Thoughts about tonights game.

[Dale]

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every time we went forward we broke down. against aokay side we once again flopped. DROP WELSH WILLIAMS. bring in tim callan and you might aswell give a tall youngster ago.

[lemmon]

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I thought the defence probably fell over tonight. Im not sure Morris on Cloke was the best option from the start, he just had too much size. Although underdone, I still would have gone with Williams on him.
Time to give Callan a run, Davis won the game for them tonight but Im not overly worried about tonights performance.

[LostDoggy]

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We get so far behind, the other team drops thinking they have won it. Which makes us able to catch up, and again too little, too late. Although 6.5 is a great effort in the last qtr.

And William terrible, Welsh terrible. Even hahn for the first 3 qtr.s was quite bad. And overall his year has been quite poor

[LostDoggy]

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Our forays into the forward line were haphazard, and the ball was being floated above the forwards heads. How are short forwards meant to take those grabs? How many marks in a pack do they want a little bloke like Higgins to take? Its been happening all season. After tonight I've changed my mind: we need Hall.

I'm really dirty on Griffen. For every good thing he does he cancels it out with something poor, like trying to break a tackle or go around a man or wait too long, all the while there is a clear option to kick or handball to a team mate in the clear that he ignores. His kicking is over-rated. Badly. I'd be interested in seeing his turnovers/holding the balls over his career. I think he'd be in the top two or three in the club.

I think Welsh, Eagleton, Hahn are playing their last season.

As a team its disturbing how we offer so few options to go to when our player has the ball, either in defense or into the forward line.

Lake, Picken, Higgins were very good.

Hill lacks the intensity to compete in finals.

Overall, this playing list is not good enough to win a premiership.

I thought Hill played a pretty good finals series last year and was full of intensity. I don't know what you mean here.

Explain why Welsh and Hahn are in their last seasons.

[LostDoggy]

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every time we went forward we broke down. against aokay side we once again flopped. DROP WELSH WILLIAMS. bring in tim callan and you might aswell give a tall youngster ago.

Williams wont be dropped.

[LostDoggy]

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Hill needs to win a few contests and when he does he is full of confidence and usually plays well the whole game.

On another note, Bulldogs won on the attendance

[Before I Die]

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Collingwood delivered to the forwards with purpose and intent. That's beacause:
1. The delivery was out in front.
2. The forwards were always moving to create an option.

OTOH we delivered high floating balls to contests AND the forwards offered no other option. MAybe the delivery was like that BECAUSE the forwards offered nothing. No leads into space. NOTHING. Its embarassing that Higgins has to go up in a pack to earn a mark: they should be hitting him on the chest out in front.

Collingwood flooded their backline and then they ran hard on the rebound. Their goalkickers were their mids streaming forward into open space. Despite Collingwoods flooding tactics, we kicked 3 or more goals each quarter and had more overall shots on goal for the game. Our CHF kicked 3 goals, theirs kicked none. Hahn was the only tall forward for either side to have an impact on the scoreboard.

A forward line breaks down when it doesn't kick goals. Ours kicked 16 and scored over 100 points. This is well above the average score kicked against Collingwood this year. Our forward line did not break down tonight. They did however, fail to chase out of defence and our mids did not run hard enough either forward or backwards.

[LostDoggy]

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Hill needs to win a few contests and when he does he is full of confidence and usually plays well the whole game.

On another note, Bulldogs won on the attendance

But didn't win the cash! Do we even get 100k for tonight?

[LostDoggy]

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Collingwood flooded their backline and then they ran hard on the rebound. Their goalkickers were their mids streaming forward into open space. Despite Collingwoods flooding tactics, we kicked 3 or more goals each quarter and had more overall shots on goal for the game. Our CHF kicked 3 goals, theirs kicked none. Hahn was the only tall forward for either side to have an impact on the scoreboard.

A forward line breaks down when it doesn't kick goals. Ours kicked 16 and scored over 100 points. This is well above the average score kicked against Collingwood this year. Our forward line did not break down tonight. They did however, fail to chase out of defence and our mids did not run hard enough either forward or backwards.

Do you think that is why the Collingwood players kept getting goal side in their forward line? I was really frustrated about that all night, it kept happening!

[Dale]

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Why is it are socalled AFL superstars go missing in crunch high pressure games!?

[Remi Moses]

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Just a few thoughts on the opposition.
Need another Ruckman urgently[Fraser has knee issues]It will be interesting to see how they travel if Didak,Davis or Swan lose form. They're playing at their absolute optimum.
Not so many calls for Malthouse to be sacked now!Typical malthouse coached team with work ethic paramount. Kudos for their fans for turning out [unlike some who have 50,000 members]

[Before I Die]

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Do you think that is why the Collingwood players kept getting goal side in their forward line? I was really frustrated about that all night, it kept happening!

Yes

As stated in an earlier post, I think we were simply out coached tonight. I thought the boys didn't play too badly, though they were definitely out run, but the major difference was the game plan. We only have to wait 7 weeks to see if Rocket has an answer. The only real concern for me tonight was the loss of 4 points. Top four is everything re the finals, and we are far from certainties at this stage of the season.

[AndrewP6]

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I heard all sorts of comments in the crowd from Greg Norman to Ian Baker Finch.

I love the man, but Noth last year, Cats this year, and touching the ball on the line...

Looked at the replay...there were several Pies with him, I reckon they'd have got to it anyway.

[AndrewP6]

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Yes

As stated in an earlier post, I think we were simply out coached tonight. I thought the boys didn't play too badly.

Really? I thought we played very ordinary for almost 3/4 of the game.

[The Underdog]

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Why is it are socalled AFL superstars go missing in crunch high pressure games!?

Leon Davis is a so-called superstar. I thought he was quite good.
I also thought Brian Lake played well but he's more of an under-rated defender than a so-called superstar.
Adam Cooney was on, then he went missing, then he was on and then he went missing, but that may have been interchange rotations.
Or am I misunderstanding your question?