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I don’t really know but my guess is a fit BBB is in the coaches best 23, and I agree with that, he was massively important in 2021. But I’d have had him in for Smith this week instead of JVR. Next week I assume we get JVR in for Fritta. I’d also say that they rate Petty above Tomlinson which I also agree with, although it looks like they brought Petty back too early and Tomlinson was stiff to get dropped after his best game. I don’t think there’s a spot for Petty forward with both BBB, JVR and Smith so maybe Smith out and Petty forward?

One point I will defend the coaches on is not making a late change - we were playing 15th on the ladder ffs, we should just be able to name a 23, roll them out and win whether it was raining or not. That we weren’t able to get the win shows how bad the whole lot are going rather than that we went in with too many talls imo

Getting a kick is a basic requirement of the game, yet those that get more are more highly rated than those who get less. Similar with i50 tackles, he’s 2nd in the comp at a basic requirement of his job, and in the top ~5% at other basic requirements. Makes him pretty good. He isn’t in a slump, the team is. Every time he gets the ball there’s 29 other bodies inside 50, clear it out and you’d be amazed at what he can do. Stupidly congested forward 50? That we can agree on..

No hard ball gets? 19 possessions yesterday 9 contested, 10 uncontested. 5 tackles, behind only Viney for us. How many have stuck? The ones that get counted. How many have resulted in free kicks? Could probably look that up somewhere but I dunno. 2 frees for yesterday. 1.2 yesterday, only player with more scores was Trac with 0.4. Kozzie had 1 assist and 6 score involvements.

I’m not overly impressed with any of them at the moment. I’m telling you he’s doing his job and the problems lie elsewhere. Let’s have a look where he sits in the league: 22 goals has him =31st overall for goal kicking, behind the following small forwards: Charlie Cameron (37), Rankine (30), Breust (28), Higgins (27), Papley (25), Walters (25). Walters has played same games as Kozzie (13), Bruest 1 more and the others 2 more. 5.9 avg score involvements has him 52nd overall, 31st for forwards. Behind Rankine (7.0), Miers (6.93), Bolton (6.33), Rachele (6.13), Higgins & Papley (6.0). Ahead of C Cameron, Weightman, Rayner. Tackles i50, his 29 is 2nd overall behind Shultz (31 in 2 more games) Small forward output is a function of effort and opportunities, his effort is there, opportunities are limited by the lack of space to work in.

Is it loading or heavy training? I don’t know, I don’t know what they’re doing during the week so may be really punishing themselves to build for finals but I haven’t seen any indication of that on the socials. The only definitive answer will come if we come out of it and start running on top of the ground come finals. What I will say is I had a lot of theories last year, loading, maybe we weren’t playing our best 22, or had a different forward line plan that we were keeping under wraps for the finals or we’re just cruising to stay fresh for finals and when the whips were cracking we’d come good. Final round we [censored] the lions and I started to think “hello, here we go!”, then we play 2 finals looking like we were absolutely cooked and the season was done - turns out I’d been huffing copium. Is that the case this year? Maybe not but I’m not going all in on hope until I see us play in a final and play well

Lot of Kozzie sledging on here, just be aware: 22 goals, behind only Fritsch (29) Ave 5.9 score involvements, behind only Trac & Clarry 12 goal assists, behind only Trac (20) 22 marks i50, behind only Fritsch (30) 4.5 ave tackles, behind only Viney (5.8), Clarry (5.6), ANB (5). He’s outright first for tackles i50. He flies for some marks he shouldn’t, takes shots at goal he could pass, sometimes sprays some kicks but he ain’t the problem and anyone who thinks he’s going anywhere near Casey is kidding themselves.

As with the Dees, if you don’t take your chances early in the game you can get close late but you leave yourself open to one bit of luck for the opposition stuffing your whole day

Not sure about Kingy’s solution of Trac forward though - kicking more points isn’t gonna help. They’re spot on with the rest though. “They play too slow, too wide. There are so many numbers inside their forward 50 that it makes it hard. Every shot Petracca is having is under pressure, Kozzie Pickett is getting shots at goal but there‘s numbers everywhere,” Montagna told First Crack. “I think they‘re making it really difficult for themselves because they’re focused so heavily on the defensive contest side of it. I’ve just think they’ve got to find the balance.” This - clear it out and let the forwards work

Yep, we would have to have the most congested forward line in the comp. Crowded, no movement and when our small forwards get it they’ve got no room to do anything. Gawn/Grundy are just clogging it up, get them back out onto the wing so the opposition has to kick it to them or around them to get out and make some space for the forwards.

JVR back in for Frittata for mine. Does good things at ground level Smith but he’s not a 2nd forward, let him play as a mobile high forward. Let JVR and Brown play as the talls, keep the ruckmen out of the way unless they’re actually capable of taking an overhead mark (which Grundy never is and Gawn isn’t at the moment), they’re just getting in the way now.

No, we didn’t Chandler 12 disposals @83%, 4 score involvements Bedford 9 disposals @55%, 1 score involvement. Did lay 7 tackles but wasn’t great. 6 goals for the year vs Chin’s 15

Richmond copped a wake up call in 2018, then came back and won the next 2. We copped a wake up call in 2022 and then.. seems like we hung up and went back to bed

Exactly - really ticks me off when Trac waves his arms at the crowd telling us we’re not making enough noise, and the club launched a big promo saying the same. Play good footy and we’ll make noise.

England cricket team levels of self delusion at the moment. There’s something to be said for doing everything right and not getting the result, but eventually you have to get the result. We’re going backwards fast..

There goes top 4, and any chance of a flag. Can’t be dropping games like that.

No

That has to be 50 to chandler, punched in the face after marking it!!

+40 disposals but only +8 effective disposals - wasteful

Only positive is Bedford keeps proving we didn’t miss anything there

We’ll pay the price with a couple more wasted years first

Fair enough we’re dominating but you’ve also got to win on the scoreboard. We’re playing a team that’s 15th, if we’re going anywhere this year this should be an easy win in any conditions but we’re going to scrape over the line if we get there at all.

People bagging Kozzie are forgetting he has 50% of our goal assists today

Brown showing his smarts even though it’s not a day for him weather wise Grundy is a waste of space dropping back into defence, just ball watches Trac - Jesus Christ do some goal kicking practice instead of foodstagrams Smith putting on good forward pressure with his athleticism Roos dodged a bullet not getting the privilege of paying J Kelly a million a year for not much

We’ll make the 8, and should (should!) still make top 4. Our biggest blessing is that no one else is any good either. Pies and Port are clear top 2 but we’ve beaten the Pies, got close to Port and would probably beat them at the G if we put 4 quarters together. We’ve got the list to win this flag, I just don’t think we will as we can’t get our mids to kick it anywhere near our forwards and can’t get our forwards to lead and/or get out of each others’ way