Game Day Round 3, 2018: Richmond v Hawthorn, 8 April 2018, 1.10pm MCG

[VandoHawk]

Our midfield is good. McEvoy + Mitchell/O'Meara/Howe is generating a lot of opportunities to go forward. The problem is when we go forward we bomb it to Rance/Astbury EVERY time, and when we're trying to set up across our backline guys like Frawley/Duryea are butchering the ball. Duryea alone has cost us three goals.

Lucky to be 19 points down - could easily have been 40+. If we smarten up our forward entries then I could see us winning this considering our midfield ascendancy. But if we don't change anything up then we'll end up losing in an extremely frustrating manner.

 

[Restricted Free Agent]

Shut the **** up Brad Johnson

 

[threesixpio]

I reckon we will turn it around and win. Heard it here first..not really

 

[Ridingthebumps]

Why do we have Gunston lose in the back half when we are being killed down forward. Richmond must be living that tactic. Got to take a risk and put him or Burton up front. We are smashing them in the clearances but only playing 5 forwards so they run it out tint and time again.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Maybe we should deliberately try kicking to Rance. Then we might hit targets

 

[tige19]

Every day and twice on Sundays.

Shouldn't even be a discussion, borderline embarrassing watching TOB go about it live

 

[eldorado]

What HAS happened to Dureya?

Good question.

His confidence must be shot...and it's hard to feel confident when he gets it.

 

[wolvesjr34]

time to play man on man,,, this zone crap does not work against Richmond.

 

[MinerBoy]

Strats and Gunner down back and Poppy up forward (maybe Breust and Cyril to a degree).... keeping us from being blown away.

 

[bungholes_premiers]

We are all in it if we get more efficiency I50 yet I'm having to listen to how astonished the Richmond commentary is that we are even close

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[Phil McCreviss]

He was never that good just used to have much better players around him.

Duryea needs to play as a defensive forward. Surprised Clarkson hasn't pulled the trigger on it

 

[Mrzohs]

Alright I'm slowly calming down, we just look like a team that had a hard game the week before coming off a 6day break,
Lack intensity and 2nd effort.

 

[Off The Couch]

I think fatigue will get the better of us in the second half and tigers will run away with it.

Will be more than happy for the boys to prove me wrong

 

[Iceman!]

Yeah but they are happy to concede numbers at the contest to intercept our entries and rebound

Which is why fixing our ball movement is crucial, but possible. I am not saying we are going to win, but we can win and should not be so negative in a game that we have been average in but are well and truly still in it on the scoreboard.

 

[tige19]

Our depth was a class above Geelongs, this week Richmonds bottom 4-5 are out playing ours. Doc/TOB/Langers are levels below what's required.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

We are playing this bad with so many outs and should be 6 goals up. We will turn it around

 

[Davo23]

Stay positive people, we are in this game!

25 clearances to 10!

We are matching and beating them in a lot of facets of the game, all we need to do is fix our forward entries.

I’m high up in the Northern stand where the players are like ants. I reckon the movement and intensity went up a fair bit towards the end of that quarter.

A little luck and a couple of Cyril kicks and we would have been right in this.

Let’s go Hawks!

 

[TylerDurden]

Duryea. Seeya mate.
Can we lace out Rance anymore????
TOB invisible.
Thank Christ for Mitchell.

 

[Restricted Free Agent]

Rioli and Poppy are doing the work of about 5 guys by themselves.

 

[Max Powers]

Gotta love the screeching Richmond fans behind me who have spent the game just yelling Dusty this and Dusty that, cause they don't know any other players names.

 

[Dinner Plate]

Have to kick 10 goals to break 100. While keeping Bitch--m0nd to 6 goals. Hmmm.

We upped the pressure late in the half. Better.

As others have said, a weird game with awful skills, exactly the way the AFL want it. And umpires given way too much leeway to favour one team depending on whether it's that time of the month (or they're a camera-whore cheat like Chamberlain and Pannell.)

This is why I dislike watching AFL in the last few years. If it wasn't for the Hawks, I'd never watch another game. Between the rule 'interpretations', the AFL cheating to help 'equalise' the competition (and to give the Bulldogs free rein to drop/throw the ball) and the AFL-sanctioned bile and drivel in the media, you really have to scratch around for positives, like a chicken with blood spurting out its aorta hole.

 

[Deleted member 170709]

We don't have a fricken forward...throw Burton up there!

 

[brew]

Last 15min of the first and first 15 of the second were terrible.

We’re in the game... just need to hit the scoreboard

 

[MC_9]

He needs to do exactly what Clarkson wants him to do, and for the majority of his career that’s been to close down on opposition mids.

If you want him to lead the disposals you’re going to be disappointed.

He can play defensively, but also needs to contribute the other way. 6 disposals in a half for a midfielder is not good enough, especially as a senior player.

It's time for him to stand up and have an influence on the game. Let the young blokes like Howe play the defensive roles, that's how they learn.

Anyway I have had my say. You have also proved my point. An absolute free ride.

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[Off The Couch]

That’s not what Clarkson wants.

He wants a long contest, where Bruest, Rioli, Poppy and Impey can crumb.

It’s what we do.

Except tigers are marking them because no one is crashing the pack or playing in front