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It’s an interesting glimpse into what we look like without Maxy.

He and Bowey could be the only two Dees players that have played to their potential in basically every game this year. He’ll never be a superstar but he’s done his job

Chandler has been good all year! Showed desperation when it was lacking especially the North/Dons game

Not to be negative, but we still depend on him so much.

This is genuinely not a gloat, but we smashed them in that qtr for clearances. Stopped them scoring and scored 6 to 1. Our pressure went through the roof and theirs dropped. It’s just a good game!

Difference in the game

If you made an All Australian team now, Bowey would be in there

I’ve been a detractor of Sparrow, but he’s been really good tonight

If he doesn’t come back on he has too

Haha, why Vines?

[censored] Fritta what a goal

Mids getting smashed. We scored 5.2 (from memory) for clearances against Freo.

Doesn’t take away from my point. Richmond’s pressure is really high. If Freo pressured us like this, we would have lost. They are causing us to revert to bad habits (long dump kicks) because of it.

Richmond are applying more pressure than any of our losses and we would’ve EASILY beaten North/Dons if we played like this. We’re playing well and so are they

Richmond pressuring us and taking away our game. They’re playing well

This is a great game. Both teams at about 77% disposal efficiency.

They’ve made it a scrap and that’s how they win

Not trying to be a downer, but Richmond are playing better in this game than both their wins this year.

Viney behind Taranto, Ruckman knock it down right near them, Viney swipes at the ball and hits Taranto in the face. Soft free kick

Pressure is great. Richmond are on. Gonna be a battle

Nice one Fritta

Nice

How many times have teams played each other when both captains are ruckman?

Hunner percent, zero argument here. I’ve said it elsewhere on here before but Fritsch has never been strong defensive or pressure wise at all. What has changed is the goals dried up, which made this wayyyyy more evident. Had a look at the last few years and the following is his ranking in our team on averages: Tackles Tackle I50 Pressure acts 2021 19th 8th 14th 2022 24th 7th 19th 2023 27th 15th 22nd 2024 28th 11th 23rd 2025 12th 11th 19th

I think he needed to after Turner went out to be honest. There’s no Lever, so if May or T-Mac go down, we only have Petty as a reliable like for like. If Petty isn’t in our forward line and no Fritsch, then it’s Fullarton and a bunch of smalls VS Vlaustin, Broad and Macintosh in the air…. Probably a bad time.