Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

[GVGjr]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

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.

Fully agree. In my opinion it wasn't the right thing to be saying out loud even if he actually believed it.

[BulldogBelle]

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Fully agree. In my opinion it wasn't the right thing to be saying out loud even if he actually believed it.

Yep, I thought the same - whilst at the footy yesterday was seated near some North supporters and we were having a friendly chat about the game and one of the North supporters said that Eade wasn't paying any respect to North when I queried as to why he would say that - he mentioned Eade's comments to the media last week.

[Scraggers]

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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.

Teams know to hit us hard on the scoreboard early, as we are susceptible to slow starts (Case in point; North - first five goals, Sydney - first four goals, Carlton - first four goals, even Geelong to a lesser extent with the first two goals).

We need to decide before the game that we have come here to play and start when the first siren is sounded

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Yep, I thought the same - whilst at the footy yesterday was seated near some North supporters and we were having a friendly chat about the game and one of the North supporters said that Eade wasn't paying any respect to North when I queried as to why he would say that - he mentioned Eade's comments to the media last week.

Heathy dose of paranoia there. Tell them not everything is about North Melbourne.

That was Eade talking about us and had nothing to do with who we were playing over the last 4 rounds.

[ledge]

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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

Actually we are one of them teams.

[Mantis]

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Actually we are one of them teams.

I think we are all happy to watch us do it, but it kinder sucks when it happens against us... Are we being greedy?

[BulldogBelle]

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Did any of you see the incident that Murph had with Brady Rawlings that the MRP were looking at? Can't say I saw it.

Just came accross this -

MRP Findings

Western Bulldogs forward Robert Murphy was also cleared after the panel decided his action against North Melbourne's Brady Rawlings was a legitimate attempt to spoil.