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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Quote Originally Posted by The Bulldogs Bite View Post
    73 to 29 inside 50s - what is wrong with our mids today? Half forwards haven’t helped but it’s a capitulation from our midfield
    Yep, I hope it burns them and makes them realise they have a bit to do before they can consider themselves best in the business.
    Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Richards been a plus today.

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    76 games per man experience. Went in too young. Need your bigger bodies like Libba and Wallis fit for games like this.

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Interstate finals are tough to win. Just again highlights how good 2016 was.

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    Young team will learn a lot

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Quote Originally Posted by angelopetraglia View Post
    76 games per man experience. Went in too young. Need your bigger bodies like Libba and Wallis fit for games like this.
    Add in Morris, Picken and Boyd, all would have all been very handy today

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    The week break cost us our momentum, said after 2016 they should have got rid of it.

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Gave up 33 scoring shots, plus misses. About 40 shots on goal to them. Crazyily poor.
    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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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Disappointing end to the season, but our 2nd half of the season was very good... lots of learnings from today which we can mull over for the next 6 months.

    Heads up boys... we’ll come again.

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    West, McLean, Lloyd, Hayes & Dale with 10 touches or less. Hard to play with 5 passengers and quite a few not much better.
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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    All week we knew they would "go the knuckle" - there was even a thread on here about it - and we still weren't prepared to get down and dirty and just disappeared meekly into the night.
    Footscray member since 1980.

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    West, McLean, Lloyd, Hayes & Dale with 10 touches or less. Hard to play with 5 passengers and quite a few not much better.
    We couldn’t get the ball forward, but agree that they were no good.

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Quote Originally Posted by KT31 View Post
    The week break cost us our momentum, said after 2016 they should have got rid of it.
    I'm sure the influential thinkers in the media will be just as generous towards us as they were towards WCE after we knocked them off having gotten personnel back after the bye.

    If we can get out of this with Naughton having suffered a lateral rather than something more drastic then we can hit the preseason with huge confidence after a hopefully fruitful trade period.

    While it was clear our core midfielders didn't have the influence we may have liked, it was clear that we didn't get the physicality and support from those on the periphery to them and it appeared the Giants certainly got the former all game aside from a couple of brief moments.

    That's where our improvement will come from.
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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    Bonti 13 touches. They worked him over well. Macrae 32 and 9 tackles just keeps going but overall the midfield was smashed.

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    Re: 2019 Elimination Final Game Day - GWS Giants V Western Bulldogs

    There's no way we get smashed like that through the middle with both Libba and Wallis in the side, but, would each have been selected in the last few weeks or the finals if both available?

    While the pressure of GWS was really good, we also had players decide to have a bit of a stinker, particularly with the football in hand. JJ and Duryea stick out on this front, so did Cordy at times who I thought was both reasonable and clearly struggling at during different phases of the game.

    It's easy to look at the forwards and accuse them of being ineffective, which they largely were, but they just didn't get the opportunities to impact the game due to a lack of supply. That lack of supply is fairly and squarely on our midfield and defencive half movers. GWS were excellent at clogging up and being physical within the area between 35m to 80m away from their goals and we couldn't respond to it.

    I don't care where we think we are settled for in terms of talent across the ground, today proved we need to keep bringing talent in. If Isaac Smith is available at the right price we take him, same with Josh Bruce or whoever could possibly make our list better and better suited to days like today (which each would have).

    That doesn't mean avoid targeting Martin and Keath for instance, it just means that if someone is available and better than who you might have on your list then you get them if you can.
    Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

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