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    Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    This is the round Elimination Final 2020 edition of the weekly Bankers and Anchors thread. Once the game against St Kilda 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 and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Bankers

    1) English - look he got beaten. But he kept trying/putting in and competing. Didn't drop his head and will be bigger and stronger next year;

    2) Bailey Smith - his run and carry was great all day. yes he missed a sitter and yes it proved costly, but he is a gun midfielder and looked at home in a final today;

    3) Daniel - beaten by Geary earlier, but kept backing himself and backing himself and backing himself. Won his position on the day.

    Anchorrs

    1) The Coaching Tactics - the Saints game plan is obvious and just played into it for 3 quarters;

    2) Lippa - pretty average out there today and he would be disappointed. Sold Bont into trouble and just chose the wrong option;

    3) Communication - wasn't on today. Too often the Saints were allowed to go up uncontested or 3 doggies would go for the ball and not shpherd and help out. We weren't on today.

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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    B:
    Effort.

    A:
    Coaching/strategy/mentality.

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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Quote Originally Posted by SonofScray View Post
    B:
    Effort.

    A:
    Coaching/strategy/mentality.
    Nothing to do with coaching
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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Bankers
    1 Crozier
    2 R Smith
    3 B Williams


    Anchors

    1 Ruck - We need one!
    2 Mids - need ones that hit targets going forward and can kick goals
    3 Need some more talls...too many same types in the team

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    Bankers

    1. Bont - he gave his all out there
    2. Taylor Duryea's courage - one effort in the last where he flew for the ball and got smashed, but prevented a Saints mark, just exemplified how fearless he was. He met the standard.
    3. My 7 yr old son Josh.... he was reduced to tears when we looked gone at 26 points down early in the 4th...and in the face of some really unclassy Saints family in front of us...he just kept cheering, and singing Dog's chants, through tears....and just kept it up with each goal we kicked. He earned a lot of praise after the game from quite a few Doggies fans and a very classy who came up to him and magnanimous Saints fans sitting behind us.
    One of the positives of 2020 is for him to be able to see 4 Dogs games..and based on what I saw tonight... the Dogs are now in his blood.

    Anchors
    1. Lipinski. a witches hat defensively, and a rabbit in headlights when he had to make a decision.
    2. Macrae- I love him and he's a top flight player who often leads the way, but unfortunately his limitations stood out tonight.
    3. The middle aged Saints fan and his teenage sons in front of us.. They were rude, disrespectful, and took every opportunity to try and rub their good fortune in and disparage any cheering from Dogs supporters. They nearly crapped their collective pants in the last 10 minutes and were silent. Then as soon as the siren went, all of them stood up and started laughing at Dogs supporters and unleashing a bunch of verbal taunts.. I was livid.. and wanted to explode... but thought I'd set an example for my kids... I smiled at these cretins and said to them "thank you so much"... and then I turned to my two kids who were puzzled at my thanking these clowns and said 'I'm thankful because you saw that kids... you have in front of you a perfect example of what never to do when your team wins.. That's a lack of class, but the Saints family behind us that's how you do it! You celebrate your team winning and also be gracious and a good sport."

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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Quote Originally Posted by Yankee Hotel Foxtrot View Post
    Bankers

    1. Bont - he gave his all out there
    2. Taylor Duryea's courage - one effort in the last where he flew for the ball and got smashed, but prevented a Saints mark, just exemplified how fearless he was. He met the standard.
    3. My 7 yr old son Josh.... he was reduced to tears when we looked gone at 26 points down early in the 4th...and in the face of some really unclassy Saints family in front of us...he just kept cheering, and singing Dog's chants, through tears....and just kept it up with each goal we kicked. He earned a lot of praise after the game from quite a few Doggies fans and a very classy who came up to him and magnanimous Saints fans sitting behind us.
    One of the positives of 2020 is for him to be able to see 4 Dogs games..and based on what I saw tonight... the Dogs are now in his blood.

