Long-term injuries and form slumps by several senior players open the door for Tiger tyros.
If you saw the story in the Age today claiming that Robin Nahas had been elevated for Graham Polak, that’s only half the story. Yes, Kayne Pettifer is still on the long-term injury (LTI) list, but that’s only until round 3, and he has regained enough fitness for him to be reinstated to the senior list. Polak (whose first name the Age couldn’t even get right) is not on the LTI list, and the Richmond hierarchy have said all along so far that they wouldn’t put him on there, if only for his own confidence and recovery. The player Nahas replaces, however, is Kane Johnson who has been placed on the LTI list today, as reported in this thread on Punt Road End.
The multiple errors in the Age story puts into question their claims that Jordan McMahon and Will Thursfield will be scapegoated for the loss to Carlton in round 1. It is certainly true that one of Thursfield, Kelvin Moore or Luke McGuane would have to be dropped for Rance to be able to fit into the tall back structure at Richmond. McGuane didn’t do much wrong guarding Brendan Fevola, while Thursfield only touched the ball five times with no marks to Moore’s nine and three and McGuane’s 14 and seven, so he’s low man on the totem pole. As for McMahon, it’s hard to see both he and Shane Edwards in the same team as they play much the same role, though I would have thought Edwards would be last man in and first man out in that timeshare. Someone has to be sacrificed whose name isn’t Wallace, however, so those two names are as believable as anyone’s.
Past and present owners of Joel Bowden will remember his four-week holiday at Coburg early last season as Wallace was under a similar high-pressure situation and took his frustrations out on senior players. Is McMahon going to be this year’s Tiger pariah, sent out into the footy wilderness to pay for the Richmond hierarchy’s sins? Tell me how you think this is going to play out in the comments.
Terry likes my new haircut, so GET ON.
Who cares
If Richmond is relying on Nahas to be its new mesiah,then what hope do they have.
Wallace is gonna,and he can take these hasbeens with him,Bowden,McMahon,Johnson,Simmonds,and yes Cousins.
Tigers for the spoon…
I thought McGuane was alright last week.
Nahas looks like a kid that they picked up from one of the half time auskick games.
Why not include Adam Thomson into the line-up if they are requiring physical pressure, that guy is hard as nails and tackles all day
what was jordan machmahn stats this week
McMahon is a “give it to me, give it to me” footballer
And it seems alot of them are of this irk!
The Tigers need a “I getting down and dirty” player
Macca,
that’s really not fair, we’ve got lots of guys with rotten haircuts.
the first thing jordi needs to do is shave that dirty mo!
leave the mo out of this!
bowden needs to play down back again. useless on the forward line
simmonds a has been???? wtf he was in the victorian team last year, played well, and almost earned all-australian if not for an injury. Jordan mcmahon will never be dropped hes Wallace’s bitch, Terry thinks way too highly of him, and Thursfield is a good player (Jonathan Brown says one of the best backs in the competition last year in terms of purely shutting down an opponent), shouldn’t get dropped.
Rance for Raines, polo/connors for edwards, hughes for schulz. dont forgot the cotch
Don’t forget who?
pull your head in Korza its only round 1. (yes i do support richmond lol)
good call on thompson!!!
Gone!
Thompson should have played first game. He is a kina hard nut we need in the midfield with Kane out and also coughlan(even though he has been out for a while).
err, remember Raines and Cousins get ‘dropped’ this week for getting injured… two spots there…
alex rance! give him a crack! big hopes 4 this boy, a 2nd year player at the tigers. its time 4 him 2 step up..
no better opportunity then in this depleted tigers team..
just a suggestion what do yas think?
(btw hes in my supercoach i want him playin!)
go crows
i might as well quit dreamteam if mcmahon gets dropped
Nahas is pretty good tbh. He should give them some spark.
Richmond’s issues aren’t with players, its with their training and coaching.
Oh and nice pot at the age. Fair enough too to get things that wrong.
News just in Mcmahon; dirty pornstar mo’s are OUTTTTT
the only reason why mcguane did good on fev is that the tigers were too focused on him
I think Hislop will get a game. Was sad to see him leave the Don’s - but hey if your heads not right - then join the Tigers!
Ben,
quit now!
Ben I agree. Quit now.
McMahon wont get dropped, Wallace loves the guy
As mention by Disco, Raines and Cousins already out. So there’s two spots. Who will take them? I think Thomson is a good replacement for Cuz. Maybe he isn’t the most talented bloke but he’ll have a dip.
You can’t put Rance in for Raines because stucturally it doesn’t work, especially against Geelong’s forward line. So maybe Polo or Conners. I don’t see Richmond “dropping” anyone to be honest.
ok, lets settle this once and for all, to rid everyone of the issues of richmond every year and how poor they are. drop them to the VFL like english premier league style and relegate them. bring a decent side up so they can actually compete in the AFL and make it interesting for the lucky team each week whos fixture reads….. v Richmond
ben: if you have J. McMahon in your dreamteam you probably should give up.
