Look no further Dimma...

[Roachy8]

16 teams played over the weekend, one guess and no prizes on which one laid the fewest tackles...


Here is the run-down:

1. Geelong - 92 Tackles (Kelly 13, Johnson 8, Chapman 6)
2. Sydney - 85 Tackles (Bevan 11, McGlynn 8, Bolton 6)
3. Adelaide - 82 Tackles (Petrenko 7, Jacobs 6)
4. Collingwood - 81 Tackles (Swan 8, Ball 8)
5. Fremantle - 75 Tackles (Broughton 11, Palmer 6)
6. St kilda - 75 Tackles (Dal Santo 9, Schneider 7)
7. Essendon - 74 Tackles (Hocking 13, Howlett 9, Melkshan 7)
8. W. Bulldogs - 73 Tackles (Cross 7, Cooney 6, Boyd 5)
9. Melbourne - 73 Tackles (Scully 10, Trengove 5, Gysberts 5)
10. Nth Melbourne - 71 Tackles (Swallow 9, Cunnington 6, Wells 6)
11. Brisbane - 70 Tackles (Reddan 13, Sheldon 8)
12. Gold Coast - 69 Tackles (Ablett 14, McKenzie 7)
13. Carlton - 66 Tackles (Judd 10, Garlett 9, Robinson 7)
14. Port Adelaide - 66 Tackles (Gray 6, Lobbe 6)
15. Hawthorn - 55 Tackles (Shiels 9, Savage 5)
16. Richmond - 49 Tackles (Foley 7, Grigg 6)

It seems we have been posting about Richmonds poor tackle numbers since the arrival of Wallace but after Saturday's self fisting.... nothing much has changed has it?

It's interesting to run down those numbers...
From the top, some teams won & some teams lost (top 2 ranked teams lost)
Some theories would have you think that if losing, the other side might have more of the ball and more control of the play and so the losing team would lay more tackles... perhaps but teams 3 - 8 were all winning teams so probably not.
You might also think that players who are 'more hardened' & fitter through being in the system longer might get to more contests and therefore tackle more... looking at names like Scully & Howlett & Hocking & Reddan would not support this
Some might say that champions of the game don't get the tackle numbers as 'blue collar' types... but looking at names like Ablett & Judd & Swan & Dal Santo would not support this

So there is a large cross-section of player types featuring in the better performing 'tacklers' this week... champions, older types, young kids, ruckmen & they come from winning and losing teams...

My conclusion?
I refuse to believe that Richmond players have trained less on tackling than other players so it MUST be between the ears and more importantly... whats hanging between the legs!

If we don't grow some very very soon, no amount of planning & recruiting & drafting & hyping and tin-rattling will make one scant amount of difference...

****ING GROW SOME YOU PUSSIES.....

 

[CoggaRules]

While we are telling Dimma to look no further...he might want to replay what he said when he got the job...dont forget it Dimma, the jumper will never touch the floor...it didnt, it found a ****ing hole and fell through the ****ing thing.
Now stop pissing around being a kindergarten teacher and start acting on that line. Because if you were going to weed out the players who wouldnt step up when it was their turn and you cant find out players to weed out after the shitful stuff on saturday, then we are being had again.
As i stated before, the party is over Dimma, we are in year 2 and the good news, feel good shit has just been blown out of the water..its now time for you to step up when its your turn. The performance on Saturday was in no way due to an inexperienced team only, it was a team without desire and with no pride and the buck stops with you.

 

[PUNTROADHAMMER]

16 teams played over the weekend, one guess and no prizes on which one laid the fewest tackles...




