meltiger said:
Is it any wonder we got spanked.
You got spanked because you didn't want the hard ball and trailed Hawthorn players to it for much of the day. This also resulted in many of the discrepancies committed by trailing Tiger players, giving away frees through desperation caused by being second to the ball.
And before you start in with your usual nonsense about scoring shots - 8 of the 16 Richmond behinds were taken through by Hawk defenders, 4 came from long and wide shots; and young McGlynn slewed 3 OOB on the full for us inside 50 during the match.
Hawthorn was clearly the better side, and on overall play across the day a 7 goal margin was apt.
Leaving aside the usual Tiger poor sportsmanship and bleating after a defeat, to provide rational discussion of the game...
Franklin was great today up forward. He played similarly to what he did in the NAB Cup against Adelaide, but was much neater with his finishing here. Will be a top footballer in time and deserved 3 votes today.
Outside of Franklin, Tim Clarke would've got the 2 Brownlow votes for a strong and hard running game all day.
I'd give Pettifer the 1 vote. He was beaten by young Murphy in the first half, but lifted strongly during the second to keep Richmond in the contest.
Sam Mitchell, Rick Ladson, Jordan Lewis, Campbell Brown & Clinton Young all had strong games for the winners, with youngsters Birchall & Murphy showing good signs at varying stages of the game.
Young Raines is certainly a top prospect for the Tigers and ran hard today, and it was probably a toss-up between him and Simmonds for the secondary votes in the Tiger best & fairest. Outside of those boys, I was impressed at various times with Tambling & Patterson who tried hard.
Happy to get the win and to head to the break with a number of players due back for the St Kilda game.
Sounds like a better showing from the Bombers however.
