Ready for War

[CotchIsKing]

The Tigers have materially improved their contested possession and tackling numbers over recent weeks. This week against the Swans though this will be be our real test of the resolve in this area.

We additionally need to use the ball well and spread as we did well against Freo last week and WC earlier in the year, maintaining possession but without capitulating to always kick backwards at a 45 degree angle or worse as we have in the past.

The final 2 points for me are to ensure we value our possessions more, hitting more targets when we have time and space and to make the most of scoring opportunities. Despite reasonable disposal efficiency numbers against Freo (74%ish) we missed too many targets and or made it difficult for team mates to win the possession. This will be punished against the best teams particularly in September.

The Swans will come at us hard on Sunday we need to be Ready for War. We need to have the steely resolve that we are good enough and then play the game hard and on our terms.

Go Tigers

 

[NUFC Tiger]

Found this pretty interesting stat on the RFC website earlier:

"Only five players from the Tigers' squad have played finals - and none of them have been for Richmond. Troy Chaplin (Port Adelaide), Aaron Edwards (North Melbourne), Shaun Grigg (Carlton), Chris Knights and Ivan Maric (Adelaide) all tasted September action at their previous clubs."

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2013-07-22/tigers-keeping-it-together

Will be interesting to see us go into a finals game with 18-19 or so players yet to play finals footy before.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Can we leave the footy is war references to knobs like Nick Maxwell?

 

[Cotcho]

Calling football war isn't really a fair representation....of football. There is a reason why our tiger troops go into battle each week...as for wars outside of sport...well those are idiotic childish things.

Stop trivialising football by comparing it to the nonsense of actual war OP!

 

[Cotcho]

Oh and yes, it will be a good test!

 

[Mr Magic]

The Tigers have materially improved their contested possession and tackling numbers over recent weeks. This week against the Swans though this will be be our real test of the resolve in this area.

We additionally need to use the ball well and spread as we did well against Freo last week and WC earlier in the year, maintaining possession but without capitulating to always kick backwards at a 45 degree angle or worse as we have in the past.

The final 2 points for me are to ensure we value our possessions more, hitting more targets when we have time and space and to make the most of scoring opportunities. Despite reasonable disposal efficiency numbers against Freo (74%ish) we missed too many targets and or made it difficult for team mates to win the possession. This will be punished against the best teams particularly in September.

The Swans will come at us hard on Sunday we need to be Ready for War. We need to have the steely resolve that we are good enough and then play the game hard and on our terms.

Go Tigers

make no mistake we could get belted by 60 points this week.


We could go full on and still get beat by a reasonable margin.



This is a real genuine test for the Tigers

 

[Madtiger2006]

We need to stop the excessive sideways stuff. We ended up turning the ball over after about 5 kicks every time. Stick to 3 sideways kicks and go forward if we want to switch. Against ess and Freo we have got into the habit of going sideways too often and the longer we took to go forward the closer we were to having the ball cut off in our defensive half. Going long to a contest will at least get the ball into our forward half

 

[IDGAF]

We need to stop the excessive sideways stuff. We ended up turning the ball over after about 5 kicks every time. Stick to 3 sideways kicks and go forward if we want to switch. Against ess and Freo we have got into the habit of going sideways too often and the longer we took to go forward the closer we were to having the ball cut off in our defensive half. Going long to a contest will at least get the ball into our forward half

Youve really got a handle on the way the game is played in the modern age havent you Toby ... Long to contest is only ever an option when its to the top of the square or when there is simply no other option .. the idea these days mate is to maintain possession

 

[Livonski]

We need to stop the excessive sideways stuff. We ended up turning the ball over after about 5 kicks every time. Stick to 3 sideways kicks and go forward if we want to switch. Against ess and Freo we have got into the habit of going sideways too often and the longer we took to go forward the closer we were to having the ball cut off in our defensive half. Going long to a contest will at least get the ball into our forward half

And ensure it comes straight back over our heads.

Long down the lines is a last resort. Switching, maintaining possession to press for an overlap is how it's played now.
Sure there's **** ups, but that's a skill error, not a problem with the strategy.

 

[BF Tiger]

Just part of the test, isn't it.

Lose badly and we'll be slammed.
Lose by a little and we'll probably be slammed.
Win... and we're validated.

 

[MR]

Just part of the test, isn't it.

Lose badly and we'll be slammed.
Lose by a little and we'll probably be slammed.
Win... and we're validated.

In your dreams mate. Even if we win, the media will come up with some excuse.