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How many times are Richmond going to get away with holding the man every time we go inside forward 50 ?

So Kozzie wins teh first clearance and has barely been back in there.

Get him in there more.

Funny how if you touch a guy off the ball it's [censored] city. But you can jump in to anyone and take them out


 

Still a bit unclear on why Marlion Pickett is allowed to play matches right now. Will be very strange if he’s found guilty. 


Kosi has to play more in the middle. Richmond are cutting us up with pace. No Sparrow or Oliver is really hurting. 

Poor defensive work all over the ground. 

2 minutes ago, Floody100 said:

How many times are Richmond going to get away with holding the man every time we go inside forward 50 ?

As many as they do is the answer.

Harmes just killing us. Hasn’t had an effective disposal and missed two sitters. Surely this is his last game

Kozzie and Viney seemed very quiet that quarter. Pickett and Petracca needs to play more in the middle with Oliver and Sparrow out


Need Kozzie in the middle 

Melksham struggles to play constantly good. Chandler seems the same 

Max lifted the last five minutes and it makes a huge difference. He's such a barometer.

 

Everything coming off for Richmond, don't know how long that can last 

Tigers scoring 1/2 entries …. It is not sustainable - expect that to dry up.

Also need a sweeper behind the ball at stoppage. 


A wide fast shootout against the Tigers is not the way to win. 
We have to get on top in the contested possessions or we won’t win this. If we keep the game this open they’ll keep cutting us up. 
I understand we want to play more attacking, but when it’s not working it’s not working. We know we can win a slog so make it a slog. 

1 minute ago, Mel Bourne said:

Still a bit unclear on why Marlion Pickett is allowed to play matches right now. Will be very strange if he’s found guilty. 

Why, thought you are innocent until proven guilty.

No composure. 
we have none. So many dump kicks, hurried handballs. We need to compose ourselves. 
 

When we have a clean centre bounce we need to keep the ball lower. So many long bombs.

Need much more from Salem, JJ, Chandler all three need to get more involved. Hunter and Langdon need to win more contests on the wing.

Bowey’s disposal hasn’t been great.

 

We miss Sri’s and Clarrie on days like this when the opposition loves the contest as much of not more.

 
1 minute ago, leave it to deever said:

Melksham struggles to play constantly good. Chandler seems the same

Melksham being absolutely hung off of every single time the ball goes inside 50

9 minutes ago, Gunna’s said:

FMD you useless [censored] umpire. Blow your [censored] whistle 

It's not the umpires who have continually fumbled and missed straight-forward shots at goal.


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