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Eastdog
26-08-2016, 07:07 PM
Margin: Dogs by 43 points - big win coming up as we want to make sure we give ourselves the best possible chance in the finals

First Goal: Dahl will get our first on Sunday

Best on Ground: Ill go 2 this week being our last H&A game Picko and Bont

Go Bulldogs!

LostDoggy
26-08-2016, 08:58 PM
Best on Ground: Ill go 2 this week being our last H&A game Picko and Bont

Go Bulldogs!

2 BOG'S this week Easty,
That's controversial! ;)

Eastdog
26-08-2016, 08:59 PM
2 BOG'S this week Easty,
That's controversial! ;)

Thought I'd break the rules this week and throw in two.

Eastdog
26-08-2016, 09:21 PM
If we win on Sunday are we almost guarentee a home final finishing 5th or 6th.

chef
26-08-2016, 09:23 PM
If we win on Sunday are we almost guarentee a home final finishing 5th or 6th.

Not if the WCEs win.

Eastdog
26-08-2016, 09:25 PM
Not if the WCEs win.

So if they lose and we win pretty much we are.

chef
26-08-2016, 09:29 PM
So if they lose and we win pretty much we are.

Yep. Nervous stuff atm.

bulldogtragic
26-08-2016, 10:13 PM
Right now, just no *!*!*!*!ing injuries. See if I pep up by the opening bounce.

Eastdog
26-08-2016, 10:15 PM
Right now, just no *!*!*!*!ing injuries. See if I pep up by the opening bounce.

Totally. Need to get through with a clean bill of health.

bulldogtragic
27-08-2016, 09:49 PM
Right now, just no *!*!*!*!ing injuries. See if I pep up by the opening bounce.

Fremantle: by 2,000 points
BOG: N/A
FG: N/A
Injuries: Nil
Returning: Stringer, Campbell, Roughead, Libba, Macrae & Wood

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 11:45 AM
Dogs by 48
First goal - T Boyd, sets the scene for a big afternoon and officially arrives as the power forward that 17 other clubs and all the jealous media scumbags are scared of.
BOG - Stevens, he loves playing against bottom teams.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 02:43 PM
The downer with today is the fact we have to rely on another club to win so it is really out of our hands.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 03:15 PM
No late changes both teams

AndrewP6
28-08-2016, 03:56 PM
Dogs by 14
First goal Dicko
BOG Bont

Twodogs
28-08-2016, 04:04 PM
Dogs by 46
First Goal. T Boyd
BOG Bontempelli

comrade
28-08-2016, 04:32 PM
Can anyone confirm if we're actually playing today? Fox Footy seem to have forgotten.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 04:38 PM
Can anyone confirm if we're actually playing today? Fox Footy seem to have forgotten.

White Jumpers, Captain Bont!!!

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 04:43 PM
Daniel been good early. Clay gets us off the mark. Good start.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 04:45 PM
Our pressure been great early.

comrade
28-08-2016, 04:45 PM
Literally more nervous about the Hawks game.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 04:47 PM
Unlucky Dunks

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 04:47 PM
Literally more nervous about the Hawks game.

Yep for sure

EasternWest
28-08-2016, 04:48 PM
Tom Boyd doing good things early.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 04:50 PM
I prefer Clay as a small forward

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 04:50 PM
Go Clay! Go Dogs!

Tight one at the G.

AndrewP6
28-08-2016, 04:52 PM
Channel Pav commentary team are already giving me the irrits. How about the two replays of the mark Pav DIDN'T take?

Good play early on from Boyd Jr and Smithy.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 04:52 PM
Smith, Daniel, Biggs been busy.

EasternWest
28-08-2016, 04:55 PM
Hard not to like Pav.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 04:56 PM
Pav gets his 700th goal. That play from Bont before was great to keep it in.

chef
28-08-2016, 04:57 PM
Yeah, theres a lot of Pav love for an obvious reason. The guys a champ and a great guy. No need to be sour about it.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 04:59 PM
Defence needs to get better.

comrade
28-08-2016, 04:59 PM
Daniel running hard back into defence. Where's his mates?

comrade
28-08-2016, 05:00 PM
When was the last time Freo kicked 4 in a first quarter?

