Autopsy Roast & toast R9 vs Western Bulldogs and changes for R10 vs Brisbane

Best 5 vs Dogs

  • 2: Dylan Grimes

  • 4: Dustin Martin

  • 5: Jack Ross

  • 7: Liam Baker

  • 8: Jack Riewoldt

  • 9: Trent Cotchin

  • 11: Jason Castagna

  • 13: Jack Higgins

  • 15: Jayden Short

  • 19: Tom Lynch

  • 20: Ivan Soldo

  • 21: Noah Balta

  • 23: Kane Lambert

  • 29: Shai Bolton

  • 31: Oleg Markov

  • 33: Kamdyn MacIntosh

  • 35: Nathan Broad

  • 39: Jake Aarts

  • 41: Mabior Chol

  • 43: Derek Eggmolesse-Smith

  • 44: Sydney Stack

  • 50: Marlion Pickett


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Smashing win tonight, special mention and full credit to the coaching staff for the tactical adjustment from last week, we took away the Dogs' potential contested advantage by playing a controlled, high marking brand of footy and our midfield set up really well against some dangerous opponents after being more than a little obvious last week.

We had an advantage in the big man department, but the whole spine was fantastic tonight, Jack and Lynch got some better ball in and spaced themselves nicely, Balta was absolutely magnificent in all aspects of his game, Grimes bloody great as always. Would have liked to see a few more HTA's from Soldo, but he was clearly trying to keep the fall of the ball in close at times and hit it clear and wide at others to suit the way we set up, loved some of that basketball hands fast handball, he's never the weak link in a handball chain. Marbs was really great again, even got over English at times after Bevo demoted English following the bath he got in the first quarter, was very dangerous up forward and like Balta, he's just as adept at ground level. Going superbly.

Balta, Chol, Soldo, just so much talent there from three big blokes under 30 games. For those endlessly complaining CCJ should replace Soldo, it's Chol who is preventing him getting a run, he's playing too consistently well. Soldo's big enough and strong enough to compete very well for four quarters against all the monster rucks and CCJ is just not at that point of his career yet.

Midfield was really superb tonight, Dusty got freed up a little more to play half forward and was magnificent both there and in the guts, clearly BOG and back to some truly ominous form. We set up significantly better at stoppages than we have so far this year, Cotch's inspiring contested work and leadership was a very welcome addition and Bolton continued his excellent recent form, his kicking is flattening and lengthening and the distance he's covering to make contests is really going from strength to strength. Lambert solid, Georgie was fantastic again, he's been in consistently career best form these last weeks he's been been given a license to roam more, he's demanding more time upfield and he'll get it.

Egg will no doubt collect some knockers for a handful of defensive efforts, but he was good again overall for a raw kid, used the ball well again with both feet and by hand and I have no doubt there will be a good upwards curve in his defensive capabilities yet to come, much like we've seen from Short who is also hitting consistent career peaks and can seldom be knocked for his defensive efforts this year. Broad was great again, really added some fine rebound and ball use to his toolbox, Markov was very solid, Aarts is progressing well now he's got those early kicking yips out of the way, Pickett had a great game, really set the tone for us in the first half with some great individual plays after a little bit of a shaky start.

Speaking of which, our follow up work was really exceptional tonight, to a man, every one of the 22 out there doubled down and went twice as hard immediately after making an error. Along with our pace, run and overall positioning as a group, that was just so great to see, we're really working hard for each other and it's showing.

Massive game again next Tuesday (feels so weird to be typing that on a Wednesday night!), but we've got one huge 8-point game out of the way with a great result and we can go into the next weeks of this 'festival' full of confidence that literally everyone in the hub can come in and play their role well when needed.

Well done players and coaches, very heartening performance. :thumbsu::richmond:
 
Smashing win tonight, special mention and full credit to the coaching staff for the tactical adjustment from last week, we took away the Dogs' potential contested advantage by playing a controlled, high marking brand of footy and our midfield set up really well against some dangerous opponents after being more than a little obvious last week.

We had an advantage in the big man department, but the whole spine was fantastic tonight, Jack and Lynch got some better ball in and spaced themselves nicely, Balta was absolutely magnificent in all aspects of his game, Grimes bloody great as always. Would have liked to see a few more HTA's from Soldo, but he was clearly trying to keep the fall of the ball in close at times and hit it clear and wide at others to suit the way we set up, loved some of that basketball hands fast handball, he's never the weak link in a handball chain. Marbs was really great again, even got over English at times after Bevo demoted English following the bath he got in the first quarter, was very dangerous up forward and like Balta, he's just as adept at ground level. Going superbly.

Balta, Chol, Soldo, just so much talent there from three big blokes under 30 games. For those endlessly complaining CCJ should replace Soldo, it's Chol who is preventing him getting a run, he's playing too consistently well. Soldo's big enough and strong enough to compete very well for four quarters against all the monster rucks and CCJ is just not at that point of his career yet.

Midfield was really superb tonight, Dusty got freed up a little more to play half forward and was magnificent both there and in the guts, clearly BOG and back to some truly ominous form. We set up significantly better at stoppages than we have so far this year, Cotch's inspiring contested work and leadership was a very welcome addition and Bolton continued his excellent recent form, his kicking is flattening and lengthening and the distance he's covering to make contests is really going from strength to strength. Lambert solid, Georgie was fantastic again, he's been in consistently career best form these last weeks he's been been given a license to roam more, he's demanding more time upfield and he'll get it.

Egg will no doubt collect some knockers for a handful of defensive efforts, but he was good again overall for a raw kid, used the ball well again with both feet and by hand and I have no doubt there will be a good upwards curve in his defensive capabilities yet to come, much like we've seen from Short who is also hitting consistent career peaks and can seldom be knocked for his defensive efforts this year. Broad was great again, really added some fine rebound and ball use to his toolbox, Markov was very solid, Aarts is progressing well now he's got those early kicking yips out of the way, Pickett had a great game, really set the tone for us in the first half with some great individual plays after a little bit of a shaky start.

Speaking of which, our follow up work was really exceptional tonight, to a man, every one of the 22 out there doubled down and went twice as hard immediately after making an error. Along with our pace, run and overall positioning as a group, that was just so great to see, we're really working hard for each other and it's showing.

Massive game again next Tuesday (feels so weird to be typing that on a Wednesday night!), but we've got one huge 8-point game out of the way with a great result and we can go into the next weeks of this 'festival' full of confidence that literally everyone in the hub can come in and play their role well when needed.

Well done players and coaches, very heartening performance. :thumbsu::richmond:
Great post mate, very well summed up!
 
Astbury comes back if fit so it will allow Balta to play on the athletic tall forward and Astbury on the gorilla forward, Broad can play on the third tall and it will allow Grimes to play on the most damaging small or medium forward.
Jeeze mate you know our setup well!! I Agree with you too which makes it even more impressive 😉
 
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