Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

115 v 65 in 2023 and 109 v 64 in 2024.

Hey we're getting better!!

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

Don't underestimate the impact having a full game under their belts plus a ten day freshener had on the game. The AFL can't let that happen again.

Yeah it definitely would have played a part in the margin. But I still think we're miles off it.

[azabob]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

Our underdone players in English and Dale have been terrible. Our core midfielders have been absolutely shat on from a great height by Melbourne's core group of midfielders.

Naughton absolutely disgusting and selfish performance.

jee what did you see that gives you hope?

Honestly I saw the same game plan and the same outcome.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

So will Bevo throw out the preseason plan? Or do we wait another week?

[GVGjr]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

Very disappointing. Melbourne have got our measure and we just make too many mistakes against them.

[ledge]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

It was Skinner reserves fault apparently last year.

[GVGjr]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

Surely Bevo is under a bit now, everything changed around him to give him all he needs and this is what the team serves up ?

R1 loss won't add any pressure too him.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

R1 loss won't add any pressure too him.

It?s not the loss.

It?s the style of the loss. Hardly anything to take out of that game. There will be pressure from the media for sure. Inside the four walls maybe different.

[azabob]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

So will Bevo throw out the preseason plan? Or do we wait another week?

What pre season plan?

[Grantysghost]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

R1 loss won't add any pressure too him.

I think this is worse than other years, after all the changes.
Melbourne hardly got out of 3rd gear. Not sure what i was watching tbh.

[Boots]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

Do they force us to play Melbourne rd 1 every year as some misguided attempt to kickstart a rivalry? It’s about as much of a rivalry as we had with Geelong in that they just smash us every time.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

Very disappointing. Melbourne have got our measure and we just make too many mistakes against them.

Yes. Too many mistakes. But we could not generate anything all day. Coughed up cheap goals, but we looked out of ideas in how to move the ball or how to convert after quarter time.

It was more than the mistakes today. The overall game plan and methodology didn?t pass the first round test.

[jeemak]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

Clutching at straws. If it was close, maybe. We didn?t fire a shot after the first quarter. We actually started OK

I think if you look at my posting for this game I'm being pretty open with other reasons why we were ordinary. But you can't say having an extra run under your belt and an ideal turnaround wouldn't have made a difference.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

I think this is worse than other years, after all the changes.
Melbourne hardly got out of 3rd gear. Not sure what i was watching tbh.

Agree 100%. There was so little to get excited about.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Demons V Bulldogs - Round 1 17/3/24 MCG 1.00pm

I think if you look at my posting for this game I'm being pretty open with other reasons why we were ordinary. But you can't say having an extra run under your belt and an ideal turnaround wouldn't have made a difference.

Yes. It?s a factor. But it was things I believe rely little on match conditioning and touch that cost us mostly.

Overall structure and methodology just did not stack up against them. Yes, a few skill errors cost us badly, but on general play, they always looked far more in control. Even when the stats were similar, you always felt they had the ascendancy.