Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

[anfo27]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

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

It was a good result but i'm not talking about the result.

They had 1 ruckman, no forward line and an ordinary defence, a result that margin was always going to happen.

What were you expecting?

[Bornadog]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

It was a good result but i'm not talking about the result.

They had 1 ruckman, no forward line and an ordinary defence, a result that margin was always going to happen.

What were you expecting?

I was expecting what we dished out and I am not complaining. Yes we can always do better. Maybe we should have kicked 30 goals.

[ledge]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Very dirty game from Nth, a lot of sniping I thought, then I realized who their coach is.
What happened to the clean, hardworking, honest Nth?

On Barry Hall.
Wrestling is usually a fine and I would think the misconduct charge will be light due to a lot of provocation, sadly because of Thompsons crap the umpires will now be against any fullback touching a forward.

[wend1604]

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My blood is still boiling about the attacks on Barry Hall. Getting kneed while try to tie up his shoelace, pushed, shoved and niggled all day and the umpires did absolutely nothing to protect him. I was at the game and have also seen the tv footage and the umpire was just standing there watching.

Not only that, the media are making a big thing of Barry being reported but conveniently 'forgetting' what led up to it.

Did anyone else hear what Rodney Eade had to say post match? He might get a 'please explain' letter from the AFL. He basically said (can't remember the exact words) that no protection was offered to Barry. Even Barry had something to say - something along the lines that the rules protect those types of players.

[GVGjr]

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I didn't enjoy today's game at all. That European handball type of chipping the ball around is shocking to watch and it's an indictment on the game. These cheap stats that our backline racked up mean nothing.

[Missing-Dog]

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If what happened to Barry had of happened to St Nick he would have received a free kick, a fifty and a hug from the umpire. Bloody Disgrace!

On the game, was that the worst 70 point win in our history, we barely got out of second gear all game. I'm not complaining mind you.

[LostDoggy]

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If what happened to Barry had of happened to St Nick he would have received a free kick, a fifty and a hug from the umpire. Bloody Disgrace!

On the game, was that the worst 70 point win in our history, we barely got out of second gear all game. I'm not complaining mind you.

Imagine how good we'd be in 5th gear against a top side?

[Missing Dog]

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I was expecting what we dished out and I am not complaining. Yes we can always do better. Maybe we should have kicked 30 goals.

A team marginally better than North would have finished off at least half of their dozen inside 50's in the first quarter. All they needed to do was kick straight and we could have found ourselves four goals down before we'd score one. The score flattered us, and I doubt that Eade would be overjoyed with what he saw. Lots of work to do before we are a genuine contender

[mjp]

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I didn't enjoy today's game at all. That European handball type of chipping the ball around is shocking to watch and it's an indictment on the game. These cheap stats that our backline racked up mean nothing.

Yet we continue to do it, week after week.

Why do we do it? It is driving me crazy. I hate kicking to a contest on the 50m arc as much (probably more than) anyone alive (just ask my players) but so often we get caught up in the side to side to side to side chip chip game...what happened to the 'Take the Space' motto, what happened to adventure.

I am afraid to say the answer is it didn't win us a flag and the coaching team believe it never will so we have flipped the page and are doing it this way now? I hope it works because we aren't an attractive team anymore and I would hate to lose a final playing without adventure...

[Missing Dog]

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Yet we continue to do it, week after week.

Why do we do it? It is driving me crazy. I hate kicking to a contest on the 50m arc as much (probably more than) anyone alive (just ask my players) but so often we get caught up in the side to side to side to side chip chip game...what happened to the 'Take the Space' motto, what happened to adventure.

I am afraid to say the answer is it didn't win us a flag and the coaching team believe it never will so we have flipped the page and are doing it this way now? I hope it works because we aren't an attractive team anymore and I would hate to lose a final playing without adventure...

Well we've lost too many playing with adventure.

I'd take a GF win any which way TBH. We've been so starved of the ultimate success I couldn't care if we won ugly.

But the type of "ugly" we are playing won't worry Geelong or Collingwood.

[LostDoggy]

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We only chip it around when we are winning comfortably.
On another note, some funny quotes from the North Melb. coach:

"But this game, we had a real opportunity to win. We took the game up to them, had our opportunities in the first quarter and didn't take them. Like all the other good sides, they make you pay when you don't take your opportunities.

"The pleasing thing and the really positive thing is that we know against a good side we can compete with them. But we've got to take our chances if we want to be one of those genuine contenders."

Compete with a team who is playing in 2nd gear and to still lose by 70 points........That's genuine

[Doc26]

Re: Game Day - R9 Western Bulldogs vs North Melbourne

Was one refreshing moment there from Liam in the third with his midfield clearance kick to a Josh Hill one on one contest. Was a roll of the dice and went in our favour after Josh did his best to mess it up.
Was great having both Liam and Cross providing their inside grunt. Liam back makes a big difference to the look of our structure.

[mjp]

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We only chip it around when we are winning comfortably.

Right. Like we did against St Kilda? Not sure we were winning comfortably - the fact we lost suggests that we weren't.

I guess I take your point that we slowed the ball movement down today because the opposition weren't up to it, we had the game won and therefore why push it, but to me it is like the right-handed batsman who occasionally turns around and swats a legside delivery back to the bowler when practising in the nets...one day, this habit (his worst one) will appear when the pressure is really on and a wicket will fall.

[turtle]

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Rocket had a crack in the press conference. Effectively said Roos were sniping all day - not just at Baz but at quite a few of the boys. He fired up a bit about Baz - asking for some protection. This was going to happen some time during the year - better that it happened now & Baz handled pretty well. Maybe we can support him a little better next time so he doesn't have 3 of them hanging off him!!

[LostDoggy]

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Right. Like we did against St Kilda? Not sure we were winning comfortably - the fact we lost suggests that we weren't.

I guess I take your point that we slowed the ball movement down today because the opposition weren't up to it, we had the game won and therefore why push it, but to me it is like the right-handed batsman who occasionally turns around and swats a legside delivery back to the bowler when practising in the nets...one day, this habit (his worst one) will appear when the pressure is really on and a wicket will fall.

By 3 goals in a game were only about 7 goals were scored in total by then, yes. We were winning comfortably, but the pressure of the crowd booing makes them think to 'have' to attack thus losing the game on counter attacks.