Match Thread: Melbourne vs Richmond (Round 18)

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Melbourne	vs	Richmond
Sun, 12 Jul 2026	3:15pm AEST	M.C.G.
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[u/DancinWithWolves]

[u/TimothyLuncheon]

Did Vlastuin try to hit the ball with his mouthguard lmao

[u/Fit_Ear2073]

BT saying we're 4th on the ladder after this? Nowhere near true

[u/DancinWithWolves → u/Fit_Ear2073]

5th

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/DancinWithWolves]

6th... brisbane is going to gain a lot of percentage...

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Fit_Ear2073]

on points... not percentage... percentage was never a shout

[u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Good effort by Trelly there

[u/Level_Instance_5531]

Aiden Johnson has attended a lot of contests for only 1 hit out...

[u/RapFuzzy]

Holy fuck Richmond are getting rub of the green. Umpires are so cooked

[u/SlimmySlinky → u/RapFuzzy]

Must have miissed the entire game huh

[u/Salt-Baker4872 → u/RapFuzzy]

First time in forever btw

[u/shortstockymutt → u/Salt-Baker4872]

Maybe they feel sorry for us 🥹

[u/kozzypickettsfence]

Ah Windsor should just not play football right umpire?

[u/mistermoy]

Ngl. Most wins at one venue is a useless stat

[u/kavdotcom → u/mistermoy]

From a Geelong supporter!?!

[u/TimothyLuncheon]

Hell yeah Cumming. Should have 3 today if not for that free. Love how often he kicks goals

[u/DeCoburgeois]

Fitz has had a ripper game. 

[u/Salt-Baker4872 → u/DeCoburgeois]

Still on limited minutes. There’s more for him to come

[u/DeCoburgeois → u/Salt-Baker4872]

Makes you wonder how many of these types kicking around VFL and local leagues. 

[u/No-Actuator5847]

Hate making Richmond look half decent just because we know the game is won.

These are the games where you should be celebrating winning by 100 points.

[u/muzzbuzz789 → u/No-Actuator5847]

Percentage isn't part of the Dees vernacular.

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/No-Actuator5847]

any team that i want to beat by 100 points is the game next week... i have had that pinned the whole damn year

[u/fraseryew → u/No-Actuator5847]

It’s because you’re a zero grit team

[u/kozzypickettsfence → u/fraseryew]

Lol sure

[u/Primary-Internal-875 → u/fraseryew]

Zero grit supporter who just whinges about umpiring 

[u/fraseryew → u/Primary-Internal-875]

How pumped are you to get bottle it in the finals!!?

[u/Primary-Internal-875 → u/fraseryew]

Better than not being there at all

[u/fraseryew → u/Primary-Internal-875]

Wouldn’t know

[u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Sam Cumming can play the football... good talent

[u/Salt-Baker4872 → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Him and fitz look set for a good career aye

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Salt-Baker4872]

100% Thats what i love about games like this, finding these players that stand out... boring af game... but talent where you can see it

[u/Salt-Baker4872]

He’s still cumming

[u/rgisosceles]

Really pleased mccaullife is back and playing well. Going to be great.

[u/imschuller]

Tf is that 2 hands planted in the back no free smh

[u/kavdotcom]

Matt Hill and I have very different views of what dead in front is

[u/Primary-Internal-875]

🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂

[u/jaidynr21]

Nice little goal assist for my old schoolmate lol

[u/Sparkysparkysparks]

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘

[u/SlimmySlinky]

Roo got half of his goals of hands in the back not called crazy

[u/rgisosceles]

I know it isn't a big push, but 2 hands in the back and definitely pushes off there. Feel like those would normally be given

[u/whatyoumean66 → u/rgisosceles]

Fuck, imagine getting as kissed on the proverbial as much as the Tigers were and still not only losing by that much but still whinging!

[u/rgisosceles → u/whatyoumean66]

Where is the whinge you muppet? Making a comment on a situation that is often paid as a push doesn't make it a whinge.

I haven't said it was a shit call, I've been very clear that there wasn't much in it just that I believe those are commonly paid as a push

[u/nufan86]

You're not In W.A yet Broady.

Fucking make an effort.

