Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

[DOG GOD]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

Marra 1.4

For mine, he’s a 50/50 chance at a set shot. His kicking has gone way off since his first year. And when he misses, majority it’s not a slight miss..it’s a big miss.

[whythelongface]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

Apart from our kicking for goal we are completely dominating. Melbourne have made some forays and their accuracy, coupled with our inaccuracy, are keeping them in it.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

This is such a weird looking game, purely because of our horrid goalkicking. This absolutely looks like a 10 goal plus margin... But instead they're only 3 kicks behind.
This is set up for a Melbourne win from here. They've got to view that margin, given the Dog's dominance, as a real win for them. They have no business being in this game, and yet they're a 90 second spurt in a 3 Qtr of a GF away from getting in front?
With the 5 day break, we wouldn't want to show signs of flagging in this qtr, and we've simply got to take our chances this half. No excuses. Otherwise this could go down the same way as the Essendon game earlier in the year, where all the metrics had us down as a win, but instead due to putrid goalkicking we lost by 4 goals.

[Bornadog]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

Melbourne struggle to get the ball inside 50. We need to nail our chances

[merantau]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

I think Coffield was very lazy in a couple of contests that quarter and Buku is not attacking the ball with enough intent.

We should be 6 or 7 goals up and the game should be in our keeping. It is paramount that we come out firing after half time

[macca]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

For mine, he’s a 50/50 chance at a set shot. His kicking has gone way off since his first year. And when he misses, majority it’s not a slight miss..it’s a big miss.

His run up is terrible. Kicks to close to the man on the mark, and has now a hook to his kick. There is so much wrong with his kicking atm.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

Feels a family story doesn't it?

Big test for this group coming up. Can they steady and remain calm but focused to get the job done or will it crumble like it has in the past?

We need a good start to the third which sounds weird to say, but you can see momentum shifting in a big way if we don't come out with the energy of that first quarter.

[Bornadog]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

We are winning every stat but should have at minimum 10 goals on the board

[Topdog]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

One of the best halves of football we've played in a long time completely ruined by that goal kicking

[Boots]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

I don’t like talking umps but that bizarre 50m penalty for what should have been a free kick that gave max Gawn a goal might turn out to be telling.

I hate how well Fritsch plays against us too.

I still hold out hope we absolutely squash these pricks. I’ll never forgive them for 2021.

All that being said, agree that the behinds are the problem here. This will be an embarrassing game to lose from here, and it’s a real danger.

[DOG GOD]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

Need a great start here

[DOG GOD]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

We have the momentum. Let’s do this

[lemmon]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

Tom McDonald with the saltiest tears

[jDogs]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

22 scoring shots to 6... complete smashing really.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Bulldogs V Demons - Round 21, Fri 2/8/24 Marvel Stadium 7:15PM AEST

Mature response so far.