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6 minutes ago, Thehardtackler said:

Richmond supporters on Bigfooty are trying to claim that they lost the game because the free kick count was 20-10 in Melbourne’s favour after quarter time. Dumb lot don’t seem to realise that you have to have the ball to get a free kick!

Even Hardwick said most of them were there and they have to have better tackling technique.

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We dominated that game more so than any others this year but. 31 shots to 14 is a huge difference but our inaccuracy was dreadful. 

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5 minutes ago, Thehardtackler said:

Richmond supporters on Bigfooty are trying to claim that they lost the game because the free kick count was 20-10 in Melbourne’s favour after quarter time. Dumb lot don’t seem to realise that you have to have the ball to get a free kick!

Yeah on social media they are complaining about the umpiring. 

People are also saying who have they beaten? No one. Well we can only beat who we are fixtures to play against. I think people are starting to hate us

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9 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Exactly 12 months ago we won this game by 34 points with 22 scoring shots to Richmond’s 18 and the lid was off. We were over the moon. 
12 months on we won by 22, but had 31 scoring shots to 14. 
My we have gotten spoilt. 

No. It was shocking kicking for goal. 
there was no wind today at all

 

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2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No. It was shocking kicking for goal. 
there was no wind today at all

 

No doubt. But to win when you’re playing imperfect footy is very important. 
Things can’t always go your way. 

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14 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Thank god we got mark Williams to our club otherwise Clayton would still just be handpassing all the time. Mark showed him how to kick really well. Thankyou

I would guess he might have impacted more than just Clarry here 227.

A few were off tonight coming inside 50 and i also think we instinctively looked to give off far too often to the skinny side when players were free inside both by hand and foot.  Reckon had we taken more of those chances we would have broken them down a tad earlier.

We brought a fair amount of unnecessary pressure on ourselves as a result, more so in the first half.  Some minor adjustments / improvements here during patches of the second half IMV.

Decent amount of work required on that and forward craft/goal kicking this week to ensure we notch up our 14th scalp against the Dawks.

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12 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

People are also saying who have they beaten? No one. Well we can only beat who we are fixtures to play against. I think people are starting to hate us

We have beaten 4 of last years finalists.

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6 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

No doubt. But to win when you’re playing imperfect footy is very important. 
Things can’t always go your way. 

100% agree. But it was still a very frustrating game to watch  It didn’t go our way because we kicked so poorly 

I don’t think anyone feels spoiled

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Petty has been outstanding in his first two games back. Loved his progression last year but he's gone to a new level so far this season. Easy to see why he's so highly rated internally.

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Anyone else find our wins this year outside the gws game a let down, I rewatched basically every game the next day last year this year I can’t bring myself to rewatching any of these they are all so bad.

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2 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Anyone else find our wins this year outside the gws game a let down, I rewatched basically every game the next day last year this year I can’t bring myself to rewatching any of these they are all so bad.

Yeah, give me 1-5 any day. Come on mate…there’s so much football left.

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In 2nd Gear all night, tougher in the clinchers, the ANZACS would be smiling down on us.

We can do it any old sort of way, we will grind until the day is long. 

Up you mighty [censored] Dees.

13 and counting the streak continues.

Keep rollin, rollin, rollin.

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No love for Langdon??? I thought he was second best on ground tonight after Oliver. Brayshaw couldn't speak  more highly enough of Ed on radio after the game and said that Langdon is one of the most crucial players in the team which we all know, but still nice to hear. 

Credit to our backline... May, Smith and a few others got heavy hits early and still played out the game. There will definitely be some sore guys for the next few days. May played the entire game on one leg with a bad corkie. What a trooper! 

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2 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Anyone else find our wins this year outside the gws game a let down, I rewatched basically every game the next day last year this year I can’t bring myself to rewatching any of these they are all so bad.

There are a few differences from last year:

1) we have a shortened preseason and teams that have a shortened preseason tend to take a month or so to hit peak form. I thought we hit it last week but today inaccuracy took the shine off. 
 

