Are we really that bad?

[bradydaw91]

I was there on the weekend.

We seemed to have moments of the game where we strung together good chains of ball movement. The likes of Bolton, Bakes, Rioli were elite at times. But the final kick inside 50 was easily covered by the suns defence. It's not completely the forwardline's fault. The entries were long and high. But we looked very slow in the f50. Suns found it way too easy to waltz the ball out of the backline. 6 goals in perfect conditions is not AFL standard.

Is it really a falling off the cliff moment or are there just a few tweaks and things can start working in our favour?

 

[beema limapep]

I was there on the weekend.

We seemed to have moments of the game where we strung together good chains of ball movement. The likes of Bolton, Bakes, Rioli were elite at times. But the final kick inside 50 was easily covered by the suns defence. It's not completely the forwardline's fault. The entries were long and high. But we looked very slow in the f50. Suns found it way too easy to waltz the ball out of the backline. 6 goals in perfect conditions is not AFL standard.

Is it really a falling off the cliff moment or are there just a few tweaks and things can start working in our favour?

It is really that bad. There are fundamental issues in terms of our systems, player belief in each other and the systems.

Too many players are also past it, can't kick or are too slow. We have way below average depth in our under 21s.

It will take alot more than a few tweaks I suspect.

 

[BF Tiger]

We showed more against Melbourne than we did the Suns.

 

[DickieKnee]

The entries were long and high

Dumb football when we have no KPF marking target like Lynch.

 

[bradydaw91]

Dumb football when we have no KPF marking target like Lynch.

its annoying because they already used the blueprint well enough against Melbourne. Hit up shorter targets. But it seemed like we thought 'hey we got some big guys, its perfect conditions, lets give the ball some hang time baby!'

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Get our offensive ball movement , forward structure and player positions/ selection right and we would be on top of the ladder .
If they don’t we’ll be bottom of the ladder

 

[Lord of the Wings]

I personally think Dimma is in the midst of a mid-life crisis and the results on field are reflective of the chaos.

 

[Tiges1229]

So wtf are the coaches saying ? Stop bombing it ? Or the players aren’t listening . If a mug like me who’s never coached a day in his life can see a system of bombing long isn’t working maybe change it ffs

 

[Tzatziki_Man]

We are worse

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

I personally think Dimma is in the midst of a mid-life crisis and the results on field are reflective of the chaos.

FFS lets not sugar coat shagging the promo girl as some new wanky term ‘ mid life crisis ‘.
He cheated on the people he has spent the majority of his life with who trusted him the most .

 

[SavDog23]

bulldogs loss cooked us

 

[Danw0w]

bulldogs loss cooked us

Sliding doors for the season for sure..

 

[bradydaw91]

It is really that bad. There are fundamental issues in terms of our systems, player belief in each other and the systems.

Too many players are also past it, can't kick or are too slow. We have way below average depth in our under 21s.

It will take alot more than a few tweaks I suspect.

This. We have a lot of quality in there still. But our bottom 6 players (or rather bottom 10) are costing us games.

I see our team is broken into 3 tiers.

• we have inexperienced youth: Ryan, Young, Sonsie, Clarke, Miller, Cumberland, Mansell, Soldo, HRS
• cooked tiger stalwarts: Riewoldt, Grimes, Cotchin, Tarrant, Prestia, Pickett, Nankervis, Dusty (harsh?)
• At or near their peak: Baker, Rioli, Bolton, Balta, Lynch, Vlastuin, Broad, Tarranto, Hopper, Short, KMac, Graham

The first 2 tiers are basically leaving massive holes all over the field.

It's amazing how quickly we fell off. Pivotal players like Edwards, Prestia and Lambert become passengers/injury prone a year later.

 

[Coach_Required]

Team has zero confidence, we do some really nice things for little reward. All it takes is one error these days a turn over and we are chasing tail down the other end.

I will say though, when you're in a form slump the team should be doing everything it can to correct it, kicking at goal, hitting targets with basic kicking and handballing skills and I don't believe we are training or taking that part serious enough ATM.

2.7.(19) on the weekend to 4.2.(26) in the first half is what killed us, it killed any momentum the side had and took our confidence away. If that was 7.2 (44) i think we could have got away with an ugly win.

 

[Ralll]

We're not that bad.
Flying late last season, robbed of a semi final berth.
Added Taranto/Hopper, Dusty fit again.
Something went wrong strategy wise pre-season imo, maybe got ahead of ourselves and trained the wrong things.
Then injuries hit (Lynch) followed by a loss of confidence regarding the results and here we are.
From here they have to figure out where we went wrong, train the players to a better suited gameplan and start executing again.

 

[Vassp]

We are that bad. The most disappointing thing is we could be much better.

 

[CASEYS9420]

Melbourne finished 4th last year, the entire squad, seniors and rookies returned to training a month early, thats a winning culture. Standards have clearly slipped at the Richmond football club, I think building into a season is a shiit philosophy, I always have because builds compliancy, an attitude of I'll do the hard work later, we'll be better later in the season, dont worry. I think that attitude stinks at any level of competitive sport.

 

[sante]

We aren’t THAT bad. It’s an even competition, we are down on form and confidence. Doesn’t help when we are missing key players either

 

[partycorolla]

Melbourne finished 4th last year, the entire squad, seniors and rookies returned to training a month early, thats a winning culture. Standards have clearly slipped at the Richmond football club, I think building into a season is a shiit philosophy, I always have because builds compliancy, an attitude of I'll do the hard work later, we'll be better later in the season, dont worry. I think that attitude stinks at any level of competitive sport.

I liked it in 2019 and 2020 and we peaked way too early in 2018... I think any strategy is fine... so long as you are winning

 

[CASEYS9420]

I liked it in 2019 and 2020 and we peaked way too early in 2018... I think any strategy is fine... so long as you are winning

Yeah I hated it because it leaves you with no other alternative but to go on long winning streaks in the second half of the season to cement your spot in the top 4, everything has to go right.

 

[DickieKnee]

Yeah I hated it because it leaves you with no other alternative but to go on long winning streaks in the second half of the season to cement your spot in the top 4, everything has to go right.

2019 round 7 we had won 4 lost 3
2020 round 7 we had won 4 draw1 lost 2
2023 we have won one and drawn one.

 

[Al Heimer]

Just wait till we play WCE, you'll think the effort we put up against the Suns was superb.

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[CASEYS9420]

2019 round 7 we had won 4 lost 3
2020 round 7 we had won 4 draw1 lost 2
2023 we have won one and drawn one.

2021 round 7 we had won 4 lost 3 - Finished 12th
2022 round 7 we had won 3 lost 4 finished 7th (nearly missed the finals)

 

[living_in_syd]

We are unskilled and way too slow.

And no small forwards which was our dna.

 

[Livonski]

FFS lets not sugar coat shagging the promo girl as some new wanky term ‘ mid life crisis ‘.
He cheated on the people he has spent the majority of his life with who trusted him the most .

You have no freakin idea what the chain of events were but feel qualified to slag the bloke off (behind an anonymous keyboard). WAP.
Stick to footy and keep the personal bits out of it. Disgraceful.