What Changes Round 9

[Bulldog Revolution]

Re: What Changes Round 9

Either way, it's a great chance for McDougall to step up to the plate - hope he gets a run at FF.

Agreed - I dont know that we were expecting 22 brilliant games from him this season, but a 17 posession, 3 goal cameo would do nicely on the weekend

[Mantis]

Re: What Changes Round 9

Agreed - I dont know that we were expecting 22 brilliant games from him this season, but a 17 posession, 3 goal cameo would do nicely on the weekend

IIRC he played a pretty good game against Sydney in the NAB cup match this season. Sydney have a fairly short backline, quite similiar to us, playing McDougall may help to expose this.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: What Changes Round 9

Yep, with Roberts-Thomson out they certainly are one tall defender short, and perhaps we'll play 2 tall forwards in to try and upset their balance a bit.

[southerncross]

Re: What Changes Round 9

Yep, with Roberts-Thomson out they certainly are one tall defender short, and perhaps we'll play 2 tall forwards in to try and upset their balance a bit.

Rather than crowd around the ball ups etc which is a real Sydney strength, I like the idea of sending players forward so that we drag them away. It worked very well for the Kangas and I'm sure it's something that we can exploit.

[Bornadog]

Re: What Changes Round 9

Final Team

WESTERN BULLDOGS
B: Power, Harris, Morris
HB: Gilbee, Wight, Hargrave
C: Eagleton, S.West, Akermanis
HF: Giansiracusa, Johnson, Cooney
F: McDougall, Darcy, Higgins
FOLL: Street, Cross, Boyd
I/C: Ray, Addison, Faulkner, Hahn
EM: Harbrow, Minson, Robbins
IN: Faulkner, McDougall, Power
OUT: Griffen, McMahon, Harbrow
SYDNEY
B: Richards, Barry, Crouch
HB: Kennelly, C.Bolton, Mathews
C: Ablett, Kirk, Malceski
HF: R.O'Keefe, O'Loughlin, J.Bolton
F: Davis, Hall, Buchanan
FOLL: Jolly, Goodes, Fosdike
I/C: Schneider, McVeigh, Everitt, Bevan
EM: Schmidt, Grundy, Dempster
IN: Crouch
OUT: Dempster

[southerncross]

Re: What Changes Round 9

I hope that is the settled team. A late withdrawal or two wouldn't surprise though.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: What Changes Round 9

Very happy to see Cameron getting his first game of the year, and I like the faith they've shown in both McDougall and Power to come in and do jobs against one of the AFL's top sides.

[Bornadog]

Re: What Changes Round 9

I hope that is the settled team. A late withdrawal or two wouldn't surprise though.

Yes if there were late changes, they would be:

Darcy = Minson

Johnno = Robbo

But that would be on top of the three we have had, which is a major change.