Western Bulldogs V West Coast Eagles R23, Sunday 17/8/25 Marvel Stadium at 4:40pm

[whythelongface]

Margin: Dogs by 94
Our first goal scorer: Kennedy
Our top goal scorer: Darcy
Our best on ground: Bont

Don’t like quoting myself but somehow I picked the margin lol. Maybe I will try again this week

[Mofra]

Croft had something like 16 pressure acts. That's brilliant and he led the team for it in the front half.

[Bornadog]

Croft had something like 16 pressure acts. That's brilliant and he led the team for it in the front half.

What I also like about him is he goes in hard - very courageous for his skinny body.

[Bornadog]

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How time flies - wasn't long ago (or feels that way), these two were playing together and now their sons are

[doggies ftw]

Don’t like quoting myself but somehow I picked the margin lol. Maybe I will try again this week

3/4 too! Not bad at all

[macca]

It was a comprehensive win against a side that had a red hot go. Eagles never let up. They missed a few easy ones, as did we, but they persisted.
So how did we win so easily? Strong TEAM performance is why. We had many good players across all lines. Bont was the C.O. He lead from the front and was the "Everywhere Man".
Bramble, Baker and Cleary had very good games. JJ was steady . Dale was a source of drive and JOD had a very solid game. Busslinger played his part well, as did Lobb. I thought the mids did a pretty good job getting back to apply the pressure and give the backs a chop out - the Doctor, Bont, Libba, Richards, Kennedy, Freijah all had goes helping out, and English dropped back to break up WC attacks.

Our forwards all has good days. Naughton, Darcy, Croft, West, Davidson worked hard all match. Davidson booting multiple goals was great. Williams got better as the game went on.
It's now time to play for keeps. Let's do it.

I like how we were punishing them on the scoreboard with rebounds. I think there was a state at half time where we scored 4 goals to zip against them on rebounds. This is such an important state.
Also, if we can trap the ball in the forward 50 m more and put on more pressure. Still some fwd entries where the talls contests, they ran into each other. Eagles player sitting at the front of the pack for the drop. There should be one of our players there and also at the back if the ball spills over.