Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

This is the Round 12, 2024 edition of the weekly Bankers and Anchors thread. Once this evening's game against Collngwood has concluded post your nominations for:

The Bankers = 3 guys/aspects of the game that we banked on to do the right thing during the game
The Anchors = 3 guys/aspects of the game that weighed us down by their errors or poor play

Please limit it to no more than three of each player or aspect of the game, but feel free to make honourable/dishonourable mentions. As usual try to make it constructive criticism.

Try and restrict it to individual players rather than aspects of the overall match - I will allow more freedom now as the thread seems to be going down more of the aspects of the game path so you can have 3 for each made up of aspects of the game and individual players.

The thread is named in honour of a popular WOOF Contributor, The Banker, who passed away on 22/04/2012 after a six month battle with cancer.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

B

McNeil kicked two.
Won a close game!
Bont & Adz


A

Umpiring a joke
Lobb was putrid
Not winning four in a row with last week

[EasternWest]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

B

Sanders lifting after a poor start.
Darcy keeping his head up after a mare start.
Bont.

A
HTBWTF

[hujsh]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

B

McNeil kicked two.
Won a close game!
Bont & Adz


A

Umpiring a joke
Lobb was putrid
Not winning four in a row with last week

I was so annoyed that Williams didn't get a free for holding the man but with way less contact ****ing Daicos did. Good to see Bont establish he's still better though.

[westbulldog]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

re : "Lobb was putrid" - kicked 1-2 (2 posters ?) and gave one to Darcy, not putrid imo

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

re : "Lobb was putrid" - kicked 1-2 (2 posters ?) and gave one to Darcy, not putrid imo

We differ. He was putrid by my estimation. I’ve been a fan of his, but he’s lost me completely.

[westbulldog]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

Bankers
Other than the stars I thought Garcia, Gallagher, Freijah and O'Donnell did well.
Liam Jones
Jack Macrae

Anchors
Bramble - was he actually on the ground ?
Darcy's possible suspension.
Injuries

[hujsh]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

re : "Lobb was putrid" - kicked 1-2 (2 posters ?) and gave one to Darcy, not putrid imo

The little things he did were okay but he was horrible in the contest. His poster was also an easy set shot for him so disappointing night but with Darcy apparently predetermined to be suspended I guess he gets a reprieve.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

I was so annoyed that Williams didn't get a free for holding the man but with way less contact ****ing Daicos did. Good to see Bont establish he's still better though.

It's been a long time since I've been overly critical of the umpiring. I genuinely could not believe what I was seeing with those 2 Daicos decisions amd the different rules we were being umpired to.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

Question: If Daicos did what Darcy did would he have been given a free?

Another question: if Darcy had hit Daicos, would Darcy get 10 weeks?

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

Bankers

1. Our resilience is pretty impressive. A lot of teams would've folded under the intense pressure we've been under media and fan wise this last few weeks.

Irrespective on where you stand on Bevo as coach he's really made some very strong moves this season in the face of furnace blast external pressure on him. Not the moves of a man just trying to save his skin.
He's all in.

Also some players who regularly incur our wrath, they keep fronting up.

For example, It's not like McNeil isn't aware he regularly fluff's his lines, and that if he continues missing his opportunities, he will soon be joing the ranks of schlubs like me for the next 40 years in an office somewhere.. He deserves a big pat on the back.

2. Bont permanently etched himself up another notch tonight on the all time greatness metre

3. Sanders.. he's got the rhythm of the level now. You could see it click for him almost in the second half. An ordinary start, and showed his IQ and state of mind to really get into the game. No doubt, all things being equal, he plays 250 plus games. I really hope it's with us

Anchors.

1. Rory, I'll save you a donut when you join me in office land... post career. You win the Alastair Ford spaghetti man award tonight. Tall and brittle arms and hands

2. There won't be a word said about the standard of umpiring in our game tonight, despite it being some of the most putrid crap turned up in some time.

3. Nice goal by West, but with Libba due to come back (assuming Ed comes in for Harmes) West might be the odd man out...I cannot see Garcia getting dropped.

[jeemak]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

I was so annoyed that Williams didn't get a free for holding the man but with way less contact ****ing Daicos did. Good to see Bont establish he's still better though.

I was too annoyed to rant about this in the game day thread, but it was so obvious how badly Williams was stitched versus how Daicos wasn't. If Daicos was paid in the back I could kind of get it, but to pay that as holding directly after another more obvious example just showed how much he is protected and how annoying it's going to be watching it over his career.

[jeemak]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

Question: If Daicos did what Darcy did would he have been given a free?

Another question: if Darcy had hit Daicos, would Darcy get 10 weeks?

A good example of how that might play out was with Cripps being cleared for something worse to make sure he won a Brownlow. To me Darcy probably should get a week, but the Cripps one was probably worth two to three due to similar intent but a higher level of damage - but he wasn't suspended.

[JanLorMill]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

Nice goal by West, but with Libba due to come back (assuming Ed comes in for Harmes) West might be the odd man out...I cannot see Garcia getting dropped.

No Vdm or Harmes, West stays. Why is it West vs Garcia anyway? Despite being ok I’ll drop McNeil before West too

[merantau]

Re: Bankers & Anchors: Rnd 12, 2024 vs Collingwood

Bankers
1. JOD - he stepped up in a high pressure game.
2. Sanders - his second half was solid.
3. Garcia - good in and under, quick and he can extricate himself from a pack.

Anchors
1. Umpiring was below par.
2. Injuries
3. Missing set shots.