Preview Round 3 v Sydney MCG Sunday March 31st 4pm

[THE THIN MAN]

You do realise if we don’t win, it’s because Sydney are better yes?

Blasphemous mumourering, the unbelievers.

 

[sanaya]

at least we know we're playing for picks this year with the dow, maurice & lefau picks, otherwise it makes no sense

can't wait for mcauliffe to be the holdover sub so he's even more weeks away from a debut

 

[sanaya]

also naismith must be shitting himself when he sees louie meehan around the club

every time meehans within 50m of him he feels a sharp pain in his knees

 

[Growapair]

Soft? He nearly killed Aliir

He didn't even know Allir was there .... he ran into him by accident ... so damning that he had no chase or tackle ... should have hit them hard!

 

[Hoos]

Banks is seriously quick but fumbles when going full pace. Needs time in the vfl to learn to be clean.

And he's generally a pretty good kick too, but his fumbles haven't helped him.

 

[Punt rd end]

You do realise if we don’t win, it’s because Sydney are better yes?

You obviously don't get to the games live because our boys get their heads ripped off and its play on, its getting beyond a joke that every time we get a run on there are a few 50'50 frees in the oppos forward line that snubs us out

 

[Truetiger]

You obviously don't get to the games live because our boys get their heads ripped off and its play on, its getting beyond a joke that every time we get a run on there are a few 50'50 frees in the oppos forward line that snubs us out

I do go to games live, I am just over the umpires as an excuse even though it’s valid. We all know Sydney are a better side that won’t change tomorrow.

 

[Punt rd end]

I do go to games live, I am just over the umpires as an excuse even though it’s valid. We all know Sydney are a better side that won’t change tomorrow.

We know they are a better side but at the same time we don't need heeney getting paid for marks that bounce first and all other BS calls, I want FAIR adjudication is that too much to ask

 

[Truetiger]

We know they are a better side but at the same time we don't need heeney getting paid for marks that bounce first and all other BS calls, I want FAIR adjudication is that too much to ask

Unfortunately not much about our game is fair.

 

[The Mighty]

We know they are a better side but at the same time we don't need heeney getting paid for marks that bounce first and all other BS calls, I want FAIR adjudication is that too much to ask

These day and when the RFC is involved ..........Yes, it is

 

[chriso11]

Papley going to be unbearable tomorrow you just know it… cocky little campaigner

 

[Karp3_dm]

Papley going to be unbearable tomorrow you just know it… cocky little campaigner

Love it
Hope we stick up for ourselves

 

[Madtiger2006]

Looking forward to getting to the G. Gonna be a nice night. Good reason to help the boys with strong support. Been enjoying the round. 5 games and all full houses.

 

[Growapair]

How good is going to be when we win tomorrow and this young group take their first scalp!

 

[skinnyP]

How good is going to be when we win tomorrow and this young group take their first scalp!

I'm starting to get a good feeling about this one. Hope I'm right!

 

[Growapair]

Our backline looks really good...

It's fast fast (Brown, Miller and Rioli all run the 20 in about 2.8 secs)

with kicking skills and three quality intercept marks in Broad, Vlastuin and Brown

And a genuine stopper at Full Back in Young to stop the Swans main man.

 

[Spacedog]

Lefau sub tomorrow surely?

 

[aislegi]

One thing I find horrendous in our last two games is that we had fewer disposals AND fewer tackles than our opponents. It shows that our opponents are working harder and smarter without the ball than us despite having more possessions. It's obvious when watching the game too because we see so many stationary players ball-watching. The moment the opposition starts their kick-marking chains, our players immediately run to our defence instead of manning up, resulting in an inside 50 to our opposition.

This explains so many of our stats:

• 18th in pressure
• 17th in average marking differential
• 17th in inside 50s differential
• 17th in disposals differential
• 17th in metres gained differential

Not to mention, we are 18th in effective disposals differential between us and our opponents (16th in kicking efficiency % and 18th in handball efficiency %) and of course 1st in clangers. So we don't use the ball very well compared to our opponents.

If Yze can't address every one of our problems due to personnel and skill level, then he at least needs to address our running patterns off the ball. They need to man up when the opposition have the ball and work smarter. Otherwise, we will quickly find ourselves in the bottom 2 even below North Melbourne and Hawthorn. Yay to pick 2 I guess, but no yays for our season.

Sydney will destroy us if we don't improve this by tomorrow.

Good post. We’re going about as well as the 0-3 says we’re going.

 

[RJK Tiger]

Good post. We’re going about as well as the 0-3 says we’re going.

you'd think looking at that the positive is we are only losing by an average of 24 points despite all those bad stats.

The reality tho is our percentage is a measly 75% as we are not scoring. We are losing by "only" 24pts, but scoring only 77

My fear is a massive hiding is just around the corner and once that happens the group will crumble as the reality sets in. This was Richmond's life pre-2017. We never made finals, but some of those years we got some god almighty hidings once the groups shoulders dropped. The more games of other teams i watch, the more i think we are bottom 3-4.

 

[Growapair]

We know they are a better side but at the same time we don't need heeney getting paid for marks that bounce first and all other BS calls, I want FAIR adjudication is that too much to ask

Yes ... it is too much to ask

 

[Hoos]

The more games of other teams i watch, the more i think we are bottom 3-4.

And that may even be understating how bad we are. Bottom 2 for me. Injuries, too many experienced players who are past their best with too many inexperienced players who haven't reached theirs yet. The amount of players we have in their prime is unfortunately not enough.

Actually, some of the injury related absences (Prestia, Grimes, Graham) aren't necessarily a bad thing.

 

[voorhees]

game day.. feeling's are we will cop a hiding
with nothing to loose... and the ladder does not mean much to us, just run and blitz out team
(would of been the perfect game for Judson to play-not happy he was dropped)
screw sydney -just give it your all boys !!!

 

[sante]

We will win by 3 goals

 

[LTT]

I do go to games live, I am just over the umpires as an excuse even though it’s valid. We all know Sydney are a better side that won’t change tomorrow.

Things I notice is that we get sucked into the contest and don’t keep players on the outside and then we are slow to get to the next contest. All things that Sydney do really well. But when we do get the balance right and then the umpires give a stupid free kick you see the intensity drop for a few minutes. Some of our most experienced players are the worst. Sydney don’t need the umpires to beat us but the umpires could change it for an interesting game to a thrashing

 

[Punt rd end]