Game Day 2019 Grand Final

[Robbo's my hero]

Get into your garden Robbo . It’s growing .


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Will you supply the floodlights?

 

[norway blue]

Yep and I’m good with an axe .


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[Robbo's my hero]

Yep and I’m good with an axe .


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[norway blue]

Wood chopping and moto gp a very very close second to ........


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[thylacine60]

 

[Robbo's my hero]

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Heath Shaw should retire.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Giants were awful. Tigers patchy. 4 red time goals to the YELLOW and BLACK the diff.

 

[JamisonRun40]

How's Davis looking, does he look injured?

 

[Dadda Dave]

Giants were awful. Tigers patchy. 4 red time goals to the YELLOW and BLACK the diff.

Much flopping going on with the tuggers key forwards Robbo ?

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Much flopping going on with the tuggers key forwards Robbo ?

An artist’s impression of Riewoldt’s effort in the second quarter.

 

[thylacine60]

was he even given a concussion/cardiac test after fainting?

 

[Robbo's my hero]

How did I miss Fev in his Richmond colours?

 

[Opine]

Giants were awful. Tigers patchy. 4 red time goals to the YELLOW and BLACK the diff.

Shit footy teams, both of them.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

was he even given a concussion/cardiac test after fainting?

The NRL call it a HIA. Head Injury Assessment?

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Geez every time GWS did something stupid the Tigers kicked a goal.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Soldo makes it five goals in red time. It was a terrible kick from Lloyd this time.

 

[thylacine60]

 

[Robbo's my hero]

That’s a big vault!

 

[Robbo's my hero]

It’s ironic that Grigg is lauded for his loyalty and team first persona.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

The verbal diarrhoea from the commentary team in the last quarter.

And Johnno never won a Norm Smith.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Almost half of Richmond’s goals came in red time.

 

[therubbernub]

I had everything right except I was 14 goals out with the margin and had the wrong team...............

and the wrong year....

 

[Gethelred]

Almost half of Richmond’s goals came in red time.

By design.

Their bottom 10-12 players are all elite middle distance runners, who play with the express goal merely of harassment and if they find the ball to get it into Dusty, Cotchin, Edwards, Houli, Prestia's hands. These blokes get more of a rest than their teammates, so naturally they're fresher than their counterparts who play for their opposition, stuffed from effectively playing against a completely negative opposition if their clearance setup isn't designed to clear the ball suuuuuper quickly. They'll beat you up, perfectly happy to be in an arm wrestle, knowing that there is precious little chance that you can go with them for as long as they can go with you, and realistically they don't even want to win the clearances. They want you to bomb the ball, so they can intercept, switch and go.

You beat them by smashing the ball clear of the clearance, avoiding possession within 20m and then beating them out to it, and once clear keeping it clear. Bear in mind, that kind of game is something they're good at, and there aren't many teams that possess better or more seagulls than they've got. They get away with being absolutely shocking at maintaining possession by ensuring that even if they turn it over they're already set up behind the ball and there's already six blokes on scene ready to tackle. So, a risky game. But doing so means - if you get it right - you can absolutely blitz them if you sustain it. It's getting harder to do, though.

Anyway, they score late in quarters because that's when their opposition are at their most worn, where the good players from Richmond are fresher by far and thus better at executing their skills. Dusty in particular is the one that is made to look miles better/stronger than his opponents, because he is deliberately held back early in quarters and early in the game in order to make the most of his strength, and he knows where the goals are.

 

[BringBackSimmo]