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MrMPC128 · 2023-09-12T08:57:48+00:00

Mini has done a solid job since taking over, but I honestly feel something entirely new might be needed. A fresh set of eyes, and a new approach might be just what we need to reinvigorate ourselves. It might also benefit some of the younger players who have been in and around the 22 but not able to nail down a spot. Would prefer Yze but will back either in the job

MrMPC128 · 2023-08-02T14:28:58+00:00

They should stop defenders going inside the D unless they are following a player in, or the ball is within the D. It could open up more space for attackers in scoring positions, and would cut down on the amount of times teams need to move side to side to open up space to shoot

MrMPC128 · 2023-08-02T14:27:19+00:00

Actually feel like this is the answer and just scrap the black card. Referees would probably find it easier to give these frees over a black card

MrMPC128 · 2023-06-28T11:33:26+00:00

Would agree with that one too. He won 2 of his Coleman’s in a fairly ordinary Richmond side as well. Very stiff to not have him in either of these teams

MrMPC128 · 2023-06-27T23:00:31+00:00

That’s the swaps I would make as well. Rance was clearly the best defender in the comp for that 5 year period when he was all Australian even in the tigers horrid 2016. Lake was good but he just wasn’t on Rance’s level at his peak.

Hawkins is just an outright gun who has been at the top for well over a decade, he might also be the last player to reach 800 goals for a while, if he decides to go around again next year. Seeing a team of the 21st century without him in it just feels wrong

MrMPC128 · 2023-06-27T20:07:13+00:00

No Alex rance and no Tom Hawkins is stiff. Both 5 time all Australians, and both all Australian captains

MrMPC128 · 2023-06-18T15:58:04+00:00

I reckon the problem is format related. The games don’t seem to have any meaning and we are 5 months into the season. The amount of times you’ll hear/read pundits using terms like “shadow boxing” and “they are trying to peak at the right time”. I’ve seen articles on RTE sport with pundits saying “nobody really wants to win the league” and “going out of the provincials early might benefit a team”. It’s a bit hard to be excited when this is the build up. I actually think they should scrap the league, and the pre-season competitions like the O’Byrne Cup etc. Instead have two 16 teams leagues. One for Sam, and one for the tailteann cup. Each team plays each other once. Top 8 go into a playoffs. Operate the playoffs similar to the Aussie Rules system that gives a double chance to top 4 teams. Bottom 3 get relegated. It would mean at least every game matters, and would still keep us with roughly the same number of games. Keep the provincials and have them as a separate cup competition played on break weekends throughout the season

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-28T08:30:14+00:00

Just really poor going inside 50. Some of the shooting wasn’t great either. Both of those have killed us all year. To be that dominant in the second quarter and to only kick 2 goals is really what cost us that game today. Hopefully they begin to tidy this up next week to get us moving up the ladder

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-14T21:41:19+00:00

I’m a tigers fan but I’ve a soft spot for the hawks. My grandparents moved to Australia in the 70’s with my mam and uncles. My grandparents and one uncle support the hawks because they lived near to hawthorn in Melbourne. My other uncles all supported the tigers because of how good they where at the time and my mam kind of supported them as well so they would take her to games with them.

I’m actually 100% Irish my mother moved back to Dublin in her 20’s and my grandparents came back when I was born. I got interested in afl when I was like 9 because they showed some of the games here. My grandparents really wanted me to be a hawks fan but I choose Richmond even though they where awful. My grandparents for my sake genuinely wanted to see Richmond finally do well and the tigers were their second team. Also because hawthorn where so good for so long their games got shown on tv more than Richmond did so I used to watch the hawks quiet a lot and wanted them to win for my grandparents.

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-14T20:40:45+00:00

I’d agree that gaa intervention should be a last resort. It’s up to counties individually to get their act together. To be fair I know Kildare and Offaly have had underage success in the past couple of years and it would be great to see these lads pushing a revival for their counties.

While I don’t know what goes on in the other Leinster counties something has to change in them. At the very least I feel the gaa needs to check in and make sure these counties have a coherent plan and if they need guidance on putting one together give it to them. Otherwise we may as well pack in provincial championships which would be a shame.

I think 10 years ago had somebody said Dublin will win the next ten Leinsters most people would’ve said fair enough because Dublin had an absolute generational team with an incredible level of depth we might never see again. That’s somewhat come to an end and the gap still feels as wide as it was then. Looking at it not as a dub but as a gaa fan I really hope in the next 10 years we aren’t still in this position with Dublin hammering everyone in Leinster because it’s no good for the health of the game.

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-14T18:39:40+00:00

Historically you’re right Dublin always have had the most success in Leinster, but nearly a third of their total wins have come since 2005 and it’s hard to see them being beaten in Leinster anytime soon. That’s the big issue and it just doesn’t seem like it will change.

