Western Bulldogs list rankings: Every player rated ahead of the 2014 AFL season

[1eyedog]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/af...-1226824793148

Not sure if this is up anywhere, apologies if it is. Run of the mill summary but some interesting comments regarding who is at the crossroads towards the bottom of the article.

[LostDoggy]

Read this last night and made me laugh.

Take this poorly written article with a grain of salt.

Clay Smith
After an impressive debut season, Smith looked set to become an important cog in the Bulldogs engine room. The tough midfielder suffered second-year blues in 2013 but will be expected to bounce back this year and add another layer to the club’s developing contested football brigade.

Second year blues? Not a season ending knee injury? Ok sure....

Amateur writing.

[G-Mo77]

Read this last night and made me laugh.

Take this poorly written article with a grain of salt.

Clay Smith
After an impressive debut season, Smith looked set to become an important cog in the Bulldogs engine room. The tough midfielder suffered second-year blues in 2013 but will be expected to bounce back this year and add another layer to the club’s developing contested football brigade.

Second year blues? Not a season ending knee injury? Ok sure....

Amateur writing.

Thanks mate. I won't bother even looking at it now. They could pluck someone from Twitter who could do a better job than some of these "reporters"

[ledge]

It's kind of right it's his second year and getting a knee injury would make you blue, so I don't think Clay would say it was a good year.
Not a fault of his own but still a blue year for him.

[LostDoggy]

Koby Stevens in the crossroads? I think he should start watching our games before reporting on us.

[bulldogtragic]

Bontempelli should have retired last year??

[1eyedog]

Yeah I know this is the one that I found difficult to swallow. Still, unless Koby can contribute somewhere outside the midfield he has a heap of competition in front of him for a spot which says to me we are developing good depth there.

[doggies ftw]

Yeah I know this is the one that I found difficult to swallow. Still, unless Koby can contribute somewhere outside the midfield he has a heap of competition in front of him for a spot which says to me we are developing good depth there.

I like Koby on a HFF rotating through the middle, strong mark, tough and knows how to kick a goal. Although I wouldnt be surprised if he developed into a full time mid who can rest forward. Still so inexperienced and had suffered a heap of injuries before coming to the dogs. He'd only played like 11 games!

Also the article talked about liams jones' strengths.... apparently his big tank lol

[Twodogs]

I like Koby on a HFF rotating through the middle, strong mark, tough and knows how to kick a goal. Although I wouldnt be surprised if he developed into a full time mid who can rest forward. Still so inexperienced and had suffered a heap of injuries before coming to the dogs. He'd only played like 11 games!

Also the article talked about liams jones' strengths.... apparently his big tank lol

He keeps it in the back yard at home to collect rainwater. It's huge!

[Doc26]

Liam Jones

22, 56. Position: Forward

If Jones can’t improve his output with the addition of Crameri to the Bulldogs’ team there will be some serious questions asked. Those questions were being asked last season when the key forward was dropped in favour of Tom Campbell. Jones has all the tools – contested marking and a big tank – but can go missing during games and his goalkicking leaves much to be desired.

Liam's endurance is the area that demands most improvement. Fortunately this pre season has seen Liam take some steps forward in this regard.

Who is Ben Higgins ? Is there no quality control at the Herald Sun / News Limited ?

[bornadog]

Does the Herald Sun / News Limited have no quality control

what do you expect from a Murdoch paper

[Doc26]

Fancy having to pay for the privilege of reading such tripe. It felt like I was reading this article through a mirror how back to front his insight on our players is.

[LostDoggy]

He keeps it in the back yard at home to collect rainwater. It's huge!

I just snorted my iced coffee. Hilarious

[Cyberdoggie]

Gotta love these generic list reviews. They tell you absolutely nothing and are full of glaring errors, yet the papers love them because they look good in print and there is a countdown effect to keep readers interested during that period.

[Remi Moses]

There are that many "Accredited" journos now it's a battle to sort through the dross written and spoken on the game.