Preview 2018 Qualifying Final 1 - Richmond v Hawthorn MCG Thursday 7:20pm

[AlorraVex]

People have been saying we’ve been in bad form but the Hawks have been in good form. Over the last 6 weeks, 6 wins each.

Richmond: StK (54 points), Coll (28 points), Geel (3 points), GC (74 points), Ess (8 points), Bull (3 points)

Hawthorn: Carl (72 points), Freo (59 points), Ess (4 points), Geel (11 points), StK (4 points), Syd (9 points)

Looks pretty much equal to me, but if anything we’re in slightly better form IMO. We’ve also had nothing to play for over the last 3 weeks, while they’ve had everything to play for.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Rumours going around that Jimmy Barnes will perform on GF day.

Wonder if Jack likes Barnes.

 

[Shazza_]

bom fu*ks up the weather again who wouldve thought

what a perfect day

 

[StillAtLarge]

The old Hawthorn logo in your avatar looks like it's crying.

Your avatar looks like it needs an iron

 

[Cevap_Roll]

Georges kicking has never cost us a game. It didnt contribute to winning that particuar game, but he wasn't responsible for the loss.

Beg to differ. When someone kicks that bad for a goal in a game IMO thats why we lost.

 

[Roksman]

People have been saying we’ve been in bad form but the Hawks have been in good form. Over the last 6 weeks, 6 wins each.

Richmond: StK (54 points), Coll (28 points), Geel (3 points), GC (74 points), Ess (8 points), Bull (3 points)

Hawthorn: Carl (72 points), Freo (59 points), Ess (4 points), Geel (11 points), StK (4 points), Syd (9 points)

Looks pretty much equal to me, but if anything we’re in slightly better form IMO. We’ve also had nothing to play for over the last 3 weeks, while they’ve had everything to play for.

Difference is, our wins have been described as such things like "Not convincing", "just going" etc, while the Hawks have been praised for their rebuild and how good they are playing.

IF we play our best and Hawthorn play their best.... we win.

 

[Cevap_Roll]

Only one thing worries me... we still haven't beaten anyone good

Thats OK because Hawks are no good.

 

[Shazza_]

Rain would be great for us as the wet conditions would reduce Hawthorn's accurate kicking.

theyre all turnover merchants

 

[Shazza_]

Lol Crawford on radio saying we haven’t trained hard so Hawks will win

richmond fan

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Ceglar late out.

Reckon Sissilly won't play in these wet conditions.Heavy ball not good on suspect wrists.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Love it that we retained our midfielders , means we go into this game with our strongest midfield of the year i think..

That depth should allow us to send dusty forward more if necessary to negate that extra bit of height they have..

 

[Shazza_]

Reckon Sissilly won't play in these wet conditions.Heavy ball not good on suspect wrists.

should we get nank to sit on his wrist then?

 

[sante]

Why are you campaigners liking my post

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Hawks by 17 points...

 

[TigerTime_89]

What will the crowd spilt be tonight people? We have to be loud and have to boo like we did last year. Think there will be 60K Tigers and 35K hawks.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

should we get nank to sit on his wrist then?

You can ask Nank if he has heavy balls.

 

[Shazza_]

What will the crowd spilt be tonight people? We have to be loud and have to boo like we did last year. Think there will be 60K Tigers and 35K hawks.

booing last year was cos of the h and a game being at skilled a few weeks before it

dont think we will boo much tonight

 

[sante]

booing last year was cos of the h and a game being at skilled a few weeks before it

dont think we will boo much tonight

Did we boo GWS? I can’t remember

 

[TigerTime_89]

Did we boo GWS? I can’t remember

No. Some just booed lids I think.

 

[CotchNCo]

Literally not done a single productive thing at work so far today. To say i'm keen to get this stuff underway is an understatement.

Cmon Tiges!

 

[clark1980]

our form over the last 6 weeks weeks has been good. if my memory is correct we had a handy lead over Geel, Ess and the bulldogs but allowed late goals to tighten up the scores at the end. plus 21 straight at the mcg. definitely should go in favourites but favourites still get beaten. will have to get our pressure up to the 200 level we achieved last finals series.

 

[Shazza_]

Did we boo GWS? I can’t remember

we did

 

[DontArgue4]

I look at the hawks backline...

Henderson, Frawley, Hardwick
Impey, Stratton, Sicily

Not a whole not of great kicks in there, Sicily obviously the stand out but hes coming off 6 weeks out so is bound to be a tad rusty. Impey is fast but questionable skills at times. Henderson good skills but slow. Stratton hardly gets it. Hardwick average speed and decent skills. Frawley crap footskills, good defender.

Compared to our named forward line....

Rioli Edwards Castagna
Riewoldt Martin Caddy

Rioli lighting quick and good skills. Edwards silky and evasive. Castagna elite pressure crap skills. Riewoldt coleman medalist, fantastic skills. Martin best player in the AFL, beast with speed. Caddy 44 goals, plays taller than he is, great mark and big body.

They have some dangerous forwards, so if our midfield holds up we should be able to lock it in our 50 for good portions and starve their guns a bit.

McEvoy, Mitchell, O'Meara, Sheils, Worpel, Morrison, Burgoyne, Smith
v
Nankervis, Martin, Cotchin, Prestia, Lambert, Conca, Edwards, Graham, Higgins, McIntosh, Grigg, Caddy

We seem to have a fair bit more depth through the midfield which gives us great flexibility to plonk dusty and caddy forward where they can cause massive headaches.

Im cautiously optimistic about tonight having looked deeper into the teams. Clarkson will no doubt have a great plan to counter us, i just think if our pressure is at its best we will be able to lock it in our 50 an deny them clean ball movement forward.

GO TIGS!!!

 

[TigerTime_89]

So bored. Waiting..........

 

[GoTigers2015]

Extra nice to beat the Dees in the Granny.