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We Should Smash Richmond

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I honestly think it's up to Melbourne who wins. Richmond are a mediocre team with a skillful but not overly quick midfield and one good defender. If we show the intensity we did against Adelaide we're every chance of beating them, but if the round 2 team shows up then we'll get smashed.

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As I was saying...

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Can we translate that same sort of defensive consistency that we saw against Adelaide against Richmond? I'm not convinced that this team has the capacity to play well consistently, two weeks in a row.

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Paul Roos after the game this Friday: "Richmond played well to their credit, they are a good side who have played finals the past two years. We were unable to apply pressure and execute the basic ski

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We go out there and thump them with physicality from minute one, we will win.

Brayshaw starting would indicate the coaches are plainly aware of that. Richmond crumbled under pressure from WB in R2, Roos will be using that as a template for Friday night's game.

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The title of this thread and posters describing the tiger's crumbling under pressure and being a soft side is very bad karma. I love posters positivity but not having a crack at the tigers lack of intestinal fortitude. This coming from Demon fans is a bit rich. We have had one game where we gave played tough uncompromising footy. Tiger fans have more reason to be happy than we do. Based on wins and form they have more reason to be optimistic about this season. I suspect many Tiger fans will expect their team to smash us. Lets just get across the line for a win. Anything less will be a major disappointment.

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The title of this thread and posters describing the tiger's crumbling under pressure and being a soft side is very bad karma. I love posters positivity but not having a crack at the tigers lack of intestinal fortitude. This coming from Demon fans is a bit rich. We have had one game where we gave played tough uncompromising footy. Tiger fans have more reason to be happy than we do. Based on wins and form they have more reason to be optimistic about this season. I suspect many Tiger fans will expect their team to smash us. Lets just get across the line for a win. Anything less will be a major disappointment.

Spot on Ernie.

You have nailed it.

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The title of this thread and posters describing the tiger's crumbling under pressure and being a soft side is very bad karma. I love posters positivity but not having a crack at the tigers lack of intestinal fortitude. This coming from Demon fans is a bit rich. We have had one game where we gave played tough uncompromising footy. Tiger fans have more reason to be happy than we do. Based on wins and form they have more reason to be optimistic about this season. I suspect many Tiger fans will expect their team to smash us. Lets just get across the line for a win. Anything less will be a major disappointment.

Paul Roos after the game this Friday: "Richmond played well to their credit, they are a good side who have played finals the past two years. We were unable to apply pressure and execute the basic skills we have been working on for a while now. But I think the main reason we lost is because some peanuts on a fan forum said we would smash Richmond and called them soft. We had no chance as soon as I read that."

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Paul Roos after the game this Friday: "Richmond played well to their credit, they are a good side who have played finals the past two years. We were unable to apply pressure and execute the basic skills we have been working on for a while now. But, I think the main reason we lost is because some peanuts on a fan forum said we would smash Richmond and called them soft. We had no chance as soon as I read that."

"So Paul, stop reading peanuts on Demonland and the team's form will improve."

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I hope that we are able to compete right until the very end.

As long time suffering supporters, I'm not sure how many on here can be happy with only effort. My patience has worn thin and really we should be competing hard every week which should keep us in most games. The lapse against GWS and the flood of unanswered goals they kicked in the second half is still astonishing and I don't quite know what to deduce from it.

The Adelaide game was promising but still very frustrating to watch. There's still a definite inherent lack of decision making and skill execution from a bunch of players. We had many forward entries in that first half but so many were just long kicks to contests favouring the opposition. There were times the ball wasn't moved quickly enough from certain plays. We had to work so hard for our goals, mainly thanks to our team-mates making it extremely difficult for our forwards to mark the ball. Whereas the ease in which they scored all of their goals in the first half was an extreme contrast. Signs like that are always worrying.

If we can't manage to score easily enough again from inside 50 entries and forward movement and Richmond match our intensity all game then we'll lose simply because of our lack of skill, decision making and inability to convert forward entries.

The only way I see us winning is by us either comprehensively outworking them the whole game or by them again being inaccurate and losing it themselves.

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Are we wrong?

yes, you are wrong

we were one of the worst sides ever 2 years ago

it is reasonable to expect not to beat every team but to work our way back to playing respectable footy and at least being competitive first

otherwise you're living in a dreamworld

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Paul Roos after the game this Friday: "Richmond played well to their credit, they are a good side who have played finals the past two years. We were unable to apply pressure and execute the basic skills we have been working on for a while now. But I think the main reason we lost is because some peanuts on a fan forum said we would smash Richmond and called them soft. We had no chance as soon as I read that."

"and I don't know what I was thinking, reading the whole thread to the team as my pre-game address"

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Did anyone see in the AGE their rapturous article about Rance? Listed a bunch of back line stats to show he was tracking well in many of them, but I noticed that TMac was ahead of him in at least 4 of the 6 stat categories they showed...

Alex Rance can lay claim to being the best key defender in the AFL
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Did anyone see in the AGE their rapturous article about Rance? Listed a bunch of back line stats to show he was tracking well in many of them, but I noticed that TMac was ahead of him in at least 4 of the 6 stat categories they showed...

Alex Rance can lay claim to being the best key defender in the AFL

i just read it.

Put TMac on Rance!!

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I'm thrilled at how wrong I've been about a bunch of things this season.

I thought vanDemon wouldn't cope against guys he couldn't push around. WRONG.

I thought we'd drop the first seven games. WRONG

I thought Brayshaw wouldn't be able to crack a game until late in the season WRONG.

I thought Jamar wouldn't be able to carry the ruck again this year. WRONG.

Never been happier to be wrong in my entire life.

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As I was saying...

yep we did. Take a bow !! :)
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