Bankers And Anchors - Round 21 2016 vs Collingwood

[Eastdog]

This is the round 21 2016 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the 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.

[GVGjr]

3 Bankers and 3 Anchors

[bulldogtragic]

B & A - Josh Dunkley: Very solid game, best on AFL fantasy points. Two misses could've stolen that win away. They're not hard shots son.

B:

Biggs - Excellent
Bonts - Just Bonts
Zaine - 2 goals, handed one to Suckling and should've had another shot for HTB and not in the back.

A:

Stringer - When commentators are saying you're sitting out the back week after week looking for cheapies, everyone is on to you.
Forward line coach - What have you been doing for 12 months???
Umpiring again. Marsh walks one over in the first and no free kick. A tap to a player with 30 seconds goes out and deliberate. Get *!*!*!*!ed!!!

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Bankers
Picken - 9 tackles, one of them in the last almost certainly a match-saving one.
Jong.- his 2 goals from on the run around 50 out in a tight game showed great ability to execute
Matthew Boyd high class performance, bar one abomination. Went at over 91% disposal efficiency.

A:
Tom Boyd- I know delivery is poor, but his movement within fifty isn't much to inspire a teammate up ground at times.
Dunkley. His goalkicking is just woeful.He could become an out and out star if he can rectify his goal-kicking. He has the size and intent to be a very imposing midfielder within 12-24 months. But if he keeps missing easy shots on goals, with such consistency (rivalled only by Roughead!) then his profligacy will cost us games at times, just as well as his other efforts may win them for us.

[Ghost Dog]

Bankers
Tackling. Liam a stand out but it is a feature of our game and we do it well. While we didn't win the stat, we stopped the flow when it counted.
Winning in a variety of ways. Good teams need that. We lost all stats bar one and still managed to find a way.
Marcus, does it again. He was born for it.


A - Kicking efficiency. Hammers on the end of a pretty poor umpiring decision.
Interchange issues at the end with Bont stranded on the sideline.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

B:

1. You can never fault our effort.
2. Zaine is showing some very encouraging signs, love his aggression.
3. Hrovat was important, bad miss late but that aside was clean with his disposal.

- Apologies to Bont. Not his best, but he rises every time the game is on the line. Gun.

A:

1. Our skill level is atrocious at times, namely our delivery I50.
2. Dunkley's finishing. Holding him back from being a very good player already.
3. Stringer. Not much left to say about Jake, very disappointing effort. Suckling was pretty average, Toyd was very poor, but Stringer was downright awful.

[always right]

B:
Bont.....when I wondered where our inspiration would come from, he lifted us over the line.
Hamling.....two good games in a row. What we needed.
Picken....four quarters of tough honest footy

A:
Stringer.....FFS lead at the ball carrier instead of expecting them to kick it 70m over the back.
Margetts.....those last two decisions. Borderline cheating.
Magpie army.....where were you?

[Mantis]

Bankers-

Picken - after a error riddled first half he put the clamps on a player who needed to be shut down, the run down tackle in front of the Bulldog faithful was Picko to a tee.

Bont - he just lifts when you need it.. 20 year old kids shouldn't be doing this week after week.

M.Boyd - now that I can accept the 1 or 2 duffs per game I can see a high quality player underneath.. Just don't make one of those errors deep in the last qtr of a close game.

Anchors -

Fletch - from his best game for the club to almost his worst in the space of 6 days, that was as bad as it gets.

Stringer - gave us nothing except some crucial touches late, we need more Jake.

Defensive set-up - getting over having a little bloke as our last defender on a fast break.

[The Doctor]

Bankers

Picken - always puts in
Bont - star, but I hope we don't always leave it to him to get us out of trouble
Biggs - underrated

Anchors

Stringer - leaving too much to others
Boyd - start using your size and impose
Dickson - limp warm lettuce leaf tackles, really pathetic efforts in last few minutes. This will cost us one day

[LostDoggy]

BANKERS
Bont - I'm gonna have a template for this thread and have Bont pencilled in as permanent No.1. What a marvel.
Picken - So honest.
Dunkley - Needs to finish but love his competitive instincts. Will be a ripper.

ANCHORS
Roberts - Struggles without support, shame but can't see him as a long term key defender
Smith - Gives 100% but is looking like the last few weeks have caught up with him after his long breaks. A week or 2 off pre-finals could see him retain his explosiveness.
Suckling - When the game isn't going his way, he tries too hard to do something special with the ball. Frustrating to watch.

[SlimPickens]

Anchors
Boyd - start using your size and impose.

Thought he actually did this a lot better this week. Definitely needs to do it more consistently but there were signs once again.

[bulldogtragic]

Thought he actually did this a lot better this week. Definitely needs to do it more consistently but there were signs once again.

Yeah, he smashed a Collingwood small with a knee in the back, taking the mark and his opponent out of the contest for a swarm forward. I'd still like to see him forward, I still struggle at times getting a pick one KPF and rucking him.

[Eleanor Street]

Bankers-Bont, M.Boyd, L.Picken

Anchors-Jake looks like he's given a role he's not quite happy with or maybe a one string pony, does have X factor, Dal sems to throw the ball onto his boot a lot without real thought, Suckling for a senior, experienced premiership player doesn't seem to have to many answers when the chips are down. Just can't understand why we can't work out a forward entry structure

Encouragment awards-Hamling was good, agile, can run and take a mark, Cordy had a promising patch, Dunkley gets to the right spot forward, Rat was good for his couple, not sure we have Dicko as well

[bornadog]

Dal sems to throw the ball onto his boot a lot without real thought,

Suckling for a senior, experienced premiership player doesn't seem to have to many answers when the chips are down.

This is so true, Dahl is one of the culprits that just bombs the ball in to noone in the forward 50, very disappointing after working so hard to get the ball.

I am convinced Suckling hasn't a defensive bone in his body

[Eastdog]

Bankers

Bonti - what a player. Our best this year. That 3rd quarter effort got us back into it

Dahl - he is a very smart footballer along with Daniel

Dunkley - liked his game. Will be a player


Anchors

Our defensive effort were suspect last night

Stringer - dissapointing effort but probably carrying an injury. We all know what he is capable of but compared to last year hasn't been the best

Our skill errors we make which hurt us badly