Preview Round 6 2019 - Richmond v Melbourne, MCG. Wed April 24th 7.35pm

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Roachy8

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If anyone thinks this will be a pushover, let me just leave this here...


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I for one don't think this will be anything like a pushover - very nervous in fact.

Feels like a game where they actually come to play and produce maximum effort which will put our mids under peak heat.
If we at least break even in the middle we win because of our better forward and back halves but if their mids get a roll on and Nathan Jones plays his usual killer game against us we will face a big arm wrestle IMO.
 

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This is a pretty simple game for us. Get remotely close to even in the midfield and apply our pressure and it's an easy win for us unless Melbourne somehow make a massive improvement in a couple of days. If our pressure is there they'll turn the ball over repeatedly like they did against St Kilda and our fast ball movement + forward line will be too much for their backline to handle. St Kilda basically used a Richmond game style to beat them last week
 

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If anyone thinks this will be a pushover, let me just leave this here...


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Disposals: irrelevant
Clearances, inside 50s, contested ball: differentials useful, not raw figures
Tackles: Misleading stat, pressure numbers better
Hit outs, free kicks: never affected us

We've also had a far more difficult draw so far

Our performance this year has been far superior to Melbourne's. Evidence for Melbourne winning tonight comes in the form of their ability shown late last year when they beat WC over there and GWS, Geelong, Hawthorn over here. Not stats from this year.
 
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