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Thanks guys for the reports
I like the sound of rioli on the wing..but I feel we need his scoring power up forward where it counts!
I also think we need to sort out our ruck situation. We seem to lose too many clearances and very rarely win hit outs to advantage. I would hope this has been the major focus over the off season. I don’t like hearing astbury in the ruck..


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Lotta love for the Tiges on Channel 7 news.
Richmond led the sports segment.
Jacqui Felgate referred to Tiger Woods as the "Tiger of Old".
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Jacqui can call me anything she likes.
 
strauchy said:
Thanks guys for the reports
I like the sound of rioli on the wing..but I feel we need his scoring power up forward where it counts!
I also think we need to sort out our ruck situation. We seem to lose too many clearances and very rarely win hit outs to advantage. I would hope this has been the major focus over the off season. I don’t like hearing astbury in the ruck..


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The only explanation with astbury in the ruck is if they plan too use he and Garth as the 2nd ruck/Def and not upsetting our fwd pressure to much if we went with a Soldo etc.
 

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Tall order: Tigers consider game plan switch
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By Jon Pierik
February 23, 2019 — 3.36pm



Toby Nankervis may not be a lone hand in the ruck for Richmond this season.Credit:Joe Armao
Richmond's premiership game plan featuring one marking forward and a lone specialist ruckman is set to be shaken up with the Tigers weighing up fielding four key talls this year.
While champion defender Alex Rance doesn't want to completely change the game plan, that may not be possible as the Tigers assimilate boom recruit Tom Lynch, debate fielding a back-up ruckman and adjust to new rules designed to ease congestion.
The Tigers had Jack Riewoldt as their key tall inside 50 in 2017 when they delivered a breakthrough premiership, while ruckman Toby Nankervis thrived largely without a specialist partner. Undersized Shaun Grigg provided help around the ground, where he was primarily an extra midfielder at a stoppage rather than being used to win the tap.
That system didn't provide the same punch last year, when the Tigers were thumped by Collingwood in a preliminary final. They later confirmed suspicions when they signed former Gold Coast captain Lynch, one of the game's premier forwards.

The new 6-6-6 ruling, which requires teams to have six players in both their forward and defensive arcs and six in the midfield at centre bounces, means teams will be at a disadvantage if they are regularly beaten out of the middle. Therefore, the need for a back-up specialist ruck has heightened, meaning the Tigers could field two more big men.
Justin Leppitsch, a premiership assistant coach with the Tigers, said on Saturday the coaches were considering all options.
"There will almost be another one again to our original structure, if we have a second ruckman, as well as Tom Lynch," he said.
"It will be a challenge but we will look at everything. We will look at any possibilities to get the result on the weekend – if it works. If it doesn't, we will, obviously, keep our small system."

That system was built on having Josh Caddy as a medium-sized marking target beside Riewoldt, and surrounding that pair with smaller, hard-running and high-pressure types who could kick goals or at least lock the ball inside 50.
After completing an intra-club clash at Punt Rd, Leppitsch said playing four talls would have an impact on selection and positions, particularly in terms of the four-man bench.
"What it will effect more than anything if you have four talls, if you go from two to four, is your bench – how much run you get through your team," he said.
"It will affect how many minutes Caddy plays forward or mid, it will affect [Jack] Higgins [as a] forward or mid, it will affect things like that. Do you carry a seventh defender or do you play another mid? All those things, questions get asked.

"It does affect the on-ground a little bit but it also affects your flexibility in your team and what you can do on the day. It has to be a week-to-week call but, like anything, if it's a dominant big man forward, it might change your philosophy. If there is no dominant big man, what's the point of having him? We have all sorts of those conversations all the time."
The Tigers are confident Lynch, who did not play in the intra-club match but ran laps beforehand, will be that dominant big man alongside Riewoldt when he has fully recovered from knee surgery, which restricted him to 10 games last year and has him in doubt for round one next month.
He could pinch-hit in the ruck but Ivan Saldo will be Nankervis' specialist back-up, if the Tigers head down that path.
Saldo and Nankervis were on the same side in the intra-club clash, and alternated between the centre square and forward line.
Leppitsch said the 6-6-6 ruling almost certainly meant a specialist ruck would be needed for centre bounces.


"If the ball is going to come out the front, it's not going to help if you have a shorter ruckman unless there are other mechanisms [and] we try to clog it up again. There is more than just one coming off the back of the square that you can do.
"There are a lot of adjustments because there are more forwards in your forward 50 but there is less congestion around the stoppage but more congestion when you actually get it in there, so the congestion is just moving from one side of the ground to the other. The backs – it's probably as not a bad a thing because you have more numbers around, more support.
"Forwards, there is more numbers in there to pressure. It's going to be interesting to see how it develops, whether it's going to be a better goal-scoring source or it's just going to create more stoppages in the front half. We'll wait and see."
Premiership half-back Brandon Ellis and Daniel Rioli impressed as midfielders in the intra-club, the former having spent the summer with the on-ballers, while Dustin Martin and Bachar Houli found plenty of the ball. Riewoldt and Rance did not play, having taken part in AFLX on Friday night.

Draftee Riley Collier-Dawkins, an inside midfielder, provided run, as the Tigers turn their attention to their opening JLT pre-season clash against Melbourne in Shepparton on March 3.
 
Yes. Interesting comments by Leppitsch.
Soldo is the ruck understudy.
They will reconfigure the team depending on the opposition.
Two dedicated rucks or one, two tall key forwards, and so on.
Collingwood, for example, was able to match Richmond last year because they had a relatively short defence.
We won't need to be concerned about C'wood so much this year given they have the most diffiicult draw.
 
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