Bankers and Anchors - Round 18

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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I could give 22 Bankers so I will

Anchor to the awful Ch.7 commentary team for a typically garbage performance - unfunny in jokes, mangled player names, horribly inept 'analysis'. Special anchor to that sniper Leigh Matthews for his dirty comment about the Dogs good form preventing the media talking about Boyd's contract. What a scumbag of a bloke.

Matthews is a fool. At the end he said the Dogs haven't beaten any top side yet - must have missed it when we flogged Richmond and beat Sydney at the SCG.

Must have been two crisis Brisbane board meetings on those days.

[boydogs]

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Bankers
Run out of defense - If that's what having only Talia & Morris as KP's brings then maybe we should keep it at that
Clearances - Campbell was better at directing his taps, our mids were well on top in close
Forward line - Functioned really well without a dominant tall marking target

Anchors
Set shot goal kicking - Could have buried them early, a lot of offenders
Talia giving away another 50 - He's competitive and hates getting beaten but needs to improve on this
Biggs turnover - Donated their first goal which could have cost us momentum

[SonofScray]

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Anchor:
Joe Daniher for his push in the back on Wood well after he'd taken the mark. It was a petulant, dirty act. Deserved a 50m penalty and a kick in the teeth for it. He was clearly frustrated and struggling with the idea that the world wasn't just going to be laid out in front of him. Mouthing off at Wood when they were 7 goals down. Ha!

[azabob]

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Don't worry SoS, Morris got his own back on Daniher later on.

[whythelongface]

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Bankers
Daniel - when he kept the ball in play and kept the essendon players at bay, feeding a hand pass to Wallis who then centred it and a mark was taken 20 metres out directly in front.
Crameri - 7.2 brilliant
Dickson - just doesn't miss

Anchors
Essendon- they are shot physically and mentally. they are offering zilcho.
First qtr was average but hey after that wow
Set shots - could so easily been over 100+ point margin

[Twodogs]

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Matthews is a fool. At the end he said the Dogs haven't beaten any top side yet - must have missed it when we flogged Richmond and beat Sydney at the SCG.

Must have been two crisis Brisbane board meetings on those days.

The problem is the vicious little thug is seen as some sort of oracle on football when in reality he is someone who can't even go to the toilet properly.

[Greystache]

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Matthews is a fool. At the end he said the Dogs haven't beaten any top side yet - must have missed it when we flogged Richmond and beat Sydney at the SCG.

Must have been two crisis Brisbane board meetings on those days.

And West Coast, everyone's new hot tip for the flag.

[Ozza]

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Bankers:

JJ - I knew he had a great game and a big impact...but to hear on 3AW after the game that he had over 800 metres gained for the day...that is just phenomenal.

Wallis - just desperate to win every contest. Such a hungry player, really leads the way.

Crameri - Awesome. (And a special mention to the Essendon supporters in front of me, who were taking their flogging in good spirit and joking about how they should try and recruit 'that Crameri bloke').

Anchors:

Don't really want to give anchors after a good even team game...so consider these Light Anchors - to the three players who I think left the door open to having their spots in the side taken.

Prudden - wasn't bad by any stretch - but pretty quiet and didn't use the ball quite well enough a couple of times.
Redpath - again, wasn't bad, but didn't take his couple of opportunities and with the 3 main forwards getting plenty of chances - there weren't many scraps left over for him anyway.
Talia - Would be surprised if he played next week. Is well behind our three preferred tall defenders.

[LostDoggy]

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Bankers:

1. Stew for seven heaven.
2. Dahl for everything.
3. Easton for working his way back into the game.

Anchors.

1. Essendon supporters around us for being good sports and ruining my fun.
2. That's about it really.

Bankers:

Crameri - terrific game and a clear influence on the result, beat the Bombers off his own boot.
Wallis - monumental in the guts. Great balance.
Hunter - ball magnet. flash and dash.

Anchors:
Essendon - just a terrible collection of humans.
Tackling - still not quite at Men of Mayhem levels.
Set shot kicking - still iffy.

I walked out of Etihad knowing that you'd be in absolute rapture. The tackling wasn't quite there but Bevo also acknowledged that our game plan was evolving a fair bit and maybe, unfortunately, the Men of Mayhem has had to shift a bit to prevent teams from doing their homework on us and exposing flaws. I thought our ability to open up the game after Essendon's first quarter attempt to out-play us by stifling our run was fantastic.

Matthews is a fool. At the end he said the Dogs haven't beaten any top side yet - must have missed it when we flogged Richmond and beat Sydney at the SCG.

Must have been two crisis Brisbane board meetings on those days.

And West Coast, everyone's new hot tip for the flag.

Beat me to it 'Stache.

Let's face it guys, we could win the flag this year, beating Richmond and dickheads like Matthews would still not want to praise us, and instead would point to the Tigers not being up to the task after so long out in the wilderness. We could beat the Hawks and it'd be about how hard it is to go three times. We could beat the Eagles and it'd be about winning in Melbourne and the GF really should get a go over at Subi. The Swannies and they're in decline. Freo and it's Ross's uber-defensive game style.

We need to just ignore "men" like Matthews and get on with impressing the people we care about: our members. And I think we're all pretty impressed, aren't we?

[Happy Days]

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And West Coast, everyone's new hot tip for the flag.

How do you expect the media to remember something from more that a month ago?

I'll even give them that West Coast and Richmond are markedly improved from when we played them, but COME ON Sydney on the road was massive and the reason anyone is talking about us in the first place.

[Remi Moses]

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Matthews is a fool. At the end he said the Dogs haven't beaten any top side yet - must have missed it when we flogged Richmond and beat Sydney at the SCG.

Must have been two crisis Brisbane board meetings on those days.

Thinks we're not quite top 4 yet, and not up to the big boys.
First with the breaking news there Leigh .
He's one of those "know your place " type commentators .

[Mofra]

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Bankers:
- Team sacrifice as a whole: every player appears willing to do the little things that make their teammates better. Pleasing to see
- Kids like Caleb Daniel and Prudden, only a few games into their career but showed composure with the ball beyond their experience
- Crammers. Bloody hell that was enjoyable

Anchors:
- Big Tommy had to stop Giles getting ruck-possession in the contest: Giles had at least 5 I saw from the ruck contest. Better ruckmen will kill him (decent game otherwise)
- Biggs: promising game but horrible turnover to give the bombers their first goal
- First quarter. We didn't turn up until quarter time

[Happy Days]

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- First quarter. We didn't turn up until quarter time

What are you talking about we doubled their score.

[LostDoggy]

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First quarter. We didn't turn up until quarter time

We were just sitting back to see what Essendon were going to try on us, like a boxer who allows his opponent a few short jabs before knocking him flat.

[LostDoggy]

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Rope A Dope?