Game Day - Bulldogs vs Cats

[Mantis]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Cats

Where do you start??

Forwards: Selfish, lazy.... Doesn't help when we are outnumbered, but Murf, Aker, Hahn, Johnson (injury??) had no effect on the game and were unwilling to work hard enough. We all have bad days, but youy still have to contribute defensively when things aren't going your way.

The decision to allow Geelong to have spare men in defence killed us.

Midfield: Out-numbered at the contest and unwilling to work hard enough. Too many out-riders and too many not willing to chase. Gia (good up forward), Cross and Boyd all looked extremely slow. Cross's unwillingness to kick hurt us big time. When your under the pump and you have no players free you can't handball to a 50:50 contest. His kick to handball ratio was about 25% which is not good enough in closely fought contests.

Eagleton and Ray didn't use the ball well enough and were unable to provide any run and carry.

Defence: Lake=embarrassing, obviously can't play CHB and with no other options he was forced to, but was horrible. Don't know who's idea it was to allow Addison to play as the spare man, he should be our tight BP player, not our linkman. He couldn't do either job today and looked out of his depth. Thought our defence battled pretty hard for 3 qtr's, but the shear weight of possession was always going to mean that the dam wall was going to break, and boy did it.

Back to the drawing board's Mr.Eade.

[Happy Days]

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The main dissapointments for mine were our blatant refusal to play in front. True, our midfield got the absolute suitcase flogged out of them, but on the rare occasion that we did actually win the clean ball, we had no-one to kick it to.

Secondly, Brian Lake seemed to have one of his much publicised brain-fades, except this one lasted about 120 minutes. His disposal was awful and he got smacked around Luke Ronchi style by Cam Mooney, hardly a Brown or a Pavlich.

But perhaps worst of all was Dale Morris's performance. Easily the worst game I've seen him play in a doggies jumper.

And don't get me started on Aka...enough to make you think Peter Rohde snuck back into the coaches box at half time.

[Mofra]

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We might have considered putting a CHB in the side. As much as some don't rate him, I think Wight would have helped with our flexibility today - we had Tiller on Money at one point - no disrespect to Tiller, but he is way too small to play on Mooney. Skinny was outsized on Lonergan, then found himself on Mooney. When Ottens went forward, there was the juggle of Lake to Ottens, Everitt to Mooney & Tiller on Lonegan.

This is before we discuss our refusal to make a contest on our HF line.

[wimberga]

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We might have considered putting a CHB in the side. As much as some don't rate him, I think Wight would have helped with our flexibility today - we had Tiller on Money at one point - no disrespect to Tiller, but he is way too small to play on Mooney. Skinny was outsized on Lonergan, then found himself on Mooney. When Ottens went forward, there was the juggle of Lake to Ottens, Everitt to Mooney & Tiller on Lonegan.

This is before we discuss our refusal to make a contest on our HF line.

Im pretty sure Tiller and Mooney are both around 196cm

[GVGjr]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Cats

Im pretty sure Tiller and Mooney are both around 196cm

Tiller is slated at 191cm and Mooney about 193cm

[GVGjr]

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We might have considered putting a CHB in the side. As much as some don't rate him, I think Wight would have helped with our flexibility today - we had Tiller on Money at one point - no disrespect to Tiller, but he is way too small to play on Mooney. Skinny was outsized on Lonergan, then found himself on Mooney. When Ottens went forward, there was the juggle of Lake to Ottens, Everitt to Mooney & Tiller on Lonegan.

This is before we discuss our refusal to make a contest on our HF line.

Pretty much agree with this. There also seemed to be a bit of uneasiness between Akermanis and Johnson and they didn't seem to be in sync at all.
FWIW, I think dropping Hill was a mistake as well.

[LostDoggy]

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I know a lot of the good folk here love Harbrow but I was very disappointed in his decision making and skills today. He cost us a couple of goals in that third quarter with some dreadful errors and at the moment I don't think he is good enough to be in the side.

[hujsh]

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I wouldn't worry too much about today's match. We played bad and lost. The season will not end.

Not long ago Geelong looked vulnerable loosing to Collingwood and have recovered quite well.

