Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

[jazzadogs]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

He is spot on that turnovers cost us. Our skills and decisions were horrible. But why??

With JJs kick in...why is English leading at him for a 20m short pass? He should be 70m out creating a contest.

Our structure and workrate ahead of the ball is really really bad, gives our defenders/mids nothing to kick to, and leads to rushed decisions and poor kicks.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

You can be critical on Bevo for many things. Many things.

But one thing I think he always does really well, is articulate where we won or lost the game. His analysis of how and why we lost tonight was 100% spot on.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

Sicily had a busted shoulder and also had an ankle that was stuffed. He told Mitchell he can't play back. He goes forward and still wins telling 1:1s which win them the game in the last quarter.

Buku was completely lost trying to defend him too.

[merantau]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

In December last year?!??!!?!!!!! Why is that still relevant to morale?!?!?

Yep. What's next? The boys took it pretty hard when the coffee machine was out of action for a couple of weeks in early February

[G-Mo77]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

Just got home. Not disappointed, we didn't even deserve to be that close. Just a very ordinary team which is very poorly coached and selected.

Felt sorry for Clarke today. I wouldn't have subbed him, I would have let him play through all the errors. Hopefully he can recover from that.

[Dogs 24/7]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

Are there any stats type figures available for things like GPS numbers? We had a couple today that seemed to be going through the motions.

[Eastdog]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

Was speaking to Prince Imperial at half time and we were saying how poor our defensive pressure without the ball was in that 2nd quarter.

Lots of players who are just not in for the contest.

I wonder how we rank overall this season for defensive pressure without ball. Would be on the lower end.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

Are there any stats type figures available for things like GPS numbers? We had a couple today that seemed to be going through the motions.

The AFL only give us the top 5 best. They don't give us anything else I'm sure to protect players, probably fair enough, could you imagine the pile on.

But for distance covered. The top five were all Hawthorn! For the distance covered at high speed, four of the top five were Hawthorn!

For overal distance covered, they covered 11km extra. They also covered 4 additional KM at high speed.

In one point of difference, we won the sprints stat for a change. 282 v 257. Repeat sprints we won 22 v 21.

[Pottz]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

?[I?m] always confident in decision-making on where you place your influence to evolve into the future and be a team and be a list full of players who can challenge up ahead. We have to find out. We can?t sit on our hands,? Beveridge said.

Anyone have any idea what on earth Bevo is trying to say with this word salad?

[SquirrelGrip]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

?[I?m] always confident in decision-making on where you place your influence to evolve into the future and be a team and be a list full of players who can challenge up ahead. We have to find out. We can?t sit on our hands,? Beveridge said.

Anyone have any idea what on earth Bevo is trying to say with this word salad?

Yes he’s saying he’s not afraid to make the hard decisions and make changes.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

Treloar

It fills like at the moment when we are games, even last week against Freo were a goal down with 10 to play, it just feels like when we are in games we don't finish it off. We are not connecting well at the end of games which is dissapointing as I feel like we are leaving a lot out there.

The boys are working extremly hard at the moment. We trained well. We are trying to get better. There is a want to get better. The dissapointing thing is that our connection is off at the moment, whether that is going inside F50 or coming out of our D50.

[jeemak]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

He is spot on that turnovers cost us. Our skills and decisions were horrible. But why??

With JJs kick in...why is English leading at him for a 20m short pass? He should be 70m out creating a contest.

Our structure and workrate ahead of the ball is really really bad, gives our defenders/mids nothing to kick to, and leads to rushed decisions and poor kicks.

Because 70m out is where the taller players who can spoil English's marking are expecting him to be, with shorter players closer to goal to grab the loose ball.

If you hit up English thirty metres in front of the taller players he's more likely to retain possession and you can then run off him, go wide or go inboard.

The key is not kicking it to his ankles.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

Robbo

THE HEAT IS ON THE DOGS.

There’s a debate in the NBA at the moment, particularly about the LA Lakers, about whether the manager/coach is to blame or is it the players. It’s a much trickier answer in the AFL. The Bulldogs lost to Hawthorn on Sunday which basically means at 3-5 the finals are out the equation. Please, now, can people accept the Bulldogs are not a great team. Luke Beveridge will feel the heat, but is it the coaches fault that Jason Johannisen missed targets by foot, why the key forwards flew against each other, why Ed Richards make mistakes, why Ugle-Hagan kicked 2.1 and a crucial kick out of bounds at the death, and why Riley Garcia dropped a simple ball in the third quarter when the Bulldogs were on the burst? And why Marcus Bontempelli sat on the bench for seven minutes late in the final quarter? The Bulldogs had 22 clanger kicks to Hawthorn’s 13, so that was nine direct turnovers to the Hawks. That’s all Beveridge’s fault? Perhaps the players can accept responsibility.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

Losing the tackle count this afternoon 71-59 really is not accetpable.

[Bornadog]

Re: Bulldogs V Hawks - Round 8, 5/5/24 Marvel Stadium 4:00PM AEST

We conceded 68 points from Turnovers with 24 turnovers in the defensive half. This is not a coaching issue, this is from skill errors.

The skills on display today were pathetic to say the least. JJ 5, Jones 4, Dale 7 and Treloar 10 turnovers.