Following our exes...................

[Doc26]

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Roughead still had 3 kicked on him, his speed and awareness let him down as a defender

Very harsh on Rough.

Lynch’s first goal was a very dodgy Razor free against Langdon for pushing Lynch in the side.

His other 2 goals were a direct result of easy midfield clearances where Lynch was hit lace out with Roughy right on his hammer. At worst Rough could’ve been slightly closer to Lynch with his second but the goal against was hardly Roughy’s doing.

[SonofScray]

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Higgins was on the radio yesterday. Made my ears bleed. Guy is a flog.

I also can't fathom the framing of his form post trade as sign we made a mistake. We won a flag immediately after letting him go.

[comrade]

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Higgins was on the radio yesterday. Made my ears bleed. Guy is a flog.

I also can't fathom the framing of his form post trade as sign we made a mistake. We won a flag immediately after letting him go.

You'd struggle to find many Dogs fans who think 'geez, I wish we kept Higgins'. It was time for both parties to move on, and the subsequent results suggest it was for the best.

We've slowly weeded out the players who caused me the most hair pulling moments (Higgins, Stringer, Adams, Dahl for example) so I'm pretty thankful

[Hotdog60]

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It's interesting when you look but on those past players and to be honest I don't miss any of them.

I grateful for the little things Stringer did to help us win the final and Dahl's 1%ers also helping us get into the finals but the other two always injured at our club and both showed so much but offered so little.

[boydogs]

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Higgins was played as a defender by BMac, I don't blame him for wanting out. Clearly vindicated in his insistence he is best as a mid/fwd. We do miss him but the compensation was OK

[EasternWest]

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Higgins was played as a defender by BMac, I don't blame him for wanting out. Clearly vindicated in his insistence he is best as a mid/fwd. We do miss him but the compensation was OK

I disagree. We don't miss him at all.

[jeemak]

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Higgins was played as a defender by BMac, I don't blame him for wanting out. Clearly vindicated in his insistence he is best as a mid/fwd. We do miss him but the compensation was OK

I agree......he’s a gun and a walk up start to any side going around.

We had a bad mix of personnel under Eade and BMac, I reckon if Higgins had have stayed he’d have been a different player than the one he was under those two coaches.

[Bornadog]

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A few Bulldog people on Twitter upset with Dahlhaus and what he said after the game today. Did anyone catch it?

Found it, see next post

[Bornadog]

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This is appalling from Dahlhaus, glad he is gone.

[Doc26]

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This is appalling from Dahlhaus, glad he is gone.

So he really was ‘unmotovated’.

If he had lost his passion for playing for the Club it’s just as well we didn’t give him the extra year he was after.

I don’t have any ill feelings for him. He gave his all to us for many seasons. Just a shame that he had to end up at Geelong.

[hujsh]

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This is appalling from Dahlhaus, glad he is gone.

Can you point to a particular point you find egregious? I don't really want to watch the interview with him to find it TBH.

[AndrewP6]

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Can you point to a particular point you find egregious? I don't really want to watch the interview with him to find it TBH.

I struggled hearing him say he wanted to be injured so he didn’t have to play.

Good riddance.

[G-Mo77]

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Geez tough crowd. It just shows, mentally he was fried here. Kind of alarming as well, from the outside looking in our support base for players seems kind of shaky. I mean Tom Boyd has hardly played a game since and some players just fell off the map completely. Something happened internally after 2016 and it wasn't just a hang over.

[Webby]

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With Dahlhaus, we didn’t ultimately want him and he ultimately didn’t want us. The season was over by halfway last year and we were blooding kids. So I can forgive him saying he’d lost motivation. By late in the year he’d have picked up in the fact that we wanted him less than Geelong. Love’s a two way street, so play on, I say.

I guess he had a chance to move closer to home and was slightly seduced by Dangerfield’s overtures. Found it strange him saying he loved the club as a kid as I have it on very reliable authority that he was an Essendon supporter growing up.

Anyhooo, as I say, play on.

[SonofScray]

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Luke's interview was pretty earnest, there's not much in it for us to be upset over. Clearly he was a mess, we got his best. Geelong might get similar for a short period of time, but he won't improve on his best there. It's a shame that he couldn't work through things here and that is probably where my interest in the story is.

He burnt some bridges in the way out, but apologised etc. My feelings are tepid.