We won't play at Kardinia Park again.

Hopefully we hit better form entering finals. (The tapering may come into effect here)

[hujsh]

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My point exactly Hujsh, you cant pin point passes under pressure. You need an outlet.
All those WOOFers who have been saying 'i dont think a player like Jonathon Brown would fit in our forward line structure' might like to reconsider.

Your point is valid but we not only didn't we pin point passes, we kicked to the advantage to the Geelong players by kicking it to the side the Cat player was on.

No doubt that John Brown would be nice but i guess we have to use what we've got

[ledge]

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I thought Eagleton and Harbrow tried real hard today, Harbrow was forced to tackle all day because of the bad delivery, so couldnt use his elusive skills in the forward line, yes he made a couple of mistakes but there were a lot worse from more seasoned players.
Still cant figure why Gia was our go to forward one out when Welsh would have been a better option.
Gias game was great today, only one who stood up.
Griffen was good in first half but died off.

[hujsh]

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We might have considered putting a CHB in the side. As much as some don't rate him, I think Wight would have helped with our flexibility today - we had Tiller on Money at one point - no disrespect to Tiller, but he is way too small to play on Mooney. Skinny was outsized on Lonergan, then found himself on Mooney. When Ottens went forward, there was the juggle of Lake to Ottens, Everitt to Mooney & Tiller on Lonegan.

This is before we discuss our refusal to make a contest on our HF line.

Saw Hargrave on Ottens and just felt this game may be gone

[hujsh]

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I wonder if Hill should have played today.

Harbrow's pressure was great but he didn't seem a valid attacking option.

There was one contest where Johnson was wrestling with Hunt and Harbrow stood waiting for the crumb. The ball went out of bounds and Johnson made a gesture that looked like he was telling him to go over the top and mark the ball. Hill would not have hesitated and while we were bombing the ball in early Hill would have been somewhat dangerous.

[Mantis]

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I know a lot of the good folk here love Harbrow but I was very disappointed in his decision making and skills today. He cost us a couple of goals in that third quarter with some dreadful errors and at the moment I don't think he is good enough to be in the side.

I am unashamed fan of Harbrow's, I think he will be a terrific player for the club. One thing he does is give 100% and give's repeated efforts which is more than I can say about a few of his more accomplished team-mates (Looking at you messers Johnson, Akermanis & Giansiracusa)

Yeah he made some silly mistakes, but he is one player who will learn from them which will make him a better player.

He may not be in our best 22 at the end of the season, but he certainly is at present. Atleast with him playing we have one of our forwards chasing and applying pressure on a consistent basis, without him we would have none.

[LostDoggy]

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I am unashamed fan of Harbrow's, I think he will be a terrific player for the club. One thing he does is give 100% and give's repeated efforts which is more than I can say about a few of his more accomplished team-mates (Looking at you messers Johnson, Akermanis & Giansiracusa)

Yeah he made some silly mistakes, but he is one player who will learn from them which will make him a better player.

He may not be in our best 22 at the end of the season, but he certainly is at present. Atleast with him playing we have one of our forwards chasing and applying pressure on a consistent basis, without him we would have none.

I don't think that is a good enough reason for him to be maintained.At times he runs around in circles like a headless chook when he has the ball and it does not provide the guys playing forward of him any idea on what he is likely to do. It might look exciting but normally he coughs the ball up as well.
Let him learn his craft at Willy because imo Hill offers so much more at the moment.

[1eyedog]

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Pretty bad last quarter that. dear oh dear, the cats really stepped up when they needed to, and looked too strong around the clearances.Thought our pressure and tackling was really good for the 1st half but we just couldnt sustain it. ALOT of players had quite days especailly Hahn and aker, while Murph didnt do much either. Our backline busted their guts considering the cats had 21 inside 50's to 8 in that last qtr.

The guys really need to get their focus back coz after today, next weeks game againt the blues looms as a danger match that we CANNOT afford to drop.

Everitt on Gamble was a nightmare match-up.

I'm a huge Hahn fan, but he was dreadful, didn't even do the one percenters