2) we are hunted every week. Coaches are trying to figure out how they can beat us. Extra person at the contest? Leaves May/ Lever behind the ball and we burin from d50 (GWS). Even numbers at d and contest. Deal with our AA centre line and first rate contest work Suns Tigers).  when those don’t work, turn it into a scrap and make it ugly(Port , Dons)

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10 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Anyone else find our wins this year outside the gws game a let down, I rewatched basically every game the next day last year this year I can’t bring myself to rewatching any of these they are all so bad.

It’s because teams are [censored] scared of losing so they go into ultra defensive mode, making games a total bore fest. We aren’t challenged so we just put on a clinic for 10 minutes and carry on with the win. GWS are lazy and gave up after halftime so that was fun. 

I bet that when we play the Saints in 2 weeks it’ll be a totally different game. Good sides will back their system in. We haven’t played a side yet who would have gone into the game backing themselves to win it with their own game. 
 

Also who cares how we play in April if we keep winning. Last year we also won by small margins but winning was a novelty so you went back and watched that 25 point win and was like “wow a win”. Now you’re like “I watched us kick 3 goals in 46 seconds once. I’m bored”

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49 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

Tonight was my 9 year old nieces first game of footy. I almost sent her home at half time for fear that Children and Family Services would be called.

It was ugly, and then we flexed for 10 minutes and it was over, and then it was a terribly boring last quarter. Strange game.

And then after it was all over the crowd was again very subdued - like everyone expects us to win.

 

45 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Ugly ugly win 

9 goals 22  

192 handballs - overused it and created pressures 

but our defence is A+++ 

 

 

44 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

I agree with this.
 

Of the 22 behinds how many were missed set shots and how many were  missed shots in play? Tigers tried their best to keep themselves in the game through the pressure they applied when they didn’t have the footy. 
 

Let’s not get carried away, 19 goals 6 last week. 10 goals 2 in the 3rd and at one stage 8 straight from 10 inside 50’s. What happened tonight will be addressed by the coaches as we move onto next week’s game.

 

38 minutes ago, Thehardtackler said:

Richmond supporters on Bigfooty are trying to claim that they lost the game because the free kick count was 20-10 in Melbourne’s favour after quarter time. Dumb lot don’t seem to realise that you have to have the ball to get a free kick!

 

38 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Exactly 12 months ago we won this game by 34 points with 22 scoring shots to Richmond’s 18 and the lid was off. We were over the moon. 
12 months on we won by 22, but had 31 scoring shots to 14. 
My we have gotten spoilt. 

I snuck into the Rich reserved seated area and had an enjoyable evening. 
They were up and about early, loved the umps but boy did things turn for them and how enjoyable (relaxing) it was to know the turn was coming but just when…. Who this time will swing it… the defence will slow/ stop them and then who will swing it fwd for whoever to snag them. What a team, tell them to enjoy it, relax we’ve got this, ugly is a beautiful win we didn’t have and we’ll not ever kick badly on goal again. 
What a time to be alive.

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14 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Anyone else find our wins this year outside the gws game a let down, I rewatched basically every game the next day last year this year I can’t bring myself to rewatching any of these they are all so bad.

Give them a shot. I've rewatched every game except the Gold Coast game and they are all great gritty wins and much easier to enjoy knowing the result.

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5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

It’s because teams are [censored] scared of losing so they go into ultra defensive mode, making games a total bore fest. We aren’t challenged so we just put on a clinic for 10 minutes and carry on with the win. GWS are lazy and gave up after halftime so that was fun. 

I bet that when we play the Saints in 2 weeks it’ll be a totally different game. Good sides will back their system in. We haven’t played a side yet who would have gone into the game backing themselves to win it with their own game. 

Pretty pathetic if that is the case that they all would rather loose in the most drawn out way possible than put it all on the line and see if they can match us

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1 hour ago, deva5610 said:

You want to drop the bloke who kicked the most goals for us?

Happy to have the discussion, seeing him live for his size/position he doesn’t affect the contest enough/has so little presence. 

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16 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Anyone else find our wins this year outside the gws game a let down, I rewatched basically every game the next day last year this year I can’t bring myself to rewatching any of these they are all so bad.

It's fun if you like contest and defence. 
I find watching teams struggling to kick scores against us particularly entertaining. 

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