Originally posted by Frodo
Very good win but the Tigers were pretty ordinary.
I wasn't particularly impressed (or surprised) at how Richmond came to play. The Melbourne commentators can call it an open forward line, but to me it's a flood designed to drag a better team down to your level and bore them into submission. Every time there was a stoppage in the first half, about 12 of them jumped on the ball.
Now that works well for a while, especially if you catch the other side on the break with long kicks to Richo or some small running forwards can snag a couple, but for four quarters you can't beat PACE and HARD RUNNING and we've got about 12 midfielders with both of them.
Once Woosha had figured this out towards the end of the 2nd quarter, you could see a flogging about to happen. We went in at half time, discussed how to beat the flood and came out and kicked 6 goals straight. With better kicking that would have been 9 straight, with better umpiring Richmond might never have scored again. We played close to 1991 form for a brief spell.
Very good win. Not suggesting the undermanned Tigers could have approached it much differently, but it was great to see us overcome such negativity with such flair.