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According to our coach some of the players are sore already.
We must watch the soft tissue injuries. The players of concern are Chapman, Mooney and Rooke??
 
Gogeelong said:
According to our coach some of the players are sore already.
We must watch the soft tissue injuries. The players of concern are Chapman, Mooney and Rooke??
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We looked slow, tired and outclassed in the 3rd/4, possibly the worst single /4 by us for ages and not inspiring for the game next week.Not much in the 2's to look forward to--predicting the start of a slow steady decline and fall from the top 4 by season end. Injuries are a curse.
 
VEEDUBS said:
Not much in the 2's to look forward to--predicting the start of a slow steady decline and fall from the top 4 by season end.
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Aren't you a beacon of positivity. :D

I wouldn't be reading a whole lot into our performance today, especially if you remember our performances early in each of the last two years.
 
Exhale You said:
Aren't you a beacon of positivity. :D

I wouldn't be reading a whole lot into our performance today, especially if you remember our performances early in each of the last two years.
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The only thing we learnt from today's game is that Richmond are better than their performance last week would indicate, but most people probably knew this already. No doubt our guys were really, really sore and if you are watching the Hawthorn game you can see they are in a similar boat.
 

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I predicted earlier in the week that Richmond would come out spitting fire, and they did. Just not from the outset!

Really, I'm happier to win like this rather than flogging the hapless Tiges by a hundred and fifty odd points. If we play opposition like this every week, who really push us to the wire, we can only get better. Flogging teams every week breeds complacency. The boys start lairising, start playing like millionaires. They stop respecting the opposition.

We don't need that shit. Our window aint closed yet.
 
Exhale You said:
Aren't you a beacon of positivity. :D

I wouldn't be reading a whole lot into our performance today, especially if you remember our performances early in each of the last two years.
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Maybe, but our depth is being sorely tested and I don't like the looks of our 2's, having seen the whole game, and team s like St. Kilda, Dogs, Carlton, and maybe Hawthorn and Collingwood, have an advantage, so we may run out of luck by end season at this rate. What's wrong with a negative prediction? Helps me cope with the (inevitable) disappontments. Next week, may feel more positive, but again it is good to win ugly.
On a brighter note, just heard Balmey say that Mitch Brown's # is the fibula, not the tibia, so a much better prognosis and should play again this season.
 
I look forward to the challenge of the injury crisis. We still have uninjured physically mature guys ready to go and the midfield looks fine.
 
The last time we had great first 2 round wins was back in 2006 and look how that turned out.

Better to start bad than finish bad.
 
Tay29 said:
As Blake as our first ruck, watch us get smashed at centre clearances. Momentum turned in this match when Ottens got injured.
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And we got it back when Blakey started winning the ruck again in the last. Blake's actually a pretty good tap ruckman - he just dosen't do enough around the ground. It takes big fellas a little longer to perfect their art. He'll improve, and being first ruck again will help towards that end.
 
Geelong_Sicko said:
And we got it back when Blakey started winning the ruck again in the last. Blake's actually a pretty good tap ruckman - he just dosen't do enough around the ground. It takes big fellas a little longer to perfect their art. He'll improve, and being first ruck again will help towards that end.
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And Blake wasn't rucking in the 3rd or for most of the 2nd?
 
I'm a bit worried about our midfield. Confident they will be ok but don't like so many seeming to go missing today. Gaz does all he can but Bartel, Selwood, Chapman (when in the centre), Ling and Kelly just had no answers and looked sluggish as hell especially in the 3rd quarter and for other periods of todays game. Badly exposed an already undermanned defense.

I know Ottens being out didn't help but really they were just waltzing away with clearances time and time again. Midfield pressure was zilch and they were not getting back to help out much either.
 

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it's all about managing players in 2009.. Our players are getting older so if we keep winning we need to rest players like Mooney, Chapman and Corey. Give Ottens 7 weeks to rest up and make sure Harley doesn't come back before he is ready. As we found out last year we need Chapman, wojac etc. fully fit for September.
 
let's hope the coach gives them a sleep in this morning...tired?..I mean WTF? I can understand a bit sore and flat after that hard game against the hawks last week...but tired?
 
Geelong_Sicko said:
Judging from the ABC call it was Mooney in the ruck opposed to Simmonds for most of the third. The Moondog got murdered.
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The Moondog played like a dog, this guys loosing it, time to look for some marking forwards. It's almost to late now, otherwise that'll be another job for the midfield. You carn't win flags like this!
 
meto said:
The Moondog played like a dog, this guys loosing it, time to look for some marking forwards. It's almost to late now, otherwise that'll be another job for the midfield. You carn't win flags like this!
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The guy has played 2 games and we just dont have a plentiful list of AFL standard forwards who can step up and play consistently.
 