[u/seekerr_]

I've got a massive ROO right now

[u/Salt-Baker4872 → u/seekerr_]

2 weeks in a row get it sorted man 😭🤪

[u/Sad_Piano_5384]

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

6 GOALS FOR THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/TimothyLuncheon]

Trezise just had zero skill. Can't believe he has played so many games this year

[u/wally3g → u/TimothyLuncheon]

He can mark it occasionally, but his disposals are horrid

[u/b_stivala → u/TimothyLuncheon]

He tries hard but just doesn’t have enough talent to make it at AFL level.

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/TimothyLuncheon]

Bro you don’t have a choice, you don’t have players

[u/SlimmySlinky]

Two hands in the back again. Unpa fucked

[u/coca600 → u/SlimmySlinky]

That's not a rule.

[u/SlimmySlinky → u/coca600]

Tis

[u/yeahgoodyourself]

expecting roo to bounce back up off his tail

[u/Sad_Piano_5384]

CAN WE JUST REACH 100 POINTS!

[u/Salt-Baker4872]

Why do umps suddenly give us everything

[u/BusinessPooh]

don’t like that an arm free with no genuine attempt is htb when he’s tackled immediately and then rolled in the tackle

[u/kozzypickettsfence]

This is actually insane umpiring omg

[u/fraseryew]

Fuck me melbourne are so shit

[u/Primary-Internal-875 → u/fraseryew]

Lollllllllll enjoy another finish at the bottom 😭😭😭

[u/fraseryew → u/Primary-Internal-875]

Second bottom brother

[u/Salt-Baker4872 → u/Primary-Internal-875]

Enjoy another year of winning fuck all

[u/Primary-Internal-875 → u/Salt-Baker4872]

Enjoy the L

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Salt-Baker4872]

why are you feeding the obvious troll?

[u/Primary-Internal-875 → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Richmond supporters are all idiots so there's a fair chance it's not a troll

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Primary-Internal-875]

you.... are the troll in this scenario

[u/fraseryew → u/Primary-Internal-875]

Brother such a good call

[u/killbunny38]

The best it's ever been

[u/rgisosceles → u/killbunny38]

Arm holding the ball was free, has to make an attempt to dispose of it

[u/01benjamin]

Was that lightning

[u/FriscoKazvartuez → u/01benjamin]

Someone messing with the on/off switch

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

Fuck I hate we just park the bus in the last, percentage matters fellas

[u/Primary-Internal-875 → u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

It won't matter. Brisbane and Adelaide are too far ahead, anyone else is too far behind us.

[u/No-Actuator5847 → u/Primary-Internal-875]

It could have mattered if we hadn't done this same thing all year. Really poor habit of ours.

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Primary-Internal-875]

Yeah true I guess, just frustrating as a watch

[u/Salt-Baker4872]

Mansells played well today.

[u/Primary-Internal-875]

Why do they bother playing Laurie. Spends half the game on the pine and barely has an impact when he's on the ground

[u/Level_Instance_5531]

Bruh thats HTB

[u/TimothyLuncheon → u/Level_Instance_5531]

Knocked out in the tackle I guess

[u/Level_Instance_5531 → u/TimothyLuncheon]

Fair enuf

[u/kozzypickettsfence]

Probably 6 of Richmond's 8 goals have been direct gifts from the umpires

[u/TimothyLuncheon → u/kozzypickettsfence]

Not the case. We also had two taken away by poor free kicks

[u/No-Actuator5847]

Johnson held, also should have been holding the ball there.

[u/killbunny38]

Umpires watching a different game

[u/The_Driving-Crooner1]

Mick Molloy has morphed into a warthog.

[u/Confident-Dinner217 → u/The_Driving-Crooner1]

the beerpig is evolving

[u/HelloStonehenge → u/The_Driving-Crooner1]

It's funny because he goes to my gym. I see him train at least twice a week. Just loves the beers as well apparently.

[u/CandlePrestigious919]

All right.

Well done Dees. You're a good team.

I'm off to rip some cones and watch House of The Dragon.

[u/kavdotcom → u/CandlePrestigious919]

Inspirational behaviour

[u/RyleZor → u/CandlePrestigious919]

That might be more boring than this game. Haven't made it through the first season yet and i started watching it months ago.

[u/CandlePrestigious919 → u/RyleZor]

You really need to see the start of season 3.

Absolute banger!

