CzarYakov

Not to beat a dead horse, but there is talent out there. Size, ability, and speed. They showed it in the Gate City game. Union and Graham are great teams and I knew we had no chance of winning those games, but to keep them in the game dispite their terrible offensive struggles is something for the defense. Offense looked like the old saying "a monkey humping a football" they were all confused and looking at each other and the sidelines with lifted shoulders... I think it comes from an old school mindset trying to run new school schemes. Throw her in power I for minute and get something figured out. Play school yard if you need too.

That is one way to get aggressive during a football game...

I got mine from the best radio announcer in America, Ron Brown... And you can learn more about in three minutes after a word from our sponsor Burger King in Richlands and Randy's Gateway Drug in the Gateway Shopping Center beside the high school.

Just got a letter by raven from Westros... Bland County has cancelled the rest of their season... Jokes aside, sad for those seniors and the players.

Abingdon George Wythe Central Gate City Tazewell Patrick Henry Bluefield Rural Retreat Ft. Chiswell Narrows Grundy Honaker River View, WV JI Burton Rye Cove Lebanon Virginia Tech West Virginia Old Dominion No. 12 BYU Auburn Appalachian State Marshall No. 15 Tennessee No. 24 Texas A&M Detroit Pittsburgh Miami Las Vegas Chicago G(s)otW Galax Union

The coaching staff for Richlands is God awful. Jumping on the Tarter bus might have been a bad call.

21 to 0, Union over Richlands. 3:11 left in first. About what expected to see.

Was there. Fantastic game. Neither team deserved to lose.

God, what a fantastic post. I love hearing about the history that haunts over old Ernie. The legacy and pride of the games played there. Amazing. I won't argue that football now a days is less hard nosed, but I will argue talent and safety when it comes to the sport today. A lot of people might use the word "sissy" to describe, but the sport now a days is more skill passed than ever before and less about battling in the trenches, knocking yourself out for that one extra yard. Back in the day, you could see, like you say, a full back run an entire game. But now, you have skill players in the middle of an offense that make it almost unmanageable to do. However, I would love to see it go back to a time like that... Safety first though. No one wants to see an 16 year old kid out there being carted off because he suffered his fifth concussion of the game because the coach and doctor told him to just "suck it up."

And if you fumble my football, I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts, then! You will run a mile! Perfection! Let's go to work... (Congrats to everyone who understood the reference.)

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Love it. Tazewell County, the town of Richlands in general, starting to become boring capital of the world, unless you like the same four bands at the same four spots in town every week. But that's town talk... We talk football round here... Union comes to play this week Richlands shows that they might have some tricks, but last week was a bit of a lucky win. Not a lot but luck was on their side. Union 28 to Richlands 7.

Do I wanna say that Richlands got luck tonight? Honestly I do, but how do you say that when your running back has over 350 yards of rushing offense...? Gate City made a ton of mistakes out there and it just went downhill. Right when they were beginning to figure out what was working, something would happen that would just send them spiraling again. Neither team is as bad people were thinking, but neither are as good as they think they are now. Feeling very... neutral after this game.

I smell upset... I do. Tazewell has the ability and the speed to be a menace to anyone that they play this year, so I will say it is tight, but they pull the upset here. If not here, Tazewell pulls an upset somewhere on the schedule this year.

The G-Men came to play tonight. Union, however... Big oof.

Don't know if we got a separate thread for them, but anyone got an online sites or online listening for the ball games tonight?

Forgive my ignorance, but who is this?

Ouch...

I do understand that the Central QB had less yards than Simmons. But, he looked much, much quicker, smarter, and well balanced in this match. And you have to look at who most of his yards have come against. Most of his passes, the receiver had to catch up with, as they were never right on the money or close. Webb is good, don't get me wrong, but when you over extended the one bright spot, who else are you going too? Webb is great, but we don't have another receiver that is consistent to that degree, even if it is just an screen route, that Simmons has hit consistently against a good defensive back field. Simmons is not a top five quarterback, he had Webb to make him look better, but he is not where near the top five. Could it be to his play or his core around him? That is up for debate.

Well said!

Everyone already talking about Graham and Union, but Tazewell may come in there with the Lee Corso...

Speaking objectively as a Richlands fan, Central beat both us and the refs tonight. The refs seemed like they wanted Richlands to win. Now, we had one or two calls on us that were iffy, but Central had 5 to 10 that were just mindbogglingly bad. Non pass interference calls, a both ways unsportsmanlike when only one player seemed to be throwing shots and mouthing, and several holding calls. However, Central is the better team here, do they beat Ridgeview? It would be nice to see, but Central is not as good as they looked tonight against us, I THINK. You could see from the start that going fast against Central was tearing them up, they could not play against quick play calling and getting right back to the line after the play was done. But, we immediately stopped it, slowed down, right when it was working or had a massive turnover, and I think that is because our kids were flustered when doing it. But to call Simmons one of the top five quarterbacks in the region... Not even close to a top five. Good kid, hard working player, and smart but not close to one of the best. He has zero accuracy at times, panics, and he would rather tuck and run instead of finding someone to pass too. It would help a lot though if you had speed at your receiver position to get open. A lot of his mistakes have been continuous throughout the year. The offensive line did not help him much this season though. It felt like they were overpowered a lot this year. Central's QB was amazing and could make a play out of anything, but give the devil his due, the defense was there to play, but got winded from being out on the field way too long and way too often. The running game was not gonna work against this team, look at their offense, they practice against that every day, you can't beat that. Just a few opinions, but all in all, this is one of the rougher "decent" seasons I have ever been through with Mance and the Blues. Glad its over, we will see what next year holds for us.

Just wonder, cause I know the points will work themselves out, did Radford losing to Floyd effect Richlands negatively having them fall to 6th or was that the way it would have went with a central win?

Graham's defense is for real.

Are we still arguing about the program?