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:00 PM
Dale Morris = so important still

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:02 PM
Dahl working hard.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 05:04 PM
Joke

cinder
28-08-2016, 05:05 PM
So fed up with the deliberate out of bounds, friggen joke

bornadog
28-08-2016, 05:07 PM
God I can't stand the way the game is umpired, *!*!*!*!ing deliberate BS

AndrewP6
28-08-2016, 05:07 PM
Yeah, theres a lot of Pav love for an obvious reason. The guys a champ and a great guy. No need to be sour about it.

When your job is to provide commentary on a contest, and you're flat out barracking, you're doing it wrong. I want to hear what is happening in play, not every time Pavlich breathes. 'And Pav, gets a bit of a sling'... Only problem, it was Hill.

cinder
28-08-2016, 05:08 PM
Oh good, another injury!

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:08 PM
Just great. Tom Boyd ankle. When will the injuries end!!

comrade
28-08-2016, 05:12 PM
Hawks in front, Dogs down at quarter time with our only key forward injured.

Can this game test us any more?

chef
28-08-2016, 05:12 PM
When your job is to provide commentary on a contest, and you're flat out barracking, you're doing it wrong. I want to hear what is happening in play, not every time Pavlich breathes. 'And Pav, gets a bit of a sling'... Only problem, it was Hill.

Nah, this game was always going to be a celebration of Pav. Nothing wrong with that.

jeemak
28-08-2016, 05:13 PM
I'm getting a little tired of injuries.

Wow we piss fart around with it by hand. We're becoming so predictable and easy to stifle because of it.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 05:14 PM
Hawks in front, Dogs down at quarter time with our only key forward injured.

Can this game test us any more?

Can't wait for this season to end. Over it.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 05:14 PM
Stevens two touches - not up to it

AndrewP6
28-08-2016, 05:15 PM
Nah, this game was always going to be a celebration of Pav. Nothing wrong with that.

That's what pregames are for. And post games.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:18 PM
I would imagine now Stringer would come in for Boyd.

chef
28-08-2016, 05:19 PM
That's what pregames are for. And post games.

Well your in for a long game then as the lovefest has only just begun.

Remi Moses
28-08-2016, 05:19 PM
Afl website had Matthew Boyd with an ankle injury .
Oh well I guess we'll get Jesse Stringer back

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 05:20 PM
What absolute garbage are we playing

Remi Moses
28-08-2016, 05:20 PM
Stevens two touches - not up to it

I think Stevens is gone

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:20 PM
Afl website had Matthew Boyd with an ankle injury .
Oh well I guess we'll get Jesse Stringer back

Not Matthew Tom. Just went we are easing him back in he goes down again.

cinder
28-08-2016, 05:21 PM
Not Matthew Tom. Just went we are easing him back in he goes down again.

Think it was tongue in cheek

Remi Moses
28-08-2016, 05:21 PM
Not Matthew Tom. Just went we are easing him back in he goes down again.

I was being visicious Easty .

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:22 PM
I was being visicious Easty .

Yes I kind of gather that :)

bornadog
28-08-2016, 05:23 PM
Brilliant from Dicko

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:23 PM
Dickson goals. That was much needed.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 05:24 PM
How can that be deliberate, how

AndrewP6
28-08-2016, 05:26 PM
Well your in for a long game then as the lovefest has only just begun.

Indeed.

bulldogtragic
28-08-2016, 05:27 PM
Leave Boyd off. We can't get out of 7th. Use your heads.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:28 PM
Morris, Smith, Dicko, JJ been ok

jeemak
28-08-2016, 05:28 PM
We can't play so many bad kicks when at full strength. A bit of wind and pressure and we go to water, because of poor technique.

It's embarrassing.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:32 PM
Hrovat a very good at setting us up. Clay miss everything just then.