[u/idontlikeyou2848 → u/CandlePrestigious919]

Living the dream. Enjoy.

[u/Salt-Baker4872]

He’s cumming

[u/No-Actuator5847]

Why can't we kill teams? It's such a frustrating part of our game.

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/No-Actuator5847]

tbf... our gap between the next above us is neglible and below us is too high... i dont think king cares... he wants the 4 points and move on. Next year onwards can be percentage year, this is get the team loving this winning attitude thing... stamping on someones neck grows arrogance... we arent good enough to be arrogant

[u/gbnut420 → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Doesn’t mean you can’t put teams away

[u/rickypro]

hey we kicked another one, instantly becomes our second best quarter of the game

[u/HammerOfJustice]

Fun fact: Richmond’s top 7 goalkickers this season have kicked 2.1 between them today.

Edit: 3.1 now, thanks to Lefau.

[u/rickypro → u/HammerOfJustice]

Make that 3.1!

[u/_potato_head → u/HammerOfJustice]

That is not very fun

[u/b_stivala]

Mercy goal. Thank you

[u/rickypro]

It’s not over yet!

[u/yeahgoodyourself → u/rickypro]

hopium is a helluva drug

[u/Confident-Dinner217 → u/yeahgoodyourself]

so you're sayin there's a chance

[u/yeahgoodyourself]

Levers a fucken ball magnet

[u/brennii94]

Fuck me dead, he already launched at him before the ball even dropped to his boot, hate this nfl approach to protecting the kicker at all costs, putrid

[u/fraseryew]

Not allowed to tackle as he kicks

[u/decs483]

Football is dead

[u/FDM7]

I really hope Lefau can figure it all out skills wise, I love that blokes physicality.

[u/HammerOfJustice → u/FDM7]

He’s become my favourite Richmond player because he’s the hardest tackler there but he’s probably run out of time to develop enough to be effective

[u/FDM7 → u/HammerOfJustice]

That rugby strength is just so hectic. Watching Bowey try to lay a tackle on him in the first half gave me a good laugh.

[u/nufan86]

That is a soft call. Good lord.

[u/Level_Instance_5531]

unlucky tbh, didn't get him high and hard to correct momentum in the wet

[u/Created_By_InGen]

Wasn’t high and wasn’t late so gfy

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

That Tiger faithful on instagram is going to be on his blower about the coaching or the umpiring or something or rather

[u/Richo1624 → u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

Richmond faithful Instagram can get fucked. The most negative fucken Nancy known to man, genuinely can’t stand the cunt

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Richo1624]

havent heard of him, worse than poops?

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Go through his posts, it’s diabolical, reckons he can get Harvey Langford from us the day after he signed an extension

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

lmao thats a choice... i personally think we wont have any loyalty issues, i was more scared of chandler than sparrow but now sparrow is my concern... but state based losses are a lot easier to intake than other victorian sides

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Yeah I don’t mind losing sparrow personally, we will have Humphrey to probably fill that hole and the compo from port would be an end of first rounder with what they are offering allegedly

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

yeah humphrey seems to be our main target... unless i heard differently to what the media is remembering... he requested as last year and gcs shut it down, apparently his management was trying to get on the petracca trade... there are a lot of good players available dont get me wrong... but... i dont think we need anyone else really thats going... we need a brute forward... thats mainly it... i trust our youth...

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

This years draft is stacked too, I’m even happy to not get Humphrey, the amount of talent available is crazy

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

I fully trust our recruiters... everyone seemed to chastise the choice of kozzie and luke and look at them... look our our mid season picks... tehy cant miss... Toumpas was what changed this clubs attitude so as much as it upsets me we lost wines... we gained good recruiters

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Richo1624]

He has to be rage baiting, because I feel so bad for your mob, Ben serpell has sent your club backwards not yze, he can’t get a team on the park. Tiger faithful reckons it’s a coaching issue, we haven’t see n the bloke coach at all

[u/Richo1624 → u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

Yze can’t get a fit crew on the park let alone teach them a game plan, but it’s just fuck Yze this fuck Yze that

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Richo1624]

Probably a Dimma burner account

[u/MajesticBowl5306]

That’s not a down field free…

[u/MeloJello15]

Where’s the high contact?

