Preview Round 14, 2023: Richmond v St.Kilda - MCG, Saturday 17th June, 7:25PM AEST

[jwint43]

Rare MCG game for us in a prime spot, hope the fans turn up and make it a big game atmosphere

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

I get the sentiment in that but Steele has been very ordinary of late understandably due to his injuries (barring some great hussle when needed).
Don’t think we’d be so much cute as acting responsible.

Genuinely my fear is Steele playing through injuries this season breaks him in the future. I want this to be a down month not the norm going forward

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Danger game.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Detest that coif headed wankstain.
How he’s gotten away with it for all these years sickens me.
Would pay good money to see his eyes rolling into the back of his bobble head on Saturday. Get to work, Stock

Hopefully someone is willing to step up with a frontage of shirt straight down the middle and sit out for a couple of weeks

 

[god_of_the_universe]

Rare MCG game for us in a prime spot, hope the fans turn up and make it a big game atmosphere

In that case we're screwed

 

[Saintbloke]

Should have rested Steele to get over his nagging injuries, after all, we're only playing a team 12th on the ladder and can leave out a few and still win.

 

[sauce_head]

Only Geary flying the flag afterwards wtf... (why not us)

According to Hardwick that was big boy football. Only Richmond we’re allowed to play that that year.

 

[gringo2011]

Rare MCG game for us in a prime spot, hope the fans turn up and make it a big game atmosphere

My wife has organised to have dinner with my Tiger mate and family and a few others. We are going to get to watch it but I'm going to have to pretend not to be over invested in footy. I'm already shitty. If we lose I'm going to have to pretend not to care and act civilised. My Richmond mate will be alright, he's as much of a moron as me but some of the others aren't even footy people and they are hard to deal with. Inane questions when the game is tight and talking over all the good bits.

 

[Desperate saint]

Coops stiff, thought he may come in for Hammer. Awesome effort from him playing 2 games and was good in the 1s from the limited game time and seemed like he was very good for Sandy

agree 100%

 

[XhazzafootyX]

If windhager can limit taranto and put enough pressure on him in the middle, taranto will start bombing them kicks forward. Our backline will have a field day

 

[sauce_head]

My wife has organised to have dinner with my Tiger mate and family and a few others. We are going to get to watch it but I'm going to have to pretend not to be over invested in footy. I'm already shitty. If we lose I'm going to have to pretend not to care and act civilised. My Richmond mate will be alright, he's as much of a moron as me but some of the others aren't even footy people and they are hard to deal with. Inane questions when the game is tight and talking over all the good bits.

Just say you have gastro and watch it on your phone in the toilet.

 

[seasonedsainter]

My wife has organised to have dinner with my Tiger mate and family and a few others. We are going to get to watch it but I'm going to have to pretend not to be over invested in footy. I'm already shitty. If we lose I'm going to have to pretend not to care and act civilised. My Richmond mate will be alright, he's as much of a moron as me but some of the others aren't even footy people and they are hard to deal with. Inane questions when the game is tight and talking over all the good bits.

Good luck keeping up the facade if it's tight in the last!

 

[god_of_the_universe]

My wife has organised to have dinner with my Tiger mate and family and a few others. We are going to get to watch it but I'm going to have to pretend not to be over invested in footy. I'm already shitty. If we lose I'm going to have to pretend not to care and act civilised. My Richmond mate will be alright, he's as much of a moron as me but some of the others aren't even footy people and they are hard to deal with. Inane questions when the game is tight and talking over all the good bits.

My wife knows better than to organise a social event involving me when the footy is on!

 

[BucketsandBanger]

Genuine 50/50 game, we may be well ahead of them on the ladder I don't think there is much separating the teams. They are in much better form then us over the past 6 weeks or so, although we seemed to re-discover something in the last quarter against Sydney.

A couple of things in our favour, longer break, they are coming back from Perth and we have had our bye. Got to hope they are banged up and ready for a break but I think Cotchin's 300th will negate that, they will be super motivated and their crowd will be up and about. If we can hold them early and be in the game at 3 quarter time we would be in good shape to run over the top.

Bolton is the key for them, would be surprised if we don't put a hard tag on him from the start. Interested to see how we hold up against their hard running spread, as per usual midfield is a worry and on paper they remind me of Adelaide with their ability to run which could open us up. No idea for this one and not confident to be honest.

