Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

[1eyedog]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

A bit off topic but I saw 3 games of footy today and the total winning margins were just 13 points.

Back to tonight's game, is anyone sick of paying for a seat each week when you just end up sitting in the edge of it for most of the game?

Ive got a reserved seat but paced between aisle 36 and 32 for the last 5 minutes looking over peoples heads in different locations.

[ReLoad]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

In my wildest dreams I never thought I'd say this;

"We miss Travis Cloke"

He would have made Rance far more accountable and given our diabolical inside 50s would have made life much easier.
Injuries now are pretty much at crisis levels.

I'm loving bailey williams with the footy in his hands, his kicking is astounding.

[Bornadog]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

Back to tonight's game, is anyone sick of paying for a seat each week when you just end up sitting in the edge of it for most of the game?

I think every home game has been like that this season to date.

[Bornadog]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

I've never seen or heard such a one sided bulldog dominated crowd since the days of the Whitten oval. Richmond goals almost got polite applause while bulldog goals were greeted with a huge roar.

The huge appeal from around the ground had a bit to do with the deliberate OOB toward the end I thought and the countdown from ten at the end was pretty loud too. The players must have heard it.

Great Crowd, 46k plus

[GVGjr]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

Ive got a reserved seat but paced between aisle 36 and 32 for the last 5 minutes looking over peoples heads in different locations.

I'll have to give it a try

[GVGjr]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

I think every home game has been like that this season to date.

We also had a couple of them late last year

[GVGjr]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

Crowd. 46,345
Dogs by 11 points.
First goal McLean
BOG Picken

I couldn't have got much closer to the crowd numbers but missed on the others.

[SonofScray]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

Great Crowd, 46k plus

Tigers had a fairly raucous following on the night but the weight of numbers was with the home side and when we started to put the hammer down you could really feel the lift in the crowd, urging us to pull away (which we never really did on the scoreboard) while the Tiger fans slowly went into their box, resigned to fate.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

I reckon we are doing 95% of things right, but because we play a very highly strung style of gamestyle, that 5% bit we're off is causing us so much pain.

We're like a high performance vehicle that to perform at it's best requires precision tuning. Just the little bit of quantum level out od calibration and we can be exposed.
In football terms that is a ball that gets out of the scrimmage on terms other than what we set up for - results in an easy goal for the opposition. Or an unexpected turnover in an attacking phase leaves us out of position for an easy opposition goal.
Our poor return in front of goal magnifies this.
But gee i reckon our finals experience last year is just dragging us over the line right now.

I said similar to my daughter in Q3, it's like we are nearly there, just not quite, slow starts and uncharacteristic mistakes that break down the whole system. The ball bounced away from us at every chance too.

A bit off topic but I saw 3 games of footy today and the total winning margins were just 13 points.

Back to tonight's game, is anyone sick of paying for a seat each week when you just end up sitting in the edge of it for most of the game?

I just love winning the close games, after a very disappointing Q1 we were the dominant team in a high pressure game. I would like to win by 20 goals soon for a change up.

In my wildest dreams I never thought I'd say this;

"We miss Travis Cloke"

He would have made Rance far more accountable and given our diabolical inside 50s would have made life much easier.
Injuries now are pretty much at crisis levels.

I'm loving bailey williams with the footy in his hands, his kicking is astounding.

Timely return for some players, and while the injuries are serious they aren't season ending. I'm sure most of us thought Jake was done for the year initial.

Opportunity for Wally and Dicko or others this week. Our depth in most areas is good.

[Eastdog]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

I think every home game has been like that this season to date.

Even in the games against the Swans and Lions we won more comfortably but they were quite close as well in stages. Will be nice to win comfortably at home soon. Our supporters were great last night really into the game. Love where I seat very passionate bunch that get the Bulldogs chant going.

[Eastdog]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

Ive got a reserved seat but paced between aisle 36 and 32 for the last 5 minutes looking over peoples heads in different locations.

I would have been one of those heads in there Level 1 Aisle 33 represent

[Twodogs]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

I'll have to give it a try

Standing on level 1 leaning against the railing is the best view in the house. Only problem is you can't see the scoreboard and the score on the TV screen has gone really tiny this year so all last night I had to keep checking whether the score was right.

Even in the games against the Swans and Lions we won more comfortably but they were quite close as well in stages. Will be nice to win comfortably at home soon. Our supporters were great last night really into the game. Love where I seat very passionate bunch that get the Bulldogs chant going.

They were weren't they? One of the best bulldog crowds I've been in at Etihad. It was lots of fun being the biggest boof heads in the house against one of the "big four"

Ive got a reserved seat but paced between aisle 36 and 32 for the last 5 minutes looking over peoples heads in different locations.

You would have been quite near us at stages underneath the 31 sign along the right hand side of the gate.

[Eastdog]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

What aisle on Level 1 do you usual stand in Twodogs?

[Twodogs]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

What aisle on Level 1 do you usual stand in Twodogs?

31, Kelvin Templeton's old number.

[merantau]

Re: Game Day Round 7, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V Richmond

Agree, standing Level 1 is where the atmosphere is absolutely the best. Massive noise, excitement, passion, raw emotion on show during a close finish - simply cannot be topped.