AFL Round 7, 2018

[Eastdog]

ROUND 7, 2018


Friday May 4

Geelong v GWS Giants, GMHBA Stadium (7.50pm)


Saturday May 5

Western Bulldogs v Gold Coast Suns, Mars Stadium — Ballarat (1.45pm)

Essendon v Hawthorn, MCG (2.10pm)

West Coast Eagles v Port Adelaide, Perth Stadium (4.35pm)

Sydney Swans v North Melbourne, SCG (7.25pm)

Adelaide v Carlton, Adelaide Oval (7.40pm)


Sunday May 6

Richmond v Fremantle, MCG (1.10pm)

St Kilda v Melbourne, Etihad Stadium (3.20pm)

Brisbane Lions v Collingwood, Gabba (4.40pm)

[LostDoggy]

GWS looking very ordinary Q1 against Geelong. They drew with StKilda in R5 then pretty underwhelming at home against Brisbane in R6. They are struggling.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

GWS looking very ordinary Q1 against Geelong. They drew with StKilda in R5 then pretty underwhelming at home against Brisbane in R6. They are struggling.

Yet pummelled us :(

[azabob]

GWS looking very ordinary Q1 against Geelong. They drew with StKilda in R5 then pretty underwhelming at home against Brisbane in R6. They are struggling.

Fair few injuries and very young also. But still good to see them struggle...

[Remi Moses]

Not sure the giants are still young .
Intent is terrible tonight, regardless of the personnel out .
Geelong doing what they like and the Giants look easy to play against.
Stagnant and sloppy , and to be honest here I can’t see Leon winning a flag with this list.

[azabob]

Not sure the giants are still young .
Intent is terrible tonight, regardless of the personnel out .
Geelong doing what they like and the Giants look easy to play against.
Stagnant and sloppy , and to be honest here I can’t see Leon winning a flag with this list.

They are tonight. But yes intent isn’t there.

[bornadog]

Not sure the giants are still young .
Intent is terrible tonight, regardless of the personnel out .
Geelong doing what they like and the Giants look easy to play against.
Stagnant and sloppy , and to be honest here I can’t see Leon winning a flag with this list.

They do have key injuries with Josh Kelly, Cameron, Lobb, Scully, Toby Greene, all out and all played against us.

[bornadog]

Fair few injuries and very young also. But still good to see them struggle...


Tonight they have the same average games as Geelong (85), but do have significant Key players out as per my post above

[Remi Moses]

All points bulletin for a sighting of Gryphon

[Sedat]

I hope the footy community rubbish this shit spectacle with the same enthusiasm that they rubbished last Friday night. Tonight has been a worse advertisement for the game, from supposedly two high ranked teams.

[jeemak]

GWS still have enough quality on the field to be better than this.

[westdog54]

Geez Heath Shaw pulled up hard to avoid that collision with Dangerfield.

Any hope GWS had just went out the window.

[bornadog]

GWS still have enough quality on the field to be better than this.

Maybe they just don't.

[jeemak]

I hope the footy community rubbish this shit spectacle with the same enthusiasm that they rubbished last Friday night. Tonight has been a worse advertisement for the game, from supposedly two high ranked teams.


Geez Heath Shaw pulled up hard to avoid that collision with Dangerfield.

Any hope GWS had just went out the window.

Don’t bet on it Sedat.

He certainly did Westdog......really poor effort.

[westdog54]

Don’t bet on it Sedat.

He certainly did Westdog......really poor effort.

There is nothing more gratifying than a downhill skier shirking a contest.

[Twodogs]

There is nothing more gratifying than a downhill skier shirking a contest.


Libba in his face in the 2016 prelim final gratified me.

[westdog54]

Libba in his face in the 2016 prelim final gratified me.

I'd still love to know what Clay Smith said to him to drive him overboard like that.

[Twodogs]

I'd still love to know what Clay Smith said to him to drive him overboard like that.


Whatever it was it was the truth.

[Ozza]

When are the footy experts going to call out Heath Shaw for how bad he has been in 2017 and 2018.
He had 10 clangers tonight - in the worst part of the ground to have them. He even had 6 last week v Brisbane with far less pressure and 8 v Freo 2 weeks before that.

[bornadog]

Hawkins in trouble for pushing an umpires hand away. How many weeks?

[westdog54]

Hawkins in trouble for pushing an umpires hand away. How many weeks?

Surely straight to the tribunal.

[macca]

Surely straight to the tribunal.

He will get off with some new rule they made up during the week.

Thoroughly enjoyed seeing the plastics get smashed tonight, even though it was a rubbish game to watch.

AFL doing all it can to manufacture crap for Friday night football.

[The Adelaide Connection]

GWS were worse tonight than our efforts against them, WC, and Freo. This is one of the premiership favourites that are down a few key players at the moment (but arguably still in a better position personnel wise than we are). We need to remember this when our team of kids inevitably struggle some weeks or at times during games.

There is absolutely a tipping point and GWS have obviously hit theirs. I think we have been well over ours but have displayed more resilience than our lofty expectations has given our team credit. It really makes me reflect back to how impressive the Essendon and Swans (in particular) games were.

[Hotdog60]

Hawkins will get off with a reprimand with him being told that even though he was protecting the umpire from causing a slight breeze with his hand he may still have knock Phil Davis over and may have caused him serious injury.
He'll just be told to be a bit more careful.
Tom will then be praised by the media for being a stand up guy for taking the risk to protect a fellow player.

[bornadog]

GWS were worse tonight than our efforts against them, WC, and Freo. This is one of the premiership favourites that are down a few key players at the moment (but arguably still in a better position personnel wise than we are). We need to remember this when our team of kids inevitably struggle some weeks or at times during games.

