Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

[Eastdog]

This is the round 13, 2017 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against Melbourne is concluded post your nominations for:

The Bankers = 3 guys/aspects of the game that we banked on to do the right thing during the game
The Anchors = 3 guys/aspects of the game that weighed us down by their errors or poor play

Optional: New addition to the Bankers and Anchors Banchors 3 players we thought who were in the middle in how they went in the game neither a Banker or Anchor.

Please limit it to no more than three of each player or aspect of the game, but feel free to make honourable/dishonourable mentions. As usual try to make it constructive criticism.

Try and restrict it to individual players rather than aspects of the overall match - I will allow more freedom now as the thread seems to be going down more of the aspects of the game path so you can have 3 for each made up of aspects of the game and individual players.

The thread is named in honour of a popular WOOF Contributor, The Banker, who passed away on 22/04/2012 after a six month battle with cancer.

[GVGjr]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

Bump

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

B

A premiership last year.
Macrae - Just goes and goes.

A

JJ - got owned two weeks in a row by a wet lettuce. I'd drop you to the VFL if I wasn't afraid you'd walk out because of it.
Honeychurch - 3 very, very, very gettable shots. One was our fight back. Sorry, but that's it for me.
Jong - ACL it seems. Poor bastard.
Umpiring & score reviews - rubbing salt in the wound

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

B

A premiership last year.
Macrae - Just goes and goes.

A

JJ - got owned two weeks in a row by a wet lettuce. I'd drop you to the VFL if I wasn't afraid you'd walk out because of it.
Honeychurch - 3 very, very, very gettable shots. One was our fight back. Sorry, but that's it for me.
Jong - ACL it seems. Poor bastard.
Umpiring & score reviews - rubbing salt in the wound

Do we care if JJ walks out because of it? He's soft as butter and is selfish. If he cracks it at being dropped after two diabolical performances he can go for nothing. Egotistic. His manager looks about silly now as we should offer half of whatever we have been

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

B- s'pose you have to have one a premiership to have a hangover.

A- The playing group and the club are to comfortable with last year .
- JJ , if you want big bucks don't look petrified
- wood , very undisciplined, fumbly and lacking confidence
- I think we saw why Mitch Honeychurch doesn't play often .

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

Added anchor - terrible for Lin Jong

[Sedat]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

B - I'm off to Dubai and Greece for a holiday on Tuesday
A - skill level, transition of ball, inability to cope with opposition heat, lack of incremental improvement from a young list that we would reasonably expect to have seen more improvement from within

[Ozza]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

Bankers :

Caleb Daniel - continues to work hard and try and create, no matter the circumstances. Went at 85% today in a super hot game for pressure.
Libba - Most intensity, most tackles, most disposals. 6 score involvements. On such a bad day - some silver lining that it may have been his best game for the season.

Anchors:

The Ruckman. Some of you are going to be tempted to put Roughead in the votes. We'd have been better off losing the hit outs, when both rucks got clear taps, and hit them directly into the areas Melbourne wanted the footy. As they have done every week - Melbourne started with 2 extras off the back flanks to run through the centre - whereas we had the extra on the wings. I just sat there completely baffled as how could possibly keep hitting towards the same areas in that circumstances. Hit out 'dominance' completely wasted. Had 4 marks BETWEEN them, and the 'stadium held its breath' when Tom sat under his one and only grab for the day. Pederson and Tom MacDonald took 13 marks, between them, kicked a couple of goals, had 43 possessions between them - and their team won the clearances.

Biggs/Wood/Suckling - just so fumbly and put their team mates under pressure badly from defence.

Stringer - had a mare, and some very selfish displays. Deserved the spray he got from Dickson.

[SonofScray]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

B:
Tom Boyd's first quarter in the cliches was really good. If he could ever convince the umpires to punish his opponents for infringing on him he'd see more of the footy in front of goal.

Mitch Wallis - continuing a good return to footy.

Lin Jong - an improved player, paid a heavy price today.

A:
Suckling. Terrible.
Coaches. Not reading things well at all.
Umpiring. Feel like we are on the end of a square up post #freekickbulldogs hysteria.

[lemmon]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

The selfishness is an interesting one. It's seeped into a few players games- not least Bont.

[Eastdog]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

Bankers

Roughy early on was quite good

Macrae involved quite a bit today

Libba


Anchors

Stringer - Poor

Kicking our first goal 10 minutes in to the 2nd quarter

Some of the umpiring today awful - Many going supporters going off

[merantau]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

Bankers
1. Mitch Wallis - gave everything he had
2. Libba - really had a crack
3. Luke D - Never gives in

Anchors
1. Really poor delivery inside 50
2. Handball was a negative
3. Honey - this was your chance and you blew it big time. But you had a lot of mates who blew it too but not in such a glaring way.

[Bornadog]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

3. Honey - this was your chance and you blew it big time. But you had a lot of mates who blew it too but not in such a glaring way.

What is it with these modern footballers who insist on having a shot at goal on some weird angle. If you can't kick a straight punt kick then you shouldn't be playing.

[GVGjr]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

What is it with these modern footballers who insist on having a shot at goal on some queried angle. If you can't kick a straight punt kick then you shouldn't be playing.

It has to be the way the way they train.
How was he out from goal? 30mtrs? And it wasn't a tight angle

It's the knock on Honeychurch, he doesn't covert enough of his chances.

[Twodogs]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 13, 2017 vs Melbourne

What is it with these modern footballers who insist on having a shot at goal on some queried angle. If you can't kick a straight punt kick then you shouldn't be playing.

It has to be the way the way they train.
How was he out from goal? 30mtrs? And it wasn't a tight angle

It's the knock on Honeychurch, he doesn't covert enough of his chances.

Of course it's the way they train.

I've said it before and I will say it again, give me 30 minutes with each player and I will guarantee I will make them better kicks. Teaching a player to kick isn't rocket science.