Game Day - Bulldogs vs Eagles

[Cyberdoggie]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Eagles

Well said scragger, you call em Chicken Littles, i call them Mike Sheahans, wants players heads after a bad performance etc etc, we are world beaters one minute, the next we are poo etc etc.....

Have to give West Coast credit, they were ON, and not only on, but hitting targets etc, they had a real structure, a forward line, not pinning their hopes on a skinny flanker [Josh Hill] as their main target.

It was like West Coast of the 90's, the positive was that we wearn't blown away, but we did look as flat as a tack, just hope the players can recover for next Sunday, yesterday was grooling, the players looked spent by half time.

To me, even though it was round 4, it was almost a finals type of game, the pressure etc, and we crumbled, especially up forward, thankfully our defence is holding up strong, just wanted a few clearances though, we got BELTED from the middle.

If Welsh was taken over with the team, why didn't he play? I would have even given Grant a game, at least giving us some sort of a structure up forward.

Agreed, you can attribute a few factors to the performance of the dogs, however i don't think we should panic. I personally am going to write this one off.

There were a few things about the game that i noticed however that i can't forget:

*Johnson is starting to look old, and we can't rely on him to be our key forward. Hahn, Minson and Another tall are required to perform. I think maybe Williams or Grant should be looked at soon.

*A few players still looked unable to cope with the physical pressure of West Coast
*Eagle, enough said
*Lots of mistakes, many due to pressure but if we are going to play that game we can't afford to make so many
*I didn't realize that the green coloured theme "let's be nice to umpires" round had been changed to "Work experience umpires" round. Some terrible decisions, particularly at the end of the first quarter which lead to several goals to the eagles and ultimately the approx margin at the final siren.
*We miss Cooney
*Higgo is the most improved player in the AFL so far this year.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Eagles

Just a few things about Sunday.

Gia was benched as he was playing poor. Had 75% game time instead of the usual 85%.

Brian Lake was crook & got out of a sick bed to play.

Johnno rolled an ankle in the warm up, by then it was too late so he had to play.

[Mantis]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Eagles

Just a few things about Sunday.

Gia was benched as he was playing poor. Had 75% game time instead of the usual 85%.

Brian Lake was crook & got out of a sick bed to play.

Johnno rolled an ankle in the warm up, by then it was too late so he had to play.

Interesting reading CD.

Do we know if we had an emergency in Perth? It was reported by GVG that Welsh had flown over there, but conflicting reports had him missing with a back injury.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Eagles

Interesting reading CD.

Do we know if we had an emergency in Perth? It was reported by GVG that Welsh had flown over there, but conflicting reports had him missing with a back injury.

We did (not sure who), but it was too late. Johnno rolled the ankle after the team sheets had been lodged.

[Mantis]

Re: Game Day - Bulldogs vs Eagles

Downloaded the game last night and have just finished watching it now, comments:

* Gia's game was poor, no wonder he spent so long on the bench. Ditto for Gilbee.

* Our kicking in perfect conditions was poor. The number of times we missed a target under little pressure was staggering. Individuals such as Griffen & Eagleton need to use the ball better.

* Backline was good once again, Hargrave was very impressive.

* Killed at the stoppages and probably the main reason why we lost.

* Struggled up forward, just seemed to be out-numbered every time we went forward, but they weren't helped by the sloppy kicking.

* And we got murdered by the ump's.