Bankers and Anchors,Elimination Final, 2019 vs GWS

This is the Elimination Final edition of the weekly Bankers and Anchors thread. Once the game against GWS 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.

B

Making finals.
Wood. Maybe his best game of the year.
I think Le Young will develop into a handy KPD.


A

Naughton's knee
Getting beat up, monstered and for the most part accepting it
Emabassing effort overall
Coaching
Rucking mids
Missing easy set shots when the game was live
Etc
Etc
Etc

A:

Naughton’s knee
Our much vaunted midfield group - plenty of soul searching to be done over pre-season
Gotta single out Bont. He’s the figurehead of the team, if he stands up they all do. 14 touches and a straight forward miss at a crucial time was woeful from our next captain. Hope it burns and pushes him to greater heights

B:

Timmy did well most of the night, even though we decided to go with Bont, Dunks and Macrae in the ruck for chunks of game time
Cordy and Young were good in the first half before wilting under the weight of entries
Ed Richards showed a few flashes of brilliance under extreme pressure

I’ll give a bonus banker to our 2016 premiership team. Without them I’d be feeling a lot worse right now.

Decent season overall, pr*** of a way to end it.

B
The dedicated fans who parted with $ to travel up here, only to sit through a horror capitulation as a reward.
A
Leaders - who are they? Who were they?
Bont - when you have as much talent as him, you need to stand up.
Match committee for leaving out Dicko and JT in favour of the youth. The youth were well and truly shown up today. Those two wouldn't have made up that difference, but they would have made a difference, I'm certain,

Bankers

1. Every Dogs fan who made the trip up for the game. Kudo's to you all.
2.Jack Macrae. The only one of our midfielders who could hold his head high.
3. Zaine Cordy. A couple of mistakes, but he really had a red hot crack.

Anchors

1. JJ. Just putrid, had multiple opportunities to have an impact but just had a complete mare of a game.
2. Our mids - bar Macrae- this is where we lost the game.
3. Dale, Lipinski, Bont missing critical shots. Almost felt like if either one of them had converted the opportunities they had, we may have changed the complete complexion of the game.

My moment was Bonts miss. We could've taken the lead and put them in the rear view mirror. Psychologically he let that energising moment go for us and missed the chance to put the fear of three weeks ago in them.

Secondly Lippa. Could've got it back to a goal, and then they got the next and kept getting them.

Really disappointing that the easy things hurt us.

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Originally Posted by bulldogtragic

My moment was Bonts miss. We could've taken the lead and put them in the rear view mirror. Psychologically he let that energising moment go for us and missed the chance to put the fear of three weeks ago in them.

Secondly Lippa. Could've got it back to a goal, and then they got the next and kept getting them.

Really disappointing that the easy things hurt us.

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Yep. Too deflated to do a Moment thread this week. But that was it for me, with Bailey Dale and Lipinski's misses just behind.

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Originally Posted by bulldogtragic

My moment was Bonts miss. We could've taken the lead and put them in the rear view mirror. Psychologically he let that energising moment go for us and missed the chance to put the fear of three weeks ago in them.

Secondly Lippa. Could've got it back to a goal, and then they got the next and kept getting them.

Really disappointing that the easy things hurt us.

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Ditto, that was it for me too.
Another moment was when Naughts left the field with his knee - now that's a brick in the stomach.

Bankers

1. Tim English. Played a good game against a pretty good old fashioned physical ruckman in Mumford.

2. Macrae. He did as much as he physically could with not much help.

3. Young. The future looks bright for this kid. He belongs in the 22

Anchors

1. Match committee. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but we got beaten by a more experienced bigger bodied team. The balance was definitely off.

2. Bont. Beaten a *!*!*!*!en De Boer. That was un Bont like.

3. Somehow weren't up for a scrap. A scrap is normally our go but not today.

Bankers
Jack Macrae - wonderful season, AA, never stopped having a go
Tim English - thought he had a good game, very mobile for 205cm.
The supporters who made the trip and showed the colours, you put in the hard earned and the hard yards and the trip back wouldn't have been great but well done.


Anchors
Rucking Macrae, Dunkley and Bont - ridiculous, embarrassing won't ever work imo.
Naughton's injury.
Lipinski's miss at a crucial time destroyed us.

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Originally Posted by westbulldog

Anchors

Rucking Macrae, Dunkley and Bont - ridiculous, embarrassing won't ever work imo.

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Couldn’t believe my eyes!!!

This removed all cohesion and skill from the midfielders.

But it comes under the heading ‘visionary ‘ so I expect to see a lot more of it next year.

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Originally Posted by Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Bankers

1. Every Dogs fan who made the trip up for the game. Kudo's to you all.
2.Jack Macrae. The only one of our midfielders who could hold his head high.
3. Zaine Cordy. A couple of mistakes, but he really had a red hot crack.

Anchors

1. JJ. Just putrid, had multiple opportunities to have an impact but just had a complete mare of a game.
2. Our mids - bar Macrae- this is where we lost the game.
3. Dale, Lipinski, Bont missing critical shots. Almost felt like if either one of them had converted the opportunities they had, we may have changed the complete complexion of the game.

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Agree totally with above. I thought Zaine was really good in an otherwise putrid day. Our turnovers when streaming forward killed us too.

B1 Fans. Rocked up, made noise, tried to recreate the '16 vibe, an impossible task given passage of time and changed context. Stuck fat.

B2 Wood. Fantastic captain's game. He went up a notch on what we've seen from him this year. Few followed.

B3 English really tried to exploit his advantage over Mumford, to reasonable effect.

A1 midfield group. Weren't up for the fight. That's a real mark on them after carrying us most of the 2nd half of the season.
A2 Greene gouge on Bont and no real remonstrations. Not good enough.
A3 JT not picked. Hurt.

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Originally Posted by Danjul

Couldn’t believe my eyes!!!

This removed all cohesion and skill from the midfielders.

But it comes under the heading ‘visionary ‘ so I expect to see a lot more of it next year.

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You realise the move actually got us into the game in the second quarter, don't you?

It wasn't perfect but up the point Bont went forward and could have put us in front this particular coaching move was the big change in the game that made a difference.

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Originally Posted by jeemak

You realise the move actually got us into the game in the second quarter, don't you?

It wasn't perfect but up the point Bont went forward and could have put us in front this particular coaching move was the big change in the game that made a difference.

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Agree. It was required on the day to change the flow of the contest and it was successful in doing so for a period. I would have gone further and moved Bont to FF and thrown Naughton into the midfield for a burst to get him into the game.

But it does highlight that our initial team selection was unbalanced.