Richmond willl struggle to make the 8. Go and have a pleasant day.

13 hours ago, Delusional demon 82 said:

The bulldogs were “agonisingly close” to a premiership , yet lost the grand final by 74 points ? 🤨

This is the Doggies achilles heel. If theybelieve they 'nearly could have' won it.

Lucky to beat the Lions, and key players exposed in GF (Liberatore, McCrae - for ability to hurt)- , Naughton, Johannasen )- critical errors) - , rucks, Bontempelli's inability on field to gather the troops and strategise for Petracca and jackson (not awake to the 3rd 1/4 moments), and earlier games by Dees strategy. Copied by other teams near the end.

Still can be seond best team in 2022 though.

 

On 11/17/2021 at 11:07 PM, FlashInThePan said:

Besides Martin coming back from injury, I can’t see where the big improvement is going to come from. Certainly not from what they pick up in the draft. They may uncover some gems but they will still need a couple of preseasons to make an impact.

 

23 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Martin missing was critical to their fall this year, and highlighted the lack of depth and talent.  Cotchin is well and truly finished.  Nankervis can't jump off the ground any more and Soldo is a poor mans second option.  Getting rid of Chol was nonsensical with the injury clouds hanging over these two rucks.

 

 

 

23 hours ago, In Harmes Way said:

Agree with all above -esp. rebounding after losing both Astbury and Houli and with two average rucks with no depth. Additionally, Dusty was injured in the Round 18 win vs Brisbane. He didn't play the last 5 games, and Richmond were already toast by that point.  

I wonder what Dermie's analysis of our 2022 injury list will come up with.

Martin played 16 games and was injured in round 18 when the tigers where 8 and 9. Richmond supporters and others think he missed the entire year and was the reason Richmond missed the eight. The tigers where more than likely missing with or without a Martin injury.

 

My evaluation of Richmond this year is of a side who clearly placed too much reliance on too few players, and therefore were struggling when injuries hit.  I think a big factor on their performance this year was the fact 2020 finished so late, and they didn't have much of a chance to recover, or put in place an effective preseason.  I predict they'll be back in the finals, but to predict them to be premiers as Dermie did is ridiculous.

47 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

This is the Doggies achilles heel. If theybelieve they 'nearly could have' won it.

Lucky to beat the Lions, and key players exposed in GF (Liberatore, McCrae - for ability to hurt)- , Naughton, Johannasen )- critical errors) - , rucks, Bontempelli's inability on field to gather the troops and strategise for Petracca and jackson (not awake to the 3rd 1/4 moments), and earlier games by Dees strategy. Copied by other teams near the end.

Still can be seond best team in 2022 though.

 

People forget they finished 5th on the ladder.

Rolls Royce midfield but defensively suspect. Unless they find some better defenders they can't win imv

Dermie played his entire career with a punctured brain.

Has not hindered his career in the media one bit.

Bless him.

2 hours ago, BDA said:

People forget they finished 5th on the ladder.

Rolls Royce midfield but defensively suspect. Unless they find some better defenders they can't win imv

RR midfield that doesn't run both ways to defend and therefore put their backline under pressure. 

We exploited that mercilessly in the last part of the 3rd (Premiership) and 4th quarters.  They maintained CB setups to attack and when they woke up to what was going on it was too  late.  Game virtually over at 3/4 time.

Its the same problem we had.  It wasn't until our midfield learnt to defend (roll back, run both ways, zone to protect space, tackle hard) that our back 6 had a fighting chance to keep op score to approx 60pts, which they achieved in nearly every game, incl each final.

Edited November 19, 20214 yr by Lucifers Hero