Game Day Round EF 2015 - Western Bulldogs vs Adelaide Crows

[The bulldog tragician]

Just to punish myself I re-watched the last quarter up to where Tex starts bouncing the ball along the boundary after throwing Roberts to the ground illegally.

There were lots of errors after we hit the front and led by 8 or 9 points. One of the boundary umpires cheat when Stringer is chasing the ball, over runs it and Talia picks it up and runs off. The ball actually rolled over the line and the boundary umpire stood there watching.

Later on we made so many handball errors in the backline it wasn't funny. We seemed to panic, and hopefully the young players will learn from that.

I have now deleted the game off IQ

I remember that boundary line thing ! The last quarter is a blur though. Very courageous effort to watch it again, let alone the third quarter where we basically threw it away.

[Twodogs]

I remember that boundary line thing ! The last quarter is a blur though. Very courageous effort to watch it again, let alone the third quarter where we basically threw it away.

The third quarter was awful. Watching us miss shot after shot.

[Twodogs]

I've just remembered. It's saved to the hard drive on the telly. Delete ASAP.

[The bulldog tragician]

I've just remembered. It's saved to the hard drive on the telly. Delete ASAP.

My sister arrived home to see that the message on IQ next to the game said Failed. It seemed apt.

[Sedat]

David King didn't miss us with his review of the game. Our defensive running was terrible, especially early on, which King highlighted a number of examples of Adelaide players running past Dogs players unopposed through the middle. I was wondering on the night why Adelaide was slicing us up so easily on the rebound - now I know why. Uncharacteristic defensive performance by us this year - I think we got a false sense of security after kicking the first 3 goals of the game and then went to sleep defensively for the next 45 minutes.

[azabob]

I am still in disbelief we lost this game. This is the most frustrated I have been after a loss all year. As Sedat mentioned above, the ease with which Adelaide scored not only in the first half but entire march was ridiculous. Beveridge knew this was a problem but couldn't get us as a team to tighten up. He described it as our players being a bit to enthusiastic about attacking - or something along those lines.

It was a Really disappointing end to a great season.

[Happy Days]

David King didn't miss us with his review of the game. Our defensive running was terrible, especially early on, which King highlighted a number of examples of Adelaide players running past Dogs players unopposed through the middle. I was wondering on the night why Adelaide was slicing us up so easily on the rebound - now I know why. Uncharacteristic defensive performance by us this year - I think we got a false sense of security after kicking the first 3 goals of the game and then went to sleep defensively for the next 45 minutes.

I kind of understand why this happened - I think the extra space messed with our press a little bit and took us a quarter or so to adapt to. If anything is stretched by its sides it will logically become skinnier from top to bottom. We seemed to fix this up from about midway through the second onwards, but not before that little twerp/gun Betts snagged 4 too many.

Now I'm not saying this is an acceptable rationale, but it's a rationale at least.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

It took far too long to fix, particularly when we had senior players in Morris, Murphy, Boyd and Wood on the ground. You would think it's something that should be fixed within minutes. It took us about 2 and a half quarters, and even then, it was still poor.

The fact that we're sitting out Friday Night really, really annoys me.

[Remi Moses]

David King didn't miss us with his review of the game. Our defensive running was terrible, especially early on, which King highlighted a number of examples of Adelaide players running past Dogs players unopposed through the middle. I was wondering on the night why Adelaide was slicing us up so easily on the rebound - now I know why. Uncharacteristic defensive performance by us this year - I think we got a false sense of security after kicking the first 3 goals of the game and then went to sleep defensively for the next 45 minutes.

I heard that to.
He's bang on, as much as we missed our chances in the second half, the first half team defence was atrocious

[Bulldog4life]

David King didn't miss us with his review of the game. Our defensive running was terrible, especially early on, which King highlighted a number of examples of Adelaide players running past Dogs players unopposed through the middle. I was wondering on the night why Adelaide was slicing us up so easily on the rebound - now I know why. Uncharacteristic defensive performance by us this year - I think we got a false sense of security after kicking the first 3 goals of the game and then went to sleep defensively for the next 45 minutes.

Yes our defence in the last two games we played....Adelaide & Brisbane... was uncharacteristic of how we played during the year.

[Twodogs]

Yes our defence in the last two games we played....Adelaide & Brisbane... was uncharacteristic of how we played during the year.

We saved the worst for last just to keep them guessing.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

Leigh Matthews commented on the Sunday that the two best young players in the comp are Bontempelli and Stringer and that they play in the same team. Good call Leigh. Let's see who we pick up in the off season to bolster a great young side.

[Sedat]

I kind of understand why this happened - I think the extra space messed with our press a little bit and took us a quarter or so to adapt to. If anything is stretched by its sides it will logically become skinnier from top to bottom. We seemed to fix this up from about midway through the second onwards, but not before that little twerp/gun Betts snagged 4 too many.

Now I'm not saying this is an acceptable rationale, but it's a rationale at least.

I wasn't concerned with the last passage of play - we didn't do a hell of a lot wrong except lose the initial clearance in our forward line (which shouldn't have been a stoppage anyway as we butchered a clear goal scoring opportunity through Hunter/Crameri which caused the stoppage).

The lack of defensive running was far more of an issue from about 10 minutes into the 1st qtr until half time. So many ridiculously easy goals conceded because we let the likes of Sloane and Cameron run past us and deliver unopposed into Adelaide's forward 50 for Betts to gobble up.

[jeemak]

Having not had the time or inclination to post since Saturday, pretty much all of my sentiments have been summed up well by other posters.

A lot of our defencive malaise was caused between the ears of a young team that probably took for granted the early lead gained, and not fully understanding a sucker given an even break will gladly take an advantage. Yes the MCG is a tough ground to set up on from a space perspective compared to Docklands, but it's not that tough. Adelaide was able to get behind us with efficient ball movement too easily and would have done so on any ground such was our attitude towards team defence.

I hope the players who missed easy goals and easy targets burn on the inside. Because of them Adelaide were the better team where it counted - in the column under "G" - and they were just members of a team typical of its predecessors.

We should be getting ready to take it up to the Hawks this week.

[Mantis]

We should be getting ready to take it up to the Hawks this week.

Just went for a walk out the front of work and there are Cows supporters lubricating their vocal chords in the numerous bars around the area.

It should be us!