Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

[Bumper Bulldogs]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

Dogs by 36 points
BOG - Cross
First Goal BAZZA

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

We did not deserve to get that close in the end. That was in reality a five or 6 goal win for the Bombers in terms of their overall domination.
Interestingly I reckon we won the clearances and contested ball by a fair margin, which tends to point to our ordinary skills with the pill. So many times we fumbled at crucial moments, or turned the ball over at critical points, and then this allowed the Bombers to move the ball quickly on transition.

Cross's dropped mark in the 3rd when he had someone completely free in the forward fifty - all he had to do was take a mark he'd take 99 times out of 100. And typifying our poor use of the ball was Higgins, who's almost every touch seemed to be a turnover to advantage to the Bombers.

Worst game I've seen Higgins ever play for the club, and by and large a disappointing performance overall. 6-4 now and coming of this poor effort we have an extremely tough clash with the Pies next week.

[ledge]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

And Cooneys kicking? WTF!

[LostDog]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

god damn it i'm sick of this, another friday night flop

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

And Cooneys kicking? WTF!

D'oh forgot about him.
It's really worrying that we just have so many players with form that is wildly fluctuating from week to week. We just cannot seem to get our best players firing consistently for an extended period.

It is also becoming for me a worrying trend with the amount of time we are going to Hall.
I thought he was meant to compliment our forward line not take over. It's not a slight on him, more as it's an indictment on our other smaller forwards to not work themselves into position to give our blokes several options to go to.

It's ironic that the one thing we were perceived as needing - a power forward, seems to be the thing that has fundamentally altered our forward structure for the worse. We've gone from being unpredictable going into our forward line to completely predictable.

[Dry Rot]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

Awful stuff. What's with the players abusing each other?

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

Awful stuff. What's with the players abusing each other?

I'm wondering if this Aker crap is getting to the group. They certainly don't seem as tight as they were last year.

[Dry Rot]

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I'm wondering if this Aker crap is getting to the group. They certainly don't seem as tight as they were last year.

I can understand that affecting them so it's them vs Aker, but from the radio call half of the were abusing each other.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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I can understand that affecting them so it's them vs Aker, but from the radio call half of the were abusing each other.

If the players are in the wrong head space- re the Aker stuff, then I guess it's not out of the realm of possibility that it could manifest in them getting frustrated with each other.
Then again with the way we were butchering the ball, that alone might be enough to push the players frustration out into the open.

[Dry Rot]

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If the players are in the wrong head space- re the Aker stuff, then I guess it's not out of the realm of possibility that it could manifest in them getting frustrated with each other.
Then again with the way we were butchering the ball, that alone might be enough to push the players frustration out into the open.

All season I've thought something hasn't been right. Perhaps there's something going on we don't know about.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

It looks like the Dons did their homework, we looked slow all night and the only standouts were Picken and Hudson.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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All season I've thought something hasn't been right. Perhaps there's something going on we don't know about.

I'm not convinced it's anything other than the frustration boiling over from our poor disposal. We definitely have dropped back to the pack in terms of clean and efficient ball use, especially by foot.

[Dry Rot]

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It looks like the Dons did their homework, we looked slow all night and the only standouts were Picken and Hudson.

When have we looked quick this season?

[LostDoggy]

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Do they teach forward line pressure at the club?

It was our biggest killer tonight in my opinion, as quick as it went in, it came straight back out again.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Game Day - R10 Western Bulldogs vs Essendon

When have we looked quick this season?

I take your point, but I thought that we had turn the corner and were on the improve. It will be good when the other players that are out with injury come back in contention so if players are carrying something we can gave them a break. Higgins value tonight could be looked at, would Eagle have been any worse.