Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 17, 2023 vs Collingwood

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

This is the Round 17, 2023 edition of the weekly Bankers and Anchors thread. Once this evening's game against Collingwood 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.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Bankers

1 Jamarra's work rate and marking

2. Naughton's marking and finishing.

3. Caleb Daniel was the most polished of our mids

Anchors

1. Our midfield switching off - at clearances, and when Collingwood won ball out of the backline and starting running through the lines. Just flatfooted.

2. English- horrible performance tonight.

3. Jamarra's goalkicking - just has to improve this aspect

[westbulldog]

Bankers
Caleb Daniel, excellent game opposed to the likely Brownlow medallist.
Ryan Gardner what a courageous game playing injured.
Naughton and JUH worked together well.

Anchors
Duryea, not up to it imo.
Keath, barely up to it.
Brian Taylor on Fox, Ch 7, whatever, the point is he is an ex Collingwood player and it shows with biased commentary.

[anfo27]

Bankers
1. JUHs hands.
2. Westy good user inside 50
3. Naughton looks like he's close to finding some top shelf form

Anchors
1. McNeil- has to kick those, just has to!
2. Duryea- not sure he is up to it
3. Smiths form, need more from him

[azabob]

Bankers
Caleb Daniel, excellent game opposed to the likely Brownlow medallist.
Ryan Gardner what a courageous game playing injured.
Naughton and JUH worked together well.

Anchors
Duryea, not up to it imo.
Keath, barely up to it.
Brian Taylor on Fox, ex Collingwood player and it shows with biased commentary.

WB, fox take the channel 7 feed and Taylor is a channel 7 commentator

[Dry Rot]

Bankers

Daniel's game

JUH, Naughton and Weightman

West. Has learnt to be unselfish and made mostly very good decisions.

Anchors

Tackling, or more correctly, not tackling

Stupid over the shoulder, blind hand passing

Stupid Oh, I'm in trouble. I'll hand pass it to someone in a worse position plays.

Our midfield and captain

[bornadog]

2. English- horrible performance tonight.

I can't agree with this.

Tim 17 disposals, 6 marks and 30 Hitouts of which 17, yes 17 HTA. Cameron had 5 more hitouts and only 10 HTA?

[GVGjr]

I can't agree with this.

Tim 17 disposals, 6 marks and 30 Hitouts of which 17, yes 17 HTA. Cameron had 5 more hitouts and only 10 HTA?

Stats don't always tell the story. Other than quoting stats what in particular did you find positive about his game?
Other than a good last quarter I don't think he really contributed that much.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

I can't agree with this.

Tim 17 disposals, 6 marks and 30 Hitouts of which 17, yes 17 HTA. Cameron had 5 more hitouts and only 10 HTA?

Those stats don't surprise me, but his point of difference is rarely his pure ruckwork. His great value to the way we play is what he contributes around the ground. And other than a couple of strong inputs in the last qtr, when it was too late, I thought he was inconsequential. He really should've owned Cameron around the ground and helped our mids to establish our game.

[Grantysghost]

English didn't have an influence on the result unfortunately.

[bornadog]

English didn't have an influence on the result unfortunately.

Was it a horrible performance?

[Grantysghost]

Was it a horrible performance?

No way!

Decent. Just didn't do his 1 wood well, around the ground and dropping in to dangerous spots to clunk the mark.

[bornadog]

No way!

Decent. Just didn't do his 1 wood well, around the ground and dropping in to dangerous spots to clunk the mark.

well if you read my comment to YHF I thought he was a bit harsh.
Also English clearly won ruck rules. 17 out of 30 hitouts were HTA, which is rarely done in AFL.
Agree he could have done more around the ground

We all see things differently

[GVGjr]

Bankers

- Our 3 prominent forwards last night looked very threatening. They did their best to keep us in it and Marra's marking was sensational.
- Despite the brain fade I thought Poulter showed he is a more than capable player. I'm bullish on his future.
- Richards return was particularly pleasing and Gardner's courage in playing through the discomfort was noticeable.

Anchors

- Unlocking whatever is blocking Bailey Smith's performances is a critical step for the coaches. We need him back to his best.
- Despite a decent performance last week JOD is just not ready yet and we need to get him back at Footscray.
- Probably the worst game from Treloar in a long while.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

well if you read my comment to YHF I thought he was a bit harsh.
Also English clearly won ruck rules. 17 out of 30 hitouts were HTA, which is rarely done in AFL.
Agree he could have done more around the ground

We all see things differently

Yeah my 'horrible performance' was over the top in the heat of the moment.
I just expected Tim to really be a big factor in us challenging the Pies last night around the ground, and he wasn't.