Autopsy Roast, Toast & Changes for Round 5 Vs. West Coast

[Grockadoc]

Any idea of his injury?

Rolled his ankle.

 

[GastevsBeard]

Going full glass half full, our season was mortally wounded with gibcus going down and ended with Lynch and Balta going down - so playing to win but ultimately losing is the best outcome for 2024

The good from the past fortnight

• Yze clearly has buy-in the way the team has applied itself the past 2 weeks
• Brown has really impressed - elite kicking and defensive skills. I now understand playing Balta forward
• MJ has found a role that maximises his niche attributes. Again, kudos Yze
• Dusty & Bolton were clinical
• we are likely looking at a top 5 and top 25 pick in the draft. We desperately need some top end talent injected into the side, which is just the panacea ahead of Tassie joining

All good signs, but I still go to bed tonight absolutely ****ing furious

 

[SavDog23]

Never seen a more cursed side for injuries.

Kosi might be the worst player I've seen put a Richmond jumper on since 2016.

 

[Lsta062]

Agree with most of this but I thought Kosi showed signs that his form is improving and we should see him able to hold those marks in coming weeks, remember even Richo took 6 weeks into a season before his marking form was at the level

I don't know, because he's been doing that for weeks in the VFL. Even lowly Hawthorn dropped him out of the side.

I'm at a point now where I just want to see him hold on before I believe he can do it

 

[Drunken Wookie]

In Sonsies defense he was one of a very few who was actually trying to make things happen, he just had no support. We looked like we had the cue in the rack with 9 mins on the clock, 8 points down.

 

[Muddiemoose]

Pickett and Macca had 1 touch the entire last quarter. Pickett has been living off a GF blind turn and a late goal against GWS for 30 games. Macca has been living off I don’t know what for 45.

Macca hasn’t had a single coaches vote for 44 games. Pickett for 33. They are cooked .. f*rk them off !


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Can’t melt all we want but we don’t exactly have options smashing down the door to push them out either

Campbell played some wing today and it was far from his best game, Banks still building and Hugo would offer nothing defensively

We don’t really have the players available to force them out to have a mid play the role either so I’m not to fussed about them honestly

 

[Matthew45]

God there is some absolutely embarrassing s**t being posted.

We had the great same intent as last week, except without 3 of our best players and on a bullshit non-AFL standard ground that made the entire game a cluster *. Some of you reeling off our kids as if they were the issue are a disgrace. At least they had their hands on the ball with the game on the line.

Our system stood up and got pipped because we’re not mature enough yet. 11 players under 50 games. Great effort.


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crap effort, but try again.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Some good signs.

 

[tugga]

Ross? Had 24 touches and was pretty clean

Had zero impact.

 

[smasha]

It was our home game.
Sent to a bowling alley and lost the free kick count.

#cfl

 

[tropicaltiger]

oh well
at least we aint Hawthorn, and have a ducking guinea pig on our list

 

[prodigy]

Okay, I have to come to Sonsie's defence here.
Last 5 mins was admittedly not great but he almost kicked two goals that would have put us in front. Only to be denied by two sets of fingertips. He was putting himself in amongst it which is more than I can say for many others.
Also to those criticising the holding the ball he got caught with, he literally picked it up with one hand then got tackled by someone he was blind to who came at speed.

Feel like people are using him as a scapegoat when he was at least trying to get us over the line. I'm not absolving him of fault as he made some really poor decisions today.

The heat should be on the likes of Pickett, McIntosh, Short and Graham. Short's kicking has been awful and all he does is just throw it on the boot. It's infuriating.

 

[Muddiemoose]

The thing is, Sonsie has played at AFL level before.

His efforts in that last quarter were inecusable. They were basic errors that not even a 'kid' should be making.

That effort where he went to ground instead of keeping his feet was bad and is one of the first things you get taught. Always keep your feet.

I’m not super worried

I’m filthy that it happened but he’s only played like 11 games with some as the sub and it’s the first time we have seen him make these kinds of mistakes

He also had some decent moments in the game
Just got to ride it out for now and make a move if it becomes a trend

He shouldn’t of got called for holding the ball either in that last contes

He picked up the ball and got tackled right away, had no prior imo should of been a ball up

 

[docko911]

God there is some absolutely embarrassing s**t being posted.

