with the sneers, jeers and (worst of all) sympathy from opposition supporters. Spending the winter locked down in a permanent depression while avoiding contact with the outside world brings back memories of those glorious 80s (and 90s) (and 2000s) (you get the point).

But that was then. Now – Richmond are a good side. For example, just like week we

A) Played a final
B) Started favourites and
C) Won well

a chain of events completely foreign to many Tiger fans who lived through the Dark Ages. And it’s been happening for 4 years now. Winning the flag in 2017 was like finally punching the airlock that flushed the alien into deep space. We are also the current premiers – and if anyone wants to take the throne, they still have to come through us. I keep thinking that I’m going to wake one morning, having dreamt up Dusty Martin (not like that you ‘orrible little perverts) and I’m back to looking for details of Richmond’s futile exploits in a minor paragraph about 6 pages in from the back page of the paper (kids – ask your dad to ask his dad what a newspaper was). But I’m pretty sure this reality is not merely a figment of my overstressed, tortured psyche and that we are playing our 4th preliminary final in 4 years this coming weekend.

So – Port Adelaide. They’ve had a good year. Played well. Been consistent. Adopted the Richmond long-term strategy of ‘We’re sticking with this coach until he wins us a flag, because we can’t afford a new one’ despite some pressure from supporters for a change. But they stayed the course and are now reaping the rewards – maybe because the players decided to listen to the coach for a while rather than the wise sages on the club websites.

They certainly have some exciting young players, Robbie Gray’s a champion, and they have the entire state, much of the state, a few wharfies from the 1970s behind them. You have to like Port somewhat – unlike most of the other new franchises they at least have a historical basis for their existence, they have a core of solid rusted-on supporters and they are first and foremost a football club. If they sometimes sound like a little kid complaining to Mum that she won’t let them wear their favourite jumper, well good on them for being a bit stroppy.

Still – ‘Best side all Year’, ‘Finished on Top’, ‘Deserved favourites’, ‘Paladins of South Australia’ – where have I heard that before?

So how do Richmond beat the competition powerhouse? Well, pretty much by playing our game. We seemed to get some of our flow back the last few weeks and are starting to produce our surge of running football again. When we have our gameplan operating properly, we create an irresistable tide that swamps opposition defences

by giving them no time to react and by being able to instantly apply pressure if we lose the ball. In defence we need to at least nullify Dixon – we can run either Asbury or Balta against him with Grimes floating in when needed. Stopping Gray completely is pretty much impossible as he’s a brilliant reader of broken play which means he’ll get his chances. I’m sure the coaching staff will have Plan A, B, and C ready in case he starts running amok (Plan C being Neil Balme). I think Broad may get first crack.

In the midfield, I’m feeling pretty good about our chances. The return of Sheds and Prestia has greatly increased our power there, Martin is being Martin, and Nank is back to his bulldozing best – ‘Here mate, you have the hitout and then let me smash some poor little rover of yours’. Between them, they should provide plenty of quick ball for Riewoldt and Lynch to do their stuff (ie: Riewoldt – ‘Flail arms about and look for a free kick’, Lynch – ‘Accidentally elbow or knee opponent in the head and look for a free kick’). Rioli's playing his one month of football for the year, we have no idea what George is doing, so how the f*** would the defenders, and Bolton - wow. The forward line's fine.

As you can tell, I’m quietly (and probably unreasonably) confident about our chances. Port will be deserved favourites – they have played some great football this year, we don’t have the best record in Adelaide, and the home crowd can be relied upon to intimidate the umpires. But I think we still have a few cards yet to be played this season, and I think we will come out firing (we’ve haven’t won a game this season where we have been behind at ¼ time, and only lost one where we were in front). Despite all that, and the media hating us (the narrative this week will be interesting), if they want to win the flag, they still have to come through us – and I don’t think they will find that easy.


It’s good to be the King. Tigers by 22.

Your opening line left me thinking that you were perhaps writing from Groupie's dungeon. Alas not to be.