Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

[jazzadogs]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Fair point. I meant in relevance to the multi-pronged attack on Hall as he left the ground and their Coach getting into Akermanis to try and rev his side up.

Disgraceful. Scotty Thompson really rates himself as a tough guy, yet fails miserably. Not a terrible player, but seems like a terrible bloke.

As much as it wasn't great to see Barry grab him in a headlock, I was pleased to see that he didn't punch him. I'm happy for him to use the headlock as a way of anger management. I expect him to get suspended (does he have carry over points?), but don't really see it as worthy of a suspension.

As far as the team, I know that a couple of weeks ago Rocket seemed to encourage them to let up slightly in the last quarter to set them up for the next week. Hargrave seemed to improve, Williams was impressive, Hill did his job.

Lake is a superstar. Thank God he re-signed.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

I guess the Nth Melb hoodoo is over...

Very good team performance. Questionable opposition again.

Cooney was all class
Lake was unstoppable but at least 15 of his possesions were from sideways and back kicks from team Defence Sharing.
Harbrow continues an outstanding year.
Grant showed plenty again, made another big step forward.
Griff had a good game back and will be better next match.
Minson was pretty good, moving in the right direction.
Hahn worked hard and was effective.
Stack did some good things again.
Hill got four goals, not entirely sure how that happened.
Picken put his body on the line all day, good to have him back.
Addison got himself into the right place a lot.

The umpires need to protect Hall, that was just unbelievable, the Pope would have swung a punch in that situation. Our players need to insulate Hall when this stuff starts happening, get around him, I felt bad for Barry cos I wanted to crack Thompson myself.

Burrito needs to be flattened, nasty piece of work. Dont get me started on Thompson, the MRP should give Hall a week and then transpose it to Thompson for causing it all.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

I still don't like the way we don't finish off games, we should have won by 100 points and made a statement. We still lack killer instant.

But it was still a very good 3 quarters.

Grant is looking better each game.

[azabob]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

I still don't like the way we don't finish off games, we should have won by 100 points and made a statement. We still lack killer instant.

But it was still a very good 3 quarters.

Grant is looking better each game.

Where you at the game? The boys were pretty much out on their feet. Few copped some heavy knocks, so whilst I would've liked a 100'point win they faught out the last quarter well.

[anfo27]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Very disappointed with North and their tactics of trying to be tough at the man and forgot about the footy. That type of footy is not tough, its gutless and North got what they deserved.

Really disappointed in our blokes not helping out Bazza. I only saw Lake run 150m to bump a few North players to help Bazza get off the ground but other than that we left him outnumbered 4 to 1.

[azabob]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Very disappointed with North and their tactics of trying to be tough at the man and forgot about the footy. That type of footy is not tough, its gutless and North got what they deserved.

Really disappointed in our blokes not helping out Bazza. I only saw Lake run 150m to bump a few North players to help Bazza get off the ground but other than that we left him outnumbered 4 to 1.

Stack half helped out in the forward 50, and cooney did help out in the forward 50 where it all started.
But yeah when he was coming there was no support.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Where you at the game? The boys were pretty much out on their feet. Few copped some heavy knocks, so whilst I would've liked a 100'point win they faught out the last quarter well.

No I wasn't at the game, I'm interstate and have to rely on television which will never give you a true impression of how the game has played out.

[azabob]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

No I wasn't at the game, I'm interstate and have to rely on television which will never give you a true impression of how the game has played out.

Yeah TV never gives you the full story.

[anfo27]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

I was happy with the win but still think we are way off our best. Agreed with quite a bit with what David King had to say on 3AW with how we are playing.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Very disappointed with North and their tactics of trying to be tough at the man and forgot about the footy. That type of footy is not tough, its gutless and North got what they deserved.

Really disappointed in our blokes not helping out Bazza. I only saw Lake run 150m to bump a few North players to help Bazza get off the ground but other than that we left him outnumbered 4 to 1.

Cooney and Stack were amongst it but more need to protect Barry. A man in yellow wouldnt go astray either, they did ask Thompson to get off him.. only so he could write down Halls number. Fairly disgusted by the whole affair except for Barrys composure for the most part. COuld possibly the best headlock in the history of the AFL, I was getting worried that he might put him to sleep tho...

[azabob]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

I was happy with the win but still think we are way off our best. Agreed with quite a bit with what David King had to say on 3AW with how we are playing.

What did King say?

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Cooney and Stack were amongst it but more need to protect Barry. A man in yellow wouldnt go astray either, they did ask Thompson to get off him.. only so he could write down Halls number. Fairly disgusted by the whole affair except for Barrys composure for the most part. COuld possibly the best headlock in the history of the AFL, I was getting worried that he might put him to sleep tho...

Second best after Danny Southern. We have A strangle hold on the top 2 spots

[anfo27]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

What did King say?

He was saying at half time that he still didn't think we were playing that well. He said that we have got our balance wrong in when to take the space and make the play and when to chip around and switch it to find the space. I agree because too many times we tried to be to safe but i recall seeing Williams mark, play on and take the space in front of him adnd take a risk, we don't seem to do this enough for my liking.

I think too many people like to look at the win and margin and say that we played some great footy, we didn't. We played a very ordinary team and played just ok but our use of the ball made it easy for us to score.

[Bornadog]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

He was saying at half time that he still didn't think we were playing that well. He said that we have got our balance wrong in when to take the space and make the play and when to chip around and switch it to find the space. I agree because too many times we tried to be to safe but i recall seeing Williams mark, play on and take the space in front of him adnd take a risk, we don't seem to do this enough for my liking.

I think too many people like to look at the win and margin and say that we played some great footy, we didn't. We played a very ordinary team and played just ok but our use of the ball made it easy for us to score.

We kicked 20 goals and won by 70 points, not a bad result in my opinion.

[Flamethrower]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Cowardly acts by North. I suppose that happens with a coach like that.

The AFL must throw the book at them - fine the club $1 million for bring the game into disrepute.