GVGjr
28-08-2016, 05:35 PM
Stevens two touches - not up to it

Seriously you went from giving him 4 votes in the Marmo one week to 'he's not up to it' the next and your stuck on it now.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:35 PM
Clay Smith has found his role. It's more forward.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 05:36 PM
How atrocious are our skills.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:37 PM
Bonti marks plays on but rushed through.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 05:38 PM
Clay Smith has found his role. It's more forward.

In the VFL.

comrade
28-08-2016, 05:40 PM
Hawks have kicked away. Based on our performance so far, really looking forward to seeing us play here again in 2 weeks.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 05:42 PM
Where was our defence just then. Lose player.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 05:42 PM
Seriously you went from giving him 4 votes in the Marmo one week to 'he's not up to it' the next and your stuck on it now.

That one week was more than 15 rounds ago. 4 disposals, not good enough

bornadog
28-08-2016, 05:49 PM
Come on pies

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 05:50 PM
Go pies!!! Up by a goal 2:23 to go

jeemak
28-08-2016, 05:50 PM
What a shameful display. The last passage of the half typified our disgraceful skill level, thirty seconds to get the ball to our forward line on the fat side but we couldn't use it cleanly at all, it was torture.

Hopefully we reset and come out playing better footy after half time.

ledge
28-08-2016, 05:52 PM
I'm not worried , it's a no game and we don't want to get injuries , just play it out win or lose and focus on how to beat west coast back here.

jeemak
28-08-2016, 05:55 PM
I'm not worried , it's a no game and we don't want to get injuries , just play it out win or lose and focus on how to beat west coast back here.

It reminds me of last years Brisbane game and how our poor attitude towards defence in that game didn't matter.........but did the following game.

G-Mo77
28-08-2016, 05:58 PM
At work. Boyd's injury? How bad?

jeemak
28-08-2016, 05:59 PM
At work. Boyd's injury? How bad?

He came back on after quarter time and contested well in the ruck.

josie
28-08-2016, 06:04 PM
Thank goodness TBoyd appears to be ok. If not for this year but preseason as well. Will be a weird half - please no injuries!!

hujsh
28-08-2016, 06:07 PM
The way we're going I'm thinking we forfeit the final to make sure we don't get any injuries for next year. Looking like a 50 point loss with 3 ACLs

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 06:12 PM
The way we're going I'm thinking we forfeit the final to make sure we don't get any injuries for next year. Looking like a 50 point loss with 3 ACLs

Or a major boilover and we have no injuries and get a famous Bulldog finals win.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:12 PM
How has Stevens form dropped off so badly?

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:13 PM
Our disposal is disgraceful

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:14 PM
Dahl has been a disgrace today. No care for the footy at all.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 06:14 PM
This is truly awful football regardless of the games irrelevancy.

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:15 PM
Taking the piss now.

The Underdog
28-08-2016, 06:16 PM
This is so Round 23 2015

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 06:16 PM
I think a lot in our camp were watching it checking for updates for the game at the G.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 06:16 PM
This is truly awful football regardless of the games irrelevancy.

So frustrating

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:17 PM
How Suckling comes straight back in is a mystery.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:17 PM
How many bad decisions are coupled with bad disposal can we possibly do. This is one of the worst displays we have put together for a while. We need something from someone..... Anyone.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 06:20 PM
Jong cannot play next week. His disposal is worse than an U9.

AndrewP6
28-08-2016, 06:20 PM
I don't care how irrelevant the result is...you're wearing our jumper, you've got a chance that many young blokes would give anything for. Show some bloody pride in yourself and the jumper. We're not good enough to say 'We'll be right, let's reset in a fortnight'. This is bloody woeful.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 06:20 PM
Jong cannot play next week. His disposal is worse than an U9.

That kick was pretty poor from him before.

MrMahatma
28-08-2016, 06:22 PM
Jong cannot play next week. His disposal is worse than an U9.

