Post Match. Pies down to Tigers - All comments please.

[Member 7167]

Held them for just under 3/4 of the game. Ultimately we ran out of legs and they over ran us in the end. The final score does not reflect the quality of the contest for most of the game.

The game showed thst we are on the right track and when we play our brand of footy we are competative. Disappointed by the final result but confident we can go on from here.

The injuries are a concern. Aish was showing his potential and Reid has proved once again thst he is vulnerable to soft tissue injury. Both are significant losses hopefully on the short term.

Appleby showed an unexpected maturity and composure for his first game. Kid has potential. Blaire aquitted himself well and played his role. Mayne was the Mayne we expected and whilst he may have played his role he had little influence on the game.

[John LEWIN]

Great to see such a strong consensus among the posters. Couldn't agree more, a great test, which in the circumstances the boys passed with merit. For mine, Richmond had the challenge right in front of them and got out of gaol late because of the combination of fatigue and injury. Richmond are a settled team with heaps more experience and fitness overall than what is being assembled in black and white. They had an edge coming in and it got bigger in the course of the game. We get to play them again I think (and hope). The experience was invaluable and the players will know they can cut it with the Premiers. They will look forward to beating them and that is exactly where you want their heads to be. Given the lead up to the game, three games in how long? Adelaide in the wet away, Anzac Day, whew! won well but plenty of young guys getting a taste of a big mental pressure game in front of 90,000, the need to rotate, players coming in, including two kids fresh out of school just about, another huge crowd and occasion 3 days after the last one, playing the Premiers and the Brownlow medalist, it was right up there. I'm not saying we would have won if Richmond had the same break and we had no injuries. BUT! it would have gone down to the wire and made Adelaide's GF effort look lame. As for what the hypothetical would be with us at full strength that can only bring an even bigger smile to your face when you ponder how the future is looking (bar injuries of course)

[masoncox]

^ yeah, every role player on our list should have the impact of the top ten A+ graders of the competition... sheesh.

Sometimes stats have little value.
Quoting disposals can be of little use sometimes.
It is what you do with the ball that is so much more important.

[Mugwump]

^ yes, ok, I see the point you were trying to make. Anyway, I think Blair played his role well yesterday and he had as much net impact as Josh Thomas, and more than Mayne or Dunn or Stephenson. He was not the reason we lost, at all.

[masoncox]

^ yes, ok, I see the point you were trying to make. Anyway, I think Blair played his role well yesterday and he had as much net impact as Josh Thomas, and more than Mayne or Dunn or Stephenson. He was not the reason we lost, at all.

Very true.
Josh was disappointing.
As for Stevo ...... I am normally a fairly pessimistic person.
But I reckon Stevo will have a fair chance of winning a brownlow
in 5 or 6 years.
Keep blooding this guy. He has all the skill sets of a modern player.
Just play the young guys I reckon.
Even if we fall off the perch later on this season.

[BazBoy]

[Mugwump]

[Mugwump]

[BazBoy]

[Cam]

We have more talent across the board than Richmond, now that we have their gamestyle it is only a matter of time before we start to beat them again.

[jayaykay]

Has anyone heard anything more about Cotchin's sling tackle...was it on Blair? I just caught a brief glimpse of the incident during a slo-mo replay, but I can't recall if any commentator picked up on it. Usually they replay these sorts of things over and over.
And didn't Cotchin get a free kick from this? I assume it was from some sort of Pies retaliation?

[piedys]

Has anyone heard anything more about Cotchin's sling tackle...was it on Blair? I just caught a brief glimpse of the incident during a slo-mo replay, but I can't recall if any commentator picked up on it.
Usually they replay these sorts of things over and over.
And didn't Cotchin get a free kick from this? I assume it was from some sort of Pies retaliation?

F&cking amazing isn't it?
Will be watching very closely to see if sniper-girl gets looked at for this.

Good snipe by Rance on Blair as well, when his head was over the ball.
Play on.

How did we get those c&nts of things for umpires yesterday?

[PyreneesPie]

In that last stanza I noticed one Pie who lost a contest fall and looked so stuffed battled to regain his feet (he was hangin for a bed)

I noticed that too and immediately thought that we had collected another injury. But the player (I think it may have been "my" boy) was just completely stuffed.

[BazBoy]

[RudeBoy]