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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Fantastic tackling highlight reel - highlights what a super game he played
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
azabob
Did you hear Bevo’s 45 second justification on why it took the MC so long to move him into the midfield.
No, can you summarise?
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
hujsh
HTBs = Holding the Balls in this case Twodogs
You're right, I looked at it and didn't notice the 'T' in the middle.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
azabob
Did you hear Bevo’s 45 second justification on why it took the MC so long to move him into the midfield.
Originally Posted by
Mofra
No, can you summarise?
Watch here from the three minute mark:
https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/v...onference-rd17
Basically said we needed him forward and then needed him in the midfield. The former lacks tall depth at times and given he's a good aerialist and pretty good forward he can help, but as the season progressed the latter wasn't delivering and it was decided to increase his time there in the first instance to improve that area of the ground and in the second cover some losses in Wallis and now Liberatore.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
jeemak
Watch here from the three minute mark:
https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/v...onference-rd17
Basically said we needed him forward and then needed him in the midfield. The former lacks tall depth at times and given he's a good aerialist and pretty good forward he can help, but as the season progressed the latter wasn't delivering and it was decided to increase his time there in the first instance to improve that area of the ground and in the second cover some losses in Wallis and now Liberatore.
Bevo can try to justify it any way he likes. It was a poor decision then, and it only looks worse in hindsight given Dunks' form over the past 2 months.
We had Billy Gowers in the centre in lieu of Dunkley on multiple occasions, ffs. It was a joke.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
comrade
Bevo can try to justify it any way he likes. It was a poor decision then, and it only looks worse in hindsight given Dunks' form over the past 2 months.
We had Billy Gowers in the centre in lieu of Dunkley on multiple occasions, ffs. It was a joke.
Yeah in hindsight this one didn't look good at all, however, I don't mind a coach who likes to try new things in order to win games and get the best of out players. Sometimes they work (Lippa), sometimes they don't. In any case, Dunkley is becoming a beast in the midfield and it is great to watch.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
bornadog
God that highlight real is good to watch!!
His tackle craft is outstanding the way he tools through the hips coming down to avoid landing in the back and his strength to hold on and not be shrugged off.
That tackle on Brayshaw was the highlight of the game for me.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
bornadog
Yeah in hindsight this one didn't look good at all, however, I don't mind a coach who likes to try new things in order to win games and get the best of out players. Sometimes they work (Lippa), sometimes they don't. In any case, Dunkley is becoming a beast in the midfield and it is great to watch.
Is it really a 'hindsight' moment? I think most were saying early on in the season it wasn't working. Easton Wood was given just two JLT games as a forward before it was recognised it wasn't working.
I don't blame Bevo for trying it but did he really not see it wasn't working or did he just dig in his heels?
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
Is it really a 'hindsight' moment? I think most were saying early on in the season it wasn't working. Easton Wood was given just two JLT games as a forward before it was recognised it wasn't working.
I don't blame Bevo for trying it but did he really not see it wasn't working or did he just dig in his heels?
I have no problem with the coach trying new things in order to win games. When they don't work, he changes it up.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
bornadog
Yeah in hindsight this one didn't look good at all, however, I don't mind a coach who likes to try new things in order to win games and get the best of out players. Sometimes they work (Lippa), sometimes they don't. In any case, Dunkley is becoming a beast in the midfield and it is great to watch.
In this instance he had plenty of exposed form to draw from though as Dunkley had played predominantly forward and predominantly centre in previous years.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Dunkley's back half of last year was incredible too - guess where he was playing then.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
bornadog
I have no problem with the coach trying new things in order to win games. When they don't work, he changes it up.
He stuck with it a lot longer than he should have and by the way, you called the Easton Wood move back to defence after just one JLT week
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Here's how his games have tracked:
https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/...--josh-dunkley
I think the biggest issue was that he wasn't playing as effectively forward as we know he had the potential to, so this actually compounded the issue. He was playing 50-50 or so according to the coach, he's probably now at 75-25 or something like that, so the upsurge probably has as much to do with form than it does anything else, but that's hard to tell.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Originally Posted by
Happy Days
Dunkley's back half of last year was incredible too - guess where he was playing then.
Yes. Last season, he went from being out of the team, to coming back in and being a key cog in the midfield, so it was perplexing that he wasn't in there from the start of this season while others jumped the queue. His back half of the year in the midfield was so good that he came from nowhere at half way - to running 5th in the B&F - so it wasn't like the MC didn't think he performed well there.
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Re: Josh Dunkley - A power Mid in 2019
Interesting comments from Andrew Dunkley on the AFL page:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...1d6d895a8826c9
He has nothing to do with the Swans anymore and feels abandoned by Paul Roos.
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