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    Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    This is the round 11, 2020 edition of the weekly Bankers and Anchors thread. Once the game against Brisbane 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.

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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Bankers

    Wallis, our best forward?

    Macrae - our best player?

    Vanders - our best up and coming player?

    Anchors

    Wood - looks finished

    Don't want to be a scratched record, but tonight was the first time I watched Gardner closely. Anchor.

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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Bankers

    1 Macrae - he worked hard all night, and never stopped moving all game.
    2. Wallis - he has worked hard to reinvent his game, post injury to remain viable as an AFL player. You can tell he bleeds Red, White and Blue.
    3. Caleb Daniel, if only more of our ball users could execute disposals with his precision.

    Anchors
    1. Richards, wow his confidence is way down. Just butchered the ball, and has done so for several weeks.
    2. Lipinski. Yep had 17 touches and kicked a nice goal, but just irrelevant right now because he looked like a witches hat at times.
    3. Easton Wood. We can bemoan Gardner all we want, but our forner captain is right now a real liability. He's not taking marks, is putrid with ball, and just offers absolutely nothing positive in current form
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Agreed. Wood was awful.
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Bankers
    Macrae, another great game, would be leading our B&F by a light year.
    Daniel, the smallest player in the backline with the most football nouse.
    Vandermeer, shows real promise, hard at it and competitive.

    apols to Wallis as per YHF's post above.

    Anchors
    Match committee. NFI imo.
    Coaches, change needed.
    No games under the roof at Marvel is hurting us.

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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Quote Originally Posted by westbulldog View Post
    Bankers
    Macrae, another great game, would be leading our B&F by a light year.
    Daniel, the smallest player in the backline with the most football nouse.
    Vandermeer, shows real promise, hard at it and competitive.

    apols to Wallis as per YHF's post above.

    Anchors
    Match committee. NFI imo.
    Coaches, change needed.
    No games under the roof at Marvel is hurting us.
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Hey YHF, was Wood on Cameron all night?

    At the ground, did he shut him down or did Cameron just have a bad night?
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Quote Originally Posted by jeemak View Post
    Hey YHF, was Wood on Cameron all night?

    At the ground, did he shut him down or did Cameron just have a bad night?
    Thought Wood was on Ah-Chee and JJ was on Cameron. I only watched the 1st half though

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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Wood definitely started on Cameron. I am not going to can our defenders exclusively but there was one stoppage the Lions scored from that sticks in my mind. Our defenders were standind 5mt off their opponents when the ball was thrown up! Unforgivable
    The game was lost in the midfield in the second half of the first quater and the 2nd quarter. Players and coaching group have to wear that
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Quote Originally Posted by Yankee Hotel Foxtrot View Post
    3. Easton Wood. We can bemoan Gardner all we want, but our former captain is right now a real liability. He's not taking marks, is putrid with ball, and just offers absolutely nothing positive in current form
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    YHF - you were at the ground, it looked like to me on TV that Wood's job was to keep Cameron quiet and he did that? I know Wood made a couple of errors with his passing, but I thought he did the job.

    PS: Sorry - Just noticed others asking the same thing
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    YHF - you were at the ground, it looked like to me on TV that Wood's job was to keep Cameron quiet and he did that? I know Wood made a couple of errors with his passing, but I thought he did the job.

    PS: Sorry - Just noticed others asking the same thing
    Yeah, to be honest I probably didn't focus on keeping a close eye on Wood, and hence his errors were the standout in my mind.
    I was watching Keath and Gardner in defense a lot of the time.
    Prepared to reevaluate his performance given as has been pointed out, he did keep Charlie quiet.

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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Bankers

    1. Macrae, what a champ. Those under rating him, well take another look.
    2. Wallis - tries his guts out for the club. Another player many thought he wasn't best 22.
    3. Bont: Really stepped it up tonight, and was desperate to get the boys over the line, but you can't do it all yourself.

    Anchors

    1. Gardner- why hold on to the jumper all the time and gift 4 frees in front of goal. All you had to do was just spoil.
    2. Umpires - HTB for us, doesn't exist and now seems like a lottery on how they will pay it. Umpires, Naughton held on to all night to stop him flying, but no one picks it up.
    3. Me - reading the game day thread at quarter time and half time. Never again.
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    3. Me - reading the game day thread at quarter time and half time. Never again.
    What's the point of this?
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    What's the point of this?
    Why are you challenging it?
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    Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 11, 2020 vs Brisbane Lions

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Why are you challenging it?
    Because it has nothing to do with the game and adds nothing to the conversation. If you have a problem with the posting in the game day thread, take it up with GVG or moderators rather than virtue signaling in a thread where anchors are defined as:

    The Anchors = 3 guys/aspects of the game that weighed us down by their errors or poor play
    Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.

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