Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

[Twodogs]

Adios senor, Unos, dos, tres things you know now that you didn't know before the game.

[GVGjr]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

Bump

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. 3 guys fresh off injuries did burger all (Dunkley, Treloar & Richards who needs to sign his contract before it’s reduced)

2. This as embarrassing a loss as I can remember

3. 12 Behinds, 6 within 30 and of them 4 within 20m, and 5-6 on the full is putrid.

[Testekill]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. Whoever our goalkicking coach is should be reported to the police for fraud

2. Another loss where our midfielders don't put on pressure and leave it up to the defense; it's the exact same story as our three other bigger losses.

3. We need another tall defender; Keath is great and Gardner is adequate but Schache is untested and Cordy is a battler. We let Peter Wright and Aaron Francis kick 9 goals between them and Cordy was directly manned to Francis for both of his.

[comrade]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. I was on the cusp of being convinced otherwise but we're not winning shit with English as our number 1 ruck and a bunch of misfits as back ups.

2. Our mids should hand back the match payments today. How many times did Macrae, Baz and even Libba just chase arse from the middle?

3. Dunkley is useless if he's not banging in like a bull in the middle.

[Mantis]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1/ Ed Richards either plays behind the ball or not at all.

2/ Schache and Cordy as our key defenders aren’t going through get the job done with clean ball coming in.

3/ 36 tackles… not good enough and f-all from our forward group who battled.

[westbulldog]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. Naughton is playing on past glories and his goalkicking is sub-standard.
2. Cordy in the backline is a disaster and makes average players look like Hall of Famers, Keath can't come back soon enough.
3. The places of Scott, Garcia, Richards and JJ are up for grabs.

[DOG GOD]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. Our goal kicking will lose us a final this year.
2. We are known for these games. Hopefully it’s our last for the year.
3. Geel, port and Melb will not fear us.

[Raels_d]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. We need Alex Keath back and as soon as possible
2. Ed Richards needs to play in the back line only
3. Treloar and Dunkley are both underdone - hopefully they will be ready by finals

[Happy Days]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. Schache is just as soft and as prone to giving it up as a key defender as he is as a key forward. He shouldn't play when Gardner and Keath are ready and Lewis Young has every right to be pretty vocal on the way out the door at his exit interview.

2. English annihilated Draper everywhere except in the ruck, where he wasn't remotely competitive and it let Essendon win the game. He's a jet player but nothing more than a timeshare ruck.

3. Dunkley is a shell of himself. Can't tell if its confidence, fitness or what but he's offering zero right now.

[Missing Dog]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. Our highly vaunted mid-field aren't worth a pinch of salt if opposition ruckman can get pinpoint hit-outs. Tim and the back-up dudes need to jump into the contest.


2. Our small D without Keath and Gardiner is highly exposed from centre clearances and fast breaks (OK, I knew this already but this weakness had a very bright spotlight put on it today).

3. Forward line went retro – those missed gettable set shots at goal cost us momentum and the game.

Extra. Where was the smother game today? Indicates lack of pressure to me.

Bonus. Hate to say it but Stringer is very dangerous at centre bounces.

[DOG GOD]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. Schache is just as soft and as prone to giving it up as a key defender as he is as a key forward. He shouldn't play when Gardner and Keath are ready and Lewis Young has every right to be pretty vocal on the way out the door at his exit interview.

2. English annihilated Draper everywhere except in the ruck, where he wasn't remotely competitive and it let Essendon win the game. He's a jet player but nothing more than a timeshare ruck.

3. Dunkley is a shell of himself. Can't tell if its confidence, fitness or what but he's offering zero right now.

You can tell Dunks is very wary of his shoulder.
Will be the same with Gardner. Would you risk him in a final after he’s done his shoulder twice already in 2021

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

1. Dunkley would want to find form quickly. While you can understand trepidation, he looked horrible.

2. I didn't learn it but our defence is bloody awful. Keath and Duryea the only two who can actually defend. The fact 2MP kicks 7 is embarrassing; has he even had 7 possessions in a game this year? Again we make duds look like Carey.

3. Arrogance. Arrogance by our coaches and arrogance by our mids. That setup in the middle was pitiful and we got what we deserved.

[LostDog]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

Wallis !!!

[LostDog]

Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty 2021 v Essendon

Back line will cost is this year soft