Consistently poor user. Lots of friends today.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 06:23 PM
I don't care how irrelevant the result is...you're wearing our jumper, you've got a chance that many young blokes would give anything for. Show some bloody pride in yourself and the jumper. We're not good enough to say 'We'll be right, let's reset in a fortnight'. This is bloody woeful.

Totally agree Andrew.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 06:23 PM
Jong cannot play next week. His disposal is worse than an U9.

Mr Hospital hand baller

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 06:23 PM
We have had more scoring shots today 5.12 to 8.2

bornadog
28-08-2016, 06:30 PM
Where is the free to Bont?????

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 06:32 PM
Stevens.....

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:32 PM
What was that from Stevens?

Rocket Science
28-08-2016, 06:32 PM
If I'm an opposition finals-bound coach hypothetically asked for their pick of first-up opponent, I'm picking us 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

We're not fair dinkum. West Coast will be licking their lips.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 06:33 PM
If I'm an opposition finals-bound coach hypothetically asked for their pick of first-up opponent, I'm picking us 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

We're not fair dinkum. West Coast will be licking their lips.

If we don't get a few back it could be a 80 point thrashing.

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:34 PM
If Dunkley is our best option us a mid sized forward, I'll go spare.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 06:34 PM
Dickson been alright today.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 06:34 PM
If I'm an opposition finals-bound coach hypothetically asked for their pick of first-up opponent, I'm picking us 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

We're not fair dinkum. West Coast will be licking their lips.

Based on this it will be a slaughter

kruder
28-08-2016, 06:34 PM
Is Ross Lyon coaching the Bulldogs as well?

LostDoggy
28-08-2016, 06:34 PM
Last one to leave,
Turn the light off and don't forget to lock the door behind you.

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:35 PM
If I'm an opposition finals-bound coach hypothetically asked for their pick of first-up opponent, I'm picking us 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

We're not fair dinkum. West Coast will be licking their lips.

North are the worst finals team ever. They'll will get embarrassed in a few weeks. We'll at least fight it out.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 06:35 PM
If Dunkley is our best option us a mid sized forward, I'll go spare.

How can our structure be consistently so non existent? WTF is Gia doing and moreover, Bevo? To let it go on all year is not good enough.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:36 PM
Steven's should be subbed off (yes I know there is no sub any more)

jeemak
28-08-2016, 06:37 PM
How can our structure be consistently so non existent? WTF is Gia doing and moreover, Bevo? To let it go on all year is not good enough.

I think we're much too 'clever' with our structure.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:40 PM
I think we're much too 'clever' with our structure.

Did you say structure, who where what!!

ledge
28-08-2016, 06:42 PM
Two old blokes running us round in cricles , pav and Ballantyne

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:42 PM
Even if we win this(unlikely) I am not looking forward to our next game. What a big turn around from this time last year for me.

kruder
28-08-2016, 06:43 PM
Why did Boyd start the quarter in the ruck?

bulldogtragic
28-08-2016, 06:45 PM
Why did Boyd start the quarter in the ruck?

Leave him on the bench FFS!!,

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:47 PM
Hrovat's kicking has been diabolical.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 06:48 PM
Why did Boyd start the quarter in the ruck?

Because Will MInson is cooked as a footballer

jeemak
28-08-2016, 06:48 PM
I don't want Smith or Jong on the list next year.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:49 PM
We are playing like the dumbest team in history.

I actually want something positive to say but I can't.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 06:51 PM
I don't want Smith or Jong on the list next year.

or Stevens

kruder
28-08-2016, 06:52 PM
Play a forward line Luke! Its like ground hog day. Mids win the ball look up and there isn't a bulldog forward of the play.

bornadog
28-08-2016, 06:53 PM
Some Positives:

Williams will be a player

Hamling has been very good

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:53 PM
Stevens, please. A simple handball.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:53 PM
Brad Johnson just said that we have not been inside fifty yet and the quarter has been going for 10 minutes. Say no more.

bulldogtragic
28-08-2016, 06:55 PM
This is the worst game I've ever, ever, ever, ever watched. Ever. Ever. Ever.

comrade
28-08-2016, 06:55 PM
Sickening.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 06:56 PM
We are disgraceful right now.

