Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

JOSH HILL!!!!

(Spoiler alert)







Rex Hunt is singing. 79-65 with just over a minute left.

[Scorlibo]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Take a bow Brian Lake. Best player on the ground by a long way imo. Didn't make a mistake, 17 marks, he was brilliant. Callan Ward needs to develop some awareness and quickly.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Take a bow Brian Lake. Best player on the ground by a long way imo. Didn't make a mistake, 17 marks, he was brilliant. Callan Ward needs to develop some awareness and quickly.

Playing games will do that, and i think they will continue to give him games.

[The Pie Man]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Haven't seen it yet (1st wedding anniversary today) but it sounded like Harvey being pinged for a throw with a few minutes left turned it for us.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Take a bow Brian Lake. Best player on the ground by a long way imo. Didn't make a mistake, 17 marks, he was brilliant. Callan Ward needs to develop some awareness and quickly.

Lake would now have to be close to the best FB in the league. From what I've seen on TV Ward's done alright. I heard on the radio Picken made a great tackle at the end winning us the game. What have you thought of Picken's game?

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Apparently, the pressure Picken put on Harvey caused him to throw the ball.

[sydneydog]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Got tired in the end but showed enough.difficult to tame harvey for a whole game.

[LostDoggy]

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Great to get the win, the game isnt on until 9:30 here but I listened to it on the radio, sounded like we were turning it over badly last 10 minutes of the third and all but the last of the 4th quarter.

Looking forward to watching it with a beer this evening.

[Dry Rot]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Has Aker got anything to be worried about re that contact to the head?

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Just got back from the game. Enjoyed the win, but it was hard work. Loved Picken on Harvey - I watched the pair of them through my goggles a fair bit as it was entertaining watching Harvey (who I can't stand) get really, really annoyed and frustrated. Will be interested to know his end possession count. As said above, Lake is fantastic. He doesn't panic when he gets the ball. He's improved a lot, though I have always been a big fan.

Also Eade went straight to Ward at the 2nd & 4th quarter breaks not looking too happy.

[LostDoggy]

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Has Aker got anything to be worried about re that contact to the head?

It was careless and un-Aker like (just going on what I remember from watching it live). However I can never guess what the MRP make of things.

[hujsh]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Hill had a good game. Not the best as he made a few bad decisions but over all i liked his game today. The 2nd last goal and assist for the last put the icing on the cake.

Good to see Johnno do well today as well

[ledge]

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Pickens first game.. terrific , well done to him, will play a lot of games, Eades secret weapon? Addison was great and i also enjoyed Hill, who seems to be getting more confident and more touches every game.
The young and old teaming well with Aker his usual self and Johnno being the old stager.
I think it was another team effort, one thing i will say is we look a very close team.
Thought Hargrave was a bit off today but being in the backline every bad thing is multiplied.
Rain and great skills dont necessarly mix but i think today we showed we have the players to go in and do the basic hard in and under stuff, with which we probably didnt have a handle on last year.

[lemmon]

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Lake was excellant in the back half, Addison was good, Hill was classy in the last quarter, happy with Picken and I thought Wards clearance work in the last quarter was very good. Conditions really suited North today, the rain definitley aided there small forwards and we looked buggered after last weeks trip to Perth.

[wimberga]

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Just got back from the game. Feel like both teams were giving themselves plenty of reasons to lose the game until finally we found a reason to win.

Great game today from debutant Liam Picken i thought, and some great work by Griffen, Lake, Gilbee who worked hard all day with a hard tagger and Callan Ward who athough was not the cleanest of players, was in the right place at all the key moments and quite a few times won the ball.

On to a couple of things that i was worried about. No 1 was Tom Williams going down after a heavy clash in the 3rd quarter. Thankfully he appeared to be ok and my heart recovered.

On to the serious matter. Those at the game can probably back this up more, but i thought that today, our player working and finding space in all but the 3rd quarter, and yet we continuously chose the wrong option. Time and time again a doggies player would find acres of space only to have the ball be played a different way and often to our detriment. Im not sure how this can be rectified easily, but could sense that Aker, Gia, Johnson and Gilbee for example were time and time again in good positions but overlooked. Aker especially.