Why was Old Mate banned from the thread?
He was doing a fantastic parody of obsessed Richmond fans.
He was doing a fantastic parody of obsessed Richmond fans.
Opinion Which list would you want? Richmond, Carlton, Geelong
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I think he may have agreed with you on something so our mods banned him.
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Lol no need to get so offended.
1) no season is a complete success without a premiership. Sneaking into finals with an old team while not even blooding some kids seams like a wasted season.
2) unsure. Our midfield lacks depth and has copped a ton of injuries that we haven't been able to overcome. But I think we'll be better going forward for the time being invested in Holmes, Bruhn, O Henry, Mullin, Knevitt, Dempsey, etc. I would prefer to make finals ultimately unless we get something close to our best team on the park in good form we won't be winning anything.
3) no. The league is pretty tight and a loss of form and injuries can easily be the difference between competing for a flag and missing finals. Just look at Richmond 2021 or Port Adelaide last year.
We got around 122 games into players 22 or younger in 2022, and 75 so far in 14 rounds this season, +10 games to first year 24yo Tylar Young and 8 games to 23yo Miller who entered the season about a 10 game player.
So Richmond are getting plenty of games into young players. On average across the whole AFL teams average fielding about 6-7 sub 50 game players per week, most of whom are 22 or younger, and Richmond is very close to this average. The reason some of the talented young players like Sonsie, Cumberland, Dow are not being played is they simply haven't been playing well enough overall, for differing reasons. Banks is flying and will be introduced at some point of the season when the club thinks the time is right. Brown is also starting to show a bit and will likely debut later this season. There are some others as well. Gibcus has been injured of course. But Richmond knows it is a long season and just inserting young players into the team early in the season and keeping playing them through form and fitness slumps or as they tire is nothing but a recipe for disaster.
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I'm back you bozos 
Somone asked a great question,
"what about Dank and the weapon at Geelong in those glory years
Why do cats fans always freak out about that whenever it gets brought up"
Strange isn't it, they want honest fans that know what happened to believe that Chris Scott figured out how to beat Richmond before the stand rule, but they don't want those same honest fans to think that nefarious characters Dank and the Weapon were the same at Geelong as what they were at Essendon.
Let me ask the Geelong fans, did Chris Scott figure out how to beat Richmond before the stand rule?
Surely the game changed from when Richmond were toying with Geelong from '17 to '20 to when Chris Scott (who couldn't coach pigs to be dirty) figured out how to beat Richmond, and that on his own mind you
Somone asked a great question,
"what about Dank and the weapon at Geelong in those glory years
Why do cats fans always freak out about that whenever it gets brought up"
Strange isn't it, they want honest fans that know what happened to believe that Chris Scott figured out how to beat Richmond before the stand rule, but they don't want those same honest fans to think that nefarious characters Dank and the Weapon were the same at Geelong as what they were at Essendon.
Let me ask the Geelong fans, did Chris Scott figure out how to beat Richmond before the stand rule?
Surely the game changed from when Richmond were toying with Geelong from '17 to '20 to when Chris Scott (who couldn't coach pigs to be dirty) figured out how to beat Richmond, and that on his own mind you
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I believe that no one should be banned.
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The Falcon returneth.
Poor fella has probably been banned by a Richmond-supporting mod who feared Old Mate was making them all look like obsessed nutters....
Maybe cats fans can assist with their best under 28 team
considering lists are being discussed
Richmond
Baker - Balta -Young
Rioli - Gibcus - Short
Ross - Hopper - Ralphsmith
Bolton - Miller - Cumberland
M.Rioli - Bardtke - Clarke
Ryan - Sonsie - Banks - Graham
Brown - Trezise - Campbell - Coulthard - Mansell
Emerg : Bauer - Green - Smith - Nyuon - Colina - Dow
* Highlighted players already getting regular games when fit / available
considering lists are being discussed
Richmond
Baker - Balta -Young
Rioli - Gibcus - Short
Ross - Hopper - Ralphsmith
Bolton - Miller - Cumberland
M.Rioli - Bardtke - Clarke
Ryan - Sonsie - Banks - Graham
Brown - Trezise - Campbell - Coulthard - Mansell
Emerg : Bauer - Green - Smith - Nyuon - Colina - Dow
* Highlighted players already getting regular games when fit / available
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Shifting the goal posts. Richmond fans usually focus on Martin's 4 year peak which is a fraction of a career. 12 years and 250 odd games is a champion size career in itself. An extraordinary period of time to be pumping out numbers that good.
if Martin's numbers are still this close after 5 more years of playing, a conversation can be had. Otherwise sure, focus on their best 12 (prime) years each which will exclude probably the very earliest and latest years.
The last 4 years (this still includes 2020) he's averaged 20.87 disposals and 1.81 combined goals/assists. So 5 more years obviously you'd expect a further decline on that and his overall average would drop. Don't worry, he won't play that long anyway.
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The poll is pretty even Geelong edging out slightly!
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I imagine it would be something very close to
Kolo SDK Esava
O'Connor J Henry Z Guthrie
Holmes Atkins Knevitt
Miers Neale Stengle
Dempsey O Henry Close
Conway Bruhn Clark
Bowes Mullin Simpson Parfitt Hardie (could throw a blanket over a couple for the last few spots)
Bold are best 22
Italics are borderline best 22 depending on rotations, availability, etc
Conway would be playing now ahead of Ceglar if fit.
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Dusty close to GAJ. hahaha.
Yeah nah.
GAJ's only company in his era was Judd.
Yeah nah.
GAJ's only company in his era was Judd.
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He has had a lot of close calls, been hitting the post, touched on the line, he is very unselfish player to & gives a lot off.
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It doesn’t look great .. and they only have pick 10 and 82 in this years draft .. might end up better.
So they’ll have to go the FA route again… they almost have to nail 2-3 FA of quality this off season to replace the quality they’ll lose through retirement.
Darcy Parish and Himmelburg are must gets.
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Ouch. Some serious pain coming the Tiggies way.
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