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It is fast becomming a nightmare for us we must surely be a mile ahead for posters this year so close yet so very far away.
bulldogs are forever not just when they are winning
It's very annoying.
Agree he should not have hit the post. But Cross was 25m directly in front. Go back and kick the goal. That was so frustrating.
Collingwood kicked a goal from that behind kick in that really hurt us. There were a number of those two goal turn arounds with us missing some very easy shots.
Both Cross and Higgins were in two minds - Cross is a bit like Eagleton in that he has a big windup before kicking and was worried about the player in between them coming in for a smother. I think it was closer to 40 than 25 out, which he could have kicked but not off a step. Higgins once he got the ball didn't know whether to kick the banana or drop punt - ended up kicking the drop punt but leaving it too late to settle for it properly
I think the play should have been a chip kick for Higgins to mark, I reckon that's what Aker would have done
If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
Formerly gogriff
Cross would have been kicking from at least 40. Cross made the right play; a player of Higgins class simply shouldn't miss from there. Higgins turned onto his left foot but kicked with his right without balancing. Why would a player as skilled on his left as Higgins not simply kicked the goal with his left?
Add another 3 to the season tally.
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
Western Bulldogs struggle to split the sticks
Mark Stevens | August 12, 2009 12:00am
FOR the most part, an AFL goalpost is no wider than a pint glass.
The sticks start at 100mm in diameter at the bottom, tapering to 76mm at the top.
Yet the Western Bulldogs are this season doing an extraordinary job of slamming the Sherrin into the uprights.
The Bulldogs have managed 38 "posters" - 10 more than any other side.
In Saturday's five-point loss to West Coast, the Dogs hit the post three times.
When they fell a point short against Collingwood in Round 14, the Dogs kicked two posters.
And in Round 9 when they lost to Geelong by two points, they threw in another four.
Rest of article
Anyone would think they have been reading the forum
Double standards. If we don't source their articles right, GVGjr gets a rocket and is forced to police every new thread with an article. GVGjr, you should be demanding to be sourced
i.e. "FOR the most part, an AFL goalpost is no wider than a pint glass. The sticks start at 100mm in diameter at the bottom, tapering to 76mm at the top. Yet the Western Bulldogs are this season doing an extraordinary job of slamming the Sherrin into the uprights, according to WOOF.net.au bloggers.
The Bulldogs have managed 38 "posters" - 10 more than any other side. In Saturday's five-point loss to West Coast, the Dogs hit the post three times posted 'bulldogtragic'. "
Much more accuarte
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