Here is the run-down:

1. Geelong - 92 Tackles (Kelly 13, Johnson 8, Chapman 6)
2. Sydney - 85 Tackles (Bevan 11, McGlynn 8, Bolton 6)
3. Adelaide - 82 Tackles (Petrenko 7, Jacobs 6)
4. Collingwood - 81 Tackles (Swan 8, Ball 8)
5. Fremantle - 75 Tackles (Broughton 11, Palmer 6)
6. St kilda - 75 Tackles (Dal Santo 9, Schneider 7)
7. Essendon - 74 Tackles (Hocking 13, Howlett 9, Melkshan 7)
8. W. Bulldogs - 73 Tackles (Cross 7, Cooney 6, Boyd 5)
9. Melbourne - 73 Tackles (Scully 10, Trengove 5, Gysberts 5)
10. Nth Melbourne - 71 Tackles (Swallow 9, Cunnington 6, Wells 6)
11. Brisbane - 70 Tackles (Reddan 13, Sheldon 8)
12. Gold Coast - 69 Tackles (Ablett 14, McKenzie 7)
13. Carlton - 66 Tackles (Judd 10, Garlett 9, Robinson 7)
14. Port Adelaide - 66 Tackles (Gray 6, Lobbe 6)
15. Hawthorn - 55 Tackles (Shiels 9, Savage 5)
16. Richmond - 49 Tackles (Foley 7, Grigg 6)

It seems we have been posting about Richmonds poor tackle numbers since the arrival of Wallace but after Saturday's self fisting.... nothing much has changed has it?

It's interesting to run down those numbers...
From the top, some teams won & some teams lost (top 2 ranked teams lost)
Some theories would have you think that if losing, the other side might have more of the ball and more control of the play and so the losing team would lay more tackles... perhaps but teams 3 - 8 were all winning teams so probably not.
You might also think that players who are 'more hardened' & fitter through being in the system longer might get to more contests and therefore tackle more... looking at names like Scully & Howlett & Hocking & Reddan would not support this
Some might say that champions of the game don't get the tackle numbers as 'blue collar' types... but looking at names like Ablett & Judd & Swan & Dal Santo would not support this

So there is a larg cross-section of player types featuring in the better performing 'tacklers' this week... champions, older types, young kids, ruckmen & they come from winning and losing teams...

My conclusion?
I refuse to believe that Richmond players have trained less on tackling than other players so it MUST be between the ears and more importantly... whats hanging between the legs!

If we down grow some very very soon, no amount of planning & recruiting & drafting & hyping and tin-rattling will make one scant amount of difference...

****ING GROW SOME YOU PUSSIES.....

We should have the NRL stat - MISSED TACKLES - now that would be a damning stat if ever I'd see one - Carltank just walked through/ around/over us like we weren't even there. It was happening so often I couldn't even be arsed yelling about it. Actually the only time I became animated for the day was when some little rat kicked over my cider.

 

[Holy Foley!]

We are definitely going for tackles (albeit not many), but I think the main problem is not sticking them. All the time teams are breaking through far to easily.

 

[W. Smithers]

What surprised me most about those figures is that Grigg actually laid some tackles.

 

[Spagman]

Hard to lay a tackle when you can't even get your hands on them.

 

[tugga]

The three teams with the most tackles all lost.

 

[CoggaRules]

The three teams with the most tackles all lost.

think you might mean the two top teams in the tackle count dude.
But seeing as the top two lost and the bottom 3 lost, Dimma has to work out a way for us to finish 4th last in the tackle count each week and we can enjoy watching the tigers hand out 100 point hidings...

 

[1980GFVideo]

St Kilda has had the "year from hell" and have over taken us on the ladder.

Adelaide are a game and half behind us with us still to play.

A bottom four finnish is still going to have many on here saying we have improved.

I think we operate in our own little bubble.

 

[CoggaRules]

St Kilda has had the "year from hell" and have over taken us on the ladder.

Adelaide are a game and half behind us with us still to play.

A bottom four finnish is still going to have many on here saying we have improved.

I think we operate in our own little bubble.

Dont underestimate the battle of Cairns dude....after the debacle on saturday, i fear the worse in that game. And its not just losing it, its getting an arse ripping from the so called AFL minnows..because if they start like they have against the cats and freo and a few other more notable sides, we aint got a Pav nor do we have a Bartel etc to right the ship and get up comfortably. We have the opposite where we will and i guarantee ya, go to water.

 

[TimeFor11]

Gary Ablett will be my Dream Team captain. Can't wait for him to get 225 odd Vs big Dan Jackson.

Seriously GC would start favs at the moment.