Three things I have learned-round 11 v West Coast Eagles 2019

[Twodogs]

Alright fire away. Tell un three things that you know now that you didn't know a couple of hours ago...

[GVGjr]

Bump

[The Bulldogs Bite]

1. We are a bottom 4 side

2. Gardner looked OK - maybe something to work with

3. We are miles and miles away from being a good side

[bulldogtragic]

1. Gardner is not a ruckman. Not even close. I'm unsure he's a bona fide prospect, but he's not a ruckman. Sorry Bevo.
2. We must hate Josh Schache. How else do you explain rookie listing a VFL player, playing immediately despite a massive talent gap and with less effect. At least Schache would've kicked the goal from 4 metres out. Gardner gave no more, maybe even less, than Schache could.
3. That's it. I already knew most of our horrible aspects.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

1. If our club doesn't instigate a thorough review at the end of the year, if not now, we're kidding ourselves. Let me be clear - I don't want Bevo sacked, but we've got massive issues that need to be solved, if we're not to waste the next 5 years
2. We used to have a midfield core that you could trust with your life at a contest. Not anymore. Is it game plan or are players not positioning themselves at stoppages right, because that's where we are getting sliced up. Macrae has been awful, Libba is only just going.. and I'm not sure Lipinski has the nouse right now to be at the coalface.
3. Gosh I can't wait for Morris to come back.... if he has a decent back half of the year. Give him another year, because we smell in defense.

[chef]

1. Zaine has lost me. Battles hard but is not AFL quality, at least not top 8 quality.

2. Losing doesnt hurt anymore again, premiership what premiership.

3. Bottom 4, nah we are bottom 3.

[Danjul]

1. Zaine has lost me. Battles hard but is not AFL quality, at least not top 8 quality.

2. Losing doesnt hurt anymore again, premiership what premiership.

3. Bottom 4, nah we are bottom 3.

l think you are a bit hard on Cordy. He did some good things but he is playing out of position. He just bounces off big key position players, no way he should be on Darling. He is set up to fail. The selection committee does not pay any respect to the opposition talent.

[jeemak]

l think you are a bit hard on Cordy. He did some good things but he is playing out of position. He just bounces off big key position players, no way he should be on Darling. He is set up to fail. The selection committee does not pay any respect to the opposition talent.

With the loss of Crozier we didn't have an opportunity to put Wood on Darling. We genuinely don't have anyone else who could have played on him.

[Danjul]

With the loss of Crozier we didn't have an opportunity to put Wood on Darling. We genuinely don't have anyone else who could have played on him.

I would have tried Lewis Young on Kennedy and Trengove on Darling. With Cordy on the flank. Couldn’t have gone any worse.

[jeemak]

I would have tried Lewis Young on Kennedy and Trengove on Darling. With Cordy on the flank. Couldn’t have gone any worse.

Cordy, irrespective of size, is a much stronger all round competitor than Lewis Young. Kennedy would have then become the focal point rather than Darling being the focal point, and would have had at least two or three more possessions and goals than the nine and three he had today.

[MrMahatma]

1. Losing the centre clearances means you have Gowers in there and Libba on HFF...
2. Bont gets away with murder. Missed sitters... again.
3. As much as I hope and want us to be good, we actually are pretty rubbish.

[AutoFill]

1. The gap between what Bevo thinks Gowers is and what he actually is, is enormous
2. We have to many 6’2 medium sized, medium skilled, medium paced HBFers, and not enough guys with a particular niche talent
3. The coaching staff are so unwilling to utilise good sense over perceived innovativeness, they probably think their stubbornness is actually resilience.

[Bullies]

1. The gap between what Bevo thinks Gowers is and what he actually is, is enormous
2. We have to many 6’2 medium sized, medium skilled, medium paced HBFers, and not enough guys with a particular niche talent
3. The coaching staff are so unwilling to utilise good sense over perceived innovativeness, they probably think their stubbornness is actually resilience.

To even have Gowers in the team let alone in the middle shows where we are at. That experiment has failed Bevo and you were wrong. All is forgiven Simon Dalrymple.

[Danjul]

To even have Gowers in the team let alone in the middle shows where we are at. That experiment has failed Bevo and you were wrong. All is forgiven Simon Dalrymple.

Against the Eagles, Gowers had more possessions and kicked more goals than Naughton.

Take away Naughton’s 5 goal game and the fact that Gowers had to sacrifice his game to make opportunities for Naughton and there’s not much between their contributions.

Yet one can do no wrong and the other is the worst player in the competition! Give me a break. What does he have to do to be accepted?

we had the same nonsense with Roberts. Lucky he was dropped, otherwise we might have been thrashed in the last two weeks.

Oh, we were. (and at one stage against the Eagles we were 12 goals behind).

[The bulldog tragician]

Against the Eagles, Gowers had more possessions and kicked more goals than Naughton.

Take away Naughton’s 5 goal game and the fact that Gowers had to sacrifice his game to make opportunities for Naughton and there’s not much between their contributions.

Yet one can do no wrong and the other is the worst player in the competition! Give me a break. What does he have to do to be accepted?

we had the same nonsense with Roberts. Lucky he was dropped, otherwise we might have been thrashed in the last two weeks.

Oh, we were. (and at one stage against the Eagles we were 12 goals behind).

I’m not one of those that endlessly bags Gowers, I can see the reasons he is selected, even though I share the frustration at his erratic form...but honestly, using stats to differentiate between him and Naughton tells us nothing. We can all see from the evidence of WATCHING the game that Naughton has unique talents. We have all seen enough journeymen, and the rarer superstar in the making, to form those opinions by what we see, not mere stats. Ok, Naughton is not yet consistent but he won’t turn 20 until the end of this year and gets some horrible delivery. We sometimes have to trust the evident of our own eyes surely Danjul.