FR0GGY
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I wish we were smart and cribbed the mark every time, like they did, doesn't seem like there would have been a penalty for it today.
Game Day Richmond vs Adelaide @ the M.C.G(iants Stadium)
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Sometimes I question whether you watch sport at all
We cant have every defender be a dour lockdown type like Butts, Brown, Murray & Kelly. He needs to find more of the pill. He is meant to be super fit and a good kick but we don't see it. Needs to get involved more.
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And yet it was flying out of there for half the game.
I think Walker is playing his best footy since 2017 and may be a chance to surpass the 63 from 9 seasons ago but more likely he'll kick around 50ish shall he stay healthy. And this team is nowhere as talented as it was in 2017. Struggling Collingwood next week who have been trying week in and week out, no excuses if they (Adelaide) come out soft.
I don't recall reading anything resembing an anti-Schoey sentiment.
Read somewhere “not that good”
Butts isn't really dour.
I see him long term being 2nd KPD and McAsey the more pure defender.
Butts is very comfortable playing off his man to win the ball.
Brown has maybe two years left? Starting to get beaten a bit now. Jones can slot in. Jones is more capable moving the ball than brown.
Kelly is a pure stopper. Ball in hand is not great. But until another guy his size comes along capable of stopping and being better offensively he is our best pure stopper.
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I near cut my wrists deep into the third quarter.
Frustrated to ****!
Turned it off.
They weren't spectacular leading patterns, he just lost Murray each time, and he totally missed one spoil in the second that he should have nailed which Richmond kicked a goal from. He had a stinker and it's not all his fault, but he isn't a key defender, his man loses him far too often.
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He was watching the ball for a split second, and CCJ got a very slight gap on him. It was by no means a sprinting lead, I didn't even think it was going to be honoured. I saw it happen a couple of times in that quarter, he was struggling to find a balance between watching the player with the ball and CCJ, and he lost him more than once. He doesn't have the closing speed to be able to give his opponent any room on the lead. In his defense, I think he's more of a forward than a defender, he actually took a couple of good intercept marks outside the 50 arc but he struggles on the last line.
Today watching him live, it just looks like he doesn't want to be out there. Undeniably he has the physical attributes, but something is weighing that kid down massively and he is either too scared or lacks the confidence to take the game on.
I was right behind that one and it was out by a couple of feet at least. We were all staggered the guy on the spot didn't pay it but he was basically in row one, whereas the other guy was more level with Hamill.
Probably needed to try to play in front of him more as Murray would have the pace to catch up if he is found out and behind CCJ but all part of his learning and development in his debut season.
Those posts are saying he is not an elite disposal by foot and not that he isn't that good which I think isn't true, that snap where he nearly kicked the impossible goal.
Ended up going at the last minute today and it was genuinely one of the weirdest games I have ever attended. Literally no atmosphere and the entire crowd shoved into one end of the stadium. Probably more Richmond supporters than Crows overall, but boy did they go silent in the last quarter when we got close.
People were just standing and sitting wherever they wanted and moving around the entire game - I heard some of the few venue staff debate telling us to take our seats instead of standing behind the goals on the concourse, but they smartly realised they would likely have to deal with moving people on from those same seats and it wasn't worth it. There was a strangely large number of police present who were watching the crowd like hawks even though the behaviour overall was extremely tame. I assume they were there filling in for venue security as I couldn't see any of those around.
People were just standing and sitting wherever they wanted and moving around the entire game - I heard some of the few venue staff debate telling us to take our seats instead of standing behind the goals on the concourse, but they smartly realised they would likely have to deal with moving people on from those same seats and it wasn't worth it. There was a strangely large number of police present who were watching the crowd like hawks even though the behaviour overall was extremely tame. I assume they were there filling in for venue security as I couldn't see any of those around.
FR0GGY
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I thought on the tv it sounded like we had a way bigger crowd.
I think we were louder, not bigger, perhaps. Definitely in the last quarter we were louder than they had been all game.
You've heard all the old adages about team getting first to the ball gets the free kick etc, there's no doubt several others.
What's the bet that, if such correlations could be found, there'd be outlier teams on both side. What's the bet Adelaide is regularly on the reaming outlier side?
When a game is otherwise even, there's every reason to think the infractions would be even.
There's also no reason to suspect umpires wouldn't have bias, probably moreso for subconscious bias, given how fallible human minds are.
That's a terrible call on its face, though. He's one of the best kicks in the side.
He can run AND kick at the same time. That makes him one of the best kicks we've had this millenium
