Review R16: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Richmond Tigers

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

David King just gave his take on Lynch.

Reckons it has to be 4-5 weeks, it's a completely unacceptable action and given the AFL have changed 50 rules to protect the head the league has to come down hard on this.

I tend to agree, it's am minimum 4 weeks for me.

For Jon Ralph (who is a Richmond supporter) at half time on Fox Footy to try and laugh it off and push the narrative that it was only worth 2 weeks was a joke.

Interesting that Rory Laird called Lynch out publicly too.

You don't want to get in Laird's bad books. Suspensions usually follow

 

[Pea Nut]

Do people in this forum actually know that there is a selection committee/panel. flipping clueless people looking for fault on mass.

Do you know what is fault on mass ?? Murphy’s 118 games of pure excrement !!!

 

[cleanhands]

You'll appreciate this a bit more than the average supporter but there is a centre clearance in the last quarter, that was on the back of him already being BOG that makes you get chills, he did this running in off the wing

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there’s a lot more where that come from, that’s so cool

 

[spenze]

David King just gave his take on Lynch.

Reckons it has to be 4-5 weeks, it's a completely unacceptable action and given the AFL have changed 50 rules to protect the head the league has to come down hard on this.

I tend to agree, it's am minimum 4 weeks for me.

For Jon Ralph (who is a Richmond supporter) at half time on Fox Footy to try and laugh it off and push the narrative that it was only worth 2 weeks was a joke.

Yeah, haven't seen a proper punch thrown in a long time...a king hit as well. He is friggin lucky it didn't knock Butts out otherwise he'd be looking at some games off next year as well as all this year

 

[Doctor B]

Do people in this forum actually know that there is a selection committee/panel. flipping clueless people looking for fault on mass.

14 teams played this weekend.

We were the 4th oldest and 5th most experienced for games played.

We played 17th ranked Richmond, it's not unreasonable to want to get some games, and playing on the MCG experience into a couple of kids.

 

[kirky]

When was the last time we only had a 23,000 crowd?

Covid years - 2021 and even then we ave 24,786.

 

[spenze]

there’s a lot more where that come from, that’s so cool

Yeah, I saw it live and replayed it a few times before I watched Thilthorpe kick the goal, it was very Bont like

 

[FR0GGY]

When was the last time we only had a 23,000 crowd?

Don’t be too harsh, it’s well known they don’t like traveling to marvel….

 

[50BC]

They should tack an extra week on Lynch’s penalty for those comments.

How tone deaf can Yze be?

I can only assume Yze is trying to mitigate Lynchs penalty, not sure it will work though.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

If he's BOG, then he is in the best position both for himself and the team.

Talking cumming not Curtin

 

[MsTopG]

14 teams played this weekend.

We were the 4th oldest and 5th most experienced for games played.

We played 17th ranked Richmond, it's not unreasonable to want to get some games, and playing on the MCG experience into a couple of kids.

Nicks won't be happy until we are the oldest team.

 

[cleanhands]

Yeah, I saw it live and replayed it a few times before I watched Thilthorpe kick the goal, it was very Bont like

Imagine another preseason

 

[50BC]

I didn't get to see the ugly part of the game.

Is Max playing forward a way to get Murray into the team? Make him a legitimate swing man who is strong at both ends. Anyway, whatever the reason, I liked what I saw.

Curtin building from strength.

Thilthorpe's contested marking dominance.

Bewildering: Murphy at CBAs.... Unless Nicks knows about bruises and niggles and he's sending in a mature body to provide some relief.... Other than that I'm coming up empty.

ADHD sidequest: I seriously think that the AFL accreditation that assistant coaches need to do has a unit on mature bodies and experience. The number of coaches that are fixated on that is large. And while it is important, it's only one consideration. I think Walsh only was our only coach since Blight wasn't bound by this cookie-cutter playbook mentality. Nicks clearly has played youngsters, but Murphy over anyone was not necessary in this game. Smith, Laird and Tex are enough "wise heads".


Bad: We missed a lot of shots I thought we should have got.

I'd have said Max playing forward was entirely about negating Vlastuins intercept/ rebound game. Will they do it again against other teams? Maybe, maybe not.

 

[All_In]

14 teams played this weekend.

We were the 4th oldest and 5th most experienced for games played.

We played 17th ranked Richmond, it's not unreasonable to want to get some games, and playing on the MCG experience into a couple of kids.

Didn't say it was unreasonable... In fact I want to see some new tallet cycled through myself. It's the fact that a team sitting third on the ladder blames every little thing that goes wrong or they don't agree with on one dude.

 

[ams4crows]

What is Kane Cornes obsession with thinking Max Michaelaney should be a Midfielder? He rates him which is great and thinks he's a star but why does he think he'd be a good Midfielder?

 

[BRL121]

What is Kane Cornes obsession with thinking Max Michaelaney should be a Midfielder? He rates him which is great and thinks he's a star but why does he think he'd be a good Midfielder?

Why not? Works for Day.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Do people in this forum actually know that there is a selection committee/panel. flipping clueless people looking for fault on mass.

Nicks has accountability for selection. It's not like Murph is being selected against his will because he's bending the knee to a panel of people that work underneath him.

 

[GreyCrow]

He had a bad corkie the other week but to be fair there were a few times he didn't chase, stopped chasing and let someone else take over or didn't put in a second effort today.

Nicks mentioned it in the presser that they thought the game was won, and it was managing soreness. We did similar with Thilthorpe against West Coast Sydney*, so not the first time at least.

If it's for that, I'm willing to let this one slide.

*Surprised I got that one mixed up.

I missed seeing the first half, that’s why I was surprised to see him being subbed off. It really does make sense that he’s likely to be off the pace with some niggles.

We had a week off

Any injury excuse comes from today. Nicks mentioned management not injury

Why wasn't Tex managed

 

[cmndstab]

That was probably the first time I've thought there is a genuine argument for Butts staying in over Murray. Just slaughtered Lynch today, physically and mentally.

 

[Hell Boy6669]

So are peatling and soligo never going to get high tackle free kicks now due to Kornes calling them out for ducking? It seems that way

 

[aabp1978]

Oh get ****ed

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1353299

Here is the AFL clarification- Lynch is a petulant, downhill skiing thug, in a team with another king hitting thug, playing for a team whose supporters are the definition of bandwagon followers..

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Let me get this right we subbed Rachelle for Murphy and gave Murphy midfield minutes?

It wasn't a lot of minutes but it's still a disgrace. He was completely shithouse. I noticed one effective handball for his whole quarter and a half on the ground.

 

[cleanhands]

It wasn't a lot of minutes but it's still a disgrace. He was completely shithouse. I noticed one effective handball for his whole quarter and a half on the ground.

Good lord our coach is a genius

 

[Mr_Moogle]

I like how a KPF being scragged is apparently unique to Tom Lynch. I must have just imagined defenders doing that to Fogarty and Thilthorpe constantly.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

What is Kane Cornes obsession with thinking Max Michaelaney should be a Midfielder? He rates him which is great and thinks he's a star but why does he think he'd be a good Midfielder?

He would be

But also a great defender