What a disgrace

[Sausage roll]

Can you believe we have to go to Skilled again?? Look at the other teams they play there-brisbane, sydney, freo, adelaide, port, north and Melbourne.

To be grouped with these sides in terms of our drawing power is an outrage.

Given Carl, Ess and Coll have been exempted from going 7 years in a row, why do we have to go? Did Ess and carl draw bigger crowds than us? Coll is fair enough.

When are we going to stand up to the AFL on this issue?

IF we lose to Carltank in round one we will go zero two thanks to the trip to Skilled!

When you think we missed a double chance by 1.5 games, this sort of thing can matter, when you consider Coll etc never have to go there.

 

[emperor]

Right on Snag

And also a disgrace we don't get to play in Brisbane...again...we would absolutely murder them up here

 

[Danog]

IF we lose to Carltank in round one...

You shut your whore mouth.

 

[PooPooMcPhee]

The AFL just use us because we haven't done anything for 26 years. But wait until we make the finals then they'll wake up to the sleeping giant

 

[peejay]

i don't mind it - will tell us where we are. if they destroy us its early enough to have not a lot of influence on our season.

 

[Sausage roll]

i don't mind it - will tell us where we are. if they destroy us its early enough to have

Gee,now that is a surprise...you disagree!!!

Do you need to finish your sentence?

By your reckoning, Coll, Ess and Carl will never know where they are at!

 

[Haggard H]

i don't mind it - will tell us where we are. if they destroy us its early enough to have

The suspense is killing me.

 

[peejay]

Gee,now that is a surprise...you disagree!!!

Do you need to finish your sentence?

By your reckoning, Coll, Ess and Carl will never know where they are at!

nah, i just would rather play them at shell stadium than etihad stadium.

 

[CrashComic]

There is one upside.

Kardinia Park is last ground with a proper standing room area behind the goals where you can still enjoy a beer. Or have the fun police killed that off too?

 

[PooPooMcPhee]

truthfully the cats play better at the G and Telstra anyway.

 

[tucker777]

I know we are still a long way off and the cats are still a very very good side, and not to be underrated.
But imagine if we beat them down their on their own turf!
Losing the GF and then losing to a team you beat by 150pts on your own turf.
I would fill the walls of my house with framed photos of the looks on cats supporters faces if we pulled that off.

 

[peejay]

truthfully the cats play better at the G and Telstra anyway.

Exactly - remember what did to us last year at Docklands.

We have a win and a one point loss in our last three games at Shell stadium.

 

[sante]

Who really gives a shit?

 

[King_Mallee]

I was awaiting another JON attack

 

[Roachy8]

I'm not too upset.

The Cats will be absolutely breathing fire early next year because they dead-set reckon they stuffed up big time to lose the GF to those "one-year too early" Dawks.
I reckon we could play them at Punt Rd in round 2 and they would more than likely give us a significant touch-up.

We play them only the once, let's get an "away game" out of the way early down at The Catery and you never know... we may even go OK.

As was pointed out, we actually travel pretty well down there compared to the rarefied air of "the indoor stadium".

 

[Sausage roll]

For the record , our last visit there was a nice 11 goal loss which Peejay happened to fail to mention.

A lot of you have missed my major point, that Ess and cArltank are exempt yet we are not. Why? If given a choice, would we rather go there or not??

I am happy to take any bets from anyone about the result if anyone thinks we are any chance.

Hopefully i have at least put to bed that stupid theory that we are better suited on a small ground!!

 

[TigerGlory]

I'd much rather play them at Skilled than at the Telstra Dome.

Geelong will flatten teams at the Dome, again. Skilled is a smaller, more compact ground which will suit us more than playing on the Dome.

Good decision.

 

[tucker777]

I was awaiting another JON attack

It's a new development KM....we believe PeterSG performed a lobotomy on him. Mainly because the rate of anti Jon has dropped significantly, in fact the last time he mentioned JON he (and I paraphrase) "wish him all the best".

 

[Schache It Off]

"IF we lose to Carltank in round one we will go zero two thanks to the trip to Skilled!"
Since when do Richmond Supporters doubt themselves in games against Carlton

 

[Danog]

"IF we lose to Carltank in round one we will go zero two thanks to the trip to Skilled!"
Since when do Richmond Supporters doubt themselves in games against Carlton

Don't worry, I called him out on it.

 

[Sausage roll]

Don't worry, I called him out on it.

I really am casting pearls to the swine here!!

 

[peejay]

For the record , our last visit there was a nice 11 goal loss which Peejay happened to fail to mention.

!!

Well i did say we have a win and a one point loss in our last three there - so that means we lost the other one.

Geelong play home games at Docklands so it stands to reason that they will want to play the teams that draw bigger crowds for their home games there. Unfortunately the facts are that Carlton and essendon draw bigger crowds against Geelong at the dome than we do.

Its in our hands - turn up and we get treated better.

 

[aaronm46]

lol if richmond beat geelong at ford park

 

[Reckoner Tiger]

The AFL just use us because we haven't done anything for 26 years. But wait until we make the finals then they'll wake up to the sleeping giant

haha, so frigging true
our draws only gonna get better from here on in...
both the gold coast home game and the skilled thing only annoy me slightly.
but yeh, we always seem to just miss out on the 8 by a tiny margin

ah well...
as for Carltank , bring on round one!!!

 

[Sausage roll]

Well i did say we have a win and a one point loss in our last three there - so that means we lost the other one.

Geelong play home games at Docklands so it stands to reason that they will want to play the teams that draw bigger crowds for their home games there. Unfortunately the facts are that Carlton and essendon draw bigger crowds against Geelong at the dome than we do.

Its in our hands - turn up and we get treated better.

Yes, but you conveniently forgot to mention the margin!!

Well, if we are playing them once it doesn't have to eb thier home game for a start.

I would like to know the figures where Carltank have drawn more than us and over what period are you talking about?

I note st kilda don't go to skilled either