I'd delist or trad Clay, Jong and Stevens.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 06:56 PM
I am actually embarrassed.

ledge
28-08-2016, 06:58 PM
Let's kick to three of our players and find the one freo bloke amongst them and hit him on the chest .. The one time we go in our forward 50 ., we do not have one player capable of doing anything remotely football related

jeemak
28-08-2016, 06:59 PM
Utterly pathetic performance.

What a weak mental effort.

chef
28-08-2016, 07:00 PM
The Eagles are going to smoke us. We'll be lucky to get within 10 goals.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 07:03 PM
Oh my f^#&ING God how was that holding the ball against Picken.

ledge
28-08-2016, 07:03 PM
To be honest, Liberatore is a huge hole in our first use of the ball. We have got away with it for a while but it's taken its toll

MrMahatma
28-08-2016, 07:03 PM
The Eagles are going to smoke us. We'll be lucky to get within 10 goals.

Will be a blood bath

westbulldog
28-08-2016, 07:03 PM
A waste of time getting on the plane in 2 weeks if this is any indication.

comrade
28-08-2016, 07:04 PM
Feel sorry for our Western Australian fans for the **** we constantly serve up over there.

Rocket Science
28-08-2016, 07:04 PM
Oh well, sweet of us to honour Pav with the obliging send off.

We've played like absolute patsies today. Deficient. Dumb. And utterly lacking in character. Just effing awful.

Yay. Bring on the finals.

hujsh
28-08-2016, 07:04 PM
This is Macca era shit. Genuinely boring to watch. Not even going to finish the game.

Just pure garbage

comrade
28-08-2016, 07:05 PM
That deliberate free is just a little taste of what we're going to be reamed with in 2 weeks. Enjoy.

EasternWest
28-08-2016, 07:05 PM
Pfft. I'd like to think it's not all doom and gloom, but geez it is.

We'll get touched up by the Eagles and all our valiant efforts will have been for nothing, again.

We simply must do something about our atrocious forward 50 entries.

My flying spaghetti monster we are bad.

jeemak
28-08-2016, 07:06 PM
This is Macca era shit. Genuinely boring to watch. Not even going to finish the game.

Just pure garbage

I've turned off.

ratsmac
28-08-2016, 07:06 PM
OK now the umps are just cheating.

westbulldog
28-08-2016, 07:07 PM
Kennedy will kick 15. The ODI from Sri Lanka has started.

EasternWest
28-08-2016, 07:07 PM
On another note, if I never had to see Suckling in our colours again, I think I'd be ok with it.

ledge
28-08-2016, 07:08 PM
1 single point in the last qtr and lucky to get that !

SonofScray
28-08-2016, 07:10 PM
Yeah, that was atrocious. I am livid. What a terrible showing, damaging my belief.

LostDoggy
28-08-2016, 07:12 PM
No injuries,
That's a positive :o

Ozza
28-08-2016, 07:13 PM
I hope everyone that was so rapt with Stringer being dropped enjoyed our lack of forward line.
Our coach - just too smart by half again in round 23 - helping to give us another sh1t lead in to finals.
Just despises the idea of having a forward line.
The love affair with Stevens and Suckling has to stop.

EasternWest
28-08-2016, 07:13 PM
Stupid, sexy Pavlich.

EasternWest
28-08-2016, 07:15 PM
I hope everyone that was so rapt with Stringer being dropped enjoyed our lack of forward line.
Our coach - just too smart by half again in round 23 - helping to give us another sh1t lead in to finals.
Just despises the idea of having a forward line.
The love affair with Stevens and Suckling has to stop.

This is ridiculous. Stringer was out of form and deserved to be dropped. I saw nothing today that he would've made better. We were terrible everywhere, and having another player that won't lead and just hang out the back wouldn't change anything.

LostDoggy
28-08-2016, 07:15 PM
76 interchanges has to be the lowest all year for any team.
Clearly cotton wool stuff from half time.

