Hitouts

[JSFish]

Round 10: Sydney 52, Richmond 27
Round 9: Essendon 48, Richmond 25
Round 8: Geelong 44, Richmond 15
Total: Opposition 144, Richmond 67

More than doubled.

 

[007Tigers]

whos to blame Simmonds? from what ive seen i though hes done ok but maybe im wrong stats dont lie, or is it patterson>?

 

[JSFish]

Simmonds is getting more hitouts than Patto, but he's getting more game time. Simmo can be a very frustrating player, sitting on the wing getting cheap kicks, while Patto tries his arse off for less reward.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Simmo constantly jumped waaaay too early today, was on the way down at the apex of the balls bounce.

 

[Bojangles17]

Simmo constantly jumped waaaay too early today, was on the way down at the apex of the balls bounce.

i dont think that anyone pretends simmo is good at hitouts, he contests well and is supreme around the ground compared to most thats it, although was quiet today

 

[bigrayohall20]

Simmo constantly jumped waaaay too early today, was on the way down at the apex of the balls bounce.

Yep he does. Done it all year and even last year. When he can actually time a leap it seems he taps it to the opposition anyway.

 

[sante]

Patto has been in better form than Simmo the past couple of weeks. Simmo has been shit IMO.

 

[Richo88]

Simmo constantly jumped waaaay too early today, was on the way down at the apex of the balls bounce.

Admitedly Simmo gets pwned in the hitouts but was reading an interesting article about ruckmen in the age. There reasoning for Simmon jumping early is its on purpose in an attempt to negate the opposition ruckmen. Also interestingly enough before today anyway richmond were the no 1 scoring team from stoppages.

 

[banzai]

SInce he played in the stupid dreamteam game Simmonds has been pathetic.

 

[bigrayohall20]

Patto has been in better form than Simmo the past couple of weeks. Simmo has been shit IMO.

Agreed. Patto has a lion heart and has a crack all day. He doesnt stop trying no matter what the score is.
Simmo on the other hand has a pea heart and is as inconsistent as anyone.

 

[krustyman]

both patto and simmo havent done well in the hit outs, neither seem to venture to the backline or forward to assist with their extra height, which is always left to richo to do all the work.

 

[beaver fever]

Rucks are still a problem even with our top 2 choices. Need to bring in a young ruck next year who can step right into our side. Not going to be easy to find.

 

[bigrayohall20]

Rucks are still a problem even with our top 2 choices. Need to bring in a young ruck next year who can step right into our side. Not going to be easy to find.

Its gonna have to be Gus or Putt. Hopefully we can grab a quality ruckman at pick 5 or 6 in the draft.

 

[beaver fever]

Its gonna have to be Gus or Putt. Hopefully we can grab a quality ruckman at pick 5 or 6 in the draft.

Don't know of any quality rucks in this draft other then Natanui so I doubt we have an option there.

Putt is still way too raw and Graham is a big maybe.

 

[carn tigez]

dunno if anyone has seen this but before today simmonds was 2nd for us in clearances (i'm 90% sure). So even though he loses hit outs he does the work on ground level to make upo for it

 

[osakabull]

Simmonds has a habit of jumping early.Watching dvds of our games this year it is very clear.I dont blame Simmonds so much because one thing i've noticed about Richmond is that we have players who are gap-fillers.They arent genuine players for their positions.Who is our CHF or FF?We dont know because we dont have a genuine one.We are just trying this person and that person.
Simmonds isnt a genuine ruckman to me.We need to develop players who are perfectly matched to the positions they play.

 

[beaver fever]

We need to develop players who are perfectly matched to the positions they play.

This is a pretty good point you make here mate. Our structure is very much a mixed bag at the moment. We are still developing and over time we should become more settled.

 

[JSFish]

Bit of an improvement today boys. They only had 33. Shame we had less than half that.

 

[HobarTiger]

Can't fault the effort of Simmo and Patto around the ground...most of the time, but the stats in this case don't lie, we are getting slaughtered by opposition ruckman. More importantly how many of the meagre number of hitouts we accumulate actual go to advantage????

Don't think a draft pick is going to help in the next 3-4yrs unless we stumble upon a freak.

Is there another Jolly out there we could pick up in the draft. I know Warnock was mentioned a few weeks ago but he can't even get a regular game at Freo which says a lot. Any other options?????