There is absolutely a tipping point and GWS have obviously hit theirs. I think we have been well over ours but have displayed more resilience than our lofty expectations has given our team credit. It really makes me reflect back to how impressive the Essendon and Swans (in particular) games were.

when does Leon come under scrutiny? Can he actually coach?

[bulldogtragic]

Time to raid them, through JMac trading. Their guns can see they won't win a flag now. We need Sam Power sitting down ASAP with JMac to flag interest in a range of players. Who would we target though? (kicking skills elite mandatory)

[Twodogs]

Time to raid them, through JMac trading. Their guns can see they won't win a flag now. We need Sam Power sitting down ASAP with JMac to flag interest in a range of players. Who would we target though? (kicking skills elite mandatory)


J. Kelly. I wonder if you'd get a discount on Toby Greene given he's such a little shit? I wouldn't mind him being our little shit and we do seem to play better when we have someone like him in our team.

[bulldogtragic]

J. Kelly.

& Coniglio. Imagine two midfielders capable of hitting forwards on the chest. Wow.

[Mofra]

When are the footy experts going to call out Heath Shaw for how bad he has been in 2017 and 2018.
He had 10 clangers tonight - in the worst part of the ground to have them. He even had 6 last week v Brisbane with far less pressure and 8 v Freo 2 weeks before that.
Not to mention his big squib vs Dangerfield.

This bloke scream at others but won't do the hard yards himself. For all the focus on Goddard yelling at teammates, Goddard won a B&F, led Essendon during a tough year and puts his body on the line.
Shaw doesn't do that.

[comrade]

I wish we weren’t ultra young and building. The 2018 premiership is literally a crap shoot.

[Ozza]

Not to mention his big squib vs Dangerfield.

This bloke scream at others but won't do the hard yards himself. For all the focus on Goddard yelling at teammates, Goddard won a B&F, led Essendon during a tough year and puts his body on the line.
Shaw doesn't do that.

I don’t really think he jibbed it. The ball sat up meaning Danger got to knock it away first, one of the angles looked bad (from behind Shaw) - but the full view I reckon he got a dud bounce.
Trust me, I’d love to say he pulled out.

[jeemak]

I don’t really think he jibbed it. The ball sat up meaning Danger got to knock it away first, one of the angles looked bad (from behind Shaw) - but the full view I reckon he got a dud bounce.
Trust me, I’d love to say he pulled out.

Can't agree, the only sure way he could have halved the contest and stopped the Cats going forward was by getting directly in front of Dangerfield's run. He chose not to do that, for whatever reason.

[jeemak]

Some of Ziebell's kicking in this third quarter has been magnificent.

[bornadog]

North in front with 2.48 to go.

[Dry Rot]

& Coniglio. Imagine two midfielders capable of hitting forwards on the chest. Wow.

Would love to get Coniglio.

All class.

[Twodogs]

Would love to get Coniglio.

All class.


He's injury prone though isn't he? He doesn't seem to finish a lot of matches.

[Dry Rot]

He's injury prone though isn't he? He doesn't seem to finish a lot of matches.

Good question. I'm afraid I don't follow those plastic orange shits very much unlike proper clubs, so I don't know.

Have seen him live a couple of times, and he is a complete (and very good) player.

Could you be confusing him with the often concussed Shiel?

[Twodogs]

Good question. I'm afraid I don't follow those plastic orange shits very much unlike proper clubs, so I don't know.

Have seen him live a couple of times, and he is a complete (and very good) player.

Could you be confusing him with the often concussed Shiel?


No I'm pretty sure it's Coniglio. He's got dodgy ankles from memory. Missed a fair bit of last year and he went off for some work on Friday night a couple of times.

[ledge]

St kilda look terrible , they have no structure and no guidance and just relying on individual efforts with no one helping.
I'm not sure Richardson has long to go as a coach, they should be showing something.
I don't think much of Melbourne either, they seem to be the same old.

[merantau]

Agree ledge. St Kilda really awful just about everywhere and their set shots goal kicking has been deplorable.

[The bulldog tragician]

However Melbourne are not as good as they think they are either.

[GVGjr]

Brisbane 10 goals even and Collingwood 10 goals 3 at half time.

[westdog54]

I feel for Patty McCartin. Another head knock today through no fault of his own. Is his career in jeopardy?

[Remi Moses]

Bit worried about next week
Huge danger game

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Bit worried about next week
Huge danger game

Agree. They had us on the ropes last year at half time at Etihad.
They play like tonight and we play like we did yesterday and it's going to be a Lions win.

[ledge]

Hopefully today's game was the huge effort for the year and it takes a lot out of them for next week.

[comrade]

Love Zorko. Fully expecting him to dominate next week.

[The bulldog tragician]

Wow Brisbane looked fantastic. Can only hope they are deflated. They threw everything at the Pies. It was a gruelling last quarter. No way should we see this game as a gimme, they are playing really well.

[LostDoggy]

Wow Brisbane looked fantastic. Can only hope they are deflated. They threw everything at the Pies. It was a gruelling last quarter. No way should we see this game as a gimme, they are playing really well.

They are a pretty good team who just can't get over the line. Losses this year include Collingwood by 7, Suns by 5 and Power by 5 (in Adelaide), the only team to beat them by more than 6 goals has been Richmond. Any win this week will be a good result.

[boydogs]

We should have Brisbane's measure comfortably down here

[Twodogs]

We should have Brisbane's measure comfortably down here


We have tripped over them a few times lately.