Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Kangaroos

Any down talk on Aker is not correct. Watch the game again, especially in the current game is quality of possession not quantity of possession. It could be argued and i will that Aker was the difference between winning and losing yesterday. Not everything he did was solid gold, but he set up numerous goals and if he wasn't overlooked a couple of times wen free could have kicked a few more.

He is more important to the side than we are paying credit for. We expect 25 touches and a couple of flashy goals, but yesterdays performance was more important in personally setting up 4 goals (more than 1/3 of the total team goals) and he was linking well, tackling and sheperding and hitting targets.

[Desipura]

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Not one pass was on his chest, every time they passed it to him he had to reach extremly high which gave his opponent the advantage to knock it out of his hands.

Well he is a tall, and a tall key position player/ruckman should be able to take more than one contested mark whether on his chest or above his head, thats no excuse.
We went short to Minson twice in crucial stages in the last quarter and I knew he would not mark them as he never looked like marking them. The ball spilled and was taken away easily out of our forwardl line.
He is too intent in pushing his player away rather than having eyes only for the ball and jumping for the mark.

[LostDoggy]

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Not one pass was on his chest, every time they passed it to him he had to reach extremly high which gave his opponent the advantage to knock it out of his hands.

He was led to the ball for most of the day and he was given plenty of good ball, thats just a poor excuse to cover up his obvious deficiancies in the forward line.

Yesterday all that was required from him was to bring the ball down in a contest so it disguised the fact that he was led to the contest everytime and was completely outplayed, jumped from 2 back and even when he was out in fron his hands were awful.

His age and potential are irrelevant, he has had 7 seasons and needs to do more than just be a handy backup ruckman.

[LostDoggy]

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Any down talk on Aker is not correct. Watch the game again, especially in the current game is quality of possession not quantity of possession. It could be argued and i will that Aker was the difference between winning and losing yesterday. Not everything he did was solid gold, but he set up numerous goals and if he wasn't overlooked a couple of times wen free could have kicked a few more.

He is more important to the side than we are paying credit for. We expect 25 touches and a couple of flashy goals, but yesterdays performance was more important in personally setting up 4 goals (more than 1/3 of the total team goals) and he was linking well, tackling and sheperding and hitting targets.

To add to that there were several moments where Aker frantically chased down opponents which led to errors from North.

[lemmon]

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Agree with the comments on Aker, he was a cut above in the wet his disposals were creative and he looked the most dangerous with ball in hand.

[LostDoggy]

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Aker may be one of the best exponents of wet weather football I have ever seen.

The sureness of his hands and use of his peripheral vision in close was outstanding, his supposed mistakes and fumbles always went our way and it was not by accident. Look closer and you will see.

[bulldogtragic]

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Aker may be one of the best exponents of wet weather football I have ever seen.

The sureness of his hands and use of his peripheral vision in close was outstanding, his supposed mistakes and fumbles always went our way and it was not by accident. Look closer and you will see.

Best wet player i have ever seen. The game for Brisbane where he kicked those sensational goals (inc. the surprise celebration).

And yesterday his poise was brilliant. As mentioned in another thread, in the wet especially he doesn't drop the ball in his kicking action, as presumably in the wet the ball could drop wrong and result in a clanger. He places the ball on his foot by huntching down in the action, thus ensuring the ball hits his foot right and lowers the possibility of a clanger. He does more within this game of AFL than most will realise as his persona can taint how you see him. His tackling, kicking, positioning, play reading and so on is absolutely exceptional and i hope when he retires at years end we sign him as an assistant staright away.

[LostDoggy]

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Akers kicking in general and deft touches were awesome in the wet, he played a hand in many of our goals yesterday.

I am still a big fan of Minson and there is no one to replace him.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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I take my comments back. After watching the replay, Aker was clearly one of our better players. I suppose I just caught him at the wrong times IE. A few of the bad kicks/looking disinterested. But he did play very well.

[mighty_west]

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As you can see from my Woof name, I have been on board the Griffin train for a few years now - I love the way he goes about his footy. I wasn't able to be at the game today because of a family commitment, but got to see the last quarter on the TV, after having listened to the radio. Given our record against the shinboners in the last few years, I am more than happy to take the win! My (perhaps premature) prediction is Griffin for the Brownlow - maybe this year or next! Go Doggies, go!

If you had been on board for a few years, surely you more than anyone would know how to spell his name...

It's Ryan GRIFFEN, not Griffin.

sheesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mofra]

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Why not fly at 15,000ft and set the cabin altitude to sea level , it would be like catching a super quick bus. Pretty sure Brisbane dont charter planes for home and away games. The benefits of having low cabin altitude are negated by time and money.

Pressurisation doesn't work that way - an aircraft cruising above 30,000 ft will often have the cabin pressure at close to 10,000 ft so that aircraft performance (and efficiency) isn't lost. That is why you would get drunk quicker on apassenger jet even under "pressurised" conditions.

We are talking jet engines, which by nature operate more efficiently at lower pressure environments which is why aircraft pressurise & fly so high in the fire place - at 15,000 ft some aircraft would actually have their range cut so dramatically that they would require a refuelling stop.

Regardless, some players will naturally have better abilities at overcoming lower pressure (ie high altitude) environments - Josh Hill has a huge VO2 max ability so it would barely present a problem for him. Will Minson with his formally punctured lung would be effected more dramatically.

[mighty_west]

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I take my comments back. After watching the replay, Aker was clearly one of our better players. I suppose I just caught him at the wrong times IE. A few of the bad kicks/looking disinterested. But he did play very well.

PHEW!!!! thank goodness for that, because for a moment i thought i must have been watching a different game yesterday, i didn't have Aker in my top 4 votes, but he was next cab, he was very good yesterday.

Although, his miss snap out of bounds on the full was VERY non-Aker like, i guess he gets em 9 times out of ten, yesterday was that one off.

[LostDoggy]

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National Wheelchair Basketball League...and, yes, I'm quite happy saying that

Fair enough Andrew.

But i dont think you can compare amatuer or semi pro sport to elite professional sport. For starters, travelling to Perth gives your next opponent 24hr head start in recovery and planning. Plus the travel factor.

Ex WCE players believe weekly travel took 2-3yrs off their careers.

[LostDoggy]

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I haven't yet watched the replay but I did like what Williams was doing yesterday by no means BOG but did well to hold his opponent down as well as running down the lines for giving a presents on the other side of the ground (though not used) and still managing to get back to cover his opponent did anyone else notice that?

The backline just looks like a more settled unit with him in it.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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I haven't yet watched the replay but I did like what Williams was doing yesterday by no means BOG but did well to hold his opponent down as well as running down the lines for giving a presents on the other side of the ground (though not used) and still managing to get back to cover his opponent did anyone else notice that?

The backline just looks like a more settled unit with him in it.

Williams spent the day on Hale who ended up with 4 touches or something.