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GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs Richmond

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Christian Petracca 14 disposals that qtr ?

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    Pickett oozes class

    We've got ouselves a player

     

    Fritsch is so much better when played as a high half forward. The problem is that we still have not a single marking forward inside 50. Why they refuse to play Weid is beyond me. 

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    A lot of people being critical! Our effort is good, our midfield well on top, just poor delivery too often.

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    A great play in the final 20 seconds of the quarter leading to a goal after the siren. So un-Melbourne like...

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    Endeavour and intensity looks much better than last couple of weeks.

    Probably taking it on a bit TOO much at times, but I'd rather see that than playing exclusively around the boundaries.

    Tidy up execution and we'll be looking good

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    Just now, DemonLad5 said:

    How good is Trac

    [censored] good. 

    Had my phone charging for the first qtr here now!

    Happy with the first qtr, the intensity is good and I don't feel Richmond's goals are coming from good play. Speed of ball movement will give us a chance. 

    All Richmond's goals came from turnovers and decision errors. 

    In passages, starting to look like a team. Going take half the season to get it more consistent.

    Still would have preferred O'Mac, and VDB is going to need more than a couple of games to get back to his best.

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    That’s a good quarter of football. If we can start winning the ruck and clean up some of our disposal we are capable 

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    Some good movement from Brayshaw too that qtr. 

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    Just now, Ollie fan said:

    A lot of people being critical! Our effort is good, our midfield well on top, just poor delivery too often.

    We got lucky with Richmond missing some very easy goals and Riewoldt and Lynch dropping sitters inside 50. Vandanberg missed an easy pass to McDonald inside 50 but that is just Vandanberg rather than an unlucky passage of play.

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    BT can’t tell Langdon and Hunt apart. The confused silence when Langdon got it, he called Hunt, and then Langdon passed it TO Hunt was pretty funny.

    I’d be mad but I’ve got to admit that on the far camera angles I’m struggling too.

    As much as BT is a gnob  i struggle with that too

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    Pickett showed more vision with that kick than anyone showed all game last week. 

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    I saw a defender make no second effort while the ball was still in play. He walked to an opponent to watch him take an easy mark. Terrible passage of play. Very disappointing.

    Clean up our kicking and we’re away. Effort and energy is excellent. Big difference in the style of hand balling between the two sides: we handball to someone next to us, who then has to do the same thing, before we eventually get caught. Richmond handball to someone 5 meters away.

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    1 minute ago, Nasher said:

    BT can’t tell Langdon and Hunt apart. The confused silence when Langdon got it, he called Hunt, and then Langdon passed it TO Hunt was pretty funny.

    I’d be mad but I’ve got to admit that on the far camera angles I’m struggling too.

    They look and play remarkably similarly. But Hunt’s hair is much more luxurious. Langdon wishes he had Hunt’s hair. 

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    entertaining quarter of footy

    they're just that little bit quicker, little bit cleaner than us - as they should be, being premiers two of the last three years

    if we can clean up our overuse of the pill and not do that one-too-many handball thing in close that we insist on doing we're going okay


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