WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

[Eastdog]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

GWS are cracked - give it up losers

Always good to beat them. We have that recent history with them the greatest being the 2016 prelim final win and the worst the 2019 elimination final loss when the were beating us up.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

GWS are cracked - give it up losers

Haha I love this.

This is an organic genuine rivalry, not an AFL orchestrated rivalry.

Kudos to both clubs in how it's developed over the years. If anything, we should be trying to work with the Giants to play them in a marquee game/time slot each year.

[jeemak]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

GWS are cracked - give it up losers

I actually love that we get to live inside their head after 2016. We gave them a massive clip on our banner in the lead up to the prelim, that sort of thing should be retaliated against from the Giants.

[Bornadog]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

I actually love that we get to live inside their head after 2016. We gave them a massive clip on our banner in the lead up to the prelim, that sort of thing should be retaliated against from the Giants.

Ours tonight

[Bornadog]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

Ours tonight

Daniel Gorringe @GorringeDaniel

I’ve finally made it. Career highlight

[macca]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

GWS are cracked - give it up losers

The 7 year Kelly deal has probably lost them a few players .

They really haven't replaced:
- Cameron
- Taranto
- Berry
- Griffen
- Big Mummy
- the bull Sam Reid

Their backline is ok.

[josie]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

They had 49 possessions and 11 more inside 50s. To win is highly unusual for us with those type of differentiations. We normally have more possessions and inside 50s and either just win or lose in the Bevo era.

Good sign that we could win with that differential. Not a good sign to concede that differential. Bevo made it clear in the presser he wasn?t happy with some of the numbers.

Oranges very unlucky with 3 posters that easily could have been goals. Plus Hogan?s poor miss at end Q1.

[EasternWest]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

GWS are cracked - give it up losers

Eh. I think that's pretty funny.

Of course, our banner whenever we play GWS should just be this:

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

Meh. Over rated. Jones will have a field day

I mean it was pretty much just Hogan as a genuine forward tonight. No Greene and he still managed what should have been 4 goals.

I thought our mids were close to shithouse tonight with their effort aside from Treloar and Bonts first half. Dish that up next week and we'll be on trouble. Not saying Carlton are a top 4 team or anything but they're the type of side who will carve us up if we play this lazy, uninspiring and soft football.

[The bulldog tragician]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

The Giants really are just tiresome. Contrived and manufactured BS at every point including their humourless banner and putting together a compilation of their thuggish behaviour as an example of a “rivalry”. The Tom Greene appreciation shed or whatever that was. It looked like it had more Bulldogs fans milling around than any crusty old “veteran” supporters.

Anyway…we were good enough in the times that mattered and though I wish those terrifying lapses would stop happening maybe there’s growing evidence that we have some ways to put the brakes on. Agree Treloar out shook up that balance.

Arty really is growing every week. Apart from those goals he had two fantastic tackles that weren’t rewarded. The umpiring was abysmal.

After round two, there was talk of us being bottom 4, Bevo being sacked and another year wasted. We’d have been thrilled to know we would only drop one game in the weeks to come with a pretty tough schedule. It’s all about banking wins, and we’re building, but we do have some out of form players that worry me - Keath and Duryea are really struggling and Gardner seemed off the pace tonight.

[jeemak]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

I mean it was pretty much just Hogan as a genuine forward tonight. No Greene and he still managed what should have been 4 goals.

I thought our mids were close to shithouse tonight with their effort aside from Treloar and Bonts first half. Dish that up next week and we'll be on trouble. Not saying Carlton are a top 4 team or anything but they're the type of side who will carve us up if we play this lazy, uninspiring and soft football.

Tackles from mids:

Bont - 7
English - 6
Daniel - 5
Liberatore - 4
Smith - 3
Treloar - 2
Macrae - 1

You might say some of the clearance work from Bont meant our tackling wasn't going to be as prolific in the contest, but as I look at that given the conditions I think we were a little down on where we should have been. Coming back from concussion is a weird experience and perhaps this impacted Libba's output, though I think across the board it will be something we focus on this week.

[Bornadog]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

I mean it was pretty much just Hogan as a genuine forward tonight. No Greene and he still managed what should have been 4 goals.

I thought our mids were close to shithouse tonight with their effort aside from Treloar and Bonts first half. Dish that up next week and we'll be on trouble. Not saying Carlton are a top 4 team or anything but they're the type of side who will carve us up if we play this lazy, uninspiring and soft football.

Maybe I watched a different game. Bont, Smith, Libba, and Macrea all with 29 plus disposals, and Treloar with 24 for 3/4. We won the clearances and Cont Poss was slightly in their favour and we won the game. Tom Green is a gun and Kelly was good, but that is it.

[SonofScray]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

Actual video from Ernst Huber SOS played in how to sharpen knives in readiness for the Bevo thread to be dusted off!

Haha! It?s coming.

I said I?d revisit it mid season and nominate a new timeline.

We are a capable side. Tracking well since the catastrophic start to the year without really doing anything substantially different to what we know we can do but still always looking susceptible to being done in by a massive swing in momentum.

If we stay in front of the ledger, I?m happy.

[The bulldog tragician]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

By the way Princess Kate clearly sending a message of support for us in her red white and blue outfit for the coronation. Bont badge strategically placed within the folds of her cape I?d say.

[hujsh]

Re: WB Game Day V GWS Giants R8 2023 Sat 6/5, 7:25PM - Manuka Oval, Canberra

Arthur was the big win of the night for me personally. I talked up his composure and ability to buy time and space in the midfield and that pass to Naughton made me feel a genius.

More seriously aside from the more obvious highlights (goals, assists, even strong tackles) the big thing I saw in his game was how clean he was in the wet. He has a level of class that indicates he'll have a long career and I hope that proves to be true.