AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

[Eastdog]

Round 6, 2019

Wed, Apr 24 Richmond vs Melbourne MCG Seven & Fox 7:35pm

Thu, Apr 25 Essendon vs Collingwood MCG Seven & Fox 3:20pm

Fri, Apr 26 Port Adelaide vs North Melbourne Adelaide Oval Seven & Fox 7:50pm

Sat, Apr 27 Gold Coast Suns vs Brisbane Lions Metricon Stadium Fox 1:45pm
Sat, Apr 27 St Kilda vs Adelaide Crows Marvel Stadium Fox 4:35pm
Sat, Apr 27 Sydney Swans vs GWS Giants SCG Fox 7:25pm
Sat, Apr 27 Fremantle vs Western Bulldogs Optus Stadium Seven & Fox 8:10pm

Sun, Apr 28 Hawthorn vs Carlton University of Tasmania Stadium Seven & Fox 3:20pm
Sun, Apr 28 Geelong Cats vs West Coast Eagles GMHBA Fox 4:40pm

[Eastdog]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Bump

[Bornadog]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Bump

Thanks Easty for these.

Will be an interesting week of Footy.

[Eastdog]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

No worries BAD.

[kruder]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

It's uncanny how similar Melbourne and the Bulldogs are. Midfield is industrious get the ball inside 50 a lot but lack targets and pressure when it's in their and give up scores way to easily. Watching the first goal from Richmond is exactly how we give up a goal. A quick transition from defence, oodles of space and another easy goal given up.

[ledge]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

It's uncanny how similar Melbourne and the Bulldogs are. Midfield is industrious get the ball inside 50 a lot but lack targets and pressure when it's in their and give up scores way to easily. Watching the first goal from Richmond is exactly how we give up a goal. A quick transition from defence, oodles of space and another easy goal given up.

Except Melbourne can find a target inside 50 and kick straight !

[kruder]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Um not in the first 5 rounds

[Bornadog]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

It's uncanny how similar Melbourne and the Bulldogs are. Midfield is industrious get the ball inside 50 a lot but lack targets and pressure when it's in their and give up scores way to easily. Watching the first goal from Richmond is exactly how we give up a goal. A quick transition from defence, oodles of space and another easy goal given up.

Melbourne tried to make McDonald into a key forward, but has moved him back tonight due to a lack of talls (injuries). Sound familiar

[ledge]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Um not in the first 5 rounds

Your talking tonight though aren’t you?

[Sedat]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Melbourne are completely spooked. They have abandoned their entire game plan after 5 rounds and went with a completely different structure last night designed to slow the game right down, put extra numbers behind the ball and turn it into a low scoring scrap. And they still got hammered by 7 goals.

Goodwin has shown himself to be a one-trick pony - they'll finish bottom 4 this year.

[Remi Moses]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Agree , when you change your M.O after rounds 5, you are officially stuffed

[mjp]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Agree , when you change your M.O after rounds 5, you are officially stuffed

What was he supposed to do?

They had a game-plan based around winning stoppages and contested ball ('cos, you know, their whole team is structured that way and that's what they did last year). They haven't been doing either so had to change it up.

[ledge]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Agree , when you change your M.O after rounds 5, you are officially stuffed

Aren’t we calling for that with our mob ?

[Sedat]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

What was he supposed to do?

They had a game-plan based around winning stoppages and contested ball ('cos, you know, their whole team is structured that way and that's what they did last year). They haven't been doing either so had to change it up.

There's proactively changing it up, and then there's conceding the match before the ball is even bounced like they did last night. What they did last night was simply try to minimise the damage (by having multiple numbers behind the ball), which they failed to do in any event. I bet the heat map of possession would have been 95% in the back half last night, which simply plays the game to Richmond's strengths. It looked and felt like a bottom 4 team trying to stem the bleeding, rather than a proactive plan to beat the opposition (who are well below their best 22 due to injury).

[Bulldog4life]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 6, 2019

Melbourne are completely spooked. They have abandoned their entire game plan after 5 rounds and went with a completely different structure last night designed to slow the game right down, put extra numbers behind the ball and turn it into a low scoring scrap. And they still got hammered by 7 goals.

Goodwin has shown himself to be a one-trick pony - they'll finish bottom 4 this year.

Will Roosy step in to help?....joking.