Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

[OTE=GVGjr;435374]All traits of a young side. When a young getsa sniff they can lift like tge Saints did today but our young side panicked when it counted.

How did people rate Cordy today?
Looks like he might have the job for a while yet.[/QUOTE]

On the one hand I agree with you. However in the context of the season these sort of losses can also knock the stuffing out of a young teams confidence. It will be very important we acquit ourselves well against Fremantle next week.
Today was the 3rd biggest comeback in AFL history.
On Cordy he did quite well today especially in the air, if not necessarily at the ruck contests. He's definitely shown today the benefits of having played multiple games in a row. Massive test for him next week against Sandilands.

[G-Mo77]

Re: Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

Tough to stomach. Sat there for about 5 minutes in disbelief and them had to front up to some St. Kilda supporters who to their credit didn't rub it in.

Looked out of gas but still had a 55 point lead. Nice excuse but still think we where a bit cute at times when we should have gone to basics. We'll learn from it, hopefully.....

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

I don't think so at all

I wished i could feel the same way as you but after supporting the past 30 years i just cant. Once again feeling really flat.

[jeemak]

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I thought we paid the price for being poorly set up in the second half and not reacting to Saints change in structure. Sure we were tired, but we got opened up badly and there didn't seem to be much reaction from the group and I'm not sure if that was because of a lack of instruction or an unwillingness to execute instructions. We'll see whether this becomes a pattern when we're up against it, though at this stage I'm not sure which of the two scenarios I'd prefer.

There was a massive part of me that wanted to leave half way through the third quarter. We dropped our bundle severely, and this was the time when we needed to stem the tide whilst we still had something in the tank with some smarter football instead of playing like millionaires and not doing anything remotely similar to the things that have made us more than competitive this year. I figured at the time, if the players have gone home why should I stick around? Anyway I did stick around and saw the game slip away as we tired.

What really disappointed me was the complete and utter lack of composure with the football and the disposal strategy employed by our players, which as far as I could tell involved shutting their eyes and kicking mongrels all over the joint.

Tom Boyd really let himself down early in the day with some terrible kicking and I think he'll be extremely disappointed with himself. His day could have been much more productive if he had have taken two relatively simple opportunities early in the day. He needs to bounce back and take care of those opportunities next week.

Jack Macrae's kicking seems to be getting worse, and his flawed technique seems more pronounced. I was bitterly disappointed with some of his usage today.

I thought Cordy was easily the dominant ruck around the ground, though we were hurt by being too offensively minded at stoppages when it was a given we'd be giving up the majority of hitouts. The midfield and stoppage coaches need to work on this immediately.

Crameri played as if he was drunk.

This is probably the worst day our club has had since the 2009 preliminary final in my view. Clay going down was just horrible, and for us to then let a 55 point lead slip through our fingers was the bullet between the eyes. The club has done itself a massive disservice today, and I think this will have commercial implications with people likely to be turned off all too easily.

[Mantis]

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Jack Macrae's kicking seems to be getting worse, and his flawed technique seems more pronounced. I was bitterly disappointed with some of his usage today.

It was utterly disgraceful.. His decision making was just as bad.

[The Pie Man]

Re: Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

Needed to find a way - thought we had 5 mins into the last qtr too. Bitterly disappointing doesn't cover it.

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

Same old same old from this club.

Phhhhht. Rubbish.

[The Pie Man]

Re: Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

It was utterly disgraceful.. His decision making was just as bad.

Seems to want to tap the ball into space or kick around the body too much. Ordinary day, though not alone

[F'scary]

Re: Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

We ran out of legs but I think this reflects there were some selection policy issues going into the match. Yes, Ayce played better but we were still well beaten in the ruck. Hunter is not a midfielder. It seems there were more players than Moyd who were too sore from last week. For one, Clay was rushed back, had two ordinary games and then broke down today. Perhaps Biggs, Minson, and Hamling should have been selected in place of some of the sorer guys.

Overall, I think Bevo is going to have to get a bit more orthodox in the selection policy after this loss.

[G-Mo77]

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It was utterly disgraceful.. His decision making was just as bad.

Glad I saw it the same way. He was one of the players i thought was being a bit cute. Disappointed with his game.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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Pretty angry - one of the worst losses I've seen, even withstanding we were understandably tired - but that doesn't excuse coughing up a 55 point lead in the third quarter.

Very disappointed with the coaching team's inability to stem the flow in the third quarter. We knew we'd tire, yet we persisted with a fast paced game style. Idiotic to say the least; we never tried taking the sting out of the game. As fatigue set in, our decision making was deplorable and our skills even worse.

Beveridge said on Triple M that they only started focusing on St. Kilda yesterday! I nearly drove off the road. Yesterday! Yes, the win v Sydney was great, but we've essentially won nothing. We've been losing for 4 or 5 years on a weekly basis, and all it took was one great win to set the club into complacency? Even if it were true, why on earth would Beveridge come out and say this. I know it didn't impact how we played in the first half, but it says to me we went into half time thinking the game was done.

I thought Picken, Wood and JJ were sensational. Goodes tried hard, ditto Dahlhaus. Stevens was good prior to his injury. Cordy competed OK but got dominated in the ruck, which certainly hurt us.

Roberts and Roughead were really poor. Really poor. Hunter was extremely disappointing, Honeychurch and Hrovat zero impact. Stringer kept wanting the cheap one 'over the back' in the second half whilst that was the worst game I've seen from Macrae. Utterly deplorable by foot and his decision making equally bad.

All in all, a very disappointing and frustrating display. The 'tired' excuse doesn't rub well with me, not when you're 55 points up and failed to change the style of the game to slow it up. Once again we've undone our good work - I know this is an entirely different side - but I'm sick of this club not being able to back up its performances when it should be able to. We "celebrated" last week's win until Friday? I hope we dwell on this loss until next Friday.

[Flamethrower]

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That's what happens when you don't respect your opposition. All that macho garbage at half time showed how big headed we had become.

If last week was our best win ever, then this was our worst loss ever.

We still haven't worked out how to stop an opposition team getting a run on....no plan B.

And Tommy Boyd....please stop getting goal kicking tips from Travis Cloke.

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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I wished i could feel the same way as you but after supporting the past 30 years i just cant. Once again feeling really flat.

Come on 4by2...dig deep. Get on down to that beach down at Hampton, take a few deep breaths and scream your lungs out.

[merantau]

Re: Game Day Round 6 2015 - Western Bulldogs V St. Kilda

I'm lucky to be in Lombok. Indonesia so did not see the game. Only just found out the result but, sadly, I am not surprised. We have an appalling, but historically consistent, habit of dropping games we should win and putting pressure on ourselves. However, to cough up a 55 point lead is breaking new ground. I don't know what the answer is, I don't think there IS a simple answer and, to some extent, the reasons for it are out of our control because maybe it's the attitude of other clubs towards US that is a telling factor - viz "It's the Bulldogs; we're always a chance against them." I hark back to the time when Libba, Jose and Dimma, Steve Kretiuk and Daniel Southern were manufacturing mayhem. Looks like we could have done with some of that after half time today. But hey, not to worry - there's always next week!

[Bornadog]

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I wished i could feel the same way as you but after supporting the past 30 years i just cant. Once again feeling really flat.

I am flat as a tac after that game, still can't believe we lost it. All I am saying is the players looked like they could run no more, they were spent.