Match Thread. Richmond, Round 6.

[Blood Fever]

Yep I like how he goes about it, works hard. But has the decision making of a 6 year old in Auskick, and too often his disposal skills match it too. A shame as I like how he goes about it. In a good team there could be a role for him, but in a rebuilding team he looks really exposed and his errors are so glaringly obvious.

His handballing is only marginally better than his kicking

[dejavoodoo44]

I tend too agree. Parker is a very good player but hes no JPK, Hanneberry or Mitchell. Him coming 2nd in the Brownlow was a fluke

Yeah, umpires' pet. :-)

[Blood Fever]

Sorry but wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.

The stench of entitlement is overpowering on this site at times. Or as my wise dad would say spoilt rotten.

There's a few who seemingly have a problem with even the thought of losing.

[RoyalCommission]

Blaming the umpire.......seriously folks take it on the chin. It’s not the umpires I’m afraid.


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[dejavoodoo44]

It's a term that's become terribly over-utilised.

The upside of the season is that we've solved the problem of the lack of a NEAFL competition, especially with the hubs. The AFL is the new NEAFL. Or maybe we can rebrand the league the NEWFL.

The WTFL?

[i'm-uninformed2]

Re the naysayers, sure, we are struggling.

But we are without:

* at least six best 22
* nine players over 193cm
* our three starting tall forwards

And we played nine players with 30 games or less.

Do we really think it’s a failure to inject games into the next generation of players?

As I’m not sure the alternative.

[mcs]

Blaming the umpire.......seriously folks take it on the chin. It’s not the umpires I’m afraid.


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No one is seriously blaming the umpires.

That doesn't mean that Stevic hasn't had it in for us for a long time for whatever reason. He did his best in 2012 to bend us over and help the Wees and Poos over the line, and was part of the mob that had its way in the 2016 decider as well to gift the premiership to the Fairypuppies. He is a @@@@e umpire.

[longmile]

Yeah, umpires' pet. :-)

Your words not mine

I think he's a good player but not anywhere near good as he's made out to be

[Kafka's Ghost]

Well said.

+1

+2.

[dejavoodoo44]

Interesting that the stats show Stoddart had more possessions than Stephens or Warner, quite inconspicuous. All of them ahead of Blakey though with 9 possessions at 33% efficiency. Rowbottom was excellent and fitted in really well with the rest of the midfield.

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Stoddardt did a few good things, but a couple of times I thought he could have went in harder. Strange that he seemed to be playing forward flank, for most of the game, when last year he was a back flanker and sometimes winger. Should improve if he gets a few more games, though.

[Bexl]

But we do not want to go back down the bad old road if South Melbourne from 1950 onward. Bottom eight for all but two until we went to Sydney.



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'Bottom 8" is a bit of a stupid comment since there was only 12 teams

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on the plus side Papley is leading the colman.

[jono2707]

Plenty to work on from that showing - I liked the endeavour shown and I think we'll learn a lot from a hard game against the premiers. If we can keep up the effort and get more games into the younger guys, things will start looking up before too long.