Richmond (Tigers) Basketball Tactics Pay Off against Adelaide (Crows) - AFL 2006 -

Richmond has stunned prohibitive favourite Adelaide 10.9 (69) to 9.12 (66) at Telstra Dome on Saturday afternoon.

In a game that will surely draw a lot of discussion in the coming week, the Tigers took the ultra-defensive, possession game to new heights (or depths depending on your perspective) and played it to perfection as they frustrated the Crows out of the contest.

Richmond coach Terry Wallace has made light of Kevin Sheedy's "basketball crap" jibe by jiving into his regular Tuesday media conference twirling a basketball on his finger to the accompaniment of the Harlem Globetrotters' signature tune, 'Sweet Georgia Brown'.

Wallace said he didn’t take personally Sheedy's curt criticism of the Tigers' 'keepings-off' tactics which helped the club to secure a famous victory over Adelaide at Telstra Dome on Saturday."You can play that basketball crap all the time … you win four points, but you never go anywhere," Sheedy replied when asked if the Bombers should have played 'keepings-off' against West Coast on Sunday.

RICHMOND: 3.0 6.3 7.7 10.9 (69)
ADELAIDE: 2.4 3.6 4.8 9.12 (66)

GOALS -
Richmond: Simmonds 2, Coughlan, Deledio, Krakouer, Newman, Pattison, Pettifer, Tambling, Tuck

Adelaide: Burton 2, Hentschel 2, Edwards, Johncock, Mattner, McLeod, Ricciuto

BEST -
Richmond: J.Bowden, Krakouer, Simmonds, Kellaway, Raines, Pettifer

Adelaide: Edwards, McLeod, Goodwin, Doughty, Hentschel, Rutten