Richmond 1.2 3.6 4.7 11.15 (81)
Frankston 2.2 5.5 7.8 7.8 (50)
GOALS:
Richmond : Aarts 3 Elton 2 McBean Ballard Ellis Soldo Fletcher Mellington
Frankston: Wood 2 Mullane 2 Wilson Cavarra Post
BEST:
Richmond : Moore Ballard Broad Townsend Butler Coffield
Frankston: Wood Walmsley Wilsen Sketcher Cavarra Newman
It's now 742 days since the Dolphs have won away from Frankston Park, and in six away games this season they've been outscored 40.32 to 9.4 in final quarters - 72 scoring shots to 13! That's a worry.
Was a shame today, a pretty strong Dolphs line-up and Richmond without much genuine AFL talent, but the Tiges are starting to find a bit of form and Frankston didn't make the most of the wind. Still, winnable games coming up at Coburg with all their injuries and the Roosters in the final round
Nice to see Brandon Wood kick a couple of goals, his contested work has been superb this season and he's becoming more of a goalkicking threat, if he can just polish up his ball use can be a super VFL player.
Last quarters at any venue are a serious worry Paul. The boys have been in the match in the majority of games and have not just lost the last quarter but have been blown away......as was the case yesterday. That wind at Punt Road wasn't a 15 scoring shots to zero wind, not even close (as we saw in the second quarter particularly). Again, composure with the ball is a big problem, but I guess that can only come with experience. Let's hope these fellas hang around long enough for us to see the benefits.
Second halves at Frankston Park have been mostly competitive, they have won 3/8 and only been outscored by seven points all up after half time, doing a pretty good job of bottling opponents up. Of course, the issue there has been 7/8 first halves at home have been poor, and the one that was good fell apart in the last quarter!
Something that's really disappointing is there's been four games against AFL reserves teams where less than half their side was AFL-listed, three of them at home, without being able to pinch one. Those games are ripe for the picking, look at Coburg, they've won seven games against AFL reserves teams the past two seasons.
Still, as I said before, Coburg are really struggling at the moment so that's a real chance for a win, and you'd expect the game against the Roosters will be tough but winnable, so there is hope of at least taking some momentum into the off-season.
Still a lot of personel needed to be 'turned over' in the next couple of years at Frankston. Too many who never give a 4 quarter effort. Quite a few of these only put in for 1 quarter and think thats enough. A couple are in the leadership group too....
Its been the only consistent feature for Frankston this year...their inconsistency.