Richmond still a chance for the finals?

[DapperDon]

6 games to go, Richmond fans getting all hopeful again.

Pre-season will be all about how this is finally their year, come June 2015 is all back to sack Dimma threads.

Round and round we go.

 

[parsons nose]

No, but would make a nice movie plot.

 

[Wes Tiger]

No chance. We are a ******* disgraceful club who'd * up even the un*able. Even if we did make the 8 we'd find a way to get excluded from the finals somehow or another and still finish 9th. Our team would probably get done trying to rob a bank or something ridiculous hours away from game time. Knowing Richmond the bank they'd try to hold up would probably be closed on a Sunday.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

6 games to go, Richmond fans getting all hopeful again.

Pre-season will be all about how this is finally their year, come June 2015 is all back to sack Dimma threads.

Round and round we go.

Actually its not us - only a handful of our uberiest uberfans are still thinking we are a shot

FWIW thread was started by a hawker, assume for trolling but you never know

 

[DapperDon]

Actually its not us - only a handful of our uberiest uberfans are still thinking we are a shot

FWIW thread was started by a hawker, assume for trolling but you never know

Ha, I know. It was just a cheap shot.

 

[DontArgue4]

So many offended bombers fans in here hahahahaha

 

[mcuzzy]

I made a similar thread and it got closed within half an hour by a West Coast mod, you're doing well, OP.

 

[KGBeast]

Not a snowflakes chance in hell.

 

[juss]

If Richmond win every game they will finish on 12 wins, you will need 13 to make the 8 anyway, why the **** are we having this discussion?

Actually that's not entirely true. Play with a few ladder predictors and we can get in with 12 or 11 wins. Of course it's incredibly unlikely, but it adds a bit of excitement for a Richmond fan going into each game now. Would any supporter be any different? Who wouldn't want to at least discuss the possibility.

Every Richmond supporter comment I've read acknowledges it's very unlikely or no chance, it's other supporters that are making up we think we're gonna play finals etc, but again, nothing wrong with entertaining the idea.

 

[Tiger71]

No chance. We are a ******* disgraceful club who'd **** up even the un****able. Even if we did make the 8 we'd find a way to get excluded from the finals somehow or another and still finish 9th. Our team would probably get done trying to rob a bank or something ridiculous hours away from game time. Knowing Richmond the bank they'd try to hold up would probably be closed on a Sunday.

Wes Tiger, 798 pretending to be a tiger supporter. I wonder if mods have a badge for trolls who are so persistent ?

 

[Tiger71]

So many offended bombers fans in here hahahahaha

Its the inferior complex they have. You mention anything Richmond and there is a swarm slaging us off. Have a bomber thread and its *crickets*

 

[Halloween Jack]

With the great Ty Vickory to miss a few weeks, think we can safely rule this one out.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Its the inferior complex they have. You mention anything Richmond and there is a swarm slaging us off. Have a bomber thread and its *crickets*

To be fair, they are the only club with a board dedicated to mod sanctioned slagging off of their club and their supporters

 

[The Dice Man]

With the great Ty Vickory to miss a few weeks, think we can safely rule this one out.

A couple of weeks ago Vickery was a spud, now we can't win without him

 

[Tiger2709]

6 games to go, Richmond fans getting all hopeful again.

Pre-season will be all about how this is finally their year, come June 2015 is all back to sack Dimma threads.

Round and round we go.

If history is repeating itself should we also expect to see the Bombers lose their remaining games and fall back out of the finals race again?

 

[PattoMan99]

Thread title edited for accuracy.

But 9th is a good chance to play finals this year.

 

[santa claws]

very ordinary team and even more ordinary list. but hey there are plenty of clubs in the same boat.
big worry is late wins papering over the cracks. over the next 3 seasons i would hope we turn over half the list at a minimum.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Bombers fans take slim mathematical chances very sensitively

 

[carnthedons]

To be fair, they are the only club with a board dedicated to mod sanctioned slagging off of their club and their supporters

It does serve its purpose though. Keeps it all in one place.

Not sure I understand the inferiority idea though. As a supporter base we're routinely derided for being arrogant and "veruca's". Not what I would call inferiority and certainly not with reference to the Tigs.

 

[Halftimehero]

But 9th is a good chance to play finals this year.

ya reckon?

 

[Ron The Bear]

very ordinary team and even more ordinary list. but hey there are plenty of clubs in the same boat.
big worry is late wins papering over the cracks. over the next 3 seasons i would hope we turn over half the list at a minimum.

But still good enough to beat your "second" team on Friday night.

 

[docko911]

Richmond must win all 5
Richmond must have the best percentage out of the 2-3 teams on 12 wins (possible if they win all 5, given they play both Essendon and Adelaide).

3 of the following 5 must happen.

Gold Coast must lose 2 out of games against St Kilda, North, Port, Essendon and West Coast.
Collingwood must lose 2 out of games against Port, West Coast, Brisbane, GWS, Hawthorn.

Adelaide must lose 1 out of games against West Coast, Brisbane, North and St Kilda.
Essendon must lose 2 out of games against Sydney, West Coast, Gold Coast, Carlton.

North must lose 3 out of games against Geelong, GWS, Western Bulldogs, Adelaide, Melbourne.

Port or Fremantle could lose their remaining 5 but highly unlikely.

.......

It is probably a 50% chance at best that 12 wins gets any teams into the finals with those games.

It would be a lot more interesting if West Coast and Richmond had 1 more win.

 

[ozgamer]

Another Tigers thread. They're playing well atm with the season gone weeks ago and Tyrone is having a holiday. Let's leave it at that

 

[Adam H]

More chance of making it now Vickery isn't playing.

 

[santa claws]

More chance of making it now Vickery isn't playing.

unfortunately i cant agree. while vickery is a very ordinary player he is probably the best tall fwd option we have outside of riewoldt. sort of sums up the list really.
tall fwds
riewoldt - only decent tall fwd we have.
vickery - imo hes a dud. after 6yrs mediocrity is his level. how many good 200cm fwds have there been.
griffiths - struggles to get more than a handfull of possesions a game at afl or vfl level. reckon they will cut him. again how many 200cm fwds have there been.
elton - while he has good attributes is already 197cm/100kg he cant get a kick in the twos. seems he has no idea.
mcbean - geez a 200cm player by golly what a surprise. 200cm player who isnt to date very good in the air. do i need to ask how many good 200cm fwds have there been.
we may have 5 tall fwds and id argue that point as well, but still we scream out for quality in the area.
i can do this sort of exercise with the backs and the mids.

list lacks quality, proper numbers in key areas, and depth.
ffs look at the ruckmen
stephenson a 32 yo rookie.
maric 29yo solid player.
hampson - if it wasnt so sad it would be hilarious that we went and got this hack. theres a great future there lol.
then theres vickery if i listen to my fellow supporters,imo a bloke who has a heart the size of a pea and in 6 yrs doesnt look like a 1st ruckman. in fact hes supposed to be our other kpf.
mcbean - well i ask is he a fwd or a ruckman or just stuck inbetween.
just my opinion but ireckon projecting fwd most clubs are in front of us apart from 4 or 5 mids.
yet i come on this site and people are talking finals. what a joke.