We did play well, we would've beat probably any other team, given we kicked well. If we bring that same intensity we're going to be hard to beat from here on out. You're showing you're out of your depth talking about Brisbane as you haven't watched much of us (nothing wrong with that)
It's a bit of both. Witherden and Answerth weren't good but Rayner and McCluggage were. Plenty of older players had bad games too, like McCarthy, Adams and basically the whole midfield besides Neale. And as others have said, the midfield were the main culprits with poor kicking, although McCarthy, Cameron and McStay all missed easy shots too.
The media were all going on about how Brisbane could have improved from that game. Richmond posters pointed out that we could also improve and, in particular, cited the stat that we made 0 tackles inside 50 in Round 23 - very un-Richmond-like. Last night we had 18 (and won the tackle count over all by 78 to 56).
If you genuinely think McStay played well (and don't give me this "played his best for three months" crap) then we have different standards of playing well. I thought he was average since quarter time and showed that he's not very good. Brisbane have one above average forward who spent most of the night trying to play as a key forward when the Richmond crumbers crumbed like they were supposed to.
He did when the pressure was at it's highest. You've completely missed the entire point of the argument which was about players with no finals experience. Switch on buckaroo
Bad kicking just happens sometimes but obviously for it to happen in a QF is not ideal. Thought Brisbane actually played well in the first half albeit kicked badly, but when Richmond kicked all those goals on the trot felt Brisbane lost their mojo a bit, possibly had their confidence dented??
