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Re: Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Essendon
Didn't compare him to Lloyd nor Lucas. Didn't suggest he was ball magnet. I just infered he had poor stats. Surely I can say that?Comment
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Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.Comment
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Re: Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Essendon
Correct! Need some unanswered goals ASAP.Comment
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Re: Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Essendon
Mitch Hahn with his 5th early in the 4th puts it back to 19 points.Comment
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Game is unofficially over now. Up by 34 points in the middle of the last.Comment
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Re: Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Essendon
Class and experience won out in the end.
Bring on the Saints.Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.Comment
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Re: Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Essendon
It's good to see we consistently run out games well. It seems that as a game goes on and players from both sides start fatiguing and skills can tend to drop, our fitness levels are such that we are able to maintain our skills.
Providing we don't give teams large starts on us score wise early in a game, this could bode well for us in the finals.Comment
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Only caught snippets, but the ABC radio coverage kept on referring to some lame pun "Lake Superior".The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.Comment
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I thought Tommy Williams was really good tonight. He fixed the errors he made in the Collingwood game. Good on ya Tommy!
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Yeah alot better Tom Williams!
I thought Hudson played well!
Anyone know what his stats were?
Took some good marks and important disposals when it mattered.Comment
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Re: Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Essendon
We dominated the ruck. Minson and Hudson's tap work was superb.Comment
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Re: Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs Essendon
Pros
Our defensive pressure was immense, we did not give Essendon any chance to run and play free flowing overlap football. We denied their space through half back, I thought our pressure and tacking wer really huge, we were feocious and I just love that about our footy lately.
Cross, Boyd, Picken did their jobs on their respective players and I think Watson only had one kcik. Griff's tackling and work in close was enormous but not sure where his kicking has gone, its the only thing letting him down.
Tom Williams walked off the ground.... And did a very good defensive job, looked much more settled than last week.
Welcome back Mitch, we've missed you!
Brian Lake is in career best form, his reading of the play and strong hands are so reassuring.
Harbrow continues to flourish in the pocket even though he still fumbles and turns it over a little. He is shutting opponents down (killed Davey) and creating great explosive run from full back, his effect has been very underrated.
Our whole backline was huge, Shag and Morro were also good down back, Morris took several great marks to relieve the pressure.
Our fitness and ability to run games out is quite impressive, I look forward to abig club pinching Davoren very soon.
Cooney and Gilbee are obviously hampered yet they did their jobs very well.
Will is really starting to present well around the ground. He has always been an OK ruckman, now he is actually presenting really well, his fitness is up and it shows as he is making contest after contest. Huddo contested well, also.
Higgins is amazing and has all the attributes to be a marque player and future captain.
Even though we were down by 4 goals at one stage i never felt in danger of losing the game, which is a new feeling.
Our clearance work in tight is the best i've ever seen, we work so well out of the middle.
Cons
Our delivery into half forward is atrocious, we make poor choices and our foot skills have been missing for the better part of the year. Make no mistake, it's our defensive game that is winning most of game, more than our skill level.
Or poor starts really annoy me, we love waiting a while beofre we wake up and play. We need a fair dinkum wake up call if we think this will be good enough against St Kilda. Next week we find out exactly how good we are.
Aker as been down a little in the last few games.
We are choosing poor options through half forward and many goals that sides have been kicking against us have been from our turnovers through half forward. We need to get better by foot!!!!
I feel that some of our results are masking the fact that we are actually butchering the ball for large portions of our games this year.Comment
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