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POSTGAME: Rd 06 vs Richmond

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Just now, SPC said:

Still worried about how we handle ground balls in our back half.. we just cannot stop the opposition. 
Wins wallpaper cracks.

This is why we miss Salem so much. Lever is like a baby giraffe as soon as the ball hits the ground. 

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    2 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

    How appropriate for Jack to get the medal. He goes to war every week.

    Some players will die for their club - Jack Viney would gladly kill for it.

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    6 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

    Take the points, don’t talk about the game again.

    exceptfor the rooter! And May needs to respect his opponents cos he got beaten badly.

    If he's not injured, is he a risk to be omitted? Maybe Turner for May, Petty back home to D50

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    Whoever said JVR has played his last game in the 2nd quarter should be fired. 

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    Despite the umps, and ourselves for 2.5 quarters, we have come away with a good gritty win against a hard-working tigers outfit who came to win. We still have a long way to go, but these are important steps forward! 

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    So the 4th quarter fadeout team of 2022 has become the 4th quarter punishers!

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    Kade Chandler stepped up in that third quarter when we needed a spark, great endeavour and fight to get us back into it. 

    Our intercept game started to come back in that second half too, our defensive structure certainly looked a lot better closing out the game (which i think is drastically aided by Max's inclusion).  

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    3 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    If he's not injured, is he a risk to be omitted? Maybe Turner for May, Petty back home to D50

    The frustrating thing is he is a class player, but it was like he knew Leaver was back so tried to play loose. Prob wouldn’t drop him yet but he deserves a talking too.

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    1 minute ago, YearOfTheDees said:

    This time of year you don't want to be playing great footy, just collect as many 4 points as you can. Great football comes later.

    Yep, just bank as many wins as you can early on. Worry about hitting peak performance at the business end of the year.

    Up shot is that we have lots to improve on and we’re 4-2.

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    3 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

    This time of year you don't want to be playing great footy, just collect as many 4 points as you can. Great football comes later.

    That was what we were doing last year and that didn’t turn out well.

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    May all your dreams come true.

    If anyone wants to clip this magic moment and let us all lip-read her epic 'thank you', it is just after 3:38:00 on the Kayo broadcast.

    Seriously, I nominate it for video of the week.

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    I think they think they have the competition covered, have gears, turn it on and off when they feel like it. Bart Cummings preparation, can’t win the Cup in August, peak on Melbourne Cup day. 

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    Slow start but found a way. Viney a champion. Roo has arrived. Immense mark and conversion early in the last. Broke the tiges right there.

    richmond supporters are feral and so hard to listen to. Second only to pies in the nuffie stakes. Delighted we beat them. 

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    15 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    Max and Lever 18 marks.

    Makes a difference. 

    Jvr turns it on at the right time.

    Umps go and get...

    I think the umpires were so bad attempting to maintain an interesting contest ad nauseum, that they came out onto the ground 'gone' and 'got' in the first place.

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    It seems to me that in the last quarter, we finally started to remember how we can play – far better pressure, tackles that stuck, gang tackling, making Richmond fumble. Now we have to remember that and repeat.

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    Now, what do we do about our poor contested ball intensity, and our horrid ground ball skills in our defensive 50? The Tigers ripped us apart in these 2 areas tonight. If Dusty kicked straight we probably lost. 

    A major and persisting issue - terrible handballing. Inaccurate, wrong choice, to a player under pressure, high loopy blind dangerous ones, players having to stop running to take them. Poor in every way. 

    And although only 20 touches, I hope we don't drop Jordon again. Some of his off-ball work, tackling, and defensive running tonight was so, so good. 

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    Good win  kept trying even though umpires  poo...(not usually an umpire bashers but horible tonight)....Lucky  Mr  Dusty did not kick straight  !!!!       Must beat North now      JVR the difference  On a dry track will be a beauty.  Kossie quiet but

     

     

    can sleep peacefully tonight    (feel like I played myself tonight  wrecked

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