LostDoggy
28-08-2016, 07:16 PM
76 interchanges has to be the lowest all year for any team.
Clearly cotton wool stuff from half time.

Doggy
28-08-2016, 07:16 PM
Lucky we're not playing the saints. Riewoldt would have beaten us on his own.
6 goals against the third bottom team. That's shit.

jeemak
28-08-2016, 07:17 PM
I hope everyone that was so rapt with Stringer being dropped enjoyed our lack of forward line.
Our coach - just too smart by half again in round 23 - helping to give us another sh1t lead in to finals.
Just despises the idea of having a forward line.
The love affair with Stevens and Suckling has to stop.

I'm not sure watching Stringer run towards goal 85m away from the ball carrier would have done much for my frustrations today! :)

comrade
28-08-2016, 07:18 PM
Stringer wouldn't have got a touch today.

Ozza
28-08-2016, 07:26 PM
Yeah good on you bunch of geniuses.
The bloke has kicked 93 goals in the last 2 seasons and you're all queuing up to pot him.
We had no forward line whatsoever today, and the dockers would have been absolutely rapt to not have to worry about Stringer.

We've got half a dozen blokes out there who are miles off being best 22 - and we leave out Stringer.
I'm sure you were all overjoyed with our bail out kicks to Picko, Clay Smith and Dunkley.

comrade
28-08-2016, 07:31 PM
Yeah good on you bunch of geniuses.
The bloke has kicked 93 goals in the last 2 seasons and you're all queuing up to pot him.
We had no forward line whatsoever today, and the dockers would have been absolutely rapt to not have to worry about Stringer.

We've got half a dozen blokes out there who are miles off being best 22 - and we leave out Stringer.
I'm sure you were all overjoyed with our bail out kicks to Picko, Clay Smith and Dunkley.

Stringer isn't a bail out option either. Doesn't lead or crash packs. Would be more likely to pull out of a contest and wait for the ball to fall to the ground.

If you think he's the guy to stand up and be our focal point, are you sure we're watching the same guy.

Also, Dickson has kicked 70+ goals in less games but he's not going to drag us over the line.

dukedog
28-08-2016, 07:31 PM
Hahahahaha. West coast by 60+ . Too many injuries. Bring on 2017.
Suckling would have done more good to us on the spit today.

G-Mo77
28-08-2016, 08:06 PM
Yeah good on you bunch of geniuses.
The bloke has kicked 93 goals in the last 2 seasons and you're all queuing up to pot him.
We had no forward line whatsoever today, and the dockers would have been absolutely rapt to not have to worry about Stringer.

We've got half a dozen blokes out there who are miles off being best 22 - and we leave out Stringer.
I'm sure you were all overjoyed with our bail out kicks to Picko, Clay Smith and Dunkley.

Stringer and McLean missing this week is bordering on stupidity. Listening to this on the radio in the 2nd half the commentators they seemed to find our fwd half comical. Easy to say now that we should have done this and that but having our best goal kicker in the VFL was a dumb decision.

Ozza
28-08-2016, 08:17 PM
Stringer isn't a bail out option either. Doesn't lead or crash packs. Would be more likely to pull out of a contest and wait for the ball to fall to the ground.

If you think he's the guy to stand up and be our focal point, are you sure we're watching the same guy.

Also, Dickson has kicked 70+ goals in less games but he's not going to drag us over the line.

You really despise Stringer - and are clutching at straws as to his value/lack of value in the side.

It staggers me that we wouldn't play a team even close to a 'finals 22'. Does anyone on this forum think for a second that Stringer and McLean won't play in the 1st final? We went to Perth last year and, surprise surprise, very few players handled it. It is very different to playing anywhere else. We got flogged, but Stringer kicked 5. It's a ground where we have tended to need good contrasted players in the air and on the ground to give us the small wins throughout the day to get on top. Stringer's cleanliness below the knees and competitiveness in the air would have been a huge help. Likewise with McLean - who is so good in the air that he would have helped us to not be out marked so often.

