Preview 2021 Rd 5 - Richmond vs St Kilda at Docklands Thursday 15/4 7.20pm AEST - Conspiracies, Comparisons and the Moorabbin Rasputitsa

[Tiger71]

Hmmm we lose this and top 4 is done
Kinda happy saints beat the eagles. Tough game for them

That's a stretch if we lose this top 4 is gone. Last year and the year before we started slow and then won it all. Have a look at the ladder now, teams that have not played PF or GF make the top 4 if you exclude port. Cat's, Lions, US and even Port, they make the 4 based on that shocking non call of out of bounds to grey's goal have all started patchy due to the short pre season. 100% convinced Us as well as the other missing top 4 teams will catch up fitness wise mid year and then the top 4 will change dramatically to what it is now.

Top 4 very much alive even if we lose next week.

As to this game, if we played like we did in the last half we should win. Saints are dangerous if we allow them easy ball movement as they will race it down the corridor. Make the game a contest, spread them and we should win.

 

[VB_longneck]

Off the top of my head , Hannerbury , Geary , Ryder has been away from the club but now back training


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so apart from a couple of absolute spuds , full strength

 

[prodigy1311]

That's a stretch if we lose this top 4 is gone. Last year and the year before we started slow and then won it all. Have a look at the ladder now, teams that have not played PF or GF make the top 4 if you exclude port. Cat's, Lions, US and even Port, they make the 4 based on that shocking non call of out of bounds to grey's goal have all started patchy due to the short pre season. 100% convinced Us as well as the other missing top 4 teams will catch up fitness wise mid year and then the top 4 will change dramatically to what it is now.

Top 4 very much alive even if we lose next week.

As to this game, if we played like we did in the last half we should win. Saints are dangerous if we allow them easy ball movement as they will race it down the corridor. Make the game a contest, spread them and we should win.

I agree mate, its not all over but we play dees & dogs following weeks which will be tougher than saints. Saints is winnable

 

[biaseddustyfan]

so apart from a couple of absolute spuds , full strength

didn't their current no1 ruckman get his eye taken out yesterday

 

[jesterx]

Hmmm we lose this and top 4 is done
Kinda happy saints beat the eagles. Tough game for them

after rd 4 last year we were 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. This year we're 2 wins and 2 losses ...

 

[biaseddustyfan]

easy win this week then onto rd5 and CCJ's return

 

[RobsJourney]

easy win this week then onto rd5 and CCJ's return

This is round 5?

 

[RobsJourney]

Apparently Ryder back but Marshall a chance to miss?

 

[telsor]

This is round 5?

Meh, until round 25, it all just sort of blurs together.

 

[tiger_tough]

so apart from a couple of absolute spuds , full strength

Plus Gresham paton and frawley

 

[Truetiger]

I agree mate, its not all over but we play dees & dogs following weeks which will be tougher than saints. Saints is winnable

I still don’t rate Melbourne. They have beat bottom sides and a struggling Geel.

 

[Rubber Hips]

easy win this week then onto rd5 and CCJ's return

round 5 feels like ages away

 

[VB_longneck]

after rd 4 last year we were 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. This year we're 2 wins and 2 losses ...

and twas a shorter season too and we still made it but we made the arse end of the 4 and had to play 2 away finals. we want the tigers in melbourne all september this year

 

[VB_longneck]

imagine how much we're all gonna melt if we loose again this week

 

[jesterx]

imagine how much we're all gonna melt if we loose again this week

Rioli to miss on the siren for extra spicy melts

 

[Masotiger]

Brilliant Wallaby.

btw, is that lance-corporal Doug Cox in St.Kilda's defensive 50?

 

[French Tiger]

Plus Gresham paton and frawley

Yes I forgot about Gresham , he normally plays well against us


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[VB_longneck]

Rioli to miss on the siren for extra spicy melts

dont care about vfl

 

[JazMac]

Morning all,

Are you happy now? It’s all your fault. How have we have reached this situation, whereby football is now merely an elaborately produced extravaganza designed to distract and enchant the masses, like sardines to a coloured flickering light?

Let’s be honest, the AFL exists to sell rubbish to dopey football fans. Either:

• A car that is slightly shinier than the one you bought 2 years ago, but apparently comes with a fawning supermodel in the passenger seat (Fawning Supermodel Not Guaranteed).
• Gambling propositions for people whose mathematical competency extends to believing that Champion Data’s statistical analysis is ‘pretty much spot on’.

or

• Food that comes in a bucket.

