Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Hawthorn

[Mantis]

Re: Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Hawthorn

Our intensity in the second half dropped right off, Hawthorn really dropped their heads and we could have won by a lot more

I think a few of our players put the cue in the rack in the 2nd half. Considering we have a tough game coming up against Collingwood this Friday night who have one extra day break I think they were entitled to take the foot off the pedal a little.

[boydogs]

I think a few of our players put the cue in the rack in the 2nd half. Considering we have a tough game coming up against Collingwood this Friday night who have one extra day break I think they were entitled to take the foot off the pedal a little.

Didn't expect to have that luxury coming in to the game. Quite amazing. The day after it still feels like a dream

[LostDoggy]

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Absolutly sintilating footy!
After the Hawks first goal, i think the Dogs fans were cheering aswell! =]
How nice of us!!

[BulldogBelle]

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Really enjoyed watching Josh Hill last night; I think it was his most complete game. Not only did he kick goals as we all know he can, but his defensive efforts time and time again, and his chase down tackles were excellent. Really stamped himself in my opinion.

Although he gave away a couple of frees, I thought Hudson's physicality was excellent. He and Minson smashed the Hawk big men.

[LostDoggy]

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I think a few of our players put the cue in the rack in the 2nd half. Considering we have a tough game coming up against Collingwood this Friday night who have one extra day break I think they were entitled to take the foot off the pedal a little.

Yep, I agree with this - but what a great night overall! The Hawthorn supporters around where I sit were very quiet - so nice to not have to put up with their normal arrogance When you have a win like that, or more importantly a first and second quarter like that, you don't need to yell alot - just sit and smile (and be a little smug I guess!). We have a tough one next Friday night, and we can be sure it won't be a walk-over like last night. However, the boys are playing with great confidence, and their foot and hand skills last night were superb. Just a pleasure to watch - now I can watch the game replayed on One HD a couple of times this week. Yeah

[Missing Dog]

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great win.

friday is a real danger game, coming off last nights win. very easy to come in to the match lacking the same intensity. conversely a win keeps us two wins clear plus percentage, with a tough game against essendon coming up. very important match against the pies.

[hujsh]

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First time this year we've entered a game with such intensity and got off to a flyer.

[bulldogtragic]

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Need to back it up and show us and to some extent the footy world that we are serious contenders for the flag. Just because we dropped a few games we shouldnt have means jack. When you play us and were switched on, we';; do to you what we did to Hawthorn.

[AndrewP6]

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As many have said, it was incredible to go into half-time with a score that many teams would be happy with at fulltime! Great to see us tear a team apart...

[LostDoggy]

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I really enjoyed that game a few points from me.

Good
we were on national TV showing our excellent brand.
Iif we had kicked one more goal in that first quarter we would have broken our record for best first quarter.
At one stage when things were quiet I yelled out to Sam Mitchell to 'go back to Box Hill, and I swear he turned and looked at me
In that last quarter the boys didn't just look confident they looked arrogant, casually lopping a handball over the head of Sam Mitchell - I have NEVER seen that before and I just love it!
Credit to the Hawks supporters, the majority stayed until the end, and on the other site so many of them came over and congratulated us.

Bad
The crowd should have been chanting Bullllllllllldogs, Bullllllllllldogs, the same way other teams would have chanted if they were up by that much. Instead we just sat there politely

[Mantis]

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Bad
The crowd should have been chanting Bullllllllllldogs, Bullllllllllldogs, the same way other teams would have chanted if they were up by that much. Instead we just sat there politely

In fairness I think most of us were just sitting with our mouths open in awe of what we were witnessing.

[Sedat]

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We actually missed several gilt-edged chances to goal from inside 30 - Griff, Hill, Hudson, Aker (a few times), Eagleon, a couple of botched marks from Minson and Hudson under no presure. Such was our complete dominance in all facets of the game, we actually should have won by 20 goals. I haven't seen such a destructive performance by us in a long time, especially in the key defensive-oriented aspects of the game.

[Bornadog]

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We actually missed several gilt-edged chances to goal from inside 30 - Griff, Hill, Hudson, Aker (a few times), Eagleon, a couple of botched marks from Minson and Hudson under no presure. Such was our complete dominance in all facets of the game, we actually should have won by 20 goals. I haven't seen such a destructive performance by us in a long time, especially in the key defensive-oriented aspects of the game.

Yes, the only disappointment for the night for me was kicking 6.9 in the second half, when it should have been at least a 10 goal second half.

[ledge]

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Are you guys ever happy????
Lets face it no one will have complete dominance over a game for 4 quarters to dominate like we did for 3/4s you wont see any better.

I can only think of one game back in the 70s we dominated so well, even the game a few weeks ago we won by 93 was nowhere near as clean and precise as this, we were like a surgeon at an autopsy table.

[Sedat]

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Are you guys ever happy????
Lets face it no one will have complete dominance over a game for 4 quarters to dominate like we did for 3/4s you wont see any better.

I can only think of one game back in the 70s we dominated so well, even the game a few weeks ago we won by 93 was nowhere near as clean and precise as this, we were like a surgeon at an autopsy table.

Absolutely stoked, just making an observation that our dominance on the night was so complete that we were 20 goals better than the opposition in general play. All of those missed chances I mentioned really were sodas.