Match thread: Richmond v Swans

[crackedactor 01]

After all the comments, we played badly and yet only lost by 5 points!!!!!!

We lost to a team that has not won a game and had it best 2 players in Martin and Grimes not playing. People were thinking the Swans has a chance at winning the flag. Obviously that was just a pipe dream based on that effort.

[MattW]

Richmond are a better team than people think. In a way the loss might turn out to be a good thing, stops us getting ahead of ourselves and makes it easier to see the weak links earlier.

Yes.

Also, with Rampe out, the first game in which we looked a bit young/naive.

Parker and Mills back, and a bedded in Adams, should help us be more resilient.

[i'm-uninformed2]

As an aside, with Rampe likely out, we are about to unravel the mystery of who is in our leadership group, which the club never unveiled.

He’s been captaining the side with Mills out, so . . . drum roll please.

[Roadrunner]

We lost to a team that has not won a game and had it best 2 players in Martin and Grimes not playing. People were thinking the Swans has a chance at winning the flag. Obviously that was just a pipe dream based on that effort.

We certainly need to play a lot better than that. Fumbling when put under pressure, not backing each other and not manning up properly. Misdirected kicks and hand passes- these are all signs of a team put under more pressure than they can handle. I think the scoreboard flattered us, yet we did ok in small patches. So what’s our problem and how do we rectify this insipid play? For one thing, we’re missing a bit of leadership. Paps and Isaac needed to slow things down to make sure we regained composure, especially when Ramos went off. Our youngsters seemed to panic-this is where Parks and Mills could have settled them down and enabled them to regroup. Hope they all learned from this display and play like the true team we really can and should be. In fairness, Richmond we’re very good, let’s give credit where it’s due.

[caj23]

Horrible game, not one positive to take out of it.

Not even going to bother comment on individual players because not one of them could hold their head up after that effort, other than a non football person watching the game with me couldn’t believe the lack of effort (tank) from Amartey in the second half

Same old issues resurfacing in games at the MCG, Richmond are a very ordinary team.

[troyjones2525]

We have the perfect replacement for Rampe already in the team. Put Robbie Fox back in the backline where he belongs! If we need another tall then look at bringing in Hamling, but I'm not sure he'll be needed this week.

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[BRS328]

AG,
You have summed this up perfectly. It wasn’t just Errol who consistently missed targets, and don’t get me started on banana kick attempt by Hayward from close to 50 meters out.
We simply didn’t come to play.

[111431]

Our annual chaotic stinker. You can see it coming from a mile out where the bounce of the ball, our own mistakes and the run of the opposition is gonna get us.

Some ticks to Isaac, McInerney, Campbell, Rowie (though he went quiet after half time), and Grundy’s persistence.

But boy some of them were off their tucker today. Errol is a star but his defensive run was dreadful today. And some of the decision making . .

Chad, you’ve never kicked a goal from 60m so stop trying. Hayward, you had the distance so don’t try round the corner from 45m out at a slight angle. Roberts, you’ll learn from today between taking the game on and the impossible or dumb option.

And midfield, bombing the ball onto Amartey’s head - as much as he was terrible in that one contest vs Vlaustin - isn’t a successful strategy, particularly when Logan was making space on two or three occasions.

One other thing, and how should I put this delicately. Lloyd behind the ball deeply worries me. He’s been a star of the club and yes, had 32 possessions today. But I can’t think of a possession that hurt the opposition and giving him kick in duties wasn’t wise as he always goes short to the pocket. He used to create his own space down back but not today. In fact he occasionally ran himself or a team mate into trouble. I get with Harry out and Rampe off in the second half we might have thought we needed his leadership down back. But I’d rather see him higher up the ground. His instincts down back don’t lend themselves to how we’re trying to play.

PS: I’d love to hear from someone at the ground but our defensive run looked off today. Like, very off.

I went to the game and they completely out pressured us all day. We over possessed, were run down from behind on numerous occasions and had countless kicks smothered. Some of our stars don’t like running defensively (see Chad in 3rd qtr after a turnover) and we had no appetite to win the hard ball. Very disappointing day

[waswan]

We have the perfect replacement for Rampe already in the team. Put Robbie Fox back in the backline where he belongs! If we need another tall then look at bringing in Hamling, but I'm not sure he'll be needed this week.

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Agree with this
Dont need Hamling, Melican and Tom Mc are enough talls, put Robbie in the Ramps Role

[stevoswan]

Richmond wont make finals, if we cant be them with Martin Grimes and Lynch going off, we need to have a good look at ourselves

I think most would agree that yesterday was not a true indication of where we sit. That we simply had a bad day at the office...also due to the oppositions 'good day'......and only lost by less than a goal!

You can keep bagging the team if that makes you feel better or you can move on and look at things a bit more positively. Your choice.....and obviously the team will have a good look at themselves and learn from yesterday's game.....probably acknowledging that they may have got a little ahead of themselves and underestimated the opposition a little.....or a lot.

[BRS328]

Perhaps if Dusty and Grimes had played we may have been better mentally prepared. There was a lot of arrogance about the way we played today with fumbling and turnovers from kicks that consistently missed targets when they were not under pressure.

[stevoswan]

We lost to a team that has not won a game and had it best 2 players in Martin and Grimes not playing. People were thinking the Swans has a chance at winning the flag. Obviously that was just a pipe dream based on that effort.

Season over then?

[stevoswan]

Always fun to go over the match posts the next day, after a loss. There's a real pattern that repeats itself season after season.....that has become quite predictable and tiresome.

Having said that, I do agree with 'some' of the negativity....but only some and I'll leave to the club (ie: those that have a clue) to break it all down and learn what has to be learned from such a disappointing loss.

Keeping things on a positive note, all I can say is I pity the Eagles next week.

[waswan]

Always fun to go over the match posts the next day, after a loss. There's a real pattern that repeats itself season after season.....that has become quite predictable and tiresome.

Having said that, I do agree with 'some' of the negativity....but only some and I'll leave to the club (ie: those that have a clue) to break it all down and learn what has to be learned from such a disappointing loss.

Keeping things on a positive note, all I can say is I pity the Eagles next week.

I pity the Eagles every week

[Blood Fever]

Good post. I'm going to let a lot of comments pass through to the keeper this season for sanity's sake.