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Game Day vs Western Bulldogs
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easy said:
Yeh, I was the same.
And I thought it would be a high scoring attacking affair and we would kick too many for them. Naughton, whilst looking OK , hadn't exactly torn a game apart. They seemed to have extra numbers in both attack and defence. Even when we led 20-10 it didn't look good . They were up and about, and as usual (when he plays us) the Bont looked like the leagues best player.
23.21.159 said:
Was certainly a win full of merit but not the sort of lions over eagles upset or port over Melb or Eagles...my main point is we are on par or a game behind my expectations of games won at this point. But at 3 losses already we way behind last years form and cannot afford to put in performances like last night agiainst mid tier sides.
tigersnake said:
Well what is it then snake? Clean lace out footy? Is that why the golden haired million dollar man in the forward line cant get mark? You cant see the big picture? Cute. We played this rubbish last year and got smacked by a better side. This year the whole competition has caught on and already we have had 3 games where the result was in no doubt from half time.
Yes we have injuries. We played the Doggies... Last year we didn't and what happened? We have too many lacking players and a direction that wont cut it.
Not too concerned with the loss. We were without our fab 4, our full back (naughton doesn't dominate if dave plays), grigg, and an injured rioli and vloss. Positives are we are getting games into stack ross baker bolton higgins balta who will improve our side overall going forward
Tend to agree. Had a feeling we were never going to win that one. Dogs pulled the game of their season out of their asses which didn't help.Harry said:
Although we need to get smarter with our team selections. Garthwaite on Naughton could have been the perfect match up. This needs to be addressed. Been a few games this year where selections or non selections have hurt us.
frawleyudud said:
Agree. There's also the domino effect as players like gowers and dickson get off the leash as grimes is manning naughton. People don't rate dave but he's crucial to our structure. Rance relied on dave just as much as dave relied on rance.
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Yeah Bont showed hes the best in the business right now.
Hes Dusty 2017, or Bont 2016
Will win and deserve the bronwlow this year
Hes Dusty 2017, or Bont 2016
Will win and deserve the bronwlow this year
We lost this one at selection. We had three players missing from the goal-to-goal line and replaced them with three flankers. We have responded to the loss of Rance by moving Edwards to centre-half back and will probably get away with this move as long as there is plenty of height elsewhere in the back line. Then we replaced Astbury with Menadue. This is not a pot on Menadue but it sent a really clear message to the Bulldogs, that we didn't rate their talls and we gambled that our speed down back would trump any height advantage that they had.
Bad move. In this competition, you can't afford to show no respect to an opponent. They have a tendency to show you up when you do.
Poor selection, in my opinion.
It has also highlighted a really serious problem that we need to try to address at the Mid-season draft. We really need to find another tall defender who can play on the marking talls like Naughton. Without one, we are going to lose games regularly. Speed is great but it is useless when they bomb it in to an imposing forward and he outmarks the defenders. This strategy only needs to work a few times a game and the result will go south very quickly. Astbury coming back will help but, seriously, what did we expect was going to happen when Grimes and Broad were the only two tall defenders? It was just an invitation to load up and bomb it long.
Naughton, Bontempelli and Gowers were more than enough to get the job done.
Bad move. In this competition, you can't afford to show no respect to an opponent. They have a tendency to show you up when you do.
Poor selection, in my opinion.
It has also highlighted a really serious problem that we need to try to address at the Mid-season draft. We really need to find another tall defender who can play on the marking talls like Naughton. Without one, we are going to lose games regularly. Speed is great but it is useless when they bomb it in to an imposing forward and he outmarks the defenders. This strategy only needs to work a few times a game and the result will go south very quickly. Astbury coming back will help but, seriously, what did we expect was going to happen when Grimes and Broad were the only two tall defenders? It was just an invitation to load up and bomb it long.
Naughton, Bontempelli and Gowers were more than enough to get the job done.
Pretty spot on. Worrying sign is that it has happened a few times this year.TOT70 said:
The one thing that magnified the issue was the complete lack of pressure from our fwds and most mids. This allowed the doggies to walk out of their backline with plenty of time to deliver the ball to their key forwards on a platter. They get put under our usual pressure and they are bombing or spraying the ball out of their 50.
