3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

[Scorlibo]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

1. Timmy is a barometer for us. When he's taking big marks around the ground we look like a contender.
2. Liam Ryan is a genuine star. We couldn't lay a hand on him.
3. As a team we don't lack grit. The task couldn't have been made any more difficult with poor goalkicking, giving them a start and about 8 crucial umpiring calls going against us, but the guys fought on through and came away with a huge win.

[comrade]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

2. Liam Ryan is a genuine star. We couldn't lay a hand on him.

Would be the perfect fit for us in a bunch of different ways. Sigh.

[CarnTheScray]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

1. McLean was excellent. Nullified Gaff and was damaging.
2. We need to work on our goalkicking. Should have been a 5 goal win.
3. Darling remains a choke specialist. PTSD from 2016.
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[Grantysghost]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

1. We need to clone Caleb. His ball use mein gott. We need it forward..but..back...so. I think theres a clear recruitment strategy. Dolly the sheep.

2. Bruce is coming good. Hard work is the first step the rest will come, and I prefer him pinch hitting in the ruck to Dunkley who is a forward?

3. We've had a very very tough stretch of games. Top 5 in the last 6 games? Something like that and been in all of them except Tigers. We aren't that far away. We get Dolly in the off season, Hurley and Bevo away from explaining the larger perpendicular theory to Hayes and we have a good team for years.

[Bulldog4life]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

1. Gardner's improving each match. Even the stretch to touch the kick from Darling after the siren was commendable.

2. Toby has been successful multiple times this year as a tagger. Let it continue.

3. Reckon Timmy was carrying an injury the last 2 weeks or so. Back to his impressive form.

[GVGjr]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

1. Gardner's improving each match. Even the stretch to touch the kick from Darling after the siren was commendable.

2. Toby has been successful multiple times this year as a tagger. Let it continue.

3. Reckon Timmy was carrying an injury the last 2 weeks or so. Back to his impressive form.

I echo the thoughts re Gardner, the last 3 weeks there has been steady improvement and we need to stay the course with him now. He should be feeling more settled and confident.

[Bulldog4life]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

I echo the thoughts re Gardner, the last 3 weeks there has been steady improvement and we need to stay the course with him now. He should be feeling more settled and confident.

He is more confident with his kicking and I have been impressed with his one per centers and tackling. Good chance he will be retained next year and kudos to the MC for seeing something that few on WOOF saw....if any.

[AshMac]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

He is more confident with his kicking and I have been impressed with his one per centers and tackling. Good chance he will be retained next year and kudos to the MC for seeing something that few on WOOF saw....if any.

Can see some similarities between Gardner and Hargrave. Throat in your mouth every time he goes near it for now, but slowly getting better and building consistency. Would love him to turn into a Highly dependable Defender.

Too early to say for sure

[Ozza]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

Not sure they are three things I learned....but some observations.

1. Hunter really put his work boots on in the last quarter. In there in the clinches helping out Libba and Macrae in some key moments.

2. Toby covered some serious ground going with Gaff last night. I hope we continue to have him go with the outside runners in this type of role - it could help him get his game to the next level.

3. To fall in like that against a West Coast side missing 4 guns....we'd need to improve to be really competitive in a final.

[comrade]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

3. To fall in like that against a West Coast side missing 4 guns....we'd need to improve to be really competitive in a final.

Plus they were one down for most of the match, and were coming off a 4 day break vs our 9 days. Everything fell our way and we just scraped over the line.

Glad for the win but our problems persist.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

Plus they were one down for most of the match, and were coming off a 4 day break vs our 9 days. Everything fell our way and we just scraped over the line.

Glad for the win but our problems persist.

Yeah this is still our issue. We bust our guts to just scrape over the line. It's just not a sustainable game style in the long run. I'm thrilled we won and are in contention to play finals but I still see some pretty big flaws that need addressing. We just never seem to have any run or fluid ball movement. Yet it happens the other way fairly often.

[Bornadog]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

We just never seem to have any run or fluid ball movement. Yet it happens the other way fairly often.

???

We are number one for moving the ball from the back 50 to the forward 50

[mjp]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

1. McLean our new tagger? Say yes

Can everyone who made fun of me for suggesting this 12-months ago please go back and find the thread and issue a formal apology.

(Joking of course).

Having a CLEAR role - even one for which a player might not initially seem suited - really helps most find their feet.

[Bulldog Revolution]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

Can everyone who made fun of me for suggesting this 12-months ago please go back and find the thread and issue a formal apology.

(Joking of course).

Having a CLEAR role - even one for which a player might not initially seem suited - really helps most find their feet.

Not sure if I was one of them but it is a great role for him, because he has good hands, is good in close, tackles and works without it - it gives him a clear focus each week - I have always thought Toby had enough talent to be a very good senior player so I hope this is the plan for him.

Role clarity is also the hallmark of good coaching - simplify the game for people - let them thrive

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: 3 things you have learned - RD 16 v West Coast 2020

???

We are number one for moving the ball from the back 50 to the forward 50

I’m not someone who looks at stats as a definitive determination. Last night is a good example of why.

What constitutes a movement from back 50 to f50? Because if it were truely useful our f50 conversions wouldn’t be so horrific