Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 8, 2024 vs Hawthorn

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

This is the Round 5, 2024 edition of the weekly Bankers and Anchors thread. Once this afternoon's game against Hawthorn 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.

[bulldogtragic]

B

Making Newcombe look great
Making Hawthorn look ok


A

This group
This coach
This trajectory we are on if nothing changes now

[Scorlibo]

Bankers

Bont - all quality tonight, he's just a joy to watch. It's a shameful thing really when he plays like that and we still lose.

Dale - kept us in the game in the first half, looked the only player likely to create any opportunities from the back half. He's still a top line player.

Naughton - we play four talls in the forward line for a chunk of that game and only Naughton received attention from a genuine key defender, yet he was still our most dangerous forward. Competes all day, every game.

Anchors

Coaches - persisted with O'Donnell and Khamis, kept throwing Richards around, Bontempelli off for a huge chunk of the last quarter and thrown forward when he comes on, allowing Bramble and Gallagher to continue in the senior side after consistent sub-standard performances. What is going on?

Treloar - if I see him getting votes in the WOOF awards because he led the possession count I'll spew up. Atrocious all day with ball in hand. Dinky little handballs that missed the mark, fumbles, being worried out of it, bombing the highest of high balls inside 50 under no pressure.

Ugle-Hagan - has been playing all or nothing football all year. It's selfish and it needs to stop.

Extra: Libba's ongoing concussion worries - no way was he okay after that contest in the first quarter. Looked like he was trying to blink the stars away. Seriously concerning.

[westbulldog]

Bankers
Bontempelli, his shoulders just aren't broad enough to carry the list cloggers every week.
Liberatore, I reckon he played 3/4's concussed and still gave his all.
Jones

Anchors

Attitude, motivation
the forward coach Spangher (there is NO system),
Vandermeer, Duryea, Khamis, O'Donnell

[macca]

Bankers

1. Sam Darcy took some good marks tonight and presented. In the 3rd quarter he was clear on his own on the 50 m arc across the ground. Whoever had the ball decided to kick long to a Naughton contest, which JUH crashed.
2. Naughton for working hard all game.

Anchors.
1. Getting better by a bottom side Hawthorn.
2. allowing players like Gunston paddocks of space .
3. Our list looks more bare than Hawthorn after tonight. Our almost footballers are list cloggers and we need to move them on.
4. Players not concentrating for the whole game. Its a problem, as the opponent can get 2-3 m ahead.

[Scorlibo]

1. Sam Darcy took some good marks tonight and presented. In the 3rd quarter he was clear on his own on the 50 m arc across the ground. Whoever had the ball decided to kick long to a Naughton contest, which JUH crashed.

He didn't get the fruits but he had a genuine crack tonight. His contested work in the forward 50 ruck contests in the third quarter gave us a lot of looks.