We had the great same intent as last week, except without 3 of our best players and on a bullshit non-AFL standard ground that made the entire game a cluster *. Some of you reeling off our kids as if they were the issue are a disgrace. At least they had their hands on the ball with the game on the line.

Our system stood up and got pipped because we’re not mature enough yet. 11 players under 50 games. Great effort.


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We had Bolton pull goals out of his arse and St Kilda miss sitters, don’t sugar coat it we should’ve lost by 30+ and were lucky Martin played.

 

[Tiger51]

Bit Harsh. Sonsie tackled immediately

Personally I thought this was an umpiring error given the numerous non HTB decisions not paid against the Saints throughout the match? Maybe I am a ONE EYED supporter???

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Had zero impact.

Same could be said of Tarranto.

 

[mauricerioli]

We can’t play Kosi and Lefau as our key forwards again, their inability to even compete for high balls was terrible.

 

[Lsta062]

Yze should make MOST players wait til end of season for new contracts. HOWEVER I'd be giving Miller a 3 year dear pronto before another team swoops in. He has a son already too

I'm impressed by Miller. Honestly, he's proved himself this year. Glad he stayed

 

[Karp3_dm]

It’s so funny how this board melts when we were 20 point underdogs with the bookies.

Missing half our side including our 3 best KPP’s so forced to play a spud like Kosi and 3rd gamer rugby Lefau as our main forward targets.

10 players under 40 games

We lost by 7 points ffs… so many good signs!

It’s deadset embarsssing all the posters hammering the kids…

It’s more the premiership heroes and leaders like Short, Graham, McIntosh and Pickett that are letting us down

 

[banzai]

God there is some absolutely embarrassing s**t being posted.

We had the great same intent as last week, except without 3 of our best players and on a bullshit non-AFL standard ground that made the entire game a cluster *. Some of you reeling off our kids as if they were the issue are a disgrace. At least they had their hands on the ball with the game on the line.

Our system stood up and got pipped because we’re not mature enough yet. 11 players under 50 games. Great effort.


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Was always going to be the case. If Lynch and Balta didnt play last week, we would have lost by 10 goals and everyone would have blamed the kids. Instead we win and they look that good. The small forwards especially are up against it with no good talls around them. We had a crack, if we keep the games close Ill be happy enough. There is really not much we can do without Lynch to beat any decent side. Kosi, Lefau, Ryan, Naismith, whoever we try as the number 1 key forward wont get it done.

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Never seen a more cursed side for injuries.

Kosi might be the worst player I've seen put a Richmond jumper on since 2016.

3 worst players I've ever seen play for Richmond:

1. Fatty Farmer
2. Michael Laffy
3. Gus Graham / Kosi

There was a long list to choose from also.

I left out some dozzies like Trent Knobel and Ben Marsh.

 

[Black Saab]

Gonna be a tough slog until at least Balta is back. Wilkie did as he pleased without anyone to compete with him and bring the ball to the ground.

Given the enormity of the hole created up forward through injuries I'd say what we're looking at isn't wins but team cohesion and individual player development until we can get the forward line sorted again.

Today's close loss is as good as a close win when you look at who we had out and that they kept fighting till the end. That fight to the end is so important. Essendon could learn from our kids.

 

[Lsta062]

Dow and Ross aren’t up to the level.
That’s ok.
They had a crack.

I think that's a bit harsh on Ross. I thought he was pretty decent

 

[Drunken Wookie]

It’s so funny how this board melts when we were 20 point underdogs with the bookies.

Missing half our side including our 3 best KPP’s so forced to play a spud like Kosi and 3rd gamer rugby Lefau as our main forward targets.

10 players under 40 games

We lost by 7 points ffs… so many good signs!

It’s deadset embarsssing all the posters hammering the kids…

It’s more the premiership heroes and leaders like Short, Graham, McIntosh and Pickett that are letting us down

 

[tiger_tough]

No matter how Graham played the clowns in here were always going to say he was shit. He was fine, certainly far from our worst. First game back. Equal high clearances for us, 3rd most tackles.

If Seth Campbell had that game we'd be praising him.