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Thursday: Graham - 45 Richlands - 0

Total DOMINATION! Well played Gmen. Much the better athletes and speed. I hope you guys can keep playing well and peek at the right time. Congratulations

Graham just kicked our butts!!!! Even us as fans had no energy for the most part!!!!

How about talking about the game? And giving Graham some credit and quit making excuses. This is no place to be discussing GOSSIP. Especially in that situation. Graham deserves a ton of credit for that performance. Lets not forget that Graham was also dealing with the loss of a recent gtaduate.

Like Ryan said Richlands quit in the 2nd quarter. That's the best I've seen Graham play as a unit in a very long time. Total team effort, good play calling, and most of all the defense played great. Good luck to Richlands the rest of the way. Continued prayers for the family and friends of Justin Dye. He was represented well tonight.

Richlands quit the second Graham pushed a Blues player into the returner and Graham got the ball back. They had just gotten a 3 and out and the tram looked fired up for once and that just killed their will. And yes, Justin’s death didn’t help. You can call it an excuse if you want, but when your classmate kills himself and you hear all week how it’s the football teams fault, that takes an effect on 14-18 year old kids. That said, Graham was just better.

I'm pissed at myself... I had Graham in the pick'em and 45 points as total, thought about it for a few minutes and changed it to 55 thinking Richlands would score at least a few points...STUPID, STUPID, STUPID...

Last year we ended the streak, this year we add the exclamation point. Keep it up G-men!

I'm saying having former Richlands DC on staff at Graham has helped too! I knew he would help Tony & guys with Richlands. Probably the sweetest victory of his coaching career after the way Mance did him. Sounds like defense shut down Richlsnds tonight! Glad the boys rocked it tonight and got it together finally, peaking now is good . Hate I missed what appears to be their best performance this year thus far. Congratulations coaches & team! Sending prayers up for the community of Richlands and the family of boy that died.

Good coaching controls player mentality.

That sounds so good!

You love to see it.

Largest margin of victory by the G-Men over Richlands EVER...

Wow. I figured this one would be close. Impressive effort by the G-Men

Considering UVAObserver a GC guy might be the best compliment he's ever had. 😎

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Oak hill’s record is a bit inflated. I wouldn’t image you’ll see Bluefield’s starters after halftime

Congrats to Graham on the big win ! Better team right now with more speed and your coaches did a great job of having them prepared. Games like this happens once in a while and Richlands needs to let this one go (easier said than done ) and get ready for the next one up ! We've had many games like this go in our favor and we've had some ( not many ) go against us and you just have to tip your hat to the better team and go back to work ! Good luck to Graham in the future ( unless we meet in the playoffs ) and wish you guys the best ! The Blues still have one of the best coaches in AA and I'm sure they will learn from this. They should still make the playoffs and that's why it's important for them to let this one go and get back to work. Like I said before, sometimes you just have games like this against a team that is better. The Blues just need to keep working hard and moving forward.

Care to explain why?

All I know is I haven't seen a beat down like that since GMan dropped a banana down MNHokie's pants and turned the monkeys loose. Congrats G-Men!!

There's probably been a little bit too much read into Palmer "being fired" by Mance. 25 years is a long time for two coaches to work together. It was probably more like a mutual agreement to just part ways. Besides, would Graham's players really pay that much attention to that anyways?

Totally agree! Kudos to Rex as well! Defense apparently shut them down according to Bluefield paper. Hate I had to work, would have loved to seen the game.

I'm sure D. Palmer had a part in the defensive game planning for this game. But Rex Bradshaw's contributions to our defense can't be overlooked.

When was last time Richland was shutout? I bet that defense coach Mance fires looks a lot better today! WOW !!! What goes around comes around !!!!!🤔🤔🤔

Graham rolls past Richlands... https://www.heraldcourier.com/sports/prep-football-graham-rolls-past-richlands/article_b46f0ee4-d34e-11e8-8eef-53781b9668f9.html

That's not quite the whole story lol.

That was my guess, but not sure of the year!

I had Graham and 45

I guessed 48...ugh

45-0, Final

Poster said he didn't play any football and he didn't...at Roanoke he played basketball on title team

Maybe Graham should just play on Thursday nights for the rest of the season lol

Holy cow, what an ass kicking. This makes Graham at the very least a Region D fav, if not a legit threat to win it alk.

This is shocking to say the least. This is what I’m talking about, though. Performances like this are what carry a team to that “next step” or “next level”.

You misread what he said...he said he never played football..which I think it 100% true

The board has spoken! 1.Ridgeview 2.Bluefield 3.Chilhowie 4.Pulaski 5.Union 6.Graham 7.Galax 8.Richlands 9.Mt View 10.Patrick Henry OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Abingdon Radford J I Burton Grayson County Grundy Gate City Marion

I can understand the frustration from the Gate City faithful concerning their football team losing as much as they have lately. Sometimes when you are inside a situation like this you don't always see things the same way as someone on the outside looking in. In this case those of us on the outside see a handful of Gate City fans bashing the coach for the past year and a half. When you watch the video that was posted that isn't a team that has given up on their coaching staff or the game of football. Whether the fans, coaches, parents, or kids want to admit to it or not the talent simply isn't on the field. Are the "athletes" not playing because of Chris Akers? Possibly. I'm gonna say it has to do with a lot of kids walking around with a basketball in their hands hoping to be the next McClung. I'm not saying that's a bad thing but it is what it is. I'm sure back in the day kids were wanting to be the next Houseright. I may be reading the few of you wrong but it seems there is a perception that when Reed or whoever takes over Gate City football will return immediately to its glory days. That may very well be the case but just in case it doesn't happen then what?

I knew that excuse would pop up at some point...but, yeh, could be...