How long should that guarantee him a spot in the team? Surely form dictates whether he plays or not? I wasn't surprised that he was dropped, but it was the wrong game to do it.
I appreciate Conca's endeavour and his ability to win the ball. Unfortunately, when he makes a mistake it's an absolute howler.
I like the look of our team with your 4 inclusions. We will be seeing Garth at the expense of an injured Astbury or Broad. I agree with Miles staying in until Prestia gets back. See how his game goes on a different venue. What is the weather forecast? Rain? Should benefit Miles.
They can atone by making the right selection decisions, respecting the opposition (which you could argue they didn't against Port), and pulling their finger out and winning the next 3 games.
Don’t you know, every team but Richmond are crap!
I get so used to other teams playing like crap against us so I figure that if we lose it simply must be because we played even crapper
I think it’s more about our consistency as the Essendon game was terrific, then we have these howlers every so often. The last five weeks last season our team remained unchanged, whereas this year it’s changes from week to week. Castagna should have had a run in the twos and it wouldn’t have been so disruptive. Instead we took out two midfield beasts and replaced them with a smaller mid and a small forward. Constantly changing the team will throw up inconsistencies and this is why we look different from week to week.
Which is sometimes true. That said each loss this season has been put down to "we were due for a loss", "just one of those games", "they'll never play that good again", "it doesn't matter, we'll best them at the MCG in a final", etc.
I think we've been way out of form recently, but I don't think thats any sort of disaster. It's a long season and we can't possibly stay up all year - we're treading water which is about what we did this time last year. Except last year we usually had one brilliant quarter and 3 poor quarters, now we have 1 poor quarter and 3 good quarters. We're playing like a 5-8 team at the moment. With key players like Martin, Rioli, Houli, Prestia hopefully starting to come back in from this week, we will improve significantly. Maybe I'm looking at things a bit too rosily.
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Were 9-3 and have won 4 of our last 6, 6 of last 8, 8 of last 10, i don't know what peoples expectations are but sheesh, did you not expect us to lose this year or hit a flat patch which every club goes through. Did you miss 2 weeks ago when we smashed the bombers by 12 goals.
You're the one that comes on here every week telling us you have no fear of losing.
I have no fear of losing, i think we will win every match we play it's how i roll but i also know we wont win every match. If 9-3 2nd spot and best percentage is out of form then we have a lot to look forward to this year don't we considering most teams around us on the ladder out playing out of their skins at the moment.You're the one that comes on here every week telling us you have no fear of losing.
We won qts 3 and 4 didn't we while restricting port to 1 goal but if we play like we did vs the bombers we should win right.
Yep last week we really had control of that game for most of it, and didn't capitalise on it. To Port's credit that was partly due to them not gifting us opportunities other sides do. They were really disciplined. That 5min burst where they kicked those 4 goals was very poor on our part, but I do wonder if Astbury being off injured for effectively 3 of the 4 goals played a part. If we are level instead of 20pts down at half time it's a different game, we force Port to win the game rather than save it, and that's where the gifts come from.
Sounds hypocritical to me and weird considering you're now questioning others with comments like the one below. Just bc you roll like that in backing us as winners with no real certainty with your opinion, it shouldn't deter others from having their own:
