Most people have a fair bit of it. It seems to be a necessary characteristic however, to have very little in order to play for Richmond. Tuck's is non existant, McMahon's is similar, and on occasions King seems to have negative amounts if possible. Even our smart players seem to feel a need to do ridiculously stupid things, ie Lids, streaming through the centre in the last, with 4 or 5 runners alongside him. So what does he do? Kick long to Foley against 3 of course.
Or at some stage in the second quarter. Can't really remember any of the players involved, but Adelaide got a free in the centre (huge surprise), and went long to a player standing by himself 45 out from goal. Now when I say standing by himself, I mean nobody within 10 metres of him, but 3 Richmond players standing in a semi circle around him by themselves on the edge of that 10 metre arc.
And one thing that shits me the most. Ok, these guys are AFL players, yet they can't figure it out, while I'm sure 80% of people on this board could: when you have a teammate alongside you, and you are running towards a single opponent, WAIT until you are near that opponent before handpassing. Don't ____ing do a Tuck and handpass to them when you're still 5 metres away from that opponent, so by the time they stop and grab your handpass which went behind them, start running again, and look up, the opponent is right there. WAIT, DRAW THE ____ING PLAYER.
Also players like Newman and Tivendale, you can kick the ball a long way boys. I'm not sure if they've figured that out yet. When you're 50 out Newy, don't kick 20 metres to a contest. HAVE A SHOT. And Tivers mate, not that you will necessarily need to know this because you will possibly never play for this club again, but when you are 50 out, you can make the distance easily. You don't need to dummy onto your non-existant right foot to gain an extra 5 metres.
The umps could try showing a bit of it too. Who the ____ is number 20 and why is he not umpiring Tackers?
Or at some stage in the second quarter. Can't really remember any of the players involved, but Adelaide got a free in the centre (huge surprise), and went long to a player standing by himself 45 out from goal. Now when I say standing by himself, I mean nobody within 10 metres of him, but 3 Richmond players standing in a semi circle around him by themselves on the edge of that 10 metre arc.
And one thing that shits me the most. Ok, these guys are AFL players, yet they can't figure it out, while I'm sure 80% of people on this board could: when you have a teammate alongside you, and you are running towards a single opponent, WAIT until you are near that opponent before handpassing. Don't ____ing do a Tuck and handpass to them when you're still 5 metres away from that opponent, so by the time they stop and grab your handpass which went behind them, start running again, and look up, the opponent is right there. WAIT, DRAW THE ____ING PLAYER.
Also players like Newman and Tivendale, you can kick the ball a long way boys. I'm not sure if they've figured that out yet. When you're 50 out Newy, don't kick 20 metres to a contest. HAVE A SHOT. And Tivers mate, not that you will necessarily need to know this because you will possibly never play for this club again, but when you are 50 out, you can make the distance easily. You don't need to dummy onto your non-existant right foot to gain an extra 5 metres.
The umps could try showing a bit of it too. Who the ____ is number 20 and why is he not umpiring Tackers?