    Anchors
    1. Lipinski. a witches hat defensively, and a rabbit in headlights when he had to make a decision.
    2. Macrae- I love him and he's a top flight player who often leads the way, but unfortunately his limitations stood out tonight.
    3. The middle aged Saints fan and his teenage sons in front of us.. They were rude, disrespectful, and took every opportunity to try and rub their good fortune in and disparage any cheering from Dogs supporters. They nearly crapped their collective pants in the last 10 minutes and were silent. Then as soon as the siren went, all of them stood up and started laughing at Dogs supporters and unleashing a bunch of verbal taunts.. I was livid.. and wanted to explode... but thought I'd set an example for my kids... I smiled at these cretins and said to them "thank you so much"... and then I turned to my two kids who were puzzled at my thanking these clowns and said 'I'm thankful because you saw that kids... you have in front of you a perfect example of what never to do when your team wins.. That's a lack of class, but the Saints family behind us that's how you do it! You celebrate your team winning and also be gracious and a good sport."
    Classy YHF.... what a great Dad you are. And role model for all RWB supporters.
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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Nothing to do with coaching
    St Kilda were in the box seat and looked like they'd get up all night. Bevo had his pants pulled down. Ratten has him covered.

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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Quote Originally Posted by Yankee Hotel Foxtrot View Post
    Bankers

    1. Bont - he gave his all out there
    2. Taylor Duryea's courage - one effort in the last where he flew for the ball and got smashed, but prevented a Saints mark, just exemplified how fearless he was. He met the standard.
    3. My 7 yr old son Josh.... he was reduced to tears when we looked gone at 26 points down early in the 4th...and in the face of some really unclassy Saints family in front of us...he just kept cheering, and singing Dog's chants, through tears....and just kept it up with each goal we kicked. He earned a lot of praise after the game from quite a few Doggies fans and a very classy who came up to him and magnanimous Saints fans sitting behind us.
    One of the positives of 2020 is for him to be able to see 4 Dogs games..and based on what I saw tonight... the Dogs are now in his blood.

    Anchors
    1. Lipinski. a witches hat defensively, and a rabbit in headlights when he had to make a decision.
    2. Macrae- I love him and he's a top flight player who often leads the way, but unfortunately his limitations stood out tonight.
    3. The middle aged Saints fan and his teenage sons in front of us.. They were rude, disrespectful, and took every opportunity to try and rub their good fortune in and disparage any cheering from Dogs supporters. They nearly crapped their collective pants in the last 10 minutes and were silent. Then as soon as the siren went, all of them stood up and started laughing at Dogs supporters and unleashing a bunch of verbal taunts.. I was livid.. and wanted to explode... but thought I'd set an example for my kids... I smiled at these cretins and said to them "thank you so much"... and then I turned to my two kids who were puzzled at my thanking these clowns and said 'I'm thankful because you saw that kids... you have in front of you a perfect example of what never to do when your team wins.. That's a lack of class, but the Saints family behind us that's how you do it! You celebrate your team winning and also be gracious and a good sport."
    Good stuff YHF.
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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Bankers.
    Bailey Williams
    Bailey Smith
    Caleb Daniel

    Anchors
    Not taking our chances numerous times.
    Poor tackling
    Poor delivery inside 50
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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Bankers

    Caleb Daniel. Build a statue of him, sell
    Key rings, I want to bottle him and pour it over my pancakes. He is just absolutely supreme with ball in hand

    The last 9 minutes of the game. Saints terrified, us with all the momentum taking or chances. Was nice of the dogs to give me one last heart attack before the season finished

    This forum. God I miss going to footy and the release it provides and it is hard keeping composed with 2 kids under 6 sitting next to you on the couch. Having outlets like this have been particularly important this season (and yesterday)

    Anchors

    Tackling. For god sake it was pathetic. Saints got hands free most of the time when we stuck them or we just glanced off them

    Speed - we looked so slow across the ground and particularly in our forward line

    Marking - out marked at both ends of the ground all day long

    Our Finals football (one more) - we learnt nothing from last year, clearly all the talk of coming out hard from Bont during the week was hot air. We lacked intensity and accountability across the ground and did nothing. When Ben Long collected Macrae we should have put him down, made a mark and dug in. We played footy appropriate for round 9, not finals and it just isn’t good enough.
    Last edited by AshMac; 04-10-2020 at 09:47 AM.

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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Quote Originally Posted by AshMac View Post
    Marking - out marked at both ends of the ground all day long
    This was one of the reasons we lost, and Bevo mentioned it after the game. Saints took 21 contested marks, the most in any game this year.
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    Re: Bankers and Anchors - Elimination Final, 2020 vs St Kilda

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    This was one of the reasons we lost, and Bevo mentioned it after the game. Saints took 21 contested marks, the most in any game this year.
    Their season average was 9.

    Obviously we did something wrong if they had a 150% improvement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danjul View Post
    Their season average was 9.

    Obviously we did something wrong if they had a 150% improvement.
    yeah we couldn't mark the ball.
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