Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

[Twodogs]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

That game made me really miserable. I hated it. Sometimes I hate footy and watching it is the worst kind of torture. It is especially hard against the saints.

And then we won and I got over it.

I could happily sit through game after game of that turgid rubbish if the result was the same at the end.

[Scraggers]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

The only thing that would make that win better would be the Saints getting the maximum $20K fine for player selection.

It won't happen though; Reiwoldt will cry and they'll feel sorry for him ... Slap on the wrist and permission to play an extra player in their next game.

[GVGjr]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

It's a big positive in that a team took away our game, yet we found a way to win .
Swings and roundabouts in that we should have won the first encounter, and yet were a little lucky tonight

Congrats Remi, 10,000 posts

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

Thought Toby has played well

He did, but in comparison to some of our other teens he has played a lot less football.

It's a big positive in that a team took away our game, yet we found a way to win .
Swings and roundabouts in that we should have won the first encounter, and yet were a little lucky tonight

Lucky schmucky, after 2009 I'll never blame luck again. Congrats on the big 10k.

[Eastdog]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

Just relieved in the end to get that win. Easton Wood won us the game. What a player. Fletcher Roberts will be good. Loved JJ's run. Go Dogs!!

[Raw Toast]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

That game made me really miserable. I hated it. Sometimes I hate footy and watching it is the worst kind of torture. It is especially hard against the saints.

And then we won and I got over it.

The game was a horrible mix of agony and frustration for the most part, and my main emotion at the end was one of relief, but it was glorious to sing our song at the end and not hear their awful ditty, and to triumph over the Saints in a manner that causes them a taste of the pain and suffering they've given us feels good as well.

Underdog noted at the game that it was a very Farren Ray kinda game, and that summed it up almost perfectly, though I remember the joy Farren brought in the Elimination final against the Pies in 06, and also some of the courageous marks he took for us, backing back into packs, so I clapped for Ray at the end, content in the knowledge and schadenfreude that his old team had defeated his new one...

[boydogs]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

Lucky schmucky, after 2009 I'll never blame luck again

The last 4 minutes was 2009 in reverse

[Twodogs]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

Actually his old team beat his really old team. He's played nearly twice as many games for them.

[comrade]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

Some have questioned if Bev was out coached.

We kept them to a final score of 56...

Not every game will be played on exactly our terms. I thought we adjusted to the tempo and pressed our advantage in the third when it was there for the taking. We probably shut up shop too early but it's a learning experience.

Good to win a tight one under pressure.

All this with 5 teenagers!

[Remi Moses]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

Don't forget Stkilda had 9 players over 100 games .
I'll rephrase that, they had 8 plus Gilbert was one of our bests .
They haven't got many good kicks when going into 50, so they will blow some goals

[comrade]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

Just re-watched the first quarter and it reminded me of how a final is usually played. Lots of short kicking to keep retention - which they did much better than us early. They were able to find outlets where we would get clogged up and forced to go long down the line.

I think we missed Crameri as that hard running, lead up third forward.

Very little open ball movement but when we had an opening, we looked much more dangerous. Bonti's goal is an example, but Picko and Stringer's misses were both a result of winning the ball off the back line and running through the press.

St Kilda's tackling very good, winning the ball back on a few occasions when it looked like we were out.

Bob Murphy's kicking skills are outrageous. Has to be the best field kick in the league at this stage.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

I thought Toby McLean had a good game, 20 touches and a goal.
I also thought he was a little unlucky not to get a couple of head high frees.

[Sedat]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

The last 4 minutes was 2009 in reverse

Yep, actually the whole game was eerily similar. Both were 9 goals to 7, and the losing side kicked poorly and dominated most key statistical measurements. Give me a dirty, scungy win of the Saints every day of the week.

[ratsmac]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

Yep, actually the whole game was eerily similar. Both were 9 goals to 7, and the losing side kicked poorly and dominated most key statistical measurements. Give me a dirty, scungy win of the Saints every day of the week.

I don't know what is better, trashing them by 10 goals or beating them by 1 goal in a game that they played better than us. Either way they are hurting :-)

[Bornadog]

Re: Game Day Round 13 2015 - St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs

I don't know what is better, trashing them by 10 goals or beating them by 1 goal in a game that they played better than us. Either way they are hurting :-)

They won virtually every stat except the most important one.