Dave Duchovny you might want to pass that advice onto jeff Garlett as well.
Thomson is injured. That’s why he isn’t playing.
Your first good idea ever? Wallace!
haha i agree fully terry, the tigers are nbothin better than VFL ressies if that
u cant relegate tigerland 2 the vfl. terry, capt fantasy and hamish hav no heart for the game
I’m just heading off to the solarium, but when I get back I hope J-Mac has shaved off that ‘tache, or I’ll make him captain this week.
tigerland has made the finals 3 times in the last 37 years. how more hopeless can they get? if i had a son right now and i wanted him to experience his afl team winning a premiership in his lifetime, i wouldnt be putting him in the yellow and black thats for sure
wen u hit rock bottom, theres only room for improvement. look at the swans, they ended their premiership drought.
By the way, mcmahon is crap, he only play good wen the whole side is playin good. i wouldnt let him near my dreamteam lineup or its suicide
mcmahon will get 30 touches this week in the backline cos they play geelong, itl be there the whole time. hel prove all of use wrong and score 100 this week i cant wait to see the smug look on your faces when u see it come true
he’ll score low 60’s i predict coz he’ll watch the ball then go and get it. hes crap. he’ll only get the ball if hes all alone and the ball is passed straight 2 him
mcmahon will rack up because richmond will get pumped
he’ll only rack up if the team is winnin. the only chance of him rackin up is if geelong dont show up 2 the game
bob youl be eating your words by monday mate
i wouldnt b suprised if he faked an injury so he wouldnt have to get dirty playin geelong
what score did he get this week in DT robert? your clearly a novice
a pitiful 42. im really a novice, wen i finished in the 1500 in the past 2yrs, yep real novice. where did u finish?
whoops my bad *top 1500*
i meant to ask how much you scored this week rob? not mcmahon. i know how much he got cos use all dnt rate him cos of one bad week. and hel prove ya all wrong. but how much did u score?? and dont lie
just reached the 2000 mark, alrute score i thought with raines and cousins in
well they both played so i dont know what they have to do with it, pretty average score. they might affect next weeks score but not this week really. 2130 for me
u lads r all gay, all talkin bout haircuts instead of the actual footy. ur just jealous u cant grow a porn star moe because ur not real men
@ Glenn
You know I have a hormone disorder!
@ Glenn dont tell me you dont like big COX or do you prefer a SWALLOW.
The funny thing about Richmonds team is that monty kept getting bagged for leaving Cousins out for the round 1 teams cos he was underdone… looking back maybe he got that one right, even over the selection commitee
glenn is a richmong supporter give him a fair go boys, hes having a hard time, as hes had the last 37 years muhahaha
richmond*… but its probly less embarrasing as richmong anyway
Tigers selection committee never got a say in whether Cousins played Rd 1 or not (including Wallace). The AFL made the decision about 6-8 weeks before when they started promoting the first game of the season as Judd Vs Cousins instead of Carlton Vs Richmond.
They had $$$ in the eyes at the thought of 100,000 at the G in Rd 1.
Never thought of it like that. Sparlo makes an excellent point.
the other thing is that the advertising worked didnt it. record crowd for a rd 1 match
yeah i agree with sparlo, tru fact
Oddly, your score after 22 rounds is much more important than your score after one. (Although I’m saying this because I got 1960 odd)
I’m doing a documentary on the NAB Cup/Challenge. What’s a good/clever title for it???
$200 says rance will debut
@ Monty
Are the guru projections going to be updated,and if not, are the round 1 projections going to be removed.
PS: I am not a fan of Dave, he got personal.
monty
do you know if there’s a excel spreadsheet going around like the DT decipher spreadsheet (http://dreamteamtalk.com/wp-content/uploads/decipherspreadsheet-rd1.xls), but for supercoach
McMahon is outtttttttttttttttttt
lol @ all those jordie “Mo” mcmahon dt players….
cya mcmahon! haha, why would u buy hime anyway. hopefully bowden goes back now
i hope wallace gets sacked. then he will know what it is like..
Why do Richmond players act like they have little match awareness? Why does Wallace keep his job when he’s a low flyer? Why does Bowden not get put back in the backline, especially when you’re gettiing thrashed? Maybe Mark Harvey and Wallace could start a low flyers club? Like seriously, could anyone do any worse than these Muppets? Coaching a footy side takes moral fortitude, intellectual capacity and a selfless streak - each of them are deficient in these areas more or less.
lol @ hamish, hahahhahahhaahhahah, good call on mcmahon to score big this week
@ hamish……
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. looks like there wont be any chance of me eatin my words. the only way mcmahon will be gettin close 2 30 touches is if he afl on the playstation. oh and again hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
whoops skipped a word
*if he plays afl on the playstation*
yeah i think so robert lols. anyway mcmahon is a dud and all of use who have him are DT retards, meaning all ppl below them are on their DT death bed
hahah well said chad im pretty sure no 1 cares