WB FightBack30 V Melbourne R17 2019

[The bulldog tragician]

Also made important tackles in key moments.

I feel certain the coaches would have been happy with Roarke’s game. I don’t know if he will make it longer-term, but he is still very young in terms of experience, and those two goals were like gold. I’m very happy with how he goes about it, his endeavour can’t be questioned, and he’s starting to look like he believes in himself. We are very critical as supporters, even when Bont has a rare poor game. He has carried us on his shoulders for so much of the season. We found a way to win today, earlier in the season this was a game we would have lost. The group is developing cohesion. Good times are not far away..

[soupman]

Happy with that. Not necessarily an enjoyable game to watch but we nullified them well and most players contributed.

Roarke statistically wasn't impressive but I think he owned his moments in the p;lay which was pleasing. Took good marks, was constructive with the ball in hand, applied good pressure and importantly nailed his chances for goal. Let's face it we don't want Roarke getting it 20 times at the expense of someone else, so if he can make his involvements good and perform a role in the side i think he keeps his spot.

Very happy with Cordy's game. He has had a tough season where he has struggled to do much more than break even in contests so to see him taking good intercept marks and being physical was pleasing. Duryea is another who isn't highly rated here but was fantastic today. Was good aerially, constructive and effective with ball in hand and really showed he can contribute. It was about this point in the season last year that Crozier finally seemed to click and went from being fringe to an integral part of the side, could Duryea also be hitting that point?

Also Schache put in a strong case for his making it. Today he was excellent in affecting aerial contests, and showed the poise and good ball use he is capable of that would have been big reasons why he went pick 2. Very pleased with his effort.

[azabob]

Great point on Duryea, Lloyd has his breakthrough game last week and Duryea today.

[SonofScray]

A dour win, on a good day for the Club. Winning is the most valuable thing for us now.

I was frustrated for a few stretches, concerned with the output of a few blokes but am giving them a reprieve. We were two down for a fair stretch and one down for most. Hard to win when you are faced with that. Did well to push on.

[bornadog]

Can someone answer this - how many getable set shots did we miss? And getable snaps? Especially in the first half and the 3rd quarter.

Bont had 3 all up

[bornadog]

Actually 30 years ago we were on our uppers and couldn't get a win to save ourselves-literally! 1989 was a shit of a year (wooden spoon, coach and players leaving) that was saved by one divine off-field moment. But I see what you mean.

Not quite the wooden spoon, but close

[Scraggers]

Did you hear the Bulldog song at the end of the game?
It was Sons of the Scray. Sounded bloody good too.

[bornadog]

The Retro Jumper - was pretty good

[AndrewP6]

Did you hear the Bulldog song at the end of the game?
It was Sons of the Scray. Sounded bloody good too.

They used it for the VFL too. I like it. Had the lyrics on screen before the game.

[bulldogtragic]

How many jumpers have we had this year in 17 rounds?

Home, away, fightback, marvel, indigenous (5)

Any others?

[Mofra]

I couldn’t disagree more.

Trengove has at least 2 kicked in him by a kid (Petty), positioned himself poorly numerous times, gave away free kicks, turned it over and was lucky enough to get away with one or two late holds. He was awful.

Ditto, couldn't disagree more. He was barely on Petty at all, Cordy took Pettey whenever Petracca played high forward.
We have nobody else who can take the big forwards. Given he spent all pre-season in the ruck before we desperately threw him back he's doing all we can ask of him.

[SonofScray]

How many jumpers have we had this year in 17 rounds?

Home, away, fightback, marvel, indigenous (5)

Any others?

I reckon we'll get the diamond dog at some point!

[The bulldog tragician]

Re: the song. Does anyone remember, For little while after 89, the lyrics were changed..they used to have: Remember 54, until I guess that was a bit embarrassing and we changed to Remember 89..

It was so very us that the song used to be: We’ll come up smiling, if we win or lose..

[Dry Rot]

Only heard bits on the radio and have seen the highlights.

What a tackle by Dunkley on Brayshaw? High speed, high impact and with intent to hurt.

As an old NRL man, that was a thing of great beauty for me.

Show me a better AFL tackle.

[Ghost Dog]

From Demonland forum "Our forward entries are like a 15 year old boy trying to pick up at a blue light disc"