Always Right Match Committee - Round 3 Vs GWS 2020

[Danjul]

I don’t know about ins, but at the moment Suckling, Gowers, Lloyd, Dale and Gardner are the obvious choices for outs in the short term.
Bruce needs to show more. I’m becoming a bit concerned about Macrae. We need to do something about our inability to defend on a turnover.

The cure is simple.

1. Have the receiver in the clear and the player with the ball able to kick properly. Like St Kilda had tonight.
2. Have a dominant ruck. Like St Kilda had tonight.
3. Stop the ridiculously long handball chains. Like St Kilda did tonight.

Then there won’t be enough turnovers to worry about.

[GVGjr]

In: Libba, Wood (if he is ok), Sweet, Trengove, Dickson

Out: Gowers, Gardner, English, Dale, Lloyd,

Wood is out for maybe 2 more weeks according to Bevo

[comrade]

#SendNaughtonBack

[Danjul]

It's probably a good game to consider it but do we need 2 ruck man in that game where Sam Jacobs is their number 1?

the Bulldogs don’t have 2 ruckmen (yet).

[GVGjr]

Some quotes from Bevo's presser which might help with selections this week

LB: We’ve got to remain glass half full - there has been some change in our side. Some of our younger guys will grow week to week. We’re always in a state of transition, you’ve just got to keep an open mind and stay positive.

LB: Tom is on the fringe, hadn’t played footy in a long time. He’ll come into consideration, had a good training run on Saturday. He’s had injury turmoil with those knees and we need to make sure they are totally right.

LB: It was a better start than round 1. We missed some opportunities, but after that - we didn’t use ball well enough and what we geared up for intensity wise fell apart.

LB: I’ve got a strong belief in our players and our group.

LB: Easton Wood will be out for a couple of weeks with a thigh injury.

LB: The players will look deep and reflect on what they can do better, but we can’t play paranoid footy. We need to find a real balance of challenging them and believing in them.

[GVGjr]

the Bulldogs don’t have 2 ruckmen (yet).

You've been pushing Sweets name forward under the guise of a ruck man

[westbulldog]

In Liberatore Sweet Weightman Young
Out Gowers Gardner Dale Lloyd

[Danjul]

You've been pushing Sweets name forward under the guise of a ruck man

I was saying English isn’t a ruckman. Watch the last 2 seconds of each of his contests. His opponent usually.......

[Scraggers]

If Gardener gets another game this season I will spew up. That was deplorable.

In:- Libba, Cordy, Trengove
Out :- Gardener, Gowers, Dale

[GVGjr]

If Gardener gets another game this season I will spew up. That was deplorable.

In:- Libba, Cordy, Trengove
Out :- Gardener, Gowers, Dale

Like English, Gardner needs some support if he is to be played. He needs to be the 3rd tall defender
Will we drop him? I'm not so sure

[Scraggers]

Like English, Gardner needs some support if he is to be played. He needs to be the 3rd tall defender
Will we drop him? I'm not so sure

I can forgive the shank, but the guy just looked lost on the field. He didn’t know where to run when attacking and he looked lost in defence.

I know he is trying hard, but his read of the play is just not there. He is not at AFL level.

I would love to be proved wrong, but he is costing us a position in the backline.

[Happy Days]

Gardner fully can't play ever again. His skill level is deplorable, he's terrible one on one, doesn't intercept, and frankly looks terrified to be out there. This is his fourth season in the AFL system, there is nothing there with him (as another club already had the common sense to realise).

Yes, other players were more disappointing but no one was worse or even close. I'm getting text messages from my friends just laughing about how out of his depth he is.

We've apparently given up on Schache who is younger than Gardner and actually has done things in the AFL. Lewis Young is 18 months younger and has the ability to not fall over in every single contest he's in, but he isn't even given one game of latitude.

It's just so frustrating to see us piss games up against the wall under some rubbish guise of development or whatever and let good players sit on the sidelines. He has no business in the AFL and it's just self-flagelation playing him. I'm at a loss as to how anyone can be pleased or even sympathetic to his selection.

[The Adelaide Connection]

This is wildly experimental, but why don't we try playing a lineup that closely resembles what we were playing late last year?

You know, when we were pretty much dominating and one of the highest-scoring teams. Just crazy enough to work.

[Sedat]

It really doesn't matter what we do at match committee. If we don't have the 22 selected players 100% committed to fanatically bashing in and bashing up the opposition next week, then we have no pride whatsoever. That mob embarrassed us brutally in the finals last year - we didn't stop talking about 'redemption' all summer and fired blanks when the real stuff started. We did it again during isolation, and once again we dismally failed to match our actions with our words.

it will be career ending stuff for some players if there is a repeat of our last 3 competitive matches.

[Webby]

My every instinct said we were going to get done tonight from the moment the side was picked..

Why does Bevo take 9-10 weeks to get selection right EVERY YEAR!!??