Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

[jeemak]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

I thought he was cool with the footy under pressure tonight, which was a good sign. Agree he doesn't seem to be ready to really jump at it yet, he'll turn it around.

[always right]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Anyone think Picken should have been rested today? He looked way off the pace and lacked his normal desparation.

[1eyedog]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Thought Picko was fantastic tonight. 25 disposals 6 odd tackles and should have had a goal. Very solid night.

[jeemak]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Picko had a funny night, he took some time to get into things but got better as the game wore on.

Not sure if he should have played. The following week after a decent knock is always tough, but you have to leave it up to the medicos to provide the ultimate advice.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

What are peoples thoughts on Easton Woods start to the year? Obviously he had a delayed pre season and you can say a lot of our players have been below their best but I think he has been really poor and well below his All Australian best. I just cant recall too many intercept marks this year at all?

Mentioned similar words tonight.

Hopefully he's OK - at the moment he looks to be struggling.

[Ozza]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Anyone else notice we seem to be deliberately using fewer interchanges than our opponents?

75 vs North 89, despite we were a man down for 3 quarters.

Our seats were behind/above the interchange tonight - and I'm not sure we had much of a choice on the interchange at times.
Apart from Boyd, and then Cloke late doors - Adams had some problems and Dunkley spent some chunks off the ground getting work on his legs.

Having the interchange in view - does make you focus on it a bit - so I was pretty nervous when North started to get away from us early in the last quarter, and we have Wood, Bonti and Libba all off the ground at the same time - for around 6-7 minutes!

[always right]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Thought Picko was fantastic tonight. 25 disposals 6 odd tackles and should have had a goal. Very solid night.

Stats don't tell all the story. Thought he lacked his usual influence.

[Eastdog]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

The first Good Friday match in AFL/VFL history and we get the historic first win so happy with that.

With the game I feel we are certainly not playing to our full potential and more like currently going through the motions grinding out results.

Disappointing at one stage trailing them by nearly 5 goals but happy that we came back hard and had a decent last quarter to get that win unlike what we did last week.

Suckling was important tonight and I liked how Dahlhaus went and Stringer did some important things.

Bob as well did good and Im hoping for a big 300th next week. Picko as well - he is tough after last week and thought he was quite good.

[GVGjr]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Stats don't tell all the story. Thought he lacked his usual influence.

I thought he was very quiet early on but got better as the game wore on but yes he didn't have his normal influence.

[Eastdog]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Loved when Libba marked it inside 50 in the final term and get us a vitally important goal.

We need to reduce our turnovers.

[Twodogs]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Dropped marks in forward 50 are killers

The one Tom Boyd dropped almost killed him.

I really enjoyed Toby McLean through the midfield. Attended some centre bounces in the last quarter, had 27 touches at 85% efficiency. Great run and carry at times, and his skills were needed.

As a side, I heard we went at 80% disposal efficiency in the second half. Not sure what North's was, but that's what won us the match.

That's great efficiency for Toby. 24 (or 23) effective touches is very impressive.

[Sedat]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

The one Tom Boyd dropped almost killed him.

Stringer dropped about 4 puds inside forward 50 and Dahl also dropped a 'mark' when Picko got him in the clear with a handball about 30m out. We made ourselves work so much harder for our goals because we dropped what should have been so many gilt-edged easy ones.

[jeemak]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

It's why I have an issue with the concept of us being behind it all day.

[ledge]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Great gutsy win , we played a team with very good talls today and we had only one for 90% of the day.
All They had to do was put it up high and we had no hope, don't underestimate what we did today with what we had , Roughead and Morris are huge losses.
Campbell is extremely slow but took on a massive task today.
Cloke might not seem to do much at times but keep in mind he will always get the big backman, if blokes like stringer kick goals it's Because Cloke has managed to drag that big backman away or up the ground.
Extremely happy we got this win with what we had out there today and what was missing.

[G-Mo77]

Re: Game Day Round 4, 2017 - North Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

One thing again which hurt us was rebound defence. I think we're getting caught to far up the ground when we're pressing. There were some really cheap goals leaked out the back last night when we were out of position.