Review R16: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Richmond Tigers

[Ticktak]

23,000 for a Sunday afternoon home game at the MCG.

Soft front running supporter base

And I reckon there was at least 5k Adelaide supporters there too.

 

[Golumless]

Also, Richmond recorded an xscore of +14.5, so they were lucky it was only a 68 point game. Our defense did an absolute number to the tigs. We also scored 82 points from turnovers as well.

 

[FR0GGY]

I’m in love with players who can mark especially contested
Thilthorpe
Dawson
Fogarty
Worrell
Curtin
Hinge

We have 4 in the top 25

 

[Mattrox]

I didn't get to see the ugly part of the game.

Is Max playing forward a way to get Murray into the team? Make him a legitimate swing man who is strong at both ends. Anyway, whatever the reason, I liked what I saw.

Curtin building from strength.

Thilthorpe's contested marking dominance.

Bewildering: Murphy at CBAs.... Unless Nicks knows about bruises and niggles and he's sending in a mature body to provide some relief.... Other than that I'm coming up empty.

ADHD sidequest: I seriously think that the AFL accreditation that assistant coaches need to do has a unit on mature bodies and experience. The number of coaches that are fixated on that is large. And while it is important, it's only one consideration. I think Walsh only was our only coach since Blight wasn't bound by this cookie-cutter playbook mentality. Nicks clearly has played youngsters, but Murphy over anyone was not necessary in this game. Smith, Laird and Tex are enough "wise heads".


Bad: We missed a lot of shots I thought we should have got.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Hard to say when he appears to have been pigeonholed as a winger

Is it more important for him to play the best position for him or best position for team though ?

 

[Scorpus]

When was the last time we only had a 23,000 crowd?

Richmond are a fake big club

Carlton and Essendon fans actually show up and they've been much worse for 20 years

 

[Crowman32]

Butts keeping lynch to 2 possessions is seriously a brilliant effort. Butts has been really good since he come back into the team.

 

[FR0GGY]

I didn't get to see the ugly part of the game.

Is Max playing forward a way to get Murray into the team? Make him a legitimate swing man who is strong at both ends. Anyway, whatever the reason, I liked what I saw.

It would seem it was purely to play on Vlaustin.
He only had 3 intercepts which has only happened 3 times in 8 years.

 

[Golumless]

I didn't get to see the ugly part of the game.

Is Max playing forward a way to get Murray into the team? Make him a legitimate swing man who is strong at both ends. Anyway, whatever the reason, I liked what I saw.

Curtin building from strength.

Thilthorpe's contested marking dominance.

Bewildering: Murphy at CBAs.... Unless Nicks knows about bruises and niggles and he's sending in a mature body to provide some relief.... Other than that I'm coming up empty.

ADHD sidequest: I seriously think that the AFL accreditation that assistant coaches need to do has a unit on mature bodies and experience. The number of coaches that are fixated on that is large. And while it is important, it's only one consideration. I think Walsh only was our only coach since Blight wasn't bound by this cookie-cutter playbook mentality. Nicks clearly has played youngsters, but Murphy over anyone was not necessary in this game. Smith, Laird and Tex are enough "wise heads".


Bad: We missed a lot of shots I thought we should have got.

Walsh was 100% bound by the same mentality as everyone else in his short tenure here. Football is about winning in the end of the day.

Hell as much as Adelaide lacked experience, we also had the oldest list in the league in 1998*. Though it was a different time and would have been the youngest in 2025. That said, the league has become more about hardened athletes since then, seeing how dominant zonal defense/pressure is, which has put a premium on experience instead of the mid-tier prospects.

PS: wrong one.

 

[cleanhands]

Let me get this right we subbed Rachelle for Murphy and gave Murphy midfield minutes?

 

[jenny61_99]

Also look at what midfielders getting tagged have to put up with. Lynch is just a thug

What about Tex? Week in and week out!

 

[Samcro24]

When was the last time we only had a 23,000 crowd?

Outside of Covid
2011 vs Sydney in arctic conditions I reckon

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Max looked pretty comfortable in the Pedlar role

 

[Redleg Crow]

Richmond are a fake big club

Carlton and Essendon fans actually show up and they've been much worse for 20 years

Strong agree.

 

[CrowBloke]

Would we really have been worse off if we'd put that game into the likes of Edwards, Draper, Nankervis etc instead of Murphy / Smith?

No.
You see it. I see it. We all see it.

Nicks doesn't see it.

 

[Pea Nut]

I’m in love with players who can mark especially contested
Thilthorpe
Dawson
Fogarty
Worrell
Curtin
Hinge

We have 4 in the top 25

We are comfortably the #1 contested marking side in the competition !!

 

[FR0GGY]

What’s the chance we can get May to go off the deep end next week?

 

[cleanhands]

When was the last time we only had a 23,000 crowd?

Outside of Ballarat, Alice Springs, Tasmania and next we’re off to the Arctic Circle

 

[brucetiki]

 

[Crow-eater]

I’ll add another ugly: the commentary surrounding Lynch.

Derm called him a rascal, and laughed at the initial incident. He’s not a “rascal” Dermie, he’s a flog. He’s beyond lucky he didn’t connect Butts flush in the jaw.

 

[spenze]

Ummm im liking this

You'll appreciate this a bit more than the average supporter but there is a centre clearance in the last quarter, that was on the back of him already being BOG that makes you get chills, he did this running in off the wing

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[jbanger]

Is it more important for him to play the best position for him or best position for team though ?

Good point
Should be both ideally but it's beside the point in this instance, selections make no sense
For example Smith, Murphy et al are neither best at their position as individuals nor best for the team so who knows what they're thinking

 

[relapse]

David King just gave his take on Lynch.

Reckons it has to be 4-5 weeks, it's a completely unacceptable action and given the AFL have changed 50 rules to protect the head the league has to come down hard on this.

I tend to agree, it's a minimum 4 weeks for me.

For Jon Ralph (who is a Richmond supporter) at half time on Fox Footy to try and laugh it off and push the narrative that it was only worth 2 weeks was a joke.

 

[BRL121]

Is it more important for him to play the best position for him or best position for team though ?

If he's BOG, then he is in the best position both for himself and the team.

 

[All_In]

Unfortunately Murphy's selection cancels that out.

Do people in this forum actually know that there is a selection committee/panel. flipping clueless people looking for fault on mass.