WB Game Day V Richmond R7 2021

[The Underdog]

Just managed to watch the game after working all weekend. A couple of observations (and no I haven’t read the whole thread so guarantee I’ll cover some points that have already been discussed)

*the half time score flattered us, Tiges missed some sitters and the margin was a bit false from that end.
*on the other hand I don’t think we’re far off. I think it’s great to experience pressure like that in a regular season game. We were still a chance up until the Lipinski miss. If we tidy up some disposal we could have had a real crack
*probably wasn’t the ideal team to play 3 guys who hadn’t played seniors this year. West was disappointing but I think there’s too much value there to write off. Thought Hannan was underdone. I’d really like to see Schache get one more extended run but he just doesn’t grab his chances.
*thought Cordy was ok, but that 2nd key defender post is a real problem for us regardless of who is there.
*Bruce really lost the plot after he got sucked into some wrestle in the 3rd. Was completely ineffective from there out.
*Jack Riewoldt is a very talented player, but god does he ever stop sooking at the umpires?

[Grantysghost]

Bruce really lost the plot after he got sucked into some wrestle in the 3rd. Was completely ineffective from there out.

It was Grimes. I thought the same it really put him off his game, seemed to ruffle his feathers. I thought he'd handle it better.

[comrade]

Bruce looked like he was waiting to get crunched and it caused him to completely mis time (to be very generous) his marking attempts after he got in that scuffle. He’s a hard player to support at times.

[jeemak]

I finally watched the presser, and if you haven't seen the full version get onto it, as it was a cracker.

I love that a journo actually arrived not knowing that Jamarra was emergency, admitted to it, then admitted not watching last week's presser and got a complete bake for asking whether Jamarra was close to selection.

And the finish was even better, pretty much wrapping it up because talking about the man on the mark rule and twenty metre kicking was a useless conversation.

Gold.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

I finally watched the presser, and if you haven't seen the full version get onto it, as it was a cracker.

I love that a journo actually arrived not knowing that Jamarra was emergency, admitted to it, then admitted not watching last week's presser and got a complete bake for asking whether Jamarra was close to selection.

And the finish was even better, pretty much wrapping it up because talking about the man on the mark rule and twenty metre kicking was a useless conversation.

Gold.

One of Bevo's finest.

In the 'message to the members' video, it's pretty clear Bevo was irritated at our performance. Interested to see how we respond v Carlton.

[Vred]

One of Bevo's finest.

In the 'message to the members' video, it's pretty clear Bevo was irritated at our performance. Interested to see how we respond v Carlton.

This game has danger written all over it.

[jeemak]

This game has danger written all over it.

Every game that we play against a middling Melbourne based side has danger written all over it.

This one has a particular note about it for both clubs. Carlton is pretty much where it should be in the win/ loss column but has been getting beaten up over it, and we're a touch ahead and the whole competition is waiting for us to fall a bit and step into line. And guess what, the latter might happen and if it does we'll be written off by folks here and those in the media but we shouldn't be.

It's a long season, and there's literally only one very bad team in it with every other team problematic as a minimum on its day. I've heard scribes lamenting the lack of really good teams this year.......which is a strange thing to do this early (in fact I was reading it after round four or five, which is crazy) but it just isn't true. All of the top four from last year are in the hunt, all of the next four are in the hunt, and all of the four after that are in the hunt after seven rounds. This year is going to prove to be about as tight as it gets.

[mjp]

I finally watched the presser, and if you haven't seen the full version get onto it, as it was a cracker.

I love that a journo actually arrived not knowing that Jamarra was emergency, admitted to it, then admitted not watching last week's presser and got a complete bake for asking whether Jamarra was close to selection.

And the finish was even better, pretty much wrapping it up because talking about the man on the mark rule and twenty metre kicking was a useless conversation.

Gold.

I love Bevo but I don't think this kind of stuff does us any favours as a club still searching for a major sponsor.

As for the journo, I doubt he wanted to ask the question - 100-1 his editor had told him he had to ask about JUH...given he was being told to ask a question, he therefore prob didn't do too much looking into the situation (which makes sense to me).

As for the 20-metre stuff/man-on-the-mark stuff...Bevo regularly buys into these debates so why would he be surprised to be asked to get involved again?

I don't know. I thought it was petty and made us seem like sore losers.

[comrade]

I love Bevo but I don't think this kind of stuff does us any favours as a club still searching for a major sponsor.

As for the journo, I doubt he wanted to ask the question - 100-1 his editor had told him he had to ask about JUH...given he was being told to ask a question, he therefore prob didn't do too much looking into the situation (which makes sense to me).

As for the 20-metre stuff/man-on-the-mark stuff...Bevo regularly buys into these debates so why would he be surprised to be asked to get involved again?

I don't know. I thought it was petty and made us seem like sore losers.

The journo shouldn’t be excused for not doing a sliver of research before asking his one question at the press conference. ‘My boss told me to’ is not an excuse and serves him right for being made to look like a dill.

[Mantis]

Coaches votes

Richmond v Western Bulldogs

10 Shai Bolton (RICH)
7 Tom J Lynch (RICH)
5 Nathan Broad (RICH)
4 Bachar Houli (RICH)
2 Noah Balta (RICH)
1 Trent Cotchin (RICH)
1 Bailey Dale (WB)

[comrade]

Coaches votes

Richmond v Western Bulldogs

10 Shai Bolton (RICH)
7 Tom J Lynch (RICH)
5 Nathan Broad (RICH)
4 Bachar Houli (RICH)
2 Noah Balta (RICH)
1 Trent Cotchin (RICH)
1 Bailey Dale (WB)

About right. Tigers had the best 5 players on the ground and we were still in the game late.

[Grantysghost]

Ha so that's 3 and 4 for Lynch? Ah Bevo.

[Axe Man]

Ha so that's 3 and 4 for Lynch? Ah Bevo.

The strangest part is one coach gave Houli a 4 and the other left him out entirely.

[Grantysghost]

The strangest part is one coach gave Houli a 4 and the other left him out entirely.

That is odd. Maybe Dimma loved Broad's game more.

[jeemak]

I love Bevo but I don't think this kind of stuff does us any favours as a club still searching for a major sponsor.

As for the journo, I doubt he wanted to ask the question - 100-1 his editor had told him he had to ask about JUH...given he was being told to ask a question, he therefore prob didn't do too much looking into the situation (which makes sense to me).

As for the 20-metre stuff/man-on-the-mark stuff...Bevo regularly buys into these debates so why would he be surprised to be asked to get involved again?

I don't know. I thought it was petty and made us seem like sore losers.

Understand that view, though I think it's incumbent on journalists to do a bit of research before putting questions to a coach. Given it was a Friday night game, and the biggest game of the round an in depth review of the team sheet wouldn't have been too difficult. And if you're going to ask a specific question about a specific player seeing how that player is going isn't too much to ask.

With respect to the twenty metre/ man on the mark, it was clear all that was happening was journos trying to get a sound bite after the question had already been answered.

As for questions about the game itself I thought he looked a bit defencive and bristly about questions surrounding our key defenders and didn't handle that well.