LMFAO MY GOD PEOPLE ARE NEGATIVE.

We have played twice and one twice. Not every game is going to be perfect, in fact very few get close. Last year I think one of the problems was we didnt have enough tough games.

We may be tired as we might be in an intense training block. A lot of teams do it at the start of the year, sometimes as late as round 7-8.

Me thinks some people on here have been spoiled for a couple of years now.

Love the comment about be worried about our midfield. We have the BEST and DEEPEST midfield in the league. By a long way too.
 

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VEEDUBS said:
Maybe, but our depth is being sorely tested and I don't like the looks of our 2's, having seen the whole game, and team s like St. Kilda, Dogs, Carlton, and maybe Hawthorn and Collingwood, have an advantage, so we may run out of luck by end season at this rate. What's wrong with a negative prediction? Helps me cope with the (inevitable) disappontments. Next week, may feel more positive, but again it is good to win ugly.
On a brighter note, just heard Balmey say that Mitch Brown's # is the fibula, not the tibia, so a much better prognosis and should play again this season.
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Firstly, as bad as the news is for Brown, I would be extremely doubtful he'd play senior footy this year. Not big enough nor strong enough yet.

Secondly, let's go through the injuries. Ottens clearly hurts, but even with Hunt half the people on here bag him anyway. In any case he and Wojcinski battle for the same spot. Harley won't be out too long, so really out of our best possible 22, only Ottens and Harley are key omissions. Not sure it's time to wave the white flag just yet.

We had a strong team out there, the fact was they played crap. Gamble was really disappointing to me, just about the worst game I've seen him play. Let's see how they go next week.

And to the "experts" who have suggested Mooney as a ruckman (God knows why), well you saw what happened today. He got murdered. He's not a ruckman and never will be. West or Mumford will rightly come in and cover that. Next week is Collingwood - not a great ruck team. Just wait and see.
 
Partridge said:
Firstly, as bad as the news is for Brown, I would be extremely doubtful he'd play senior footy this year. Not big enough nor strong enough yet.

Secondly, let's go through the injuries. Ottens clearly hurts, but even with Hunt half the people on here bag him anyway. In any case he and Wojcinski battle for the same spot. Harley won't be out too long, so really out of our best possible 22, only Ottens and Harley are key omissions. Not sure it's time to wave the white flag just yet.

We had a strong team out there, the fact was they played crap. Gamble was really disappointing to me, just about the worst game I've seen him play. Let's see how they go next week.

And to the "experts" who have suggested Mooney as a ruckman (God knows why), well you saw what happened today. He got murdered. He's not a ruckman and never will be. West or Mumford will rightly come in and cover that. Next week is Collingwood - not a great ruck team. Just wait and see.
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Nice post... Agree with everything you said

Also people jumping on Mooney, he's only been back for 2 GAMES. He had no pre-season, so you wouldn't expect him to be at his best just yet. It also didn't help that Ottens went down & he was pushed in to ruck. He plays his best out of the forward line.

Watch. The coaches will get the team structure back for next week & we'll be fine. I think mid-game injuries mess the (extremely important) team structure up way too much. More so when it's to a position which is hard to cover like the ruck.
 
Eudes said:
Nice post... Agree with everything you said

Also people jumping on Mooney, he's only been back for 2 GAMES. He had no pre-season, so you wouldn't expect him to be at his best just yet. It also didn't help that Ottens went down & he was pushed in to ruck. He plays his best out of the forward line.

Watch. The coaches will get the team structure back for next week & we'll be fine. I think mid-game injuries mess the (extremely important) team structure up way too much. More so when it's to a position which is hard to cover like the ruck.
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Well said, sir. 2 games does not a preseason make, especially when you've had surgery in the off season. He needs to improve but he's not going to do it unless he gets game time.
 
fishman said:
C'mon guys - they were tired. Thankfully the AFL gave us a game against a VFL side to recover.
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Tired? Come again? The season has just started and they're already tired? :eek:

Then again this is the ideal time for them to be tired I guess. I want them fresh, peaking and raring to go as we near September. :thumbsu:

My explanation for their subpar performance is that they lacked motivation for this game, they were missing their usual killer instinct. It's hard to always be up for every game of the season and for the past 2 decades the tigers have rarely ever provided a genuinely hard contest.

So I'm not going to be overly concerned or critical of the players for not going into this game in a truly professional state of mind.
 

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