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Tough game but very good chance to get another win and make it 3 in a row.
I just don’t think we have a match up for Hawkins, and after a mediocre performance against Crows, they would’ve got a rocket leading into this weeks game. Selwood/Taylor possible returns...watch Taylor go fwd and kick 2-3 goals....
So...
Geel by 36
1st goal- Wallis
Bog- Libba
Comparison in stats
Western Bulldogs Average Per Game Geelong Cats 167.3 Kicks 188.8 143.8 Handballs 123.8 311.1 Disposals 312.6 63.5 Marks 80.4 9.4 Goals 10.8 8.5 Behinds 8.2 17.9 Scoring Shots 19.0 48.9 Tackles 54.1 18.7 Hitouts 28.6 16.7 Frees For 14.7 16.0 Frees Against 18.9 6.0 Goal Assists 8.2 42.6 Inside 50s 42.9 119.5 Contested Possessions 122.8 189.6 Uncontested Possessions 186.5 223.9 Effective Disposals 222.8 72% Disposal Efficiency % 71.3% 43.3 Clangers 48.4 8.7 Contested Marks 8.2 9.3 Marks Inside 50 10.8 29.1 Clearances 34.4 10.0 Centre Clearances 11.0 19.1 Stoppage Clearances 23.4 31.4 Rebound 50s 30.2 41.7 One Percenters 43.9 4.3 Bounces 1.5 1.16 Kick to Handball Ratio 1.53 52.5% Conversion 56.8% 33.10 Disposals Per Goal 28.94 17.38 Disposals Per Scoring Shot 16.45 4647.1 Metres Gained 4690.2 56.9 Turnovers 55.3 56.4 Intercepts 56.9 8.8 Tackles Inside 50 9.7
I think we can win this. We match up pretty well as seen in the last couple of seasons.
Dogs by 16
First Goal: Naughton
BOG: The Bont
Kick to handball ratio and marks says it all with these two sides. They play such a different style. Cats love to keep possession by foot, we love that quick movement chaos by hand.
We bring the pressure as you saw with the Crows at times on the weekend, that over kicking game out of their defensive half can fall down with one missed target leaving them flat footed against a surging attack.
I too think we are a big chance in this one.
Dogs by 10
FG : Cavarra
BOG : Smith
We get the ball as much as they do with Cats 20 more disposals for the year than us and sitting 1 and 2 (us) on most AFL disposals. Inside 50s we are 5th with 4 less than Cats who are 4th. Unfortunately as we know we waste alot of inside 50s. The telling stat is marks inside 50, where Cats lead the AFL and we are 5th.
Cats lead AFL for clearances, (we are 10th, but I think we have improved here), they also lead AFL with centre clearances to us 5th, and cont.poss, they are 2nd and we are 3rd.
I see Dahlhaus has been suspended
Patently obvious Hawkins is the worry
Need to get our hands on it first
Us by 1 pt ( I’ll get it right one day )
BOG Macrae
1st goal Naughton
Looks like a cracking day up there on Friday 24 degrees and Sunny, little to no breeze throughout the evening. Will there be dew?
Doggies in a close one by 6 points
BOG The Bont again
First Goal Wally
Doggies by 16
BOG Libba
First Goal Naughton
Cats by 24
First goal Hawkins
BOG Macrae
A lot will depend on the first quarter. I can see a situation where they rattle us - get a 5 goal lead early then we settle and it’s super competitive entertaining football for 3 quarters. Have to come out hard and fast against them
Dogs by 5 points
First goal: Wallis
BOG: Libba
Dogs by 5
BOG: Macca
Will spew up if Gardner is playing. Nothing against him but he is not AFL standard and you just can't play guys like him.
Margin: Dogs by 3 points
First Goal: Mitch Wallis
Best on ground: The Bont
Margin: Dogs by 5 points (Gardiner goal after the siren from a dodgy 50m penalty)
First Goal: Baily Smith
Best on ground: AstroNaught
Chris Scott has said:
- Selwood to miss again.