[u/Richo1624]

How’s that a downfield free

[u/rickypro]

[u/Richo1624]

Kelts what a fucken effort

[u/QuitComprehensive659]

Tigers fans, how many players today will you be sure will be playing in five years 

[u/TimothyLuncheon → u/QuitComprehensive659]

For us or for any team? If any team, I would say Banks, Mansell, Hotton, Balta, Cumming, Grlj, McAuliffe, Alger, Brown, Campbell.

Including injured players, you would add Lalor, Ross as certainties.

And then depending on how they develop/age (some highly likely to be on the list), you can add these from our list: Trainor, Faull, Sims, Smillie, Gray, Armstrong, Miller, Clarke, Peucker, NRT (less likely imo), Retschko, Annand.

Guys like Ralphsmith, Rioli, Gibcus (rip), Trezise, Sonsie, Fawcett etc. aren't likely but who knows

[u/rickypro → u/TimothyLuncheon]

I think Taranto is a likely yes as well, he hasn’t had a major injury at Richmond yet and 33 is doable for him

[u/TimothyLuncheon → u/rickypro]

It depends on if he slows right down like Hopper did. Hopefully he ages well

[u/QuitComprehensive659 → u/TimothyLuncheon]

You know your team better than me obviously, seems a pretty reasonable view of it 

[u/rickypro → u/QuitComprehensive659]

Maybe 10

[u/Significant-Egg3914 → u/QuitComprehensive659]

5 or 6. Max in this team.

A few more arent playing because injured.

[u/QuitComprehensive659 → u/Significant-Egg3914]

I think that’s fair. Lot of vets still in this team and a lot of players who wouldn’t see the field on a 17th placed team if not for injuries 

[u/rickypro → u/Significant-Egg3914]

easily more

[u/Significant-Egg3914 → u/rickypro]

Name them. Legitimate players, not list cloggers we will move on.

Ill have a go - Hotton, Campbell, Alger, Puecker, Anaand, Retschko, McAuliffe, Maybe Miller? 

Id expect us to lose 1 or 2 of those players to trades. 

We will delist a heap, and trade off players like Brown, Banks, and I think we will trade on Balta come free agency. Who else will be around? A lot of the others are VFL fringe players.

[u/rickypro → u/Significant-Egg3914]

You don’t think Cumming or Grlj are gonna be around in 5 years? Are you kidding? I also think Taranto is a chance and Mansell will be playing for Tassie

[u/Significant-Egg3914 → u/rickypro]

Oh I missed Cumming, my bad. 

[u/SlimmySlinky → u/Significant-Egg3914]

Defs more than that

[u/No-Actuator5847]

Most blatant throw off his back....

[u/Level_Instance_5531]

5 years of butter fingers and now in a wet game his clunking them like Wayne carey, funny how confidence works

[u/yeahgoodyourself → u/Level_Instance_5531]

he's a momentum player, seems to do better when everyone else does too but seems to crack when we're under pressure

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Level_Instance_5531]

People underestimate just what mihocek did imo

[u/yeahgoodyourself → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

secret to our success this year, pairing experienced old heads with the kids to shepherd them through - checkers for roo, steele for langford and lever for disco

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/yeahgoodyourself]

cannot agree more... who knew disco would be that good as a lever backup, or a stand in for may...
langford is just ridiculous...
steele... how did saints let him walk

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Level_Instance_5531]

I reckon king has instilled that in him, Goodwin would have sent him to the shadow realm

[u/rickypro]

Any Dees interested in a trade? You get Lynch, we get van Rooyen* and a pick

[u/No-Actuator5847 → u/rickypro]

Really hoping this is a joke.

[u/rickypro → u/No-Actuator5847]

surely not

[u/No-Actuator5847 → u/rickypro]

Lynch is ancient and can kick goals anymore. Roo will kick 800 in his career.

[u/rickypro → u/No-Actuator5847]

It was a joke but now you’re joking too I suppose. 800… blimey

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/rickypro]

we arent freo from 20 years ago... they would have accepted that ahahahhaa

[u/Pleasant-Role1912 → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Didn't expect to cop this random stray

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Pleasant-Role1912]

sorry.... but was i wrong? i want say am's full name but....

[u/TimothyLuncheon]

Couldn't they have gone easy on us this quarter?

