Jonathan Bris, the great Brisbane player, says Richmond coach Damien Hardwick wrongly blamed Sydney for the grumpy and defensive nature of the Sunday slogan in Gabba.
In a game described by Brownlow medalist Gerard Healy as “crap” and “unobservable”, the Tigers and Swans scored only seven goals together. Hardwick complained at his post-game press conference about the opponents’ foldback style of play.
Sydney coach John Longmire called Monday’s criticism “completely unnecessary and unjustified”, revealing that Hardwick had apologized for the comments the previous day.
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In the Monday evening edition of On the Couch, the team analyzed several passages of the game with Callum Mills, whom Hardwick pointed out as a frequent substitute who clogged the defensive 50s.
But as Brown, a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, showed, Mills – who ended with 29 exits and 15 sections – simply played as the sixth defender and held his position as the Tigers pushed a man onto the field. Release Mills.
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“He’s picking up a man here on a defensive 50s break. He’s on (Marlion) Pickett, ”Brown said Fox Footy.
“He knows it is his job to stay on the 50 defensive. Pickett goes into midfield and chases – Mills’ order is to stay on the defensive. He has a high IQ, he’s a classy defender, he really knows how to play as a substitute, like a (Jeremy) Howe or a Nick Haynes from GWS.
“Pickett gets the soccer ball, but Mills blocks it (the defensive 50) and Pickett kicks it out.
“You can’t blame the Sydney Swans.”
As the great Nick Riewoldt from St. Kilda emphasized, this is a common situation.
“It is not unusual. That’s how most teams will play and we know that Richmond likes to send a high half forward, ”he said.
“The teams have become wise, the teams park the bus and make it much harder for them to score, and that’s frustrating.”
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Brown continued: “At the end of the day, Sydney only played the same structure that they had played in the past 20 years, and Richmond played the same structure as them. They send an additional man around the stops.
“To the inexperienced eye or just on TV, you see,” Wait a minute, Sydney is loading up behind the ball, “and Dimma’s frustration comes out and the football world thinks,” oh damn Johnny Longmire, who leaves three additional defenders behind. “Ball ‘, but that was not the case.
“Nobody is to blame unless Dimma blamed Horse and it wasn’t Horse’s fault. Dimma thoughtfully looked at the tape and said you know I’m wrong, I’m going to raise my hand. “
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Brown also asked why the Tigers hadn’t made any strategic adjustments to counter Mill’s influence on the game.
“You have to see what your substitute is doing,” he said.
“If you have a replacement opposition man who is sitting alone in space … if the extra man doesn’t help you with the break, which Richmond didn’t really help, why didn’t Richmond equalize and play fairly six strikers when wet? “
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Great Melbourne-based Garry Lyon asked why Hardwick is now so critical of the Swans when it would be a common sight given his team’s style of play.
“It happens every week – they had three quarter-hour goals and kicked another one,” he said.
“You can’t tell me that just one sixth taken by itself means they only scored another goal for three quarters.”
Gerard Healy added: “It is completely irrelevant (who was to blame). It’s the style of the game that too often produces these crappy things that can’t be watched. “
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