So, having a product that attracts viewers is pretty much the be-all and end-all for the Commission. Gil and I were discussing this back in early 2016 after the disastrous Hawthorn experiment. (‘Oh, everyone loves a family club!’. Well, no they bloody didn’t - some supporters even went and watched the A-League). We needed a bright, exciting fairy tale to re-awaken fan interest, and thought the Bulldog story would be a nice plot twist. Unfortunately, while everyone liked the Doggies winning, no one cared (and least no one with enough disposable income to buy a new car or a family-sized arteriosclerosis-in-a-box meal). After workshopping this at a vertically leveraged groupthink session, the Commission decided that we needed a premier who everyone liked initially but would then rapidly turn into a despised and loathed super-villain. Gil and I looked at each other and spoke at the same moment - ‘It’s Tiger Time’. And here we are today. I hope you are enjoying it.

Still, the pretence of a fair, apparently non-scripted competition must be maintained, and this week Our Mighty Tigers (Trademark) face St Kilda. I like St Kilda. They have a long history, they’ve only moved their home ground twice three times, and while they have always had a solid core of support, their lack of success has left them rudely stigmatised and derided by opposition fans. Their list of past players reads like a veritable ‘Who’s That?’ of football legends. They could have been the Romantic, Wistful, Heroic Underdogs – but that role was taken and will always remain with Fitzroy. And so Poor Old St Kilda (Trademark) will forever be The Clowns.

There are two types of saints. One is the kind who inspires devotion by way of performing miraculous deeds, conquering overbearing tyrants and monsters, and eventually triumphing in glorious victory, leading their followers to a sunlit utopia. The other type experience lives of squalor, poverty and deprivation before dying in wretched isolation. (No one is actually sure who St Kilda was, but here’s a photo of today’s upbeat beachside suburb).

Still, the Saints have managed to win a few games along the way – they even won the premiership back when cigarettes weren’t bad for you, and they used to have one of the coolest jumpers in the competition – complete with floppy collar (who doesn’t love a floppy collar?). Unfortunately, since their glory days day of the previous millennium they have struggled somewhat, and most of their victories have come from adopting the Russian tactic of waiting for the winter downpours to negate any opposition attack.

It was tough to get out of the defensive 50 at Moorabbin in the 70s

So on to this week’s game! And what a cracker blockbuster extravaganza game it promises to be. Saints fans can barely contain their excitement as their team follows up on last year’s surprising surge up the ladder with more dramatic heart-stopping performances as they race through this season of drama, intrigue, and sensation. By contrast, Richmond fans are still in hibernation mode, making the green tomato chutney, putting in the snow peas and waiting for August (OK, maybe mid-July). The main topic of concern re the football team is which player gets a rest this week.

St Kilda are flying at the moment (as every good, young exciting team should be), while Richmond are barely going (as every old, grizzled, experienced reigning premier should be). The Tigers are definitely not 100% switched to ‘Max Boost’ and a few brain fades have proved costly (such as last Friday in not following Robbie Gray when he went to the carpark to retrieve the football). Both sides are missing a few players through injury and St Kilda undoubtedly have youth on their side – particularly playing on the concrete Speedway that is Docklands. If any side jumps up and surprises us (at non-finals time) it tends to be the Saints. But Damien Hardwick is probably overdue to bring out another tortured analogy about ‘Journeys, Ambitions and Goals’ which should be enough to sustain us until we need to put on our ‘Big Boy Pants’ again (August. OK – maybe mid-July).

The game will be played at every Richmond fan’s favourite ground and on every Richmond fan’s favourite night. Richmond should win, but if I was going to put a wager on, I’ll probably still be living in my mum’s caravan for a very long time. We all had this game circled in our calendar months ago – as in ‘good night to stay home, order a Family Bucket of Lard, and re-organise our tax expenses after half time’ – because whichever way it goes, it should be clear by then.

Tigers by 27.

Most entertaining preview I have read. Often I never get all the way through the longs previews (tldr) where the writer is just trying to be clever (like you did) but I enjoyed yours all the way through. Thanks.

 

[Rubber Hips]

Lunch kicked 1-3 last week v Poort


cmon Tim

 

[Lsta062]

The two form teams of the competition in Melbourne and Bulldogs upcoming after this. It’s not necessarily a season-defining win, but it’s be nice to cruise to top 4 for once instead of waiting until the final 2 rounds.

I think we should win this one. Main way is to stop their out-the-back goals (much easier said that done at Marvel Stadium).

Changes: CCJ, Caddy, KMac, 2020 Grimes, 2020 Balta and 2020 Lynch

Out: Aarts, Martyn, Mansell, 2021 Grimes, 2021 Balta and 2021 Lynch.

That should get us to a comfortable win hopefully.

 

[prodigy1311]

I still don’t rate Melbourne. They have beat bottom sides and a struggling Geel.

yeah, but we haven't beaten anyone either...! here's hoping we kick start with saints..

 

[VB_longneck]

I still don’t rate Melbourne. They have beat bottom sides and a struggling Geel.

their fans are severely high fiving right now

all the radio stations have had former melbourne players on lol

what minnows . pathetic football club

 

[DontArgue4]

 

[Foley#41]

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