Bankers And Anchors - Round 6, 2017 vs GWS Giants

[Eastdog]

This is the round 6, 2017 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against GWS Giants is concluded post your nominations for:

The Bankers = 3 guys/aspects of the game that we banked on to do the right thing during the game
The Anchors = 3 guys/aspects of the game that weighed us down by their errors or poor play

Optional: New addition to the Bankers and Anchors Banchors 3 players we thought who were in the middle in how they went in the game neither a Banker or Anchor.

Please limit it to no more than three of each player or aspect of the game, but feel free to make honourable/dishonourable mentions. As usual try to make it constructive criticism.

Try and restrict it to individual players rather than aspects of the overall match - I will allow more freedom now as the thread seems to be going down more of the aspects of the game path so you can have 3 for each made up of aspects of the game and individual players.

The thread is named in honour of a popular WOOF Contributor, The Banker, who passed away on 22/04/2012 after a six month battle with cancer.

[GVGjr]

Bump

[bulldogtragic]

B

Stringer. Set shots would be better, but our only dangerous forward.
Bonts. Gem.
Williams. For a pup, he looked composed.

A

MRP. You gutless flogs let another gutless flog play and perform another dog act.
Goal kicking. Beyond embarrassing.
Clay Smith. Credits for last year are gone. Your year so far has been very poor, tonight exceptionally poor.
Two losses this year from what should've been winning positions. Sad or sick results and hombres.

[bornadog]

Bankers

1. The Bont - this bloke is a beauty and really got us going

2. Stringers goal in a tight situation

3. Dahl, Macrae, Daniel - racked up disposals, and contested poss.

Anchors

1. JJ - 5 disposals in the 2nd half - not good enough

2. Hunter - Zero disposals in the 2nd half - disgraceful

3. Clay - too slow

PS: Dunkley - what was he thinking, when Bob passed the ball to him inside 50 - crucial mistake not to go back and have a shot.

[westbulldog]

Bankers
Other than for inaccurate kicking we win the game, this mob fear us have no doubt.
We don't play until Sat 6th, a lot of sore bodies from tonight.
Bont's skills and Stringer's goals

Anchors
Umpiring - bewildering, laughable and absurd decisions / non-decisions every week.
Inaccuracy - woofers have been saying this for 2 years, coaching staff take note please.
Our injury list.


Banchor - not sure where this fits but a gaggle of plastic orange supporters looked like they had come down by taxi from Oxford st Sydney :)

[Remi Moses]

Bankers - Caleb Daniel , back to form tonight
- The Bont ( who else )
- Williams ( looks a good prospect )
Anchors - Greene , what a s*** bloke . Sniper on field and a sniper off field
- The whole deliberate, or not keeping the ball in , or whatever it's called. Just a dogs breakfast
- The inaccuracy, and as Sedat alluded to the long bombs to snake .

[Eastdog]

Bankers:

Bonti - Just pops up in those most important moments and kicked a couple of important goals

Stringer - Played well and was involved and kicked goals. He is great on the run going for goal and if he improves he sets shots will be a hard forward to stop.

Bob - He played well in his 301st game :) and I particularly loved the moment he ran through the middle to escape an opposition GWS player and set us up going forward.


Banchor:

JJ - Very good early on in the match but yes was quieter afterwards so he is the Banchor


Anchors:

As Remi said yes the deliberate out of bounds rule needs to be reviewed and to make sure their is consistency throughout all games. They were very strict on it tonight.

Our inaccurate kicking - this needs to be addressed as we do not want to lose games while putting in a mighty effort for no reward and that is what happened tonight.

Greene for that incident

[Go_Dogs]

Bankers:-

Every one of our players who gave it to Toby Greene.

Bontempelli and Stringer. Did some amazing things - the Bont is so clean, so important in the clutch.

Daniel - his best game for a while, good to see him back to doing what he does best - making smart decisions under pressure.

Anchors:-

Toby Greene - such a punchable face. I hope we gets rubbed out and I hope we get to destroy him at the end of the year in an important game.

Our kicking for goal - Dunkley is great in the F50 because he creates opportunities, but he needs a goal kicking coach along with a number of our players. Usually reliable Libba hits the post and a few others who you'd normally back missed chances they should nail.

Umpiring - decisions that impact the game, non-decisions that impact the game. It's a tough gig I know, but I don't think last night was a hallmark of consistent interpretation.

[ratsmac]

Bankers

Williams - looked composed and used the ball well.

Pressure - it's back. Our manic pressure where we deny the opposition time and space was excellent. It should've been enough to guarantee the win but our efficiency let us down big time.

Adapting to the Campbell late out. Boyd battled gallantly against arguably the best ruckman going around and let's face it, Boyd is just a part time ruckman still learning the craft. Dunkley done enough to make sure Mumford didn't have it his own way 100% of the time. GWS should of obliterated us in the clearances.

Banchor

Another classic game between these two teams. But we lost.

