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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
Complete lack of confidence, and mixed with a lack of hunger and intent means we've fallen off in to many areas.
Signs were poor early in the year, and we've showed inconsistency all season . To much finger pointing and not enough getting dirty.
It's time everyone moved on from last years accomplishment and I'm including everyone at the club from the president down .Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
It's not just fight and effort. I haven't been too critical about those two measures. After all we won a number of games coming from well behind. Yes, effort against Sydney and Melbourne was putrid but mostly the effort has been there.
What has been totally lacking is ability to deliver the ball to advantage inside 50, clean hands, inability to handball with precision (so many high/low/slow/wide) and failure to stick tackles. Add to this pathetic set shots, poor field kicking, loss of form by key players, injuries to key players and what do you have? Our season in a nutshell. Somewhere along the way from Oct 1, 2016 we lodt our mojo. Can we get it back?
Think Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs : "Like tryin' find a needle in a haystack."
Got an electromagnet Bevo? Give Smorgo a bell. He mighy have a spare one knocking around at Simsmetal.
Come on Dogs. Let's get our mojo back. I want us to be up and about. Let's do some damage in the next 8 weeks.[URL="http://journals.worldnomads.com/merantau"]http://journals.worldnomads.com/merantau[/URL]
"It's not about the destination - it's about the trip."Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
That's a ten goal loss v a Melbourne side, what happened during the bye? Stringers worst game I'd say but wasn't alone. Opposition teams smashing us at stoppages and when we do win a clearance it's a panic ball inside 50 . Long time since I can recall so many missed kicks .... ! Josh Kelly just get the brown paper bags out now .BT COME BACK!
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
Just woke up and caught up with the result. Malcom Karpany 3 goals? lol. Latest member of the Marty McGrath/Luke Vogels club. Also saw that we got smashed -16 in stoppages and West Coke scored 7 goals to our zero from stoppages, all with Campbell dominating hitouts. That is a pantsing of the highest order. Something must be seriously amiss with our midfield and clearance work - are our mids skunking out ahead of the contest instead of getting their hands dirty?
Shame we have spudded it up this year because she's a wide open season."Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
I went to the bar at half time and stayed there.Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
It dosent help when the whole team is rotated through there. Honey spent time in the centre and had 0 impact and we had Redpath rucking when you had our second ruck AKA Roughead who is now our full back not having any impact at all. Make no mistake its a premiership hangover for the coaching staff and match committee along with the players.Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
Saw Sloane struggled with the tag v Carlton today.
Is there anything more certain that a tagless Sloane racking up 30 + 2 goals next week?W00F!Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
Completely agree, and we're simply not playing enough inside mids at the moment. Libba went out and we brought in another half back flanker.
In terms of real inside mids, I reckon we only played 3 today: Bont, Dahlhaus and Wallis (who spent large chunks at full forward).Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
And of Bont, Dahl, Wally only one can kick well. Love Wally's efforts however I have thought for as long as I have watched him he is a bit of a turnover merchant, along with Dahl. We simply must recruit players who can kick and reliably take a mark.Josie :)
Our day will come
And we'll have everything.
We'll share the joy
Just like '54 again.Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
Bevo says he's never going to worry about our hunger.... Well, they must be concealing the hunger fairly well.[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]Comment
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Re: Game Day Round 15, 2017 - Western Bulldogs V West Coast
I feel for bevo & the coaching staff. Don't get me wrong cause i think they could definitely be doing a better job. Its clear to me that we have lost that fire in the belly, our blue collar work ethic. Bevo has turned over so many players trying to find something that will work & click us into gear. But as we've seen for 15 weeks now nothing is working. We can talk tactics till we're blue in the face but i don't see it as a major issue. Tactics mean little when players refuse to work hard both ways.
If bevo can't unlock that passion to work hard for each other in the next fortnight then its officially season over for the defending premiers. Maybe I'll give you a hand bevo. Show them a bit of this!
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