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Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
This is the round 21, 2017 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against GWS Giants 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
Optional: New addition to the Bankers and Anchors Banchors 3 players we thought who were in the middle in how they went in the game neither a Banker or Anchor.
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.
"Footscray people are incredible people; so humble. I'm just so happy - ecstatic"
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
B
Cloke - Thought his ruck time was more effective. Our most dangerous looking forward, with shit delivery he's fighting...
Bonts - If Wallace 'The List Manager' doesn't have you in, then he's a very bad list manager.
Dale - The boy is clean, off the ground and by foot.
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Young. Sorry son, but hopefully you're better for this mare.
Toby Greene and all the knobs defending him.
Suckling. Seems to be making decisions as if concussed.
Goal kicking. But the club don't care, so hey, whatever.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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B.
Bontempli- this ball handle skills are amazing and kept us in the game in the first half
Cloke- workhorse like performance. Took some important marks
We won insid 50s 64 to 34
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FIX OUR KICKING a please!!!!! It's exasperating and starting to affect our reliable goal kickers like Dickson . Why would you hand off to suckling is beyond me
Greene-'put him away for 6 weeks
Commentary- it's pathetic . They were trying to justify Greene thuggery as fair
Where is the midfield to help Bonts? Jong has been missed.
YOung - put game behind you learn and get better from it. But not then only one who had a shocker.
Last edited by macca; 12-08-2017 at 12:12 PM.
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B
Bont and McLean were excellent but received zero support from their fellow midfielders.
Sedond quarter, whilst wasteful, was the bulldogs of 2016.
Loved Murph's goal.
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Lewis Young....had the sort of game that would make him realise this is not an easy caper.
Libba a shadow of his former self and Wallis has had a good return from injury but he was irrelevant tonight. Hate seeing him one out up forward.
Our lack of conversion up forward. Embarrassing that we could only score one goal in a half of football.
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken.
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B- The Bont is carrying the team
- Dale Morris isn't human
- thought Cloke battled hard
A- the lack of support for Marcus . I'm really annoyed at Tom Liberatore's lack of condition . He looks like a suburban footballer
- the pathetic conversion
- the pathetic rabble like forward entries
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
Bankers:
Bont - just a great player
Dickson - great seeing him get a few
Dale - He has had a good year
Anchors:
Young - cannot be too hard on him only a kid played a few games but the turnovers did cost us
Hunter - gets a lot of it but mucks around with it a bit too much
Our efficiency inside 50 needs to be reviewed - 65 to 34 inside 50s in our favour lose by 8 goals not good enough.
Last edited by Eastdog; 12-08-2017 at 06:14 PM.
"Footscray people are incredible people; so humble. I'm just so happy - ecstatic"
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
No way I'm giving an anchor to a kid that's played a handful of games, playing deep defence in the most inexperienced back line in the league. He had a horror night but didn't stop trying to the end and that's all you can ask. He'll be better for the experience.
There were at least half a dozen of his more experienced mates that need the blow torch applied before Young gets it (I'm looking at you Libba, Wallis, Picken, Stringer, Suckling, Redpath etc). Some of the most disheartening football I've seen from these players.
Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
Originally Posted by
comrade
No way I'm giving an anchor to a kid that's played a handful of games, playing deep defence in the most inexperienced back line in the league. He had a horror night but didn't stop trying to the end and that's all you can ask. He'll be better for the experience.
There were at least half a dozen of his more experienced mates that need the blow torch applied before Young gets it (I'm looking at you Libba, Wallis, Picken, Stringer, Suckling, Redpath etc). Some of the most disheartening football I've seen from these players.
I gave Young an anchor although it really didn't want to but in saying that he'll learn a lot from this experience. He will be a good player.
"Footscray people are incredible people; so humble. I'm just so happy - ecstatic"
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
Originally Posted by
comrade
There were at least half a dozen of his more experienced mates that need the blow torch applied before Young gets it (I'm looking at you Libba, Wallis, Picken, Stringer, Suckling, Redpath etc). Some of the most disheartening football I've seen from these players.
Suckling was BOG according to WB Social Media
If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
Originally Posted by
boydogs
Suckling was BOG according to WB Social Media
Watching a different game to me.
Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
Originally Posted by
comrade
Watching a different game to me.
Suckling could kick 10 and people would still have him as an anchor and in the outs for the next week.
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Originally Posted by
Bullies
Suckling could kick 10 and people would still have him as an anchor and in the outs for the next week.
Well, at least there's no danger in that ever happening.
Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.
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Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 21, 2017 vs GWS Giants
Originally Posted by
Bullies
Suckling could kick 10 and people would still have him as an anchor and in the outs for the next week.
Going by his average he'd of kicked 10.20.
That'd have him well and truly in the Banchor position that he's so accustomed to
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Originally Posted by
Bullies
Suckling could kick 10 and people would still have him as an anchor and in the outs for the next week.
That's because those 10 would come at the cost of 20.
For a player of his "experience" his inability to show any composure or leadership is damming.
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