Bankers and Anchors: Rnd 9, 2021 vs Port Adelaide

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

This is the round 9, 2021 edition of the weekly Bankers and Anchors thread. Once the game against Port Adelaide 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

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.

[bulldogtragic]

B

Weightman - Gun
Sweet - Decent stats, but was better than that
Libba - When he was near a contest, he won it
Live ladder - #1 with 146.9% and only nit outright first owing to one bad half of footy

A

Scott - If you only get an opportunity or two a game, you need to nail 25m set shots.
Croz - Did some really, really dumb things that a senior player shouldn’t be making
McNeil - Not a real anchor, take the shot son. Look at Cody, get it and pin the ears back or at a minimum hit the target.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Bankers

The obvious stars I'm gonna overlook. They'll get their kudo's elsewhere

1. Bailey Williams, just so vital now. He's a gun. But surely opposition coaching has to tell his man.. 'He's gonna try and baulk... don't buy it and you're gonna get a holding the ball inside 50!'

2. Cody, Cody. I was starting to think as a 170 something key forward, you're opportunities may be elsewhere. You showed tonight you can play the small forward role and therefore be the sit and stand taco of the AFL, and do both.

3. Duryea. did some really smart and tough stuff tonight. He's been a great recruit.

Anchors..

I want to say Lipinski... but in the last, he had some important moments and he held strong in those.

Nope. I'm gonna give some passes tonight.. but I'm eyeballing you Lipinski...Hannan.... lift your game..

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

B

Weightman - Gun
Sweet - Decent stats, but was better than that
Libba - When he was near a contest, he won it


A

Scott - If you only get an opportunity or two a game, you need to nail 25m set shots.
Croz - Did some really, really dumb things that a senior player shouldn’t be making
McNeil - Not a real anchor, take the shot son. Look at Cody, get it and pin the ears back or at a minimum hit the target.


I thought Croz, redeemed himself in the 4th.
. and Scott and McNeil, yes they deserve a paddling for their errors, but they do a lot of good stuff without the ball that seems to align closely with what is required for the team plan.

[SonofScray]

B

Libba was rolled gold in tight tonight. As good a performance of that type you’ll see.
Naughton, one sideways shot aside, was deadly in front of goal.
Sweet battled manfully, looked hurt at one point, certainly sore post game. Thought he was really brave as an inexperienced ruckman.

A
Pat Lipinski, passenger.
McNeil’s two give offs instead of shots on goal, get hungry lad! Took a bit of shine off a good game.
Crozier flying in recklessly and letting the ball out the back.

[bulldogtragic]

I thought Croz, redeemed himself in the 4th.
. and Scott and McNeil, yes they deserve a paddling for their errors, but they do a lot of good stuff without the ball that seems to align closely with what is required for the team plan.

Is it the bankers and bankers thread? :)

Croz coughed up Goals. Scott needs to do more with Hunter & VDM coming back soon (like converting easy shots) and McNeil isn’t an anchor. I just want him to take the running shot. Nothing too drastic after a good win.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Is it the bankers and bankers thread? :)

Croz coughed up Goals. Scott needs to do more with Hunter & VDM coming back soon (like converting easy shots) and McNeil isn’t an anchor. I just want him to take the running shot. Nothing too drastic after a good win.

It is tonight!
A late Anchor though is from Bevo's presser, and his Jordon Sweet anecdote......
catching a plane, going through the boarding gate, and Sweet pulls up next to Bevo, and Bevo who hasn't seen him that day, says 'G'day Sweety' whilst the flight attendant is nearby......apparently hilarity ensued????

[bulldogtragic]

2021: G’Day Sweety

That should be name of this years doco.

[bornadog]

Bankers

1. Libba - extracting the ball from bottom of packs is incredible. Gets no kudos. Number one clearance player in AFL

2. Weightman's goal over his head - haven't seen one of those for a long time, and it was timely

3. Naughton's big mark and goal

Anchors

1. Crozier slamming the ball on his foot and turning it over and giving Port a sniff

2. Hannan - out of touch

3. Lippa - couldn't keep up with the fast paced game

[Ozza]

Bankers:

JJ - thought he had some great contributions. 2 important long goals. 7 score involvements. Worked back hard to help the defenders too.
Libba - his game was so good that it was the first thing I talked about to my under 12s. Just did amazing this in the contest.
Cordy - huge last quarter and rock solid last night.

