Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Yep, haven't had one for ages.

A good ol fashioned height argument ey? By garr it’s been a while.

[1eyedog]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Bailey Dale is taller than 183cm.

[Bornadog]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Bailey Dale is taller than 183cm.

187cm

[jeemak]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

We should sticky a height fight thread.

[Bumper Bulldogs]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Martin playing is a good thing for us. Geelong's rucks are either immature (Rata) or not very good (Blicavs). Hawkins is their best ruck and he only takes them deep forward so we should have an advantage.

The longer Martin can keep Tim forward the better.

Agree. Also we need him to fall back and block up space in the Back 50.

[dog town]

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Rohan stitched him up last time we tried that match-up and this time Wood might be underdone.

Could be wrong but my memory was Rohan got hold of Gardiner after Wood went off injured?

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Could be wrong but my memory was Rohan got hold of Gardiner after Wood went off injured?

Rohan was definitely playing on Wood when he made an impact.

[dog town]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Rohan was definitely playing on Wood when he made an impact.

Went back and watched this morning. Wood did a far superior job to Gards although admittedly the supply was different.

Rohan immediately got more involved when Wood went off and had two goal assists straight away followed by all of his goals the next quarter. Turned him badly a few times as well which led to scores.

[Mantis]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

B: Daniel, Keath, Williams
HB: Dale, Gardner, Duyrea
C: Scott, Macrae, R.Smith
HF: Hunter, Naughton, JJ
F: English, Bruce, Hannan
R: Martin, Bont, Libba

Int: Crozier, Weightman, McNeil, B.Smith
Sub: Cordy

Although we had Daniel play more an on ball role last week I think we need to get him behind the ball this week to use his foot skills going forward.

I also think we need to roll the dice in defence so for that reason I think we only play one of Cordy, Crozier & Wood due the deficiencies they have with ball movement which will be vitally important against Geelong.

[Mofra]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Geelong play quite differently to other sides. Very very slow, controlled ball movement until that last kick into the 50.
They want to own the ball and turn the game into a kick-mark contest.
We may need to start Daniel as a HFF with instruction to run behind the contest at every opportunity to become that defensive outlet, but not be relied upon to play as a one on one defender on the turnover.

I suspect we trial the two defensive wingmen again - Roarke (if he recovers from his friction burns), McNeill and Scott rotating through the wings.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Went back and watched this morning. Wood did a far superior job to Gards although admittedly the supply was different.

Rohan immediately got more involved when Wood went off and had two goal assists straight away followed by all of his goals the next quarter. Turned him badly a few times as well which led to scores.

Definitely what happened. Wood going off hurt us with rotations too.

[GVGjr]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Rohan was definitely playing on Wood when he made an impact.

Yep, ripped him early on in the game

[Mantis]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Can we trust Wood to get through the game in one piece after a lay off?

Given it's going to be a cool night I'd prefer him to have a run for Footscray before coming back as in game soft-tissue injuries against good teams are killers.

[comrade]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Can we trust Wood to get through the game in one piece after a lay off?

Given it's going to be a cool night I'd prefer him to have a run for Footscray before coming back as in game soft-tissue injuries against good teams are killers.

Definitely wouldn't be picking him without a VFL game under his belt. I'd hope we'd learn from the GWS game that bringing in a player with a long history of soft tissue injury in freezing conditions is fraught with danger.

[jeemak]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Round 14 Vs Geelong 2021

Agreed that Wood should get a week at Footscray to get some match conditioning.

I pinged a hammy Tuesday, brought back memories.............