Bimbo

For what it is worth, it is Richmonds biggest loss and easily their lowest score for the season.

Have read through about half post game thread and it is a pleasure not to see any critisism of the umpires.

It is just possible there may be some comment on the Richmond fan forums.

Only saw first half at teh ground.

Thomo had lots of posessions but several were of the kind Hawthorn backs had against us.

Some very good and some ordinary.

Dont be fooled by the high posession numbers however.

50 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Hunter ughh.... straight to Sondsi by hand.

Over using handball once we get forward or in any congestion

It was just in front of me.  He got a call and gave it in the right direction.  Dont look on it as being Hunters fault.

Otherwise, he hasnt looked all that good although a bit better in the last few minutes before half time.

12 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Didn't Haywood play for the Filth in the '70's? Gun recruit from the country.

Billy Picken did.  He was reqruited from Heywood

Hawks have a higher score in the first half than they did for the whole game against us.

Looked a happy player in a happy team during the last quarter on Saturday.

And he was first to get his arms round Petracca after "that spoil" with a huge smile on his face

If anyone is feeling a little down, go the Big Footy Hawthorn page reviewing the game.  They are a mite unhappy.

And if that doesnt cheer you up, todays was Hawthorns lowest score against Melbourne since 1960.

Certainly Essendon this century.

Carlton are doing their best to reclaim the crown (particularly through their supporters)

If it was the most loathed player, he would come from a different team and I think be considered for that position by at least 99% of Demonlanders.

I am to my surprise not as anti GWS as I was.  That may relate to the current make up including Toby Bedford and Hogan and not Sheedy, $cully, Phat Phil or Silvagni

Simon Goodwin has said:

Howes and Windsor to debut.

Billings and Oliver to play.

Brayshaw to take some time away from football before the club puts something in front of him.  Very pleased to hear he will be part of MFC

I just hope that Carlton look as modest against every other team this year.

And the corollary is that I hope D's lood as good against every other team also 

What was the "Adelaide deal"?

I remember hearing they were offering McAdam in exchange at one stage.

With respect, if that was the deal then I believe the club did the correct thing in refusing.

Was there anything better on offer?

Father took me to Melbourne (180 miles one way as it then was) as an 8 year old to watch Ron Barassi at the Lake Oval in 1963.  Demonwiki informs me it was 1 June.  I recall being amazed by the huge crowd.  Demonwiki informs me it was 17,160.

I remember being desolated by the loss but Demonwiki informing me the score was: 

South Melbourne 11 goals 8 behinds 74

Melbourne 8 goals 22 behinds 70

suggesting some things dont change over 60 years

On a stats level too basic to be mentioned in the Stats thread:

Since round 10 (21 May) Collingwood have played 4 games only against teams in the finals.  They had a good 2 point win against Port in Adelaide and have lost to Melbourne, Carlton and the Lions.

Over the same time frame, Melbourne have played seven games against each of the fnalists (excepting Port) including Carlton twice and have only lost to GWS (somehow) and the conttroversial loss to Carlton.

I reckon that is pretty good form coming into the finals.

1 hour ago, 58er said:

Is it really 26 the losing streak as this week North lost  it's 20 th game In a row and this is supposed to be a record. 

Any chance you Can confirm this record please either way?

Thanks 

I think it will be 20 in a row in one season.

They won their first and third.

Tough on Con Dah, Mac Arthur and Ham Ilton to miss a gig with country.

Over the last 6 weeks we have played 5 teams currently in the 8 and Adelaide.  The two games we lost were in shocking conditions - at Mordor and at Alice Springs (which game I still have problems accepting as a loss).

Adelaide has only played 2 games at the MCG this year.  They lost to Collingwood by a point and to us by 4 points.  Their style suits the ground.  I would add that the points they kicked were generally from a fair distance from goal.  Not much in the way of gimmee's.  For us, we did kick 3 goals 6 in the last quarter to their 7 goals 2.  It was not all their way.

For that entire 6 game period we have been without Oliver.  For much of the time without Fritsch.

Because of our results over this 6 week period, we have now all but sewn up a position in the top 4.

Although we do not play another team curently in the 8 before the finals there is no such thing as an easy game (except West Coast who we do not play again).  However, the pressure is going to be very different to last year when we had to have wins against top teams playing seemingly injured players.

With Oliver and Fritsch back a few games before the finals, Hibbard playing a blinder at Casey and Petty the only other injury worry, I reckon we are in a pretty good position.

I think he is a notably improved player this year with still plenty of upside.

He is showing far more willingness to take the game on and is playing some good roles - he spent quite a bit of time on Neale on Friday night.

I would be very sorry to see him go.

As soon as i saw this thread i thought of Anthony Ingerson.  

He was one of the great pick ups from another club and just never let the team down.

From Carlton Big Footy:

Melbourne, bombers, gold coast, the bye. 4 tough games coming up

They generally dont seem very happy

15 hours ago, Demonstone said:

More fun facts about Fred Fanning:

-  His 97 goals that year were the highest of any Melbourne player before or since.

-  The game where he kicked 18 was the last game of the season in 1947.

-  His next game was for Hamilton in the Western District League where he was offered a coaching position for an amount of money four times his VFL pay and Melbourne couldn't/wouldn't match it.

-  He kicked 22 goals in one of his games for Hamilton.

My old man played with him for Hamilton (and against him later when Fanning moved to Coleraine).

Said he was very tough but not as good a footballer as Bill Barham who was father of Bill and Jamie who both played a few games for Melbourne and also Ricky Barham who played alright for Collingwood for many years.

Country football would have put Michael Christian about 5 weeks behind in writing up suspensions if today's rules were in place.

31 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

I'm not opposed to a draft lottery, but I think it should be capped to the very lower end of the ladder, such as the bottom 4. 

And Freemantle

From the OGGs match report for Saturday:

We welcomed back Kynan Brown for his 2nd game of the year who really gives us some run and explosion out of the half back line. 

I cannot understand why MFC had Adrian Anderson appear.

While i believe he is a lawyer and was big in the AFL, surely a bigwig barrister might have been worth it

Just on a related topic, when Kozzies knee made contact with Ballard's head, should Kozzie have received the free kick as Ballard dived across in front of his legs?