Game Day - Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

[LostDoggy]

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Well done!

Silly idea voting using the crowd, she could have burped, sneezed & farted & still won because she was representing the 'home' team. They were always going to vote for her. I would have too, she was a looker!

Haha exactly what i thought..she was sooo nice though!
so nice that after the game, she called me and offered me one of the tics to the grand final!!!!
im bouncing off the walls atm! OVER THE MOON!

[comrade]

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Haha exactly what i thought..she was sooo nice though!
so nice that after the game, she called me and offered me one of the tics to the grand final!!!!
im bouncing off the walls atm! OVER THE MOON!

Could be the start of something beautiful.

At least one Bulldog supporter went home happy tonight.

[LostDoggy]

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Could be the start of something beautiful.

At least one Bulldog supporter went home happy tonight.

Just hoping for a dogs v saints gf..
unlikely but d\fingers crossed!

[LostDoggy]

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Higgins has done a hammy, I thought it was just the ongoing problem with his groin, and he'd further aggravated it. Doesn't look good for him for the immediate future.

I don't think Murphy has done his hammy, merely feeling tightness, which could be a pre-cursor to it going, so it will be a brave club doctor that Okay's him to come on again in the 4th quarter.
Going to be hard though for us with 3 players down.

Good work rate by our boys in the 3rd. Have given ourselves some chance if we can get on the scoreboard early in the last.

Who is the third player down?
I was at the game, but did not notice that we had three players down.

Sat in medallion club aisle 22, right behind the stkilda goals. The view was terrible, stkilda cheer squad chanting, drove me made. Left when we were down by 8 goals.

[AndrewP6]

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This was, IMO, a clear indication of where we are at. Faced with the ladder-leader, we failed miserably. I honestly think we made them look excellent tonight. Yes, the Saints are playing great footy. But to gift them SO MANY goals, was pathetic. Many times, we fumbled, kicked poorly, handballed poorly, when the Saints highly-publicised pressure wasn't really there. And I still think our tackling isn't great. At times it is really good, then someone just shrugs us off. Just very disappointing across the park. I could single out some players, but I'd get sick of typing! I'll try to enjoy watching the next five weeks, as we're not going to do much damage come September.

[AndrewP6]

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Heard on the radio that after Josh Hill dropped a mark late in the game, Aker tore him a new one. Involved the words "Do you want to be an A-grader? Don't be a B-grader!" Apparently Murph, on the bench, had to "console him". Will this be the rocket he needs? I'm not sure. I thought although Aker didn't trouble the scorers, his wise head at times helped enormously. Sure, like most, he made errors, but his footy smarts are there.

[Jasper]

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Those bagging cooney need to have a closer look at the 2nd half, he wasn't playing well but tagged hayes after 1/2 time and did a hell of a job. Hayes was tearing us apart early but was very quiet after 1/2 time.
Also If I see another hand pass to the feet from our players I will spew up

[Missing Dog]

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I thought although Aker didn't trouble the scorers, his wise head at times helped enormously. Sure, like most, he made errors, but his footy smarts are there.

I was thinking a similar thing last night. Many of our players are not "intelligent" footballers in the sense that they consistently choose the wrong option when another option is there, often putting a team mate under pressure, or not knowing where to go to be an option, or not seeing the space to kick to. In contrast, for eg Schneider kicked out in front of Reiwoldt before Rewoldt had made any movement because he saw the space and basicallly made Reiwold run there. Acker, Higgins, Murphy, Boyd, Morris, Gilbee, and Cross (usually) have got football "intelligence", but that leaves another 16 that don't.

Eade I think has to share some of the blame as well. Why do we repeatedly not man up? So many free Saints time after time to relieve the pressure. I don' believe in zoning against a team like the Saints who have Gram, Goddard, Del Santo Hayes capable of running hard, and kicking long, to highly mobile player like Reiwoldt. We had to man up, but never did. Thats a tactical failing by Eade.

[Sleeve1970]

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The umpire's certainly made there money after having large bets on St. Kilda... They were disgraceful.

[comrade]

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Heard on the radio that after Josh Hill dropped a mark late in the game, Aker tore him a new one. Involved the words "Do you want to be an A-grader? Don't be a B-grader!" Apparently Murph, on the bench, had to "console him". Will this be the rocket he needs? I'm not sure. I thought although Aker didn't trouble the scorers, his wise head at times helped enormously. Sure, like most, he made errors, but his footy smarts are there.

Good - he's only saying what Rocket and everyone else thinks.

Hill's work rate has been pitiful for a month and Aker has every right to call him on it. Let's hope it's a catalyst for him to really take his game to the next level.

[mighty_west]

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The umpire's certainly made there money after having large bets on St. Kilda... They were disgraceful.

The worst and possibly the worst EVER ump decision in the history of VFL/AFL was letting Jason Blake walk about 30 metres, from the goal posts to 15-20 from the 50 line without a bounce, this whilst we had the momentum just as the siren blew for 3/4 time.

[Scorlibo]

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The worst and possibly the worst EVER ump decision in the history of VFL/AFL was letting Jason Blake walk about 30 metres, from the goal posts to 15-20 from the 50 line without a bounce, this whilst we had the momentum just as the siren blew for 3/4 time.

How about gifting Gwilt the first goal? TomaWill did everything right in that contest and still got called for in the back!

[Hot_Doggies]

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In the middle of last year would you have believed those who said Ray is good enough to be in the best 22 of a side which has won 17 in a row? Before the season started would you have believed that the Saints with the essentially the same list as last year would be that side?

We lost to Gellong by 2 points and Collingwood by 1 point. Are they the other top teams you refer to? I think our system is very good and our forward line is viable, but I also believe that if Grant has a reasonable game tomorrow he should come in for Welsh.

Both those teams had us on the rack early in the second quarter and took the foot of the pedal, ST Kilda didn't.

[LostDoggy]

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I had to work yesterday morning so only saw the last quarter and at the start of it we looked a chance, however the least said about that last quarter the better - we just seemed to give away too much turnover. The boys should just write it off and concentrate on making the top 4 and making sure the same mistakes aren't repeated in September.

Carn the Doggies!!

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Both those teams had us on the rack early in the second quarter and took the foot of the pedal, ST Kilda didn't.

Neither took their foot off the pedal, they spent plenty of petrol tickets early and we started to outrun them.

You take your foot off the pedal when you're 84 pts up at half time and coast home to win by 88.

We were still half a chance last night until Welsh had his brain fade.