 

[gringo2011]

My wife knows better than to organise a social event involving me when the footy is on!

She thinks that we'd both like having company. She's an idiot.

 

[AirWinmar]

Pretty different roles I reckon

Hammer has been subbed off for Sharman I think the last 2 games so it seems that the coaches think they can play pretty similar roles. Thought Coops looked like he was making an effort to crash some packs and also put some nice blocks on for King when he came on as well. Definitely doesn't have the aggression of the Hammer tho

 

[Otiman]

Hammer is so important to the team, but he can go another level and be the sacrificial forward for Max. Use his physicality to clear space and body opponents. If he can do a few Tom Lynch style pack crashes, and clunk a few marks then that's a bonus.

 

[Saintbloke]

Hammer looked pretty static against the Swans, and didn't chase too well, and I think got subbed off for Sharman as RL was trying to get a bit more movement in the forward half. Maybe on the MCG he may have a bit more room to move

 

[CaptainRisky]

Did anyone go to training yesterday , that's if I'm allowed to ask

 

[Mowman]

Did anyone go to training yesterday , that's if I'm allowed to ask

yeah
someone put a good report up yesterday

 

[CaptainRisky]

yeah
someone put a good report up yesterday

Do you know where it was posted ?

 

[SteeleSaints]

Hammer looked pretty static against the Swans, and didn't chase too well, and I think got subbed off for Sharman as RL was trying to get a bit more movement in the forward half. Maybe on the MCG he may have a bit more room to move

I said it last week but I think that game against Sicily dented his confidence. Sicily pushed him under every marking contest, so I think he was a bit tentative to take front position. Although I dont think it will be any easier this week getting Grimes most likely. Hopefully he can get back on the bike this week and have an impact.

 

[Riewoldt]

Do you know where it was posted ?

Page 10 of this thread.

Preview - Round 14, 2023: Richmond v St.Kilda - MCG, Saturday 17th June, 7:25PM AEST

Need to win these 50/50ish games We could end up with anywhere between 12 and 16 wins I reckon. Somewhere in the middle would be nice Tigers last 6 weeks have been very good

www.bigfooty.com

 

[Plugger35]

Hammer looked pretty static against the Swans, and didn't chase too well, and I think got subbed off for Sharman as RL was trying to get a bit more movement in the forward half. Maybe on the MCG he may have a bit more room to move

From memory he played quite well in our only other game at the MCG against Essendon so hopefully he can produce something similar in this game.

 

[George]

Some very non-detailed observations from training:

-First saw fwds go off and do fwd stoppage pressure drills, while rest of group played Team A v Team B loosely (not a huge amount of pressure), pure focus on transitioning from HB to the i50 kick and mark. Sincs and Nas clean, Mitchito and Kings hands were good too.

-Backs worked on clean pickup - ball was booted along the ground at them, run at the footy and clean pick, keep running, stab pass to teammate. Skills were very good considering it was wet/rainy

-Fwd stoppage plays. Big group, 2 teams, worked on throw in fwd 50 set plays, with Ro palming down to a roving Pou, Hill and other doing blocks for him as he went past. They did this repeatedly for about 5 mins.

-Early, Jones was being used in a back pocket to try and get the ball out of d50, but think it was more just as a target for the other teams fwds to pressure and apply tackles inside their f50. He got pinged 3 or 4 times.

-Hunter ran laps, appeared to be moving well.
-JB ran laps, then joined into match sim afterwards.

-Match sim was Team A (blue) v Team B (blue) although seemed to be a mixture of best 18. Everyone was very vocal, haven't heard them that loud in some time. Wilkie controlling defensive set up loudly. Hill surprisingly vocal. Ross Lyon very vocal. Would let the game go for about 45 seconds, as soon as it looked like someone would've been caught/tackled/kicked a snag, blew the whistle and brought them straight back either for centre ball up or throw in from a boundary to work on the plays they practiced earlier.

Feel free to ask any other questions, I'm sure I missed a lot and it's kinda hard to tell sometimes who you can see etc. but I'll answer as best as I can.

Cheers

Ripper post mate, love your work!!