Pre-season

[Mantis]

Re: Pre-season

Tutt has filled out a lot - he is turning out to be a suprise packet.

In what way is he a surprise packet?

[Bulldog Revolution]

Re: Pre-season

In what way is he a surprise packet?

He's been swinging on the pendulum

Under-rated - shouldn't have been drafted, not dominating VFL

Over-rated - great debut and now appears to be making progress

The only way for his stock is down from here

[stefoid]

Re: Pre-season

In what way is he a surprise packet?

Flew under the radar for me. Also assumed he was going to stay a skinny weed for a while - maybe its the baby face.

[MrMahatma]

Re: Pre-season

Loving the updates!!

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Pre-season

From Twitter:

Jay Clark @ClarkyHeraldSun

Clay Smith turning heads at the kennel. Super-hard #dogs mid on track for an early-season debut. Get him on your SuperCoach radar.

[GVGjr]

Re: Pre-season

I'm over the whole SC/DT thing but that still makes me smile.

I'm genuinely sick of talking footy with mates and talking about the Dogs playing hard footy this year and being shot down that we are "soft frontrunners".

Can't wait to see whether we can turn some heads.

[Greystache]

Re: Pre-season

One pleasing thing about Clay Smith is his endurance, from the gut running sessions I've seen at training he is already elite. It's really only the top veterans like Boyd, Cross, and Gia that can out run him

[Mantis]

Re: Pre-season

I'm genuinely sick of talking footy with mates and talking about the Dogs playing hard footy this year and being shot down that we are "soft frontrunners".

Can't wait to see whether we can turn some heads.

Haven't your mates watched us since 2004?

[GVGjr]

Re: Pre-season

They still see us as the team that falls apart when it gets tough and physical in finals.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Pre-season

They still see us as the team that falls apart when it gets tough and physical in finals.

That is utter rubbish and you should tell your so-called mates so.

Ask them to look at the 2009 preliminary final in particular and then say that the team falls apart when it gets tough and physical in finals.

it's one thing to be beaten and we have to cop that.

But we don't have to cop that we fell away because it got tough

[the banker]

Re: Pre-season

That is utter rubbish and you should tell your so-called mates so.

Ask them to look at the 2009 preliminary final in particular and then say that the team falls apart when it gets tough and physical in finals.

it's one thing to be beaten and we have to cop that.

But we don't have to cop that we fell away because it got tough

Spot on.

[EasternWest]

Re: Pre-season

That is utter rubbish and you should tell your so-called mates so.

Ask them to look at the 2009 preliminary final in particular and then say that the team falls apart when it gets tough and physical in finals.

it's one thing to be beaten and we have to cop that.

But we don't have to cop that we fell away because it got tough

Spot on.

I dunno. We were terrific that game.

But we were very poor against Geelong (though we didn't lose by much, it felt like an ordinary performance) and it took a while to get going against the Lions.

And that's one series.

In 06 against the Pies it could have gone either way at half time. Then we got pummeled at WC.
In 08 Hawthorn destroyed us and we then beat up on a poor Sydney before being easily beaten again by Geelong.
In 2010 we got smashed by Collingwood, just got over Sydney and then got overrun by the Saints.

I'm not saying I necessarily subscribe to the theory that we still fold in finals, but I am saying it's easy to see why outsiders might think that. Just looking at that list of finals, we were superb in the 09 Prelim, good in the 06 Elimination and poor for the rest.

So that's 8 out of 10 poor performances in recent times.

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Pre-season

I dunno. We were terrific that game.

But we were very poor against Geelong (though we didn't lose by much, it felt like an ordinary performance) and it took a while to get going against the Lions.

And that's one series.

In 06 against the Pies it could have gone either way at half time. Then we got pummeled at WC.
In 08 Hawthorn destroyed us and we then beat up on a poor Sydney before being easily beaten again by Geelong.
In 2010 we got smashed by Collingwood, just got over Sydney and then got overrun by the Saints.

I'm not saying I necessarily subscribe to the theory that we still fold in finals, but I am saying it's easy to see why outsiders might think that. Just looking at that list of finals, we were superb in the 09 Prelim, good in the 06 Elimination and poor for the rest.

So that's 8 out of 10 poor performances in recent times.

Soon to change brother let them think and say what ever they like tell them to get over it and watch out for us in the coming years. Karma's a bitch and it will be ever soo sweeter if we beat your mates team in a finals series..

[LostDoggy]

Re: Pre-season

I dunno. We were terrific that game.

But we were very poor against Geelong (though we didn't lose by much, it felt like an ordinary performance) and it took a while to get going against the Lions.

And that's one series.

In 06 against the Pies it could have gone either way at half time. Then we got pummeled at WC.
In 08 Hawthorn destroyed us and we then beat up on a poor Sydney before being easily beaten again by Geelong.
In 2010 we got smashed by Collingwood, just got over Sydney and then got overrun by the Saints.

I'm not saying I necessarily subscribe to the theory that we still fold in finals, but I am saying it's easy to see why outsiders might think that. Just looking at that list of finals, we were superb in the 09 Prelim, good in the 06 Elimination and poor for the rest.

So that's 8 out of 10 poor performances in recent times.

Nice Creative accounting?
We won 4/5 finals, robbed in a prelim, beaten by much better side in a few and undermanned in some others. How is that 8 poor performances out of 10?

[EasternWest]

Re: Pre-season

Nice Creative accounting?
We won 4/5 finals, robbed in a prelim, beaten by much better side in a few and undermanned in some others. How is that 8 poor performances out of 10?

That's your take.

Mine is different. You'll need to accept that, like I accept yours. I'm not getting into yet another argument with you.