Bulldog Goal of The Year 2016

[I'm Not Bitter Anymore!]

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I agree with all goals mentioned above but would like to add a couple more: Tory Dickson's effort to get to his feet and snag a goal while his chumpish opponents looked on helplessly was pretty satisfying and his one-handed mark against Heath Shaw was a super effort.

"Heath looked around for someone to blame
But alas poor Heath your quest is in vain
Cos it's your ugly mug that's filling the frame."

That was hilarious

[Twodogs]

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That was hilarious

Almost as funny as that time Goddard had the player cam thing attached to him and was showing off and said to David Zacharakis "Zaka, where's your man?" and Zaka just looked at Goddard and said "where's yours?"

[Sedat]

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His goal in the GF was better.. Less than 5 players in the comp would've kicked it.

His hands were elite, especially the initial gather low down on the left hand, and the finish under extreme pressure was magnificent.

The whole passage was amazing - Bont 3rd man up, Macrae super quick hands and Stringer did the rest. Swans did absolutely nothing wrong in that passage but our brilliant hands found a way to extract an inch of free space to turn into a goal.

[Bornadog]

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His hands were elite, especially the initial gather low down on the left hand, and the finish under extreme pressure was magnificent.

The whole passage was amazing - Bont 3rd man up, Macrae super quick hands and Stringer did the rest. Swans did absolutely nothing wrong in that passage but our brilliant hands found a way to extract an inch of free space to turn into a goal.

Macrae was instrumental in at least three goals that I can remember. The one you describe above, the Picken one after the super effort from Biggs and in the 3rd when he handballed to Dicko who snapped truly.

[Bulldog4life]

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Stringers tap to Daniel in the goal square was pretty awesome. So many efforts from Jake to keep it going.

That is by far my favourite team goal of the year.

[Sedat]

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Been watching some of the H&A games on Foxtel the last couple of nights and there were a couple of fantastic goals in the Port game at Adelaide Oval. In the 3rd qtr, Libba on a tight angle on the wrong side for a left footer from about 45m out after a perfect gather off the ground and a couple of steps. And early in the last qtr Stringer gathered a ground ball on the wing and put the jets on, streaming through the centre square to hammer home a massive goal from 60m out.

There are quite a few contenders but this is probably my favourite H&A match from this season - cracking game from start to finish.

[comrade]

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Been watching some of the H&A games on Foxtel the last couple of nights and there were a couple of fantastic goals in the Port game at Adelaide Oval. In the 3rd qtr, Libba on a tight angle on the wrong side for a left footer from about 45m out after a perfect gather off the ground and a couple of steps. And early in the last qtr Stringer gathered a ground ball on the wing and put the jets on, streaming through the centre square to hammer home a massive goal from 60m out.

There are quite a few contenders but this is probably my favourite H&A match from this season - cracking game from start to finish.

Yep, watched it at the Railway Hotel amongst Doggies fans and it was a ripper. Bont & Stringer just wouldn't let us lose.

[merantau]

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That Bont/JJ goal in the orelim is one of the greatest goals of all time given the context of the game never mind the history of things going wrong at moments like that for us. But the Bont is the Bont is the Bont and as soon as JJ landed the ball within 10 metres of him and he was going to kick it. JJ's kick was centimetre perfect though and Bont didn't even have to break stride. God it's a great goal.

In a funny way it reminds me so much of Micky Thomas goal for Arsenal at Anfield in 1989 that won the title for Arsenal in the 90th minute of the final game of the season. When Thomas rounded Bruce Grobellar it was almost like time stood still as he couldn't help but score and you think "oh my god Thomas is going to score" and then he does score and the world is never quite the same again. You get that split second when everything seems to stop like that as you think "oh my god Bontempelli is going to score" and he does and the world changed completely.



I love with less than a minute to go he is trying to get Darce to call the Bulldogs home but from the sound of things Darce seems to be hiding under a desk or in a cupboard because he doesn't make any sense at all for about a nanosecond before pretty much giving it the old Mal Meninga "I'm buggered, I'm stuffed, I just can't do this" line and going back to hoklding his breath and covering his eyes like the rest of us.



I'm struggling to think if five players I've seen in my life who could have kicked that goal. Ablett, Bruce Lidner, Richard Osborne, maybe Peter Daicos.

Those smug, sneering types who look down on football are beyond my understanding. Even if you had no interest in either of the competing teams it seems to me, that given the state of the game, and the overall context in which it was taking place, you would have to be brain dead not to be stirred by Bont's goal. The battle for possession that preceeded it was epic; Matty Boyd's intercept of the handball inspired. And then JJ arriving at speed, doling out a shimmy, igniting the after burners and busting into space - a blur across the turf - prior to delivering the perfect kick to allow the Bont to run on to it, execute the perfect paddle take control of the ball accelerate away, strighten up a tad and then, with copy book kicking style send the Sherrin over the umpy's head bisecting the goal posts. And all the while 20 odd thousand people are locked in anticipation's ruthless embrace. Something big is enfolding before their eyes. They are a nanno second away from experiencing total elation or total despair. And when the Bont delivers the roar is deafening, the joy is torrential.
The test of greatness, for me anyway, is how many times you could watch the replay of an event before tiring of it. If the answer is "NEVER!" then you know it's great. I get goosebumps just reading about people's reactions to this goal. How I wish I'd been at the game. I absolutely envy and applaud those supporters who made the trip. I was in a bar 000s of km away watching with 6 Aussies, none of whom were Bulldogs supporters but all were barracking hard for us and all were on their feet when the Bont goaled. It was an EPIC moment among the many epic moments our team delivered during the finals. The AFL owes us because we have given football a boost like never before. GO DOGS!