Anchors

Clay Smith - I thought his job was to kick goals being a forward and all. Oh may be he played as a defensive forward to nullify Haynes. Nope he tore us a new one. Clay was poor tonight.

Hunter - I've toyed with putting him in the Anchors for a little while. His form this year hasn't got anywhere near the heights of last year. He's had little impact.

19 behinds and a few that didn't actually reach the score line. In particular Tom Boyd. His set shot didn't even go 20 metres. He will know more than anyone that set shot was inexcusable. But the whole team needs to improve the kicking for goal in play and set shots.

[Mantis]

Bankers

1. The Bont - this bloke is a beauty and really got us going

2. Stringers goal in a tight situation

3. Dahl, Macrae, Daniel - racked up disposals, and contested poss.

Anchors

1. JJ - 5 disposals in the 2nd half - not good enough

2. Hunter - Zero disposals in the 2nd half - disgraceful

3. Clay - too slow

PS: Dunkley - what was he thinking, when Bob passed the ball to him inside 50 - crucial mistake not to go back and have a shot.

Are you sure on this? Whilst his influence was minimal he did pick up a few touches.

[bornadog]

Are you sure on this? Whilst his influence was minimal he did pick up a few touches.

I could be wrong, but definitely, he had very few touches during the second half.

[Mantis]

I could be wrong, but definitely, he had very few touches during the second half.

Tipping you are wrong, his DT score went from 60 to 89 in the 2nd half, but no increase in score from about the 5min of the last qtr.

Not his best game, but he wasn't disgraceful.

[bornadog]

Tipping you are wrong, his DT score went from 60 to 89 in the 2nd half, but no increase in score from about the 5min of the last qtr.

Not his best game, but he wasn't disgraceful.

I will check the stats;)

[Eastdog]

I've liked some of the Banchors posted. Its not essential to put 3 players or aspects that were in the middle from the game and so that is optional so you can put 1 if you have one.

[merantau]

Bankers
1. Our pressure is back.
2. The Bont and Stringer did their utmost to get us a win with some very determined and classy play.
3. Caleb Daniel got his mojo back.
Anchors
1. Our costly misses
2. Umpiring inconsistent
3. We need an app that you can use to blot out the faces of those GWS tip rats. I just cannot abide them.

[S Coast Simon]

Massive Anchor for Leon Cameron saying he will question the umpires department for talking to Green and having pre conceived impressions of Green. Don't be a knob Cameron your player is a grub and should have been out for head butting the week before

[boydogs]

PS: Dunkley - what was he thinking, when Bob passed the ball to him inside 50 - crucial mistake not to go back and have a shot.

He kicked 0.4 for the game so by no means was his approach perfect, but he does struggle with set shots and was a fair way out. By playing on he was able to kick from a couple of metres closer to goal, swing out to the right and kick on the run as opposed to from a straight run-up, and kick to a vacant goalsquare, giving it a chance to go through on the bounce. Did something very similar v West Coast in the EF last year, and against Brisbane last week, both of which were goals

[SonofScray]

Bankers:

1. Stringer goal from theball up 25m out. He is going to really explode soon.
2. Wood found a bit of form without the ball that had been lacking so far this year. Timed jumps better, was in the contest.
3. Clearance work, ball wasn't getting swept away like it has been.

Anchors:
1. Libba, Dunkley and Boyd misses. The glaring entries that made up our .19 on the scoreboard.
2. 50m penalty against Wood. Correct decision technically but on the back of terrible umpiring and communication. Duped him into it.
3. Greene. Just an arse hole. Hate that media have gone into bat for him.

Banchor:
All the ingredients of a winning formula minus goals, the most important of all.

[LostDoggy]

Bankers:
- Stringer has made a good start to the season
- The Bont always gets us going
- Caleb Daniel great response to his dropping

Anchors:
- Smith had very little influence offensively and defensively
- Umpires decisions regarding deliberate out of bounds
- Dunkleys four behinds!!

[jeemak]

You can add Daniel's miss in there too SoS. Genuinely pannicked or rushed an open goal on the left.

[Happy Days]

Serious question; if we fix up our goalkicking then do we all think we're all good? Is it bad that I think this is not a bad position to be in? Like, goal kicking *should* be one of the easier things to rectify, right?

[boydogs]

Serious question; if we fix up our goalkicking then do we all think we're all good? Is it bad that I think this is not a bad position to be in? Like, goal kicking *should* be one of the easier things to rectify, right?

It's what goes into the poor goalkicking. If we start taking contested marks from 20m out, it will suddenly be a lot better

[jeemak]

It's what goes into the poor goalkicking. If we start taking contested marks from 20m out, it will suddenly be a lot better

Correctomundo.

It's a bit of a circular issue. If we had viable contested marking targets or genuinely crafty forward players in the side we move the ball forward differently, and don't need to rely on hitting the hot spot regularly to force scores under pressure.