Anchors:

Crozier - isn't going that well. Important he finds some form while Woody is out.
Hannan - struggling to get involved. But nice goal in the third.

[Ghost Dog]

Bankers:

JJ - thought he had some great contributions. 2 important long goals. 7 score involvements. Worked back hard to help the defenders too.
Libba - his game was so good that it was the first thing I talked about to my under 12s. Just did amazing this in the contest.
Cordy - huge last quarter and rock solid last night.

Anchors:

Crozier - isn't going that well. Important he finds some form while Woody is out.
Hannan - struggling to get involved. But nice goal in the third.

Interesting to note Bevo was super happy with Hannan's game. "On paper, you may think he didn't have a great night, but he was oustanding and played his role perfectly" to paraphrase.

[GVGjr]

Interesting to note Bevo was super happy with Hannan's game. "On paper, you may think he didn't have a great night, but he was oustanding and played his role perfectly" to paraphrase.

He clearly didn't have high expectations placed on Hannan.

[Ghost Dog]

One thing I did not like is Naughton putting his knee square into the back of the head of one of our blokes ( Mcniel? )
After the English injury, Aaron has to be a little more careful.
I'm concerned he is going for glory and may put some out for the season.

[Ghost Dog]

He clearly didn't have high expectations placed on Hannan.

I don't think that was his point. It may be yours :)

[Dry Rot]

Bankers

Libba and Bont

Weightman's contributions

Ditto JJ

Anchors

Hard to tell from a radio call. From that, Lipinski and Hannan didn't seem to do much.

Treloar's form seems a little patchy, would like to see a 4 quarter contribution like Libba's.

[Vred]

Bankers

Libba in the AA, he is the key to our midfield and I fear opponents might figure that out now and put alot more time into him. Stay fit lad, another premiership is coming your way.
Flea just what we've been needing up forward, does all the right things, huge ball of energy, constant pressure and 3 slamming goals
Zaine I don't generally have anything good to say against Zaine, specially after the Richmond game.. But tonight, he showed he mightttt just be worth holding onto if he can re-capture that start of 2020 form.

Anchors

Wood's injury, terrible.
Turnovers - We gotta get better at turning it over when we're clearly ahead and giving them a sniff
The Port fan who was clearly giving Sweet a mouthful as he was lining up for goal, if you watch the re-play, you can see Sweet mouthing off back to him, hahahaha, suck shit we won.

[Ozza]

Interesting to note Bevo was super happy with Hannan's game. "On paper, you may think he didn't have a great night, but he was oustanding and played his role perfectly" to paraphrase.

Yes, I did see this (after having posted). And fair enough. Always hard to tell, particularly on tv, what the coaches are looking for. Hannan may have played a role in allowing Naughton and Bruce to get their opponents one on one, and Port are generally good at defending the high ball.

[Happy Days]

Yes, I did see this (after having posted). And fair enough. Always hard to tell, particularly on tv, what the coaches are looking for. Hannan may have played a role in allowing Naughton and Bruce to get their opponents one on one, and Port are generally good at defending the high ball.

They’re good at defending the high ball but not at actually defending the players themselves. Once Clurey went off any Jonas actually had to do something other than his shitty McGovern impression they were in real trouble. Allir is having a nice season but is a very limited one on one defender, and got caught out many a time by Naughton.

A really good example of this is Naughton’s big mark in the third. It was spectacular and a great effort but no way in the world should Allir or Jonas have defended so statically and given him that much room to run and jump. Allir’s positioning in particular was nowhere and he couldn’t have set up worse to impact that contest.

[FrediKanoute]

Bankers

Weightman - wow! Plays like a tall small. Dare I say Brad Johnson as a forward? Great set of hands for his size and that goal over his shoulder. Big difference between his impact and that which Schache and West had 2 weeks prior.

R Smith - his pressure acts, desperation, and 1%'ers were quality this week and he was a big contributor to our win

The amazing response to conceding 5 goals in the 2nd and then when Port got within 8 points in the last. No panic, just quality football to win the game.

Anchors

Hannan - just don't see what he brings. Granted there are role players in the team, but I don't buy that he is one.

Can we have too many role players - on Saturday night we had Scott, McNeil, JJ, R Smith and Hannan playing a role (low possession; high pressure; loads of one percenters). What is the balance between too many role players and not enough guys who can go out and win it?

Conceding 5 in a row in the 2nd - this was a bugbear last year, our inability to stop the rot. It has happened less this year but when it does we are vulnerable.