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07-06-2021, 10:05 AM
#541
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
comrade
Those 16 other players would be the cream of the crop, too.
Bailey Dale did it a few weeks ago, that's one
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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07-06-2021, 10:11 AM
#542
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
comrade
Taberner was a big out and meant we could easily double team Lobbe and keep him under control. Treacy still ended up with 3, however.
It's a work in progress but I don't mind the 3 tall set up in defence with Dale, Williams, Crozier and Daniel as ground support. We've got 12 weeks to get it right because the D50 will have a big say in how deep we go in finals.
Yeah I'm far from convinced with our D50 but last night was one of the first times we looked solid when that high ball was coming in. Treacy got most of his marks on the lead when the ball was coming in under zero pressure. But of course, Cordy is horrendously slow and Gardner isn't a worldbeater. But it's what we've got and it looked somewhat ok. As has been mentioned, if it lets Keath of the leash like we saw then that's an excellent result. I still wonder if Young would be better than Cordy as a 3rd tall. But perhaps in that case Keath can't get off the leash.
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07-06-2021, 10:20 AM
#543
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
bulldogsthru&thru
Yeah I'm far from convinced with our D50 but last night was one of the first times we looked solid when that high ball was coming in. Treacy got most of his marks on the lead when the ball was coming in under zero pressure. But of course, Cordy is horrendously slow and Gardner isn't a worldbeater. But it's what we've got and it looked somewhat ok. As has been mentioned, if it lets Keath of the leash like we saw then that's an excellent result. I still wonder if Young would be better than Cordy as a 3rd tall. But perhaps in that case Keath can't get off the leash.
We are equal with Dees on least scores conceded. (790 points)
We may not look great individually (talls only), but we have a system and it works.
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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07-06-2021, 10:30 AM
#544
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Guys it's Rory Lobb, Matthew Lobbe was the bog ordinary ruckman from Port we tried to sell the farm for a few years back.
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07-06-2021, 10:30 AM
#545
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
bornadog
We are equal with Dees on least scores conceded. (790 points)
We may not look great individually (talls only), but we have a system and it works.
The North and St Kilda games skew those stats though on the back of midfield dominance.
Our defence relies heavily on us winning the midfield battle, and we play one or both of our wings very defensively (at times running with Roarke and Scott there).
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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07-06-2021, 10:35 AM
#546
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
Guys it's Rory Lobb, Matthew Lobbe was the bog ordinary ruckman from Port we tried to sell the farm for a few years back.
Tried to give up what eventually became the Dunkley pick for him. Can you imagine us giving up Dunkley?
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07-06-2021, 10:41 AM
#547
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
Happy Days
Tried to give up what eventually became the Dunkley pick for him. Can you imagine us giving up Dunkley?
Thank god he had no mobile phone signal. Thank. God.
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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07-06-2021, 11:39 AM
#548
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
Is Treacy from Cohuna?
Originally Posted by
jeemak
Wilson is a *!*!*!*!wit.
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
Guys it's Rory Lobb, Matthew Lobbe was the bog ordinary ruckman from Port we tried to sell the farm for a few years back.
Thanks Axe. Guilty as charged.
Sticky this post.
"It's over. It's all over."
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07-06-2021, 12:19 PM
#549
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
Mofra
The North and St Kilda games skew those stats though on the back of midfield dominance.
Our defence relies heavily on us winning the midfield battle, and we play one or both of our wings very defensively (at times running with Roarke and Scott there).
It is what it is.
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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07-06-2021, 01:02 PM
#550
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
bulldogsthru&thru
Yeah I'm far from convinced with our D50 but last night was one of the first times we looked solid when that high ball was coming in. Treacy got most of his marks on the lead when the ball was coming in under zero pressure. But of course, Cordy is horrendously slow and Gardner isn't a worldbeater. But it's what we've got and it looked somewhat ok. As has been mentioned, if it lets Keath of the leash like we saw then that's an excellent result. I still wonder if Young would be better than Cordy as a 3rd tall. But perhaps in that case Keath can't get off the leash.
Young is much more of an offensive weapon in the air compared to Cordy so I think that rings true... I also don't think Keath's job was made easier by heaving the extra tall defender in there as he was still responsible for Freo's best tall forward.
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07-06-2021, 01:06 PM
#551
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
We did it.
Well done Dogs. Making history in the west.
Next again is a team more west than us, Geelong.
We may be outwested but not defeated.
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07-06-2021, 04:28 PM
#552
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Thank the footy gods we seemed to come out of that one with just the one injury to Stef and from the sounds of Bevo's presser, it might not be a bad one. That surface is just asking for bad knee and ankle injuries, and I hate that we have to play there again in a few weeks.
Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.
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07-06-2021, 05:13 PM
#553
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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07-06-2021, 05:18 PM
#554
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
I know that’s true. But it looks impossible. Like photoshopped impossible.
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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07-06-2021, 05:19 PM
#555
Re: WB Game Day V Fremantle R12 2021
Originally Posted by
bornadog
That mark was unreal. Probably less than a handful of players that can manipulate their body in mid air like that to pull it off: Liam Ryan, maybe Shai Bolton and... ?
Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.