Bankers And Anchors - Round 20, 2017 vs Brisbane Lions

[Eastdog]

This is the round 20, 2017 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against Brisbane Lions 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 20, 2017 vs Brisbane Lions

3 to Bank, 3 to Anch

[bulldogtragic]

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B

Redders/Cloke combo - I liked it. If we have quicker agile types round them, it will be better again.
Top 8 for the first time, in what seems like a long time.
Rockliff. 2 goals and mid 20's disposals. Will look better in our jumper next year.


A

Goal kicking again. Again. Again. Again. Again.
Wood's hammy. Enough injuries.
Letting them back in when a big win was on the cards.

[AndrewP6]

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B
Top 8 for the first time, in what seems like a long time.

Last week!

[bulldogtragic]

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Last week!

A weeks a long time in football!! I think I meant finishing the round in the 8.

[Topdog]

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B

Big Red - Took a heap of important marks and kept getting into great spots
Bont - Superstar
McLean - Great in close and has really stepped up this season.

A

Big Red - Goalkicking
Bont - Goalkicking
The team as a whole for that 3rd quarter

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Bankers
Macrae we know he is Mr Consistency when it comes to effort, work rate and the tough work but his disposals were damaging today. It elevates his performance.

Big Reds marking

Mclean's composure, run and creativity.

Anchors
Big Red and Bonts goalkicking. Singlehandedly kept Brisbane in it which gave a young side the belief they had a big chance.

Wood's hammy..could not have pinged at a worse time for us.

[Eastdog]

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Bankers

- Bont - just a star

- Redpath - give us a lot in the forward line. Is a great target up there.

- Macrae - Very good today again. He has had a good year.


Anchors

- Wood injury - so frustrating is an important part of our defence.

- Our goalkicking - still needs fixing. Bont missed a couple which was frustrating.

- The 3rd quarter - dissapointing we let them back in it. Started a bit late in the 2nd quarter.

[merantau]

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Bankers
1. Bontempelli. Did some amazing things when the whips were cracking.
2. Lachie Hunter was terrific for the entire game
3. Travis Cloke and Jack Redpath were very active forwards. Get the goal kicking right and they become potent forwards.
Anchors
1. Easton Wood's injury
2. Goal kicking
3. Lynch. He confused Clay Smith and Jack Redpath! How does he keep his job?

[Eastdog]

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Bankers
1. Bontempelli. Did some amazing things when the whips were cracking.
2. Lachie Hunter was terrific for the entire game
3. Travis Cloke and Jack Redpath were very active forwards. Get the goal kicking right and they become potent forwards.
Anchors
1. Easton Wood's injury
2. Goal kicking
3. Lynch. He confused Clay Smith and Jack Redpath! How does he keep his job?

Lachie's nearly Mark of the year that would have been a huge banker.

[Ozza]

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Bankers:

Bont - Of course his goal kicking is frustrating - but you can take it to the bank (pun intended) that when we absolutely need it - he will do what needs to be done. How was that contest in the middle of the ground - he got spoiled from behind and most players would have gone to ground - but he gathered it, and managed to handball while being tackled in such a way that Macrae didn't break stride before hitting up Redpath for the eventual goal. Brilliant.

Macrae - Has gone to another level since about half time in the Carlton game. Went at 84% again today, took contested marks again, think he had a dozen score involvements. Starting to use his 191cm frame a bit too.

McLean - such a classy player. Just really clean, and good speed leaving the stoppages.

Anchors:

Webb - just couldn't get involved enough. And although he should never have ended up competing one on one deep in D50 - the effort v Bastinac was disasterous.
Smith - thankfully his set shot goal kicking still stands up. Not many other aspects of his game are standing up to the standards he set at the end of last year. A mystery what has happened to him.
Suckling - I don't want to be seen to be Sucker-bashing - and his last quarter was reasonable - but some very poor defensive efforts today. And a terrible effort when he grabbed the ball on the broadcast side wing and wasn't strong enough in the tackle to hold the ball for a fraction and get it to his team mates advantage. Those scenarios are really bad for him.

Banchor - Bailey Williams. He's the future, and I like what he brings. Just has those 2-3 shockers per game at this point. I guess most players do - Biggs used to have 2 shockers a game, now he's super reliable - Williams should get there also.

[Bornadog]

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Bankers

1. Hunter and Macrae seemed to be everywhere today

2. The Bont - should have had 5 goals, but he was unstoppable today, Lions had no matchup for him.

3. Cloke and Redpath took 16 marks between them - when was the last time two key forwards did that.

Anchors

1. Goal kicking has been atrocious this year

2. Umpires - 6 free kicks in first half and 3 in last half??

3. Webb - no good enough

[macca]

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Banker
Bonts- his last quarter hand pass to a macrae in the centre square was sublime
Reds marking, and Cloke providing a contest
Biggs- was reliable and had a good game

Anchor:
Goal kicking - can we have a game where we kick more goals than points ? . Redders needs to nail those goals 30-40m out
I get nervous when we have a shot on goal
Letting rich , bastinac and peaty Taylor run free. Why do some players play out of their skin when they play again us? Walker had a good game and took some important marks
Can we have enough slow players in our team ? Suckling , smith and Webb, just got out run today
We let them back in during 3rd quarter, a brisbane side with 12 months more experience would have kept us out of the game. Even with 1.30 left in the last we should have kept possession

[boydogs]

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Banchor - Bailey Williams. He's the future, and I like what he brings. Just has those 2-3 shockers per game at this point. I guess most players do - Biggs used to have 2 shockers a game, now he's super reliable - Williams should get there also.

He's got a touch of the Sam Darley's about him - neat player, great kick, but doesn't have that desperation in his game

[boydogs]

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Bankers
McLean's dash through congestion set us up more than once. Loved his dive through the legs as well. He has gone from a classy finisher to one of our best mids
Macrae showed more forward craft today, hitting forward line targets and taking marks
Hunter was everywhere as usual, today he did really well using his pace to get us out of trouble

Banchor
Bonts was a good target up forward and played well in the middle, just missed some easy shots that made a 9/10 game into a 7/10 game

Anchors
Webb & Smith non factors, though props to Clay for kicking straight when he got his chance
JJ's withdrawal & Wood's injury
Going to sleep for 2 quarters and almost costing us the season