All of the fumbly 'goer ' type players killed us today. Koby, Clay, Jongy - they just cruelled our ball movement.

In the end - it hasn't made a difference on the ladder - but we go into the finals having played sh1t footy twice in a row, and making significant changes each week - (5 this week - and you would expect a significant number again next week if we are fair dinkum) giving us no continuity or stability going into a finals series.

EasternWest
28-08-2016, 08:26 PM
Ozza you're better than this.

Feeling your frustration, but calling other people names doesn't help anything.

Stringer is definitely a big key in our future, but he's got a lot of learning to do.

Plus we were so putrid today, I don't think Josh Kennedy and Buddy would've helped us.

The Bulldogs Bite
28-08-2016, 08:34 PM
My concern is over our coaching, not personnel.

Lance Franklin wouldn't have kicked a goal in our side today - or indeed, for much of the season.

The way we bring the ball forward is absolutely disgusting. The way our forwards structure up - or don't - is even worse. I'm bewildered that Bevo has allowed the dysfunction to go on all year. Yes, we have missed some personnel at times, but the biggest issue has been the poor coaching and direction. The ridiculous regularity we bomb the ball to a midfielder-come-forward out numbered is mind numbing.

The other issue I have is with our recruiting and drafting.

1) Our fascination with players who win the ball but cannot kick is insanity. I like Dunkley and he's impressive in many facets, but if you can't do the basics of disposing the ball, what's the point? I was strongly against drafting him for this reason, particularly given we have too many in our side who butcher the ball as it is.

2) Why have we completely neglected drafting forwards? Aside from Crameri, it isn't as though our forward half of the ground has suffered from too many injuries. We have no true tall/medium forwards playing in the VFL - surely every other club in the land has developing forwards of some nature? We have 671 midfielders who we try to turn into part time forwards, it's laughable.

We have a long way to go.

merantau
28-08-2016, 09:30 PM
Like everyone here I am angry and mystified as to why we should put in such an inept performance in such an important game. Our lack of clean hands and ball use today was pitiful. It would be impossible to play so badly again. But, there is no use crying over spilt milk. What's done is done.
As badly as we have played there is one memory I will take from this game and it sort of sums up our season: Clay Smith's shot at goal which bounced a metre out out jumped straight up in the air! It was at a time when we had a bit of momentum. At the time I thought to myself: "The die is cast. We cannot win."
Still, that was an awful performance and it will take a miracle to get us up for the next game. Right now I am feeling really ambivalent about the game. I just could not stand it for us to put up an incredibly brave, spirited performance and go down in a close one. In some ways it would be easier on the psyche to be belted from the outset which would serve to confirm that we have been playing with a second string team for much of the year and, to their credit, these guys have performed above and beyond expectations nearly every time they've gone out to battle. We got trounced today. A bitter pill to swallow but we still have a massive upside. Let's not lose sight of that. Go Dogs!

merantau
28-08-2016, 09:30 PM
Like everyone here I am angry and mystified as to why we should put in such an inept performance in such an important game. Our lack of clean hands and ball use today was pitiful. It would be impossible to play so badly again. But, there is no use crying over spilt milk. What's done is done.
As badly as we have played there is one memory I will take from this game and it sort of sums up our season: Clay Smith's shot at goal which bounced a metre out out jumped straight up in the air! It was at a time when we had a bit of momentum. At the time I thought to myself: "The die is cast. We cannot win."
Still, that was an awful performance and it will take a miracle to get us up for the next game. Right now I am feeling really ambivalent about the game. I just could not stand it for us to put up an incredibly brave, spirited performance and go down in a close one. In some ways it would be easier on the psyche to be belted from the outset which would serve to confirm that we have been playing with a second string team for much of the year and, to their credit, these guys have performed above and beyond expectations nearly every time they've gone out to battle. We got trounced today. A bitter pill to swallow but we still have a massive upside. Let's not lose sight of that. Go Dogs!