- All but confirmed Zach Tuohy (knee soreness) and Harry Taylor (managed) would return to face the Dogs after missing last week's win over Adelaide.
- Jack Steven's improving fitness levels would likely allow him to back-up off a five-day break and tackle the Dogs.
- Harry Taylor's return to the side would likely be the only significant change to his side's structure on Friday night.
Selwood out is important to us.
Taylor hey.
What I crave most is Naughton staring down a crumpled Harry Taylor after he's had his head used as a launch pad.
AFL Record is free online this week. Has a nice pic of Mitch on the cover.
https://i.postimg.cc/cC0T22tP/record.jpg
https://issuu.com/lifestyle1-media/d..._14__2020/1?ff
https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/n...watch-round-14
Four things to watch: Round 14
The hot topics and talking points ahead of the Bulldogs' blockbuster match-up against Geelong.
1. Dead Eye’ returns
Tory Dickson has been a consistent contributor for the Western Bulldogs for the best part of a decade.
The 32-year-old returns this week for a crunch clash with the Cats.
It’s his first game for 2020, but Dickson is no stranger to the big stage and has some solid scratch-match form behind him.
His track record of 181.61 from 113 games proves he knows where the big sticks are.
And in what are expected to be dewy, night-time Gold Coast conditions, Dickson’s goal-smarts could have a big say on proceedings.
2. Bontempelli v Dangerfield
You’d imagine these two are likely to go head-to-head at different stages on Friday night.
But even if they don’t, the impact they are able to have on the game will be critical.
Bontempelli, the Bulldogs’ skipper, has put together a scintillating fortnight of football to lead his side to wins against Melbourne and the Adelaide Crows.
Dangerfield has similarly had an important impact over the past two weeks.
Both are among the competition’s elite midfielders, for their ability to win the ball around the stoppage and generate an offensive impact.
3. Dogs’ track record
Make no mistake, the Bulldogs will have a point to prove.
Their record against current top-eight sides this year is 0-5 – with early-season losses to Collingwood and St Kilda followed by a string of defeats to Richmond, Port Adelaide and the Brisbane Lions in the first ‘footy frenzy’.
Despite those outcomes though, the Bulldogs sit in eighth spot on the ladder.
It makes Friday night’s clash against the Cats super important.
A win would go a long way to solidifying that spot inside the eight, but a loss could see them slip back to 11th – depending on other results across the round – and make those finals ambitions just a little bit harder to achieve in 2020.
4. Stop the Tomahawk
Bulldog boss Luke Beveridge admits Tom Hawkins is going to take some stopping.
The Cats’ spearhead has had a sensational 2020 season, not only leading the Coleman Medal tally with 33 majors, but being a joint leader for goal assists (16).
Stopping Hawkins goes a long way towards the Bulldogs getting four points.
That job looks likely to fall to new defensive chief Alex Keath.
Keath has had an outstanding debut season in red, white and blue and will no doubt be excited by the challenge – and probably hoping for some aerial assistance from time-to-time from the likes of Easton Wood and Hayden Crozier.
I HATE GEELONG MORE THAN ANYONE
Dogs by 3 points after the siren
BOG Bontempelli
FG Astro
We just can't lose this.
Will be interesting how both teams line up. Their backline as named is huge - all 190cm or above. They may play a bigger player on Wallis than he usually gets, could be tougher for him in the one on ones.
Their forwardline by contrast is small. Hawkins the only tall, Rohan with some height but his pace is the worry - Wood or Crozier perhaps? If Keath takes Hawkins where does that leave Gardner?
These pampered pets seem to get us everytime.
Time for a tip in the scales.
Dogs by 14 pts.
FG Wally
BOG Bazlenka.
Anyone else have finals-like vibes for the game tonight with this magnificent spring-like weather?
In a way it is like a final for us.
HUGE game for our season tonight
Dogs by 6 points with Bruce to kick a clutch goal on the siren
First goal- Dickson. Welcome back son
BOG- Macrae