Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

[Eastdog]

This is the round 13 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against St. Kilda is concluded post your nominations for:

The Bankers = 3 guys that you we banked on to do the right thing during the game
The Anchors = 3 guys that weighed us down by their errors or poor play

Please limit it to no more than three of each, but feel free to make honourable/dishonourable mentions. As usual try to make it constructive criticism.

Try and restrict it to individual players rather than aspects of the overall match.

The thread is named in honour of a popular WOOF Contributor, The Banker, who passed away on 22/04/2012 after a six month battle with cancer.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

After hacking in and obtaining nude photos off all the mods iCloud's, they've agreed to my demand that Anchors can be any player, but not Grant. Also that Bankers can only be about Jarrad Grant. So obey the new rules please.

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Bankers
Wood - great incept marking
JJ - great running game
Macrae - great effort and tackling
Mclean - nice effort
Anchors
Grant - did struggle tonight
Dale - needs to work on opposite foot kick
Stringer - no effect, TBoyd - get tougher!

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Bankers:

Grant - 19 touches at 84%, 5 inside 50's when it counted, key goal and handfuls of other stuff.
Wood - Outstanding
Macrae - Good consistent game

Anchors:

Sorry Minno - ?Not sure there's much left in your tank at the elite level
Going slow with 5 minutes to go?!?!

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Bankers:

Wood. Instrumental. Monumental. Sentimental. Every freaking mental!
Grant. Played a good game, his hand passing is brilliant at the moment and he got in at the right times. And BT threatened to break my legs if I didn't mention him.
Roberts. Awesome job on the Sook.

Anchors:

Josh Bruce's top knot. Come on mate, who ya kidding?
Tom Boyd's detractors. Give the kid a freaking go. Get tough? He wears a defender as a necklace for 90% of the match!
Trying to save the game at the end instead of putting on the extra goal. I put it down to a lack of faith in our forward press at that stage of the match but it nearly bit us in the proverbial.

[The bulldog tragician]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

B:
Easton Wood is in superlative form. We'd have lost that without him.
Toby McLean. A real find. Like him. A lot.
JJ worked very hard to give us a spark.
A:
An ugly dreary boring match: were we out coached?
Our inability to close out the last 5 minutes and get a clean kick out of defence an kill the game.
how easily the saints swept it out of defence at times, and the lack of crumbers whenever it hit the deck.

[boydogs]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

how easily the saints swept it out of defence at times, and the lack of crumbers whenever it hit the deck.

That was really noticeable. Tom Boyd lives by the mantra of bring the ball to ground, but only the Saints set up camp at his feet

[F'scary]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

B: backline and defensive midfield players

A: Stringer - shittest game in about 12 months from him
Minson - gone backwards again.
Tom Boyd - had one moment but fluffed a couple of others and didn't get involved generally. Him, Stringer & Dickson stunk on the forward line tonight.

[comrade]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Anchor for the job we did on Armitage. Tore us up last time with 45 touches.

Still got it 25 times but was no where near as damaging.

[Eastdog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Bankers:

Ill put in 4

Wood - Was huge in defence and won us the game

Roberts - He'll be a quality player

Bonts - Thought he did better tonight compared to the last few games

JJ - Great run


Anchors:

The struggle when the ball is inside our 50

Where the heck was the siren did not hear it well at all - Etihad must address this.

[Eastdog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

B: backline and defensive midfield players

A: Stringer - shittest game in about 12 months from him
Minson - gone backwards again.
Tom Boyd - had one moment but fluffed a couple of others and didn't get involved generally. Him, Stringer & Dickson stunk on the forward line tonight.

T Boyd and Stringer were ok but not brilliant tonight. M Boyd did good. Liked Grant's game.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Bankers / Wood ( just outstanding reader and mark)
JJ ( got us going with some serious good dash)
Roberts ( good job on the diving German)
Murph ( the run and kicking were important)
Macrae ( best mid on the park, and returned to form)

Anchors/ T Boyd ( needs to show more intent when attacking the ball)
Stringer ( he's inconsistency is frustrating, seems to pick his moments)

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Bankers:

Ill put in 4

Wood - Was huge in defence and won us the game

Roberts - He'll be a quality player

Bonts - Thought he did better tonight compared to the last few games

JJ - Great run


Anchors:

The struggle when the ball is inside our 50

Where the heck was the siren did not hear it well at all - Etihad must address this.

A billion dollar industry and can't find some volume
The led light boundary signs are just nauseating

[whythelongface]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Bankers:
Wood - Brilliant. His marking is outstanding. There was one in the 2ns qtr which was just sensational. The one in the last was Leo Barryesque.
Roberts - had Roo covered for most of the night. He has improved out of his skin. Has he really only played 15 games.
Hamling - has also shown fantastic awareness and has really good hands. Our defense really won us the game.

Reflecting on the last 5 mins - I actually think slowing the game down actually won us the game in the end. There was no way through the St Kilda press at that stage and we focused on our strengths at that stage, that being our defensive effort.

Anchors

Don't want to focus on any specific individuals
St Kilda seem to be able to stymie our running game very well. Thought Richardson coached very well last night. It seemed very hard to counter and break their lines. This is something for Bevo to work on. Just thankful we got away with a win.

[SlimPickens]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 13

Banker-
Webb- clutch goal in the last. Beautiful kicking action as well.

Wood- what a season you're compiling. His marking tonight took me back to the good old days when Lake was in his prime.

JJ- he the attitude and dare to take the game on. Felt he kept us going when know one else could.

Winning ugly- this group is maturing.

Anchors-
Saints- god they play a bloody ugly style of football.

Umpires- some really perplexing decisions, Minson's unpaid holding the ball on Geary was the worst of them.

Stringer/Dickson- need to close that gap between their best and worst.