Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Pretty good effort from most players and well done to the new guys.
Howard, Dollhouse, Libba, some good plays
Gutted at a win gone begging owing to poor set shots but that's sport.

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Gee the skills were terrible all round tonight...even umps.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Gee the skills were terrible all round tonight...even umps.

Don't care about the umps. When a team misses shots like the ones in the last term, umps don't matter.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

We got crucified by the ump with Cross and the advantage rule. I would have liked Luke Dahlhaus to get a full game, what he brings to the park is what we are missing. Not sold on Barlow seemed a bit lost at the end but he may get better if he gets more chances.

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Dahlhaus tackle no free either.?
Barlow not up to it, nor DJ
Ves needs a go

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

We got crucified by the ump with Cross and the advantage rule. I would have liked Luke Dahlhaus to get a full game, what he brings to the park is what we are missing. Not sold on Barlow seemed a bit lost at the end but he may get better if he gets more chances.

I disagree on the Cross decision. He took steps and then decided to stop. The rule sucks and no doubt it makes the players confused. But once you make the decision to go, you've got to keep going. Given it was a shot so close, he needed to just not even bother taking a couple of steps. Very stiff, because it's almost reflex to continue with the play, but that's the stupidity of the advantage rule at the moment.

[KT31]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Dahlhaus tackle no free either.?
Barlow not up to it, nor DJ
Ves needs a go

Thought he tried hard early and did a couple of good things.
Certainly not our worst and deserves another shot.
Admit he was abit lost in the last, but it was really the two misses that cost us dearly.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

I disagree on the Cross decision. He took steps and then decided to stop. The rule sucks and no doubt it makes the players confused. But once you make the decision to go, you've got to keep going. Given it was a shot so close, he needed to just not even bother taking a couple of steps. Very stiff, because it's almost reflex to continue with the play, but that's the stupidity of the advantage rule at the moment.

Yet they called back Murphy who was playing on, yes it's a stupid rule that if it stays players will need to be more aware of whats around them.

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Gee how many times did we handball to a guy standing still less than a foot away!
Not enough kicking, but then again the way we kick it....

[ledge]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Cross and Dalhaus decisions were horrible, would like to see Geishen find excuses for those, and in important parts of the game.
Have we forgotten how to win?

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Dahlhaus tackle no free either.?
Barlow not up to it, nor DJ
Ves needs a go

Barlow looked good early I thought, think he's worth perservering with, the tempo change from VFL to AFL looked to have got him. I think it's too rash to say he's not up to it, but needs to take on board the adjustment needed in his reaction time when stepping up to AFL level.

Djerrkura looked good, yep disposed of it poorly (and that has always been his problem), but his defensive pressure up forward was one of the reasons pivotal to us being able to make it hard for St Kilda to get clean movement out of defense.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Yet they called back Murphy who was playing on, yes it's a stupid rule that if it stays players will need to be more aware of whats around them.

That is basically what Paul Williams said at 3Qtr time.

[KT31]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

That is basically what Paul Williams said at 3Qtr time.

Maybe if he said it to the players and not the camera's it would have been different.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

True, but Higgins? Workrate ok but he's kicked it straight to an opponent so many times. Just seems to be drilling it too flat to a contest.
Murphy leading from the front. 15 mins to decide our season
Sam Gilbert having a shocker...yay
Come on boys
Boyd 35 possessions well done
Our set shots are killing us.

Unfortunately Murph's two errors in the first quarter gave St Kilda two goals though.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Game Day 2011 - R12 Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda

Maybe if he said it to the players and not the camera's it would have been different.

Do you really think that the players haven't been told? I don't think this is a coaching error. It's a very instinctual thing and a very hard rule to adjudicate. I actually feel for the umpires more and more, as the rule changes have made it very hard for umpires to be consistent with certain decisions, like the advantage rule.