The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

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  • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Bulldog Team of the Century
    • Jan 2007
    • 8962

    The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

    The moment; the best, most courageous moment that caught your eye in this afternoon's game against GWS.
    Was it the moment that told you 'we've got this' or 'we lost this one right here'? Or was it the moment that you went 'wow....that is crazy courage'

    Was it a collection of moments or perhaps one you felt had greater significance outside of the actual game's result?.. Or maybe it was a downright gobshite game, with little to crow about...but you know, you're still down to get your post count up as you set your gaze towards your next 60,000 posts............. BAD.... who love's ya baby
  • GVGjr
    Moderator
    • Nov 2006
    • 44634

    #2
    Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

    GWS threatening and a Joel Freijah marked stemmed the tide in the last quarter. Composed mark for someone so young.
    Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"

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    • Pleather Sole
      Rookie List
      • Jan 2024
      • 343

      #3
      Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

      Originally posted by GVGjr
      GWS threatening and a Joel Freijah marked stemmed the tide in the last quarter. Composed mark for someone so young.
      Fridge is the Iceman.

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      • bulldogtragic
        The List Manager
        • Jan 2007
        • 34289

        #4
        Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

        Originally posted by GVGjr
        GWS threatening and a Joel Freijah marked stemmed the tide in the last quarter. Composed mark for someone so young.
        Beat me it. This times 1,000,000
        Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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        • hujsh
          Hall of Fame
          • Nov 2007
          • 11841

          #5
          Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

          JUH causing a turnover and Bont kicking a long goal dead straight against the wind. Really said to me 'this is our day'
          [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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          • kickit2Koly
            Rookie List
            • Nov 2023
            • 180

            #6
            Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

            The bont kick inboard to Arty then long bomb to Naughton was the first time I stopped sweating all day.

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            • jeemak
              Bulldog Legend
              • Oct 2010
              • 21825

              #7
              Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

              All good moments mentioned.

              I was worried about JF's game today, and was so happy for him that he managed to take that grab. Will do wonders for him in the match review when that's called out.

              Beveridge really backed in the individuals today and it came off. Will be great for overall confidence.
              TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.

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              • Bornadog
                WOOF Clubhouse Leader
                • Jan 2007
                • 66700

                #8
                Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

                Originally posted by jeemak
                All good moments mentioned.

                I was worried about JF's game today, and was so happy for him that he managed to take that grab. Will do wonders for him in the match review when that's called out.

                Beveridge really backed in the individuals today and it came off. Will be great for overall confidence.
                I felt with only 11 points in it and GWS surging forward, one more goal and it would be too close.
                FFC: Established 1883

                Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.

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                • azabob
                  Hall of Fame
                  • Sep 2008
                  • 15304

                  #9
                  Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

                  Originally posted by bornadog
                  I felt with only 11 points in it and GWS surging forward, one more goal and it would be too close.
                  Prior to that mark it looked like we were out on our feet, did it seem that way at the ground?
                  More of an In Bruges guy?

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                  • Bornadog
                    WOOF Clubhouse Leader
                    • Jan 2007
                    • 66700

                    #10
                    Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

                    Originally posted by azabob
                    Prior to that mark it looked like we were out on our feet, did it seem that way at the ground?
                    No not at all.
                    FFC: Established 1883

                    Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.

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                    • GVGjr
                      Moderator
                      • Nov 2006
                      • 44634

                      #11
                      Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

                      Originally posted by azabob
                      Prior to that mark it looked like we were out on our feet, did it seem that way at the ground?
                      I never quite felt that in anyway but GWS were getting things back on their terms. I had a mate sending me messages (he was in the outer) and he didn't feel like we had done enough and GWS were coming but where I was sitting the people around were vastly more positive. I thought we controlled it in the first quarter and dominated the midfield early on. It was a 4 or 5 goal wind and GWS didn't get their full value in the first.
                      Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"

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                      • Happy Days
                        Hall of Fame
                        • May 2008
                        • 10142

                        #12
                        Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

                        I already knew we won but Arty Jones’ 5 minutes from hell (compliment) sure put a massive smile on my face.
                        - I'm a visionary - Only here to confirm my biases -

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                        • jeemak
                          Bulldog Legend
                          • Oct 2010
                          • 21825

                          #13
                          Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

                          Originally posted by GVGjr
                          I never quite felt that in anyway but GWS were getting things back on their terms. I had a mate sending me messages (he was in the outer) and he didn't feel like we had done enough and GWS were coming but where I was sitting the people around were vastly more positive. I thought we controlled it in the first quarter and dominated the midfield early on. It was a 4 or 5 goal wind and GWS didn't get their full value in the first.
                          It's good insight into how different the game can look depending on where you see it from.

                          Jordan Lewis on the coverage was just advocating for run and gun with hands out of defence into the wind, for both teams. By the end of the game both teams were using the outer side to exit unless on the break with the wind. Even when we used the outer side we got into the trap of going too long off half back.

                          Anyway, no sane person would have tried a run and gun game against the wind when playing the best pressure and surging team in the competition - it'll just create a turnover and have your defenders caught out because they're all forward (I remember something similar against GWS last year). You take the frontal pressure game every day of the week and back your defenders, and exit wide/ outer. And as it happened the only place to score from into the wind was from the outer pocket as you're kicking directly into it at that point instead of it being across you (all of Gallagher, Bont and Toby Greene kicked amazing goals in that way).

                          But once GWS adapted to playing the outside of the ground there were times when they were surging that we were using the ball poorly, and almost panicking and they got closer. On the TV we did look a little flat at that time.
                          Last edited by jeemak; 25-08-2024, 10:07 PM.
                          TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.

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                          • JanLorMill
                            WOOF Member
                            • Feb 2023
                            • 1688

                            #14
                            Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

                            Being there it felt we had that game under control in the first quarter. Never felt like losing. Moments like Freijah’s or L Jones mark, Naught’s goal, A Jones 50 in the last confirmed it.

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                            • comrade
                              Hall of Fame
                              • Jun 2008
                              • 18028

                              #15
                              Re: The Moment: Rnd 24, 2024 vs GWS

                              Originally posted by JanLorMill
                              Being there it felt we had that game under control in the first quarter. Never felt like losing. Moments like Freijah’s or L Jones mark, Naught’s goal, A Jones 50 in the last confirmed it.
                              Yeah, it was a weird game in that we were never really in danger but it also never felt completely secure until half way through the last. I didn?t enjoy it at all, one of the more frustrating games I?ve experienced in recent times probably due to what was at stake, the weather etc
                              Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.

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