Please let us not lose this week

[dawson]

I don't like losing any match but if there is one team I dread losing to its Richmond.

Their supporters are a bunch of come out of the woodwork, bandwagon, spitting, tear up your membership losers who annoy me no end.

We simply can not lose to these guys.

Bad enough to lose by one point to them last year.

Then there was the game in 2002 when Luffy was tragically on hands and knees trying to get the ball while it rolled away from him for a goal.

Luffy was there again in 1999 when we narrowly lost to them. The ball was kicked off the ground with his hand on the ball and they still gave it as a goal. Luffy protested but to no avail.

[573v30]

The Richmond supporters are a feral lot aren't they? I don't think we should fear the once but not currently mighty Tigers as their form over the past few weeks has been lacklustre. I view their style of play uglier than what Demetriou said about our boys at the beginning of last season.

I hope that Richmond will have another bad match with many missed shots at goal and BBBBH scoring at least 5 goals.

[cruiser]

Re: Please let us not lose this week

Originally posted by dawson
I dread losing to Richmond. Their supporters are a bunch of come out of the woodwork, bandwagon, spitting, tear up your membership losers who annoy me no end.

The other half of their miserable football lives is spent as bandwagon St Kilda supporters.

[dimelb]

Put the Hyphen on Richo and let Leo run.

[garethb83]

If Leo is put on Richo (as i fear he will be) i can see another thousand free kicks being given against him and Richo kicking a bagful as a result!

Lets hope someone else gets that gig!

[timbo]

Then there was the game in 2002 when Luffy was tragically on hands and knees trying to get the ball while it rolled away from him for a goal.

that was the 2000 game which we won by a point.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Fear not fellow Swans comrades-we have a weapon for this week's match-ANNISWAN!

Never in a game of AFL footy have I seen one mere comment from a supporter so put a footballer off his game. It was in the last round in 2004 & Matthew Richardson had just taken a spekkie but missed from 15 metres out. Anniswan said comments which basically intimated as to Richo's penchance for a bit of a dummy spit; to which he replied by completely doing just that, screaming obsenities over the fence at her, much to our initial shock then amusement.

JF

[NMWBloods]

Not sure if it helps that much - Richo normally plays well against us and we don't have a fantastic record against Richmond.

[Thunder Shaker]

I hope we beat Richmond. I've been to Richmond games 4 times and 3 times we've lost by a kick (6, 6 and 1). The other game we won by a lazy ten goals to hand the Tigers the wooden spoon.

If we get up, it might be fun to speculate loudly in front of Richmond fans on when the Richmond season begins its usual tailspin. In each of the past three seasons Richmond has:
* won fewer games after round 7 than before round 8
* they were higher than us after round 8
* they did not make the finals in any of the three years and we made the finals in all three years
* we won a premiership and they won a spoon

[liz]

The Tigers' form suddenly looks good, having won three in a row, but the teams they've beaten have won 3 games in total between them - Essendon, Brisbane and Carlton.

They're trying to play a running, free-wheeling style of football but their disposal skills have been absolutely appalling, at least for the past two weeks - I didn't see much of their Brisbane game.

They have got away with it because Carlton and Essendon have matched their skill level. I can't recall seeing two scrappier, less skilled matches than their last two.

They deserve respect certainly - they have the tall timber to trouble Sydney's defence, plus a couple of youngsters playing with the fearless abandon that often comes with players in their first few games. The Swans just need to keep their heads and make sure they don't fall to the Tigers' level of turning the ball over with monotonous regularity.

The Tigers won't like an accountable, man-on-man style, and are likely to rush their disposal if nothing clear is on offer.

As reigning premiers, this is a game that the Swans should win so long as they don't turn up just expecting to win.

That said, our recent record against the Tiges has been patchy at best so I ain't that confident...

[ben.carbonaro]

Originally posted by 573v30
The Richmond supporters are a feral lot aren't they? I don't think we should fear the once but not currently mighty Tigers as their form over the past few weeks has been lacklustre. I view their style of play uglier than what Demetriou said about our boys at the beginning of last season.

I hope that Richmond will have another bad match with many missed shots at goal and BBBBH scoring at least 5 goals.

Very feral, that's all one can use to describe Richmond supporters in my opinion.

Can't make it to the game due to VFL game.

[anniswan]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
Fear not fellow Swans comrades-we have a weapon for this week's match-ANNISWAN!

Never in a game of AFL footy have I seen one mere comment from a supporter so put a footballer off his game. It was in the last round in 2004 & Matthew Richardson had just taken a spekkie but missed from 15 metres out. Anniswan said comments which basically intimated as to Richo's penchance for a bit of a dummy spit; to which he replied by completely doing just that, screaming obsenities over the fence at her, much to our initial shock then amusement.

JF

IIRC the comment was "your a sook Richo", I did yell it louder than normal and when he reacted I just reeled him in.

I suppose this means I must go to to the game on Saturday, it was a game I was contemplating missing due to a committment in the evening. However you have just given me added motivation to get there on Saturday.

Out of this came the Greg B song called "Lets all do a Richo, Lets all do a Richo, wa wa wa wa."

[ScottH]

Mature stuff.

[TheHood]

I think Craig or LRT will get first go on Richo this weekend. I don't like Leo as loose man because he seems directionless and ineffective, even Port exploited this in Rd 2.

I think we need to be much more composed around the clearances, particularly Jolls who seems to be losing his way at times. Free kicks and panicy disposals from he and Chambers need to be eliminated so we can get better use.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by timbo
that was the 2000 game which we won by a point.

I was at that game, it happened right in front of us, talk about frustrating.

I think the boys will win on Saturday because they don't want to ruin my birthday!

My only concern is that at times in the past when we have played against a low skilled side we have come down to their level of skill. If we can avoid doing that on Saturday we should win easily.