Western Bulldogs V Fremantle R24, Sunday 24/8/25 Marvel Stadium at 3:15pm

[whythelongface]

Oh well. C’est la vie.

[Go_Dogs]

At least don’t have to bother being worked up and lose in 2 weeks time.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

No wonder Longmurie was so confident. We're so predictable.

[Mofra]

You know what is strange even though we have put in a shocker , Croft and Arty have shown some bloody good tricks for the coming years.

Yep. Arty and Baker earned themselves contract extensions today. Cleary very good, ditto West. Croft has been our best tall at times.

Lobb with the worst game of his career. Williams with a lot of poor moments, Darcy well beaten. Matt Kennedy ineffectual.

[jeemak]

I would be slotting Croft & Jones into the round 1 side, with Jaques replacing JJ at a minimum.

Yep. See what we can get for JUH and move on with Croft. Arty deserves a contract, as does Baker.

The rebuild must continue.

[Funke disco]

Croft showed something that's worth getting excited about. I want A Jones to stick around, if he gets an injury free run at it he could do more than some of the other little guys

[jeemak]

Fremantle 7-3 vs top eight/nine sides, we are 2-9.

Sure they dropped some they shouldn't have but if that doesn't tell a story I don't know what does.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

What have your eyes told you all year? Has it not been clear to you that in this transition period every side in the final eight apart from one has just been a bit too good for us?

I don't know what others see that I don't.

Our percentage says otherwise. We haven't been good enough because we melt under any sort of pressure and good teams know exactly how to expose us.

[Go_Dogs]

Fremantle 7-3 vs top eight/nine sides, we are 2-9.

Sure they dropped some they shouldn't have but if that doesn't tell a story I don't know what does.

Bloody Freo, always getting lucky right.

[ledge]

Yep. Arty and Baker earned themselves contract extensions today. Cleary very good, ditto West. Croft has been our best tall at times.

Lobb with the worst game of his career. Williams with a lot of poor moments, Darcy well beaten. Matt Kennedy ineffectual.

We can all have bad games but you could see Lobb was struggling early on Treacy , move him .
I think Bevo stuffed around with Darcy and just put him all over the place .
Bevo decided to make changes when game was shot .
Kennedy struggling swap him with West !
just make changes of some sort !

[azabob]

Our defensive group is shithouse and theirs is very good. That’s the difference. Same inside 50s, our best mids got plenty of touches compared to theirs. It’s just our defensive group is so disorganised both in the air and especially on the ground, they scored at will when it went inside 50. Missing Barrass was massive last off season.

Mate, the defence has no chance. They literally waltzed to out of our forward half or from the centre square so many times it wasn’t funny. Surely you see that?

[hujsh]

We sure could do with a big-bodied defensive oriented midfielder who can clamp down on the opposition, also win his own ball as well as being a tackling machine and strong overhead. Wouldn't even mind if he had a vanilla boring social media presence.

He was there for plenty of collapses himself. This is is not an issue fixed by one individual. The team is ****ed.

[azabob]

Sam Darcy was simply awful today. His worst game for the year.

[angelopetraglia]

Pretty simple.

If you can’t get it done on your home turf against a similar team to lock in a finals spot, you are not good enough.

We didn’t take out chances early, we could have put them away. But to allow an 8 goal consecutive run is diabolical. I don’t know how anyone can explain that?

Hard to accept. But that was an embarrassing day for our football club.

[comrade]

Mate, the defence has no chance. They literally waltzed to out of our forward half or from the centre square so many times it wasn’t funny. Surely you see that?

Yeah, I did. That doesn’t excuse the ground ball goals, the missed tackles inside D50, the missed spoils. Is it too much to ask a defender to defend though? Or do they expect dirty ball inside 50 to cover up their deficiencies every week?