Nuggety Back Pocket
28-08-2016, 09:57 PM
Like everyone here I am angry and mystified as to why we should put in such an inept performance in such an important game. Our lack of clean hands and ball use today was pitiful. It would be impossible to play so badly again. But, there is no use crying over spilt milk. What's done is done.
As badly as we have played there is one memory I will take from this game and it sort of sums up our season: Clay Smith's shot at goal which bounced a metre out out jumped straight up in the air! It was at a time when we had a bit of momentum. At the time I thought to myself: "The die is cast. We cannot win."
Still, that was an awful performance and it will take a miracle to get us up for the next game. Right now I am feeling really ambivalent about the game. I just could not stand it for us to put up an incredibly brave, spirited performance and go down in a close one. In some ways it would be easier on the psyche to be belted from the outset which would serve to confirm that we have been playing with a second string team for much of the year and, to their credit, these guys have performed above and beyond expectations nearly every time they've gone out to battle. We got trounced today. A bitter pill to swallow but we still have a massive upside. Let's not lose sight of that. Go Dogs!

This was very much a second string team today not helped by the non selection of Campbell Stringer and McLean. I believe providing we can get back Liberatore Macrae and Wood plus Campbell Roughead and Stringer and throw in McLean as well that we can be more than competitive against the WCE. Today was arguably our weakest lineup for the year and little wonder that we lost. Always enjoy your thoughtful comments.

Eastdog
28-08-2016, 10:01 PM
Back on the game today. Dissapointed with the effort and result. Our goal kicking and skill level which we have been banging on about this year needs to be way better than it is currently. Freo lifted for Pavlich and we were deflated after hearing the result from the MCG but regardless on what happened there we still should be ultra competitive even in a dead rubber game like today and really should of won against a team who has been struggling all year.

Players I liked today Morris had a good game and is still vitally important to our defensive structure. Dicko I thought did quite good and Clay Smith early was good up forward. Daniel and Dahlhaus just work so hard as well as Picken. Glad Tom Boyd was alright and came back on to the ground. We have the forward power and get it in there enough times but we simply do not make the most of it up there.

LostDoggy
28-08-2016, 10:11 PM
Went to the game today. Woeful.

Apart from the first 5 minutes we never looked like scoring, the forward set-up completely non-existent, as was the lack of spread and ability to transition. Whenever we got the ball it seemed that all our players were withinen 15 metres of each other. It was a surprise that we ended up with as many goals as we did.

Add in appalling disposal, some of the worst deliberate oob decisions in the history of the world and the general euphoria of the freo crowd, made it a completely disheartening experience.

And I'll have to go through it again in two weeks.

Only positives I can think of is that hopefully having a dress rehearsal trip to subi just before we have a final there may be worth something, but probably not much.

I also thought Hamling was good.

bulldogtragic
09-09-2016, 12:32 AM
I like a conspiracy. Was the Freo game that bad, or was it a deliberate rope-a-dope strategy to the wider industry?

jeemak
09-09-2016, 12:35 AM
I like a conspiracy. Was the Freo game that bad, or was it a deliberate rope-a-dope strategy to the wider industry?

It was that bad.

The almost two weeks allowed us to bring in five key players, whilst it stopped the momentum of a WCE side that was ready to fall in lieu of losing Nic Nat.

The almost two weeks also allowed us to train properly for the match.

bulldogtragic
09-09-2016, 12:36 AM
It was that bad.

The almost two weeks allowed us to bring in five key players, whilst it stopped the momentum of a WCE side that was ready to fall in lieu of losing Nic Nat.

The almost two weeks also allowed us to train properly for the match.

I'll have to take you at your word, I was watching Hawthorn vs Collingwood.

jeemak
09-09-2016, 12:56 AM
I'll have to take you at your word, I was watching Hawthorn vs Collingwood.

So you saw that gun Fitzgerald ice the game for the Hawks. Can't see how our rucks will ever compete.

The beautiful thing about tonight's game is we now have a sniff, and the likes of the exceptionally ordinary Jordan Lewis, and Fitzgerald will be filling their pants in knowing that. We're the real deal and we don't fear anything.