Round 5 - Western Bulldogs V Brisbane Lions - Sat 12/4/25 Norwood Oval, Adelaide 4:15PM AEDT

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Fans are embracing Lobby

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Love this.

Lobb is my 4.5 year Olds favourite player.

He's a great character and his turnaround from foe to hero has been nothing short of amazing.

[Bornadog]

Love this.

Lobb is my 4.5 year Olds favourite player.

He's a great character and his turnaround from foe to hero has been nothing short of amazing.

I don't believe I actually like Lobb. Apparently a nice bloke too, as my butcher was telling me as he is a customer.

[Grantysghost]

Dogs by 1.
FG Naughton
BOG McNeil

Tough one to call. The Lions are just doing what they have to do at the moment, however they did beat a pretty good Cats side in the wet at the Gabba in rd 3 so not exactly bad form.

To win we will need a few things to go our way. Obviously contested ball and clearance are critical as always, also limiting the Lions playing the way they want.

If we allow too many uncontested marks especially on their slow plays from defence then they are dictating terms. I really would like to see us go man on man to stop this, but we do love our zones. F50 entries we have to be smarter than we were last week. I get the Darcy at all costs meme, however Andrews is brilliant at intercepting and it's what the Lions prefer. We need to be clever here and change the angles/look for others.
Our small forwards are really important today also, repeat entries, stopping Zorko and WIlmot and hitting the scoreboard is essential. Big games from West and McNeil in LVDMs absence super important.
Their forwards, Hipwood is hot and cold, Day is cold, so i'm mostly worried about their mid sized or smalls. Cameron, Rayner, Bailey.

Negating Neale also critical. We don't do hard tags, so the defensive work of our mids is going to have to be the strategy. This is probably my biggest concern as we don't do this well at times.

We are a big chance in this one, but it's going to be tight.

Go Dogs!

P.S. Dunks....

[JackCJohnston2000]

What expectations should we, realistically, have for Cooper?

He'll likely play as a half forward, spending most time inside 50 as a target or to crumb the loose ball but will occasionally roll up to stoppage.

10+ touches, a handful of score involvements and a few tackles would be a solid debut, I reckon. Add a goal or two and I think he'd far exceed my expectations for a first gamer.

[Twice Bitten]

Margin: Dogs by 15
Our first goal: Hynes
Our top goal kicker: Darcy
Our best on ground: Lobb
Crowd: 6789

[Mofra]

What expectations should we, realistically, have for Cooper?

He'll likely play as a half forward, spending most time inside 50 as a target or to crumb the loose ball but will occasionally roll up to stoppage.

10+ touches, a handful of score involvements and a few tackles would be a solid debut, I reckon. Add a goal or two and I think he'd far exceed my expectations for a first gamer.

I'm guessing he'll be gassed a bit after half time and get subbed off barring injury.

I wouldn't mind playing him deep. He has some natural forward instincts and can fend off too. He gets to use his skills in traffic at F50 stoppages.

[azabob]

I don't believe I actually like Lobb. Apparently a nice bloke too, as my butcher was telling me as he is a customer.

Do you believe you like him though?

[Bornadog]

Do you believe you like him though?

Yes I do

[HOSE B ROMERO]

Dolan the sub

[jazzadogs]

My crazy hopes for today:
JJ makes it through the four quarters.
Hynes gets a goal in his debut.
We tag Lachie Neale.
We win.

[HOSE B ROMERO]

33 degrees in Adelaide at the moment.

Dogs by a point he says unconvincingly.
bog Dale
first goal McNeil

[BornInDroopSt'54]

C'mon Dogs, bring the fire and finesse here and now.
Use Dunkley's betrayal or anything that works.
Lions have had the better of us for too long and if we win, we'll have every reason to believe in a top four position and only have ourselves to worry about.
Relax and focus, like Libba.

[doggies ftw]

Good feeling about this to be honest, nothing to really lose and gonna be obviously tough but just want to see us up for the fight and our system hold up. Contest around the ball going to be absolutely crucial.

quietly confident but we’ll see

[doggies ftw]

We need to find a way to scrap this somehow, Bont back next week off a win and we could really get kicking

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Dogs by 1 point
First goal: Naughty
BOG: Richards