It was reasonable, apart from the result.
carlton had better than a five goal advantage from playing last week and we’re one kick away from rolling them.
Not too many changes. Maybe Brown in for Faull, who likely misses one week.
Ruck is a real problem. The rule changes seem to make it very easy to score from a clear hit out and it didn’t matter who was in the middle or back six for us, they couldn’t get a handle on it. Any side with a strong, experienced ruckman is going to score heavily against us.
I don’t think a different coach would make a bag of beans of difference.
Frankly that Adelaide side (on paper at least) should beat us by 10 goals. They’re that much further ahead in development.
The truth is the younger players we most want to see in action have been out injured anyway. This is...
What the **** are you talking about? What makes you think Yze tried to save the game? Richmond had more than enough inside 50s to win it. The players didn’t execute. That is on them.
Nope. Coach had nothing to do with it. Players panicked and stopped following instructions.
Yze is not on the ground. The players made poor decisions. The coach can’t kick it (or rather play on) for them. That’s on the players.
Max Gawn is still a very, very good player.
It's not that Nank had a bad game. It’s just that Gawn was simply better, and that was the difference. Sometimes you just have to acknowledge the opposition bloke did a really good job and leave it at that.
I'm not quite as out on Rioli. He is a...