Round 5 - Western Bulldogs V Brisbane Lions - Sat 12/4/25 Norwood Oval, Adelaide 4:15PM AEDT

[Grantysghost]

Payne has been great on Naughton in the second half.

[jeemak]

We just don't have the quality around the footy and the flanks that they do.

needed all of our best players not to let us down at any point of the game and unfortunately each of them has had a few moments they'd rather take back.

Brisbane simply too good after half time. Being down the sub and left with Hynes and Dolan hasn't helped.

[chef]

Hipwood loves playing against us

[DOG GOD]

Hynes has played all game for 1 kick. Is the cupboard that bare ?

13 goals to 4 after HT

[angelopetraglia]

How are you allowed to take 30 seconds off the clock? As if you are having a set shot? Then play on?

That rule has to change.

[kruder]

Naughty unsighted when the whips are cracking again, future captain? Not convinced.

[The Pie Man]

To give up a lead like this yet again, it’s closing in on coach killer stuff.

This club needs a change

[G-Mo77]

3rd we made some really sloppy errors.and they capitalised. We made our way back and then Bramble gives them one. It's easy to just say we did ok but it's been a consistent problem for a few seasons now. We gave that back to them on a silver platter. Sad ending.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

What an absolute joke. Hipwood is bog ordinary and we continually make him look like Carey.

Embarrassing display by us.

[DOG GOD]

Hipwood a lazy 5 in the 2nd half. Now 27 points.
completely imploded.

[josie]

We just don't have the quality around the footy and the flanks that they do.

needed all of our best players not to let us down at any point of the game and unfortunately each of them has had a few moments they'd rather take back.

Brisbane simply too good after half time.

At least we fought it out. With Bont we win that. Shits me Hipwood had a day out. Something about his countenance that irks me. Unfair I know.

[jeemak]

At least we fought it out. With Bont we win that. Shits me Hipwood had a day out. Something about his countenance that irks me. Unfair I know.

Nah, remember that time he deliberately pushed Cordy or Keath into an umpire, got a goal out of it and didn't get any sort of tribunal penalty for it? He's an arsehole.

[angelopetraglia]

We also had two big chances to retake the lead and could not take those chances either. We just had to make those chances count when they got up and running.

That Freijah miss would have made it three in a row and handed us all the momentum.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

I'll check in tomorrow, once the doom and gloom is over and done with.
overall I thought there are a lot of positives in this opening 5 rounds. In fact I'm quite buoyant about our 2025 fortunes, and beyond.
Lots to work on, but I think it's way too simplistic to focus on the outcome, and then tag it to a narrative or conflate it with evidence of the need for change.
Jeez, someone has gone very hard on Hynes. He ain't the first high-quality player who had a mare on his debut!.

Quite a few seem to find a voice when we lose, but rarely get engaged when we win.
I'll check back in tomorrow and contribute, I'll go and do something fun with my kids, like let him smash me on Xbox!
Goodnight all.

[Grantysghost]

Effort was there, just some big moments we didn't take our chances which is a bit of a broken record with this side.

Lions are just better and played amazingly well.

The five day break from WA didn't help either