Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

[Sedat]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

Wasn't it more we couldn't convert/didn't have a fwd stand up?

Geelong had more inside 50 entries, so I think it was a matter of our turnovers gifting the ball back to the Cats - either that or they were able to spread from the contest far more effectively than we were.

[jeemak]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

Man, I just looked at the 'advanced' stats on the AFL website.

Wallis only got 3/15 posessions contested, and yet had a game high 5 clangers and an efficiency of 47%. Thats pretty bad, I cant see how we can pick him based on those sorts of numbers.

Compare with Libba who got a game high 14/23 contested possies and a DE of 78% !!

Howard got 6/15 conetsted posseis and 100% disposal efficiency!! Not sure how many risks he was taking with his disposal but 6 cotested means he must have been under some ind of pressure with those at least.

I think Howard deserves a crack at half back for round 1.

Stefoid, you of all posters know better than to judge a performance of a player by stats! There's pressure, and then there's pressure, there's effectiveness, and then there's effectiveness.

[LostDoggy]

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Stefoid, you of all posters know better than to judge a performance of a player by stats! There's pressure, and then there's pressure, there's effectiveness, and then there's effectiveness.

Actually, in the case of Mitch, the stats had it pretty right. He had an absolute shocker of a game. Fortunately, he's still got time in front of him to develop and get to the level he needs to be, but he's not there yet and we saw that on Saturday.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

Howard had a pretty good second half, it was pleasing to see.

[Dry Rot]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

BTW, what happened to us in the third quarter?

[Hotdog60]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

BTW, what happened to us in the third quarter?

Some silly turn overs and it got them on a roll. To our credit we got back in to the game but its hard to give up 5 goals and get away with it.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

Some silly turn overs and it got them on a roll. To our credit we got back in to the game but its hard to give up 5 goals and get away with it.

According to SEