St. Kilda V Western Bulldogs R14, Thursday 12/6/25 at Marvel Stadium at 7:30pm

[kruder]

Yeah I thought last week we had the more numbers at the game. We had a pretty good crowd ourselves compared to Saints tonight

I agree felt like over 40k?

[GVGjr]

Yeah even our crowd of 35k against the Hoks was down, it's obviously more about TV. What do you reckon 10k there at 3quarter time?

35K was a solid crowd against the Hawks. Agree that going into the last quarter it couldn't have been more than 12K

[Eastdog]

Yeah even our crowd of 35k against the Hoks was down, it's obviously more about TV. What do you reckon 10k there at 3quarter time?

Yep agree Thursday night footy much more for the broadcasters than it is for the fans. We have only one other Thursday night home game against the Giants in Round 21.

We play North in a few weeks in that timeslot but not our home game. I wonder whether that will get a bigger crowd than tonight. Might depend on how North go before they play us.

[GVGjr]

Just listened to both coaches pressers. Lyon tries to turn things around onto the journo's.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

OK I'm away and didn't watch. We smashed them. Yet on here people seem disappointed. Why?

I completely understand beating a team like the saints means nothing and all that as we've failed to take it to the top teams. But we won by 12 goals. Surely it's still a good thing?

[jeemak]

OK I'm away and didn't watch. We smashed them. Yet on here people seem disappointed. Why?

I completely understand beating a team like the saints means nothing and all that as we've failed to take it to the top teams. But we won by 12 goals. Surely it's still a good thing?

It was a bit of a frustrating game, where some of our less appealing habits popped up at different times until early into the third. A bit of indecisiveness here, silly skill error there etc. from some of the same culprits. Some carry over bitterness from last week probably permeated how many viewed the game.

Didn't feel the Saints wanted to win, rather, just not lose by too much too early so it dragged on us a little.

Twelve goals is still twelve goals though, so most would be happy enough.

[dog town]

Just listened to both coaches pressers. Lyon tries to turn things around onto the journo's.

That was an ordinary exchange. I understand that it’s difficult for senior coaches to sit through press conferences but Ross let’s himself down when he tries to belittle the journos.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

It was a bit of a frustrating game, where some of our less appealing habits popped up at different times until early into the third. A bit of indecisiveness here, silly skill error there etc. from some of the same culprits. Some carry over bitterness from last week probably permeated how many viewed the game.

Didn't feel the Saints wanted to win, rather, just not lose by too much too early so it dragged on us a little.

Twelve goals is still twelve goals though, so most would be happy enough.

The saints must be absolute dogshit if we played fairly poorly yet won by 12 goals!

I cant believe its gotten to this but i kinda feel bad for them. Especially if Milera leaves. But then I see Riewoldts face and my smile returns.

[SonofScray]

The saints must be absolute dogshit if we played fairly poorly yet won by 12 goals!

I cant believe its gotten to this but i kinda feel bad for them. Especially if Milera leaves. But then I see Riewoldts face and my smile returns.

Their best player is a North reject.

They are just an awful team and club.

[jazzadogs]

Their best player is a North reject.

They are just an awful team and club.

Are you saying Mason Wood is their best player? Nwm, Sinclair, Wilkie, Steele, Macrae, Marshall, Higgins. Wood might sneak in to the top 10.

They are just an awful team and club.

[Grantysghost]

OK I'm away and didn't watch. We smashed them. Yet on here people seem disappointed. Why?

I completely understand beating a team like the saints means nothing and all that as we've failed to take it to the top teams. But we won by 12 goals. Surely it's still a good thing?

No dissapointment from me. Crushed them and played really well. Darcy back and looking impossible to stop (legally), Bont tagged out of it and went selfless mode, Freijah still doing amazing things for a 19 year old, Richards and Dale in equal career best form, Hynes getting some more time. McNeil best on ground, Lobb still killing it the backline...!

No way we lose another game !

[BontlowSzn]

Anyone else find it amusing in Lyon's presser how he focused on where they are at in there rebuild, eluding to their lack of experience.

Saints average age - 26yr 3mth
Bulldogs average - 25yr 7mth

Saints average games - 112.7
Bulldogs average games - 101.4

Players less than 50 games: Saints 4, Bulldogs 9.

[Bornadog]

OK I'm away and didn't watch. We smashed them. Yet on here people seem disappointed. Why?

I completely understand beating a team like the saints means nothing and all that as we've failed to take it to the top teams. But we won by 12 goals. Surely it's still a good thing?

I was more than happy to thump the Saints. Saints beat Dees before their bye, so I was a little worried before the game.
Great to beat teams by 70 plus, 90 plus shows we don't stop playing and let easy goals erode our lead. This was prevailant in the past where we had leads of 60 plus and finished the game winning by 20 odd - so good signs this year.

[doggies ftw]

Pretty convincing win, hard to take much away as we know we will dominate these sides but until we beat good sides there will be question marks and that’s fair enough. In regards to the flat track bully tag I’m really not that worried, I think our record looks a lot worse than it’s actually been in reality - we’ve probably played 1 bad game when we were jumped off the bye by a team who needed to win even more than us.

Then there’s been some poor quarters which have let us down, and an inability to finish the game when we’ve had some chances but I don’t think it’s fair to call us flat track bullies based on that just yet. We’ve played one, single, game against those sides at our home ground, for the first time all year we had our two best players in the same team (outside of 10mins against the Saints first time around)

If we had Bont for Freo, Pies, Lions and Darcy for Gold Coast, Geelong how many of those games do we win? I honestly think at least 3. These two completely, dramatically, change our team for the better and you can say well you can’t rely on a single player but we have managed well but NO team is covering their best 2 players and 2 of the best players in the whole competition against good sides.

At the same time that we’ve been covering for those two missing all year we’ve also missed a lot of other good players. Treloar, Cody & Marra are massive losses on their own, throw it on top of your two best players and it’s a wonder we’ve even been competitive. Backline hasn’t been settled all year etc

i just think many fans expectations have been completely out of whack to expect us to work miracles with what we’ve had, the losses against good sides are disappointing and realistically I don’t think we’ll finish top 4 now because it’s a pretty tough year for top 4 with a number of good clubs almost already locked in, and a few with super easy draws. So that’s frustrating when I think we’re good enough to, but we just haven’t had luck on our side this year unfortunately and maybe squandered a couple of opportunities of our own doing too.

We’re a much better side than last year though, with an extremely bright future and we’re good enough to win it all so long as we make finals, which we will. Whilst I don’t think we’ll finish top 4 the year is absolutely still there for the taking and we’re a different side and will give it a real shake I’m sure of it, the results against the top sides will start to turn in our favour

[SonofScray]

Are you saying Mason Wood is their best player? Nwm, Sinclair, Wilkie, Steele, Macrae, Marshall, Higgins. Wood might sneak in to the top 10.

They are just an awful team and club.

That’s what the handful of St Kilda buffers tell me.