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Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
This is the Round 3, 2023 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 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Bankers
Bontempelli, set the standard, superb Captain's game.
Macrae, back to his best tonight.
Keath and Jones ,signs of combining well, early days.
Anchors
Garcia
Lobb
A win is a win but we will need to score more than 10 goals.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Bankers
1. JUH. Such a horrible, unnecessary week for the young man to have to endure. Well done for the way in which he held himself.
2. Oskar Baker. He's winning me over. I think he's been one of our better players across all 3 games. Leading metres gained player tonight, and had our most score involvements
3.Treloar. He really looked heavily invested and switched on all game,
Anchors
1. Lobb, had a moment but looked pretty impotent mostly.
2. Riley Garcia. Just has to switch his brain on for every second of the game. He very nearly undid a lot of our good work
3. Naughton's goalkicking. He redeems himself overall because he's just so good a player in so many aspects of the game, outside of goalkicking. But so frustrating when he misses so many that should be just gimmes.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Bankers
1. Bont- Leads from the front out there. Loved his intensity on the defensive end.
2. JUH- Big week for the young man & thankfully brought his kicking boots.
3. Desire- Good to have you back old friend
Anchors
1. Garcia- Gave away 3 50m penalties, is that a record
2. Lobb- Thankfully he kicked 2 lucky goals but his work rate isn't there. Probably still sore from surgery though.
3. Cohesion & skills- Hopefully we can find these soon just like we found our old friend desire tonight
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
This maybe a stupid question , why would we play Lobb if he was still sore ? Is it a lack of match up for Brisbane?
I can sse why the Lions recruited the 2 irish players , they Look very strong , good kicks and provide a contest.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Originally Posted by
macca
This maybe a stupid question , why would we play Lobb if he was still sore ? Is it a lack of match up for Brisbane?
I can sse why the Lions recruited the 2 irish players , they Look very strong , good kicks and provide a contest.
Think the intention was that Andrews would get him and Rory would try to play deep and defensively to keep Andrews out of the game. Didn't work. Andrews is too good and ended up spending a fair bit of time working off Marra. Lions didn't rate Lobb at any stage all night. Marra needs to keep working hard on his defensive game. Lobb? Not sure where he's at atm.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Originally Posted by
1eyedog
Think the intention was that Andrews would get him and Rory would try to play deep and defensively to keep Andrews out of the game. Didn't work. Andrews is too good and ended up spending a fair bit of time working off Marra. Lions didn't rate Lobb at all night. Marra needs to keep working hard on his defensive game. Lobb? Not sure where he's at atm.
Injured. Should never have played.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Originally Posted by
1eyedog
Think the intention was that Andrews would get him and Rory would try to play deep and defensively to keep Andrews out of the game. Didn't work. Andrews is too good and ended up spending a fair bit of time working off Marra. Lions didn't rate Lobb at any stage all night. Marra needs to keep working hard on his defensive game. Lobb? Not sure where he's at atm.
He does need to get to more contests, but 2 goals and giving Timmy a rest is still very good output for a second ruck.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Originally Posted by
Mofra
He does need to get to more contests, but 2 goals and giving Timmy a rest is still very good output for a second ruck.
Were they the softest of two goals though? The first one one fell in his lap and the for the 2nd I think it was a very fortunate decision that fell his way.
We need a lot more from him but it's not his fault if he is carrying an injury.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
the 2nd I think it was a very fortunate decision that fell his way.
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Didn't like how the 2nd was considered soft when he clearly mostly marked it and the only reason he didn't completely was because Joyce was actively ripping his left arm away from his body.
I should leave it alone but you're not right
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Lobb was running around like he had a pebble in his boot.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Bankers:
Bont
Scott (fronted up and gave so many efforts!)
Marra - clean. Class.
English. Huge match.
Macrae: kept in the contest like he hasn?t all year.
Libba: Libba.
Anchors:
Lobb?s body language
Shots on goal
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
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JUH, 5 goal haul, in the spotlight, took his chances.
Bont, captain’s game and came oh so close to kicking a goal that would have launched us into the stratosphere in the stands.
Treloar. Very important game from him.
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Garcia. Just calm down about 1% young fella. That last qtr got a bit out of hand discipline wise.
VFL team, an terrible collapse in that game.
Lobb, got on the scoreboard and I think he had some moments of high work rate that perhaps went unnoticed, but gee he looked below AFL standard in a few contests. Looked to me like he was a bit hobbled, lacked power in his step and just a bit of a gangly mess, to be frank. He’ll come good.
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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Bankers
1. Bevo and coaching team, under pressure for two bad games, but stuck with the plan, backed his boys in.
2. Macrae - 3 disposals in the first quarter and I was starting to think, he is a shadow of his former self. To his credit he stepped up and dominated the 2nd quarter with 14 disposals and created some good opportunities up forward.
3. Backline monsters - at last we have some guys that are big, ferocious and can put fear into the opposition.
4. JUH - what a stand the young fella made. When he didn't go for a mark, he was still chasing and harassing the opposition.
Anchors
1. Ball movement was still a little slow and we are still bombing the ball inti the forward line for guys like Harris to just pick them off. This needs to be fixed.
2. Garcia - enough said, he will learn
3. Naughton's two shots at goal that went out on the full - what is going on.
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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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Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 3, 2023 vs Brisbane Lions
Originally Posted by
bornadog
Bankers
3. Backline monsters - at last we have some guys that are big, ferocious and can put fear into the opposition.
The Chicago Bears have the Monsters of the Midway.
Do we now have in our backline the Monsters of the Maribyrnong?
"I'll give him a hug before the first bounce and then I'll run into my pack and give them orders to rip him apart."
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