Preview Round 1 Richmond vs carltoon, 7.20pm thursday 16th march, MCG

[tigers12]

gonna start drinking ice cold vbs at 7am to deal with the incoming loss

not worth getting on the vbx only 250mls what a crock of shit

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Yep.
judson clarke should be in his spot.

So mansell is a crab.
Interesting rationale

 

[Sir_Loin]

cumbo must have a niggle. Only reason he isn't playing

 

[biaseddustyfan]

I get the melts on Cumberland, but with Lynch, Riewoldt, Martin and Bolton in the F50, we don’t need another goal kicker there, we’ve got enough firepower. We need someone who will just put pressure and tackle. So selecting someone for pressure is better for our balance. Cumberland is not a pressure forward, he is a developing 3rd tall marking option with fantastic goal smarts. He is a depth player right now

cumbo in for cotch and cotch sub

 

[tropicaltiger]

Just curious, will Mansell play forward or back?

mansell will be all over saad like a cheap suit, im expecting Adam Saad to be the recipient of about 5 free kicks and a Knuckle Sandwich or two.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

that MCG surface will be garbage after the last few concerts. I hope The players really test their boots come first Q. Can easily see a few slips costing us a few in the first half.

Just hope we start healthy for the first half of the year. That's what will keep our top 4 hopes alive

Hopefully Cotch wins the toss and kicks too the stage free side.

 

[Profop]

For forward 50 balance I totally understand why Cumberland doesn’t play. He’ll still get at least twelve AFL games this year as they rest older players and there are injuries

More surprised that they’ve named Graham. He’s been poor when forced to play underdone in the past and Clarke was in good form

My worry is that they are relying on a tactical sub with the Graham selection and if there’s an injury to anyone else that could come back to bite us

 

[chriso11]

Really looking forward to this. Dimma probably has the most complete list available to him in all his time at Richmond. I'm not expecting too much at the front end of the season given that the quality players we have recruited and developed still need time to gel together. The business end though should see us in 2019 and 2020 territory. And could someone please instruct Noah Balta to just play his intuitive "see ball - punch or kick ball 60 meters" natural game. In the words of the great Tommy Hafey - no finessing son.

100%
Out with the melts, in with genuine excitement about a new season being upon us.
Footy is back!

 

[chriso11]

cumbo in for cotch and cotch sub

I actually think Graham took Cumbo’s spot

 

[Rioli2Rioli]

I just want to see Mich McNuggets stand in the hole in front of Lynch with Lynch driving his big knee square into the middle of his back

I want to see the pain

 

[prodigy]

You can lose a game and still get selection right. The opposition can just simply be better on the day.

To an extent yes, but if the opposition is better on the day, we need to go back to selection and ask the hard truths as to whether everyone was at their best.
Sure, we could have a game where everyone on the field plays a blinder and we still lose, but when has that ever happened?

 

[tiger_tough]

Cant wait for Mansell and Cotchin to kick 8 between them.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Geez mate I respect your opinion, always have, but he is a crab.

He's got decent skills, poise in traffic and jack russell energy levels. He's also in the conversation with Pickett and Baker as the hardest campaigners on our list. Flys the flag better than anyone. Has never deserved to be dropped when called up to AFL level, it's always been because a bigger name becomes available. If Cumbo is injured or whatever he deserves a crack imo.

 

[kozi]

Miller over Soldo is the big tick
Graham over Cumbo as a pressure fwd is from left field
Mansell over Clarke.. Clarke stiff but Mansell better pressure player

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Cant wait for Mansell and Cotchin to kick 8 between them.

 

[kozi]

FMD !!!

Blooze supporters excited about " Wait For It"

ED CURNOW being selected to play

Thought that campaigner retired

 

[sante]

I like Clarke but he doesn’t look ready for AFL. He’ll get games this year but he’s still a year or two away from being a consistent player in our 22

 

[tiger_tough]

I like Clarke but he doesn’t look ready for AFL. He’ll get games this year but he’s still a year or two away from being a consistent player in our 22

Reckon he'll be a lock by the end of the season.

 

[ohhhBigMalcho]

Was walking home from the G today after work and saw Cumbo walking alone at around 6.30pm, i said good luck tomorrow Cumbo not knowing the team news...gave me absolute donuts, later saw he wasn't named haha...he did look a little sore and sorry i thought

 

[sante]

Reckon he'll be a lock by the end of the season.

He’s got the talent, but still a bit light on and not made for the wintery months of AFL.

 

[sante]

Who are the underdone players everyone is talking about? Jack and Marlion? 2 of the fittest blokes on our list?

 

[The Mighty]

how the farrk did this spud chalk up 100 games

His Mum

 

[Calcium Man]

Who are the underdone players everyone is talking about? Jack and Marlion? 2 of the fittest blokes on our list?

Honestly don’t even get that? Rehab group does way more fitness and endurance work then main training. Where they’ll be more underdone is ball skills, ball handling and game plan.

Edit: Their match fitness is probably behind others who’ve done match sim too.

 

[The Mighty]

Despite bringing in two gun mids Leigh Matthews says we go backwards because we lost Edwards, Castagna and Lambert.

Those guys didn’t even play!

Even when they played, they didn't really impact.

George was all over the place and Sheds was cooked.

Lambo played one really good game from memory but doing so killed him off.

 

[Black Saab]

mansell will be all over saad like a cheap suit, im expecting Adam Saad to be the recipient of about 5 free kicks and a Knuckle Sandwich or two.

It's the free kicks given away that could be a concern especially if the umps go full auto 50m penalties like they did last year in Round 1.