Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

[ledge]

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Higgins in for Ray (hard call but who else would you leave out??)


Akermanis.

[Sedat]

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Interesting stat I noticed in the paper today, which I suspected was happening yestersday but not to the extent that the final number revealed. We had 25 more clangers than North did on the day.....25! That is an unbelievable discrepency. Especially early on it felt like we were butchering the ball just about every time we ventured forward. Some of this can be attributed to North's pressure on the ball carrier but we had an extremely poor day skill-wise. Every single player in the side had at least 1 clanger.

[LostDoggy]

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Higgins in for Ray (hard call but who else would you leave out??)


Akermanis.

Akermanis won't be left out this week especially as we are playing against his old side.

[bulldogtragic]

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Some are knocking Streety.

He had the most hitouts AND the highest percentage of anyone 'to advantage'.

My issue yesterday, was the backline and midfielders lack of faith in kicking the ball to him. Often he had space to take a mark or had a midget on him. So often he was ignored, which for me sends a pretty unfortunate message...

Sam Power was always my love child and i wanted him traded last year to get away from baggage and negativity. Streety my love child this year i want the same for. I'd love to see him go to Carlton who need a ruck and to thrive somewhere else.

[The Pie Man]

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Huddo in for street
West (when fit) in for Eagleton
Williams (when fit) in for Tiller
Higgins in for Ray (hard call but who else would you leave out??)

Unless these changes suggested by Muttley3028 occur, we are in serious trouble.

Where was Higgins on the weekend?

I saw Higgins with Williams in the outer yesterday, looked jovial enough. O'Shea was walking past us and my old man started asking him questions (it was a little embarrassing but he was really accommodating, nice fella) Higgins apparently needed a week off for the ankle but should return this week. Hoping he and West come through this week unscathed, as the ins above suggest, we need both of them in pre September. I know Ward played well, but I think Ray might be a bit ahead of him. Eagleton is that close to finished isn't he? Wasn't a good day for him

Funny moment of the day was watching Scott West walking up the 1st level stairs with a coffee and a snack, and having to out them down ever 3rd step while some overzealous Dogs fans asked him for a photo - didn't knock back one request, we were p..ssing ourselves laughing, he walked past us and my old man quips 'should ask for $50 a pop'

[Topdog]

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The 3rd quarter showed us what we are capable of. Brisbane are in a bit of a mess at the moment and we seem to be playing ourselves into a bit of form whilst not being able to do it for 4 quarters.

I can see us winning our last 3 matches.

[Mofra]

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Some are knocking Streety.

He had the most hitouts AND the highest percentage of anyone 'to advantage'.

His lack of second efforts at the centre bounce was noticeable. After a bounce, Hudson is in the middle of the pack, on hands & knees. Street on a number of occasions was standing out, waiting for the handoff.

[The Pie Man]

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The 3rd quarter showed us what we are capable of. Brisbane are in a bit of a mess at the moment and we seem to be playing ourselves into a bit of form whilst not being able to do it for 4 quarters.

I can see us winning our last 3 matches.

I agree on Brisbane, probably a good time to get up there and play them, and also keep the win in every state and territory for 2008 dream alive.

I'm not so confident about Adelaide in the last round, I didn't see their form turnaround coming, they look very dangerous.

[Go_Dogs]

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I'm not so confident about Adelaide in the last round, I didn't see their form turnaround coming, they look very dangerous.

On current form they'll spank us at AAMI.

[hujsh]

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Some are knocking Streety.

He had the most hitouts AND the highest percentage of anyone 'to advantage'.

My issue yesterday, was the backline and midfielders lack of faith in kicking the ball to him. Often he had space to take a mark or had a midget on him. So often he was ignored, which for me sends a pretty unfortunate message...

Sam Power was always my love child and i wanted him traded last year to get away from baggage and negativity. Streety my love child this year i want the same for. I'd love to see him go to Carlton who need a ruck and to thrive somewhere else.

My issue with Street is he stood in the square while Petrie cut off our passes.

AT LEAST TRY TO FOLLOW HIM AND BE DANGEROUS IF HE DOES THAT!!!!!!!

[bulldogtragic]

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My issue with Street is he stood in the square while Petrie cut off our passes.

AT LEAST TRY TO FOLLOW HIM AND BE DANGEROUS IF HE DOES THAT!!!!!!!

I take the point on board as it is a fair criticism. The bigger issue for me is when it was on the turnover and Petrie was not on Street no-one was hitting him up.

Personally i love the guy, but if your teammates wont hit you up when your similar sized opponent is 30 metres away then there is no point playing him (As much as i hate to say it).

[Rach]

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I didn't get to watch (or listen) to much of the game. I thought by the quarter time score, that we were going to lose by quite a lot, so I was surprised to hear later on that the final margin was 20 points.

[LostDoggy]

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I gather criticism of Eade isn't something that to many will support but he was very slow to react today and Im not sure that he has had a great month in the coaches box himself.

We lacked a bit all around the ground today whilst the Roo boys hit the ground running. We need to find another lever or two soon.

Eade should be under the microscope more than he has been. We cannot simply accept the performances we have been dishing up of late.
I can handle a loss if the other team plays above us but we should be able to more than handle North. They flogged us in the first half and a fair portion of the blame should be aimed at the coach.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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Eade should be under the microscope more than he has been. We cannot simply accept the performances we have been dishing up of late.
I can handle a loss if the other team plays above us but we should be able to more than handle North. They flogged us in the first half and a fair portion of the blame should be aimed at the coach.

When he publicly declares the last four or so games of the H&A season 'NAB Cup like', what do you expect?

Apparently we don't need good form leading into the finals.

Ridiculous. This side has had confidence issues for years; they need all the wins possible otherwise they'll fall into a hole ala last year.

[Mantis]

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On the Eade issue the part that I struggle with is how we are unable to stop a team's momentum. It has been seen on a fair few occassions that once a team get's a run on they are able to kick multiple goals in fairly quick succession and we seem to have no strategy to stop it. I suppose we have strategies that we put in place, but none of them seem to work.

Yesterday we put a few player's behind the ball and that made things worse because as we did this we started winning the ball out of the middle and had no forwardline, thus gifting possession to North. On top of this the player's we had playing the spare man role either didn't use the abll well enough (Johnson) to hurt the opposition or got lost and couldn't help out his defender's (Tiller).

We also had our midfielders playing a rolling zone where we guarded space rather than our opponents and this didn't work either.

It was interesting to see how when we gained some momentum in the 3rd and 4th quarter's North were able to slow the game down by firstly keeping possession when they had the ball and manning us up when we had it, something we haven't been able to do over the past month.