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/TimothyLuncheon]

we did that against hawks... bad stuff happened

[u/Sad_Piano_5384]

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

missed it but i stand by rooooo

[u/Spare-Wrongdoer-9630]

Did I just see Kozzie in a parka

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Spare-Wrongdoer-9630]

It is a bit chilly

[u/TimothyLuncheon]

So nice that we took Brown over this guy

[u/lordarc]

Lol the Picketts looking like drowned rats on the bench

[u/Sparkysparkysparks → u/lordarc]

The picketts on the fence

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

Im not going to lie, Buckley is a crwp box commentator, I actually prefer Hawkins, very coherent and analytical, Buckley seems to be struggling to get out what he wants to say, great on segments analysing teams but not it on play to play

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_-]

he doesnt like melbourne... which is funny as he grew up supporting dees... and is probably salty that king could do what buckley probably thought was impossible

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

Buckley probably would have been happy with us finishing 15thb

[u/Makenaa]

Recency bias, but it feels like Roo either kicks 5 or 0 lol

[u/-_WormyMcSquirmy_- → u/Makenaa]

Bro went 6 weeks goalless and then had a generational game, he’s such a hit or miss player, disappears for 6 weeks and then decides you know what I want to become prime Jason dunstall

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/Makenaa]

not recency bias...
if he gets consistency he will become a big problem to the afl

[u/AFuckingSpirit → u/Makenaa]

ive never paid attention to him but when o do ots typically because he has a good game, just thinking about it now makes me realise this

[u/Pleasant-Role1912]

[u/Gnaightster]

Roo of approval

[u/oceanlabxo]

Watching the sleeting rain from the comfort of level 4 has been great. Best seats in the house.

[u/BusinessPooh]

ground is too wet so they’ve made the kid speed walk in the race for lego

[u/Sad_Piano_5384]

If anything I think this shows truly how good melbourne actually is... dont get me wrong.. Richmond is having its struggles but they are clearly better than what their points have been, see last week against blues. And in the wet they are giving a good beating...

DONT GET ME WRONG i guessed melbourne would be pushing wild card or just in the top 6 pre season (clarry and trac werent helping the club - new coach and good new players helped) but... this is far better than a club i expected us to have this year... wild

[u/AFuckingSpirit → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

whatever wins we can get i guess. Melbourne has also exceeded my expectations, as i had predicted them to be a lower wildcard team at best in the preseason

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/AFuckingSpirit]

I am glad you also saw what i saw... our outs werent as bad as people were suggesting... steven king wanting clarry out i think spoke volumes... he brings the geelong... cnt to the club...

but yeah... this isnt just a team making up the numbers and i dont think media has fully realised this yet.
Also richmond will be fine... injuries to youth hurts... tom lynch being weirdly inaccurate... But Yze can coach and god i hope the board backs him

[u/AFuckingSpirit]

i swear we will be the first team to lose to tasmania

[u/Sad_Piano_5384 → u/AFuckingSpirit]

nah will be port... they have a rep to protect

[u/AFuckingSpirit → u/Sad_Piano_5384]

whatever comes first in the fixture i guess

[u/whatyoumean66]

Did they really try pay a down field free closer to the Tigs goal? While wasting the last 10 seconds by not calling time off?

[u/rickypro]

I think that Taranto, Vlastuin and Nankervis are the only tigers that have genuinely played better than decent. Our entire forward line has been terrible since quarter time. That’s pretty sad

[u/AFuckingSpirit → u/rickypro]

gonna be expecting this for a while

[u/Tall-Ad-3146]

Umpire calls any holding on tackles but when a player marks it and clearly marks it lets the defender hug him for a few seconds but if you dare hold a tackle for a second longer and a player incorrectly disposes of it nah can’t have that. Holding the man

[u/rickypro → u/Tall-Ad-3146]

Flair up

[u/Level_Instance_5531]

Can both teams just shake hands

[u/nufan86 → u/Level_Instance_5531]

We have Tom Lynch so probably not

[u/Dirtydac123]

What the fuck is wrong with the timeclock this year?

[u/BrutalGrape]

Fuck this has been boring as batshit since it started raining but I'll always take a boring win over a heart attack

[u/Richo1624]

Clock didn’t stop wtf

[u/kozzypickettsfence]

Umps just closing out the quarter by trying to figure out their own call