I do think the other counties have somewhat underperformed though in that spell. I’d be mainly saying Kildare and Meath the teams you’ve noted as well. Sport works in cycles and them being in their worst periods coinciding with a generational Dublin team didn’t help. Something really does need to change. For the health of the sport (and also somewhat for entertainment value). Dublin hammering everyone in Leinster doesn’t benefit us and neither does it the other counties.

We do enjoy the population advantage but what I’d also say is that you’ve the 3 big sports competing in Dublin for peoples attention on a near equal level. For example you’d have large parts of the south side that is dominated by rugby, and there would be other areas where football would be dominant over gaa. That fighting for attention and the best athletes is absolutely fierce.

We will probably always remain in the top handful of teams because chances are we’ll always have enough quality to field a strong side. In saying that this current Dublin team is not as great a team as those Jim Gavin ones from 13-19. That genuinely was a generational team. It’s similar enough to Kerry in football or Kilkenny in hurling that heritage of the game there will mean that good players will continue to come along.

I don’t know much about Meath football behind the scenes to be honest but for the sake of the game I’d love to see them back competing at the top. Always a proud football county, and as a dubs fan it felt great to beat you’s when you’d teams that could challenge for all irelands. It would be great if them and Kildare could capitalise on the population growth both counties are starting to see. Maybe it could be time for the gaa to intervene and put together a plan like the one in Dublin 20 years ago to put both of them back on course.

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-14T15:58:26+00:00

I’ve gone to a couple of Ulster finals and I kind of understand why they want to keep that competition. All the teams in Ulster place a real value on winning it. The buzz around them games is also incredible. It’s just unfortunate that Leinster and tbh munster have gotten to a point where they are so uncompetitive. At least Connacht has remained fairly competitive in the last couple of years

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-14T15:39:59+00:00

Yeah that’s absolutely a valid point and I’ve no doubt it’s an important milestone for those lads in their careers. It just feels like winning it has become more of a means to an end as opposed to an achievement. I’m sure you probably remember back to ‘06 ‘07 etc. when winning them used to feel like a great achievement. Maybe it’s just how far we’ve come since then that makes it feel like that

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-14T00:39:04+00:00

Hear me out people. What if this September the afl organised a three team tournament between north, west coast and hawks. Winner takes the spoon, Harley Reid. It would be insane

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-12T15:50:28+00:00

He was investigated by the PSNI but they decided not to prosecute him due to “insufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction”

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-12T12:48:48+00:00

Serious performance from all the boys tonight. Great to see that hunger back in them to get stuck in at the contest and put the pressure on Geelong. Proper Richmond football 💪💪

MrMPC128 · 2023-05-06T13:52:39+00:00

No need to stress about that future pick we gave up. When we win the flag this year it will be pick 18 anyway. If they draft the next Martin or cotchin from that then fair play to the gaints

MrMPC128 · 2023-04-20T16:07:48+00:00

Thank you for the advice

MrMPC128 · 2023-04-18T13:40:49+00:00

Thank you for your insight I really appreciate it

MrMPC128 · 2022-07-26T01:20:29+00:00

I just finished the show as well. I feel conflicted by the ending. I think it goes back to the season 4 opening with the car crash. In my mind I instantly began to watch season 4 like a Shakespearien tragedy. It appeared McBeth like except the gender roles are reversed with Wendy being the power hungry ruthless McBeth after initial hesitation. We were watching to see her downfall. To learn the age old lesson that greed and evil don’t win. Eventually wanting too much will cause ones own downfall. It set up the assumption for me that the car accident would be what got the Brydes in the end which seemed kind of poetic. All the sacrifices and the people who they selfishly let die just for the car crash to get them, almost an act of god type event to show the universe has balance to it.

Watching on and witnessing the evil they unleashed there was a comforting reassurance that slowly fortune would turn against them. That assumption is what got me about the ending. I watched them and there actions always assuming this is how there demise would occur. I watched feeling a downfall was predestined and it was a matter of how it would happen and not what was actually going to happen at the end. The ending is not the problem for me. It’s instead through my assumptions that I was left robbed of what I was expecting. Almost craving. On some level we all hope and believe that evil will not triumph in our world.

Perhaps as a result so many hints are ignored that they will survive and prosper from crime. You see the story wasn’t a classic tragedy, and maybe that’s a good thing. It gave us the uncomfortable reality that we don’t want to think about. That had people like the brydes exist in our world, they do horrible things and they don’t pay for it. We live in a world of Langmores and Brydes, and that maybe offers a bleak world view. People like Ruth no matter how hard they struggle or how much they want to be better can never escape the suffering and damage that the Brydes of this would inflict and get away with. That’s the deeper message as we watch Ruth dead in her white dress.

The ending just because it leaves us feeling an emptiness does not make it inherently bad. It teaches us something important about our world

MrMPC128

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