Likewise if we were flush with excellent and efficient ball users through the middle our forward deficiencies would be masked somewhat.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

1. Dale showed a bit. Not perfect and made errors but encouraging.

2. Wood played his best game since last year.

3. Bont, Stringer, Macrae, Daniel.

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1. Clay has been awfully disappointing, looks like he's running in sand.

2. The kicking for goal.

3. Dunkley is such a smart player and seems to average 2-3 shots on goal per game, but his inaccuracy is staggering and undoes so much of his good work. Surely needs to be practising even if it's away from the club.

[jeemak]

Dunks had two shots from low percentage areas that were from positions you'd expect good kicks to be a solid chance of converting from. We need to get used to him not kicking them because h'es not a good kick.

His play on and kick for goal in the last was pretty much a copy of his effort in the QF against WCE except it was from further out, he's smart enough to figure it was his best chance of converting but he buggered it up with a miss kick.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Dunks had two shots from low percentage areas that were from positions you'd expect good kicks to be a solid chance of converting from. We need to get used to him not kicking them because h'es not a good kick.

His play on and kick for goal in the last was pretty much a copy of his effort in the QF against WCE except it was from further out, he's smart enough to figure it was his best chance of converting but he buggered it up with a miss kick.

If Dunks could kick he'd be elite.

[Mantis]

If Dunks could kick he'd be elite.

If Dunks could kick he'd be at a different club... Or he might still be with us, but we wouldn't have Collins.

He is what he is.

[The Pie Man]

If Dunks could kick he'd be at a different club... Or he might still be with us, but we wouldn't have Collins.

He is what he is.

Do you have confidence his disposal will improve over time, or inconsistencies with his ball drop will remain?

E.G I think Clay Smith's turned into a reasonable kick these days - that's not the primary issue with him ATM though.

[Mantis]

Do you have confidence his disposal will improve over time, or inconsistencies with his ball drop will remain?

E.G I think Clay Smith's turned into a reasonable kick these days - that's not the primary issue with him ATM though.

Not really, he has been in elite systems for 4-5 years and it's still very poor.. He can become an effective kick, but it will never be a strength.

Smith is still an ordinary kick, he has improved his set shots, but in open play he isn't great.

[LostDoggy]

Maybe Dunks could start trying the Stevie J around the corner set shot?

[LostDoggy]

BANKERS
Bont was the Bont as he always is
Dahlhaus and Macrae also epitomise Banker attributes - consistent excellence
Steven King - has an inexperienced backline operating quite slickly. With long time key man Dale Morris out (along with M.Boyd) and last years finals series best key defender Hamling gone, things may well be a little disorganised, but Adams, Roberts, Cordy and Wood (the main defensive core as opposed to the attacking flankers) had a combined 43 effective disposals from 45 (DE% 95.6 - that's an outstanding stat that underlines a pretty cohesive group).

ANCHORS
Clay Smith is the only player in the 22 who deserves a spell in the 2s based on form. Seems to need to refind some of his intensity.
Finishing. Obviously.
Bad luck with injury. If Campbell is Ok and Libba doesn't get concussed, a different result probably eventuates.

BANCHOR
Dunkley - his finishing and disposal issues have been well covered. Against that, this kids spirit and leadership qualities are second to none. To be even asked to throw himself into Ruck battles against Mumford regularly speaks volumes - to do so wholeheartedy even moreso. Ended up with an equal team high 5 clearances. He's the type players love to play with.

[bornadog]

Dunkley - his finishing and disposal issues have been well covered. Against that, this kids spirit and leadership qualities are second to none. To be even asked to throw himself into Ruck battles against Mumford regularly speaks volumes - to do so wholeheartedly even moreso. Ended up with an equal team high 5 clearances. He's the type players love to play with.

This is a very good point PP. Often we concentrate on the negatives, but as you say on the positive it is amazing that a 20 year old with only 20 games to his name, was asked to play a role for Bevo and the team that is as tough as any.

Dunks has a huge upside and will only improve.

[Ozza]

BANKERS
Bont was the Bont as he always is
Dahlhaus and Macrae also epitomise Banker attributes - consistent excellence
Steven King - has an inexperienced backline operating quite slickly. With long time key man Dale Morris out (along with M.Boyd) and last years finals series best key defender Hamling gone, things may well be a little disorganised, but Adams, Roberts, Cordy and Wood (the main defensive core as opposed to the attacking flankers) had a combined 43 effective disposals from 45 (DE% 95.6 - that's an outstanding stat that underlines a pretty cohesive group).

ANCHORS
Clay Smith is the only player in the 22 who deserves a spell in the 2s based on form. Seems to need to refind some of his intensity.
Finishing. Obviously.
Bad luck with injury. If Campbell is Ok and Libba doesn't get concussed, a different result probably eventuates.

BANCHOR
Dunkley - his finishing and disposal issues have been well covered. Against that, this kids spirit and leadership qualities are second to none. To be even asked to throw himself into Ruck battles against Mumford regularly speaks volumes - to do so wholeheartedy even moreso. Ended up with an equal team high 5 clearances. He's the type players love to play with.

Top post peanuts.