AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

[Bornadog]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

What a difference having some experience in the backline . Morris, Adams helping out.

[Missing Dog]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Why not just play the clock down and play keepings off?

[Rocket Science]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Trying to think of a team above us that Boyd & Schache would get a game for right now.

[jeemak]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Why not just play the clock down and play keepings off?

No real need if Wallis hits a simple target, and possibly could have if he did.

[jeemak]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Trying to think of a team above us that Boyd & Schache would get a game for right now.

Both would get a game as a forward in just about any team above us. Those teams would make space for them to develop as young talented KPF's rather than making them play ruck.

[Rocket Science]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

What a difference having some experience in the backline . Morris, Adams helping out.

Plugging some holes certainly helped make us competitive for longer, but we still end up being sunk by the same bone-headed decision making and execution.

[jeemak]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Plugging some holes certainly helped make us competitive for longer, but we still end up being sunk by the same bone-headed decision making and execution.

Look at it holistically, and a game that we thought we'd be smashed in saw us actually set up the ground OK and control for the most part. Need to give credit to the MC and overall coaching department tonight.

We had around nine players who would contend for a game tonight on the injury list, the MC cobbled together a plan that almost got us over the line.

[MrMahatma]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Look at it holistically, and a game that we thought we'd be smashed in saw us actually set up the ground OK and control for the most part. Need to give credit to the MC and overall coaching department tonight.

We had around nine players who would contend for a game tonight on the injury list, the MC cobbled together a plan that almost got us over the line.

Gotta agree. Totally wasted opportunity to win but the coaching dep did what they could. A few easy misses and a few last qtr brain fades cost us.

Fact is: bring the pressure and you’re in the game. Prob our best 4 quarter effort all year.

[Twodogs]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

I don't agree. He can use the ball better than he does, he just doesn't concentrate. We've seen him be better, it's an application issue.

Yep it's the huge exaggerated swing of the hand holding the ball that his ball drop has turned into that is the problem.

[jeemak]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Gotta agree. Totally wasted opportunity to win but the coaching dep did what they could. A few easy misses and a few last qtr brain fades cost us.

Fact is: bring the pressure and you’re in the game. Prob our best 4 quarter effort all year.

Yep, that and Essendon and Sydney stand out.

[jeemak]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

On a positive note the police haven't shown up to my house yet.

[Bornadog]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Gotta agree. Totally wasted opportunity to win but the coaching dep did what they could. A few easy misses and a few last qtr brain fades cost us.

Fact is: bring the pressure and you’re in the game. Prob our best 4 quarter effort all year.

Make no mistake we lost this game in the third quarter when we only kicked two goals and they kicked 5. They came out at half time with a lot more intent than we did.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

On a positive note the police haven't shown up to my house yet.

I love how you can always see the positives in any situation.

[Bornadog]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Plugging some holes certainly helped make us competitive for longer, but we still end up being sunk by the same bone-headed decision making and execution.

Morris and Adams are not plugging holes, we did that when they were injured.

[kruder]

Re: AFL Game Day Round 14, 2018 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands

Good to see a 4 quarter effort from the boys. Loved Adams last quarter its been a few years now since we have had a defender that could mark the ball. We still get way too high up that park which makes its nearly impossible to score at times cant wait for the AFL to change things up a bit. Im sick of the mass exodus of forward line players once the ball is turned over at half froward.

Going to be really interesting to see how the coaching group handles all the backs going forward we need to make a few decisions on who is going to play forward and stick with it. Naughton looks like a serious player liked him forward tonight.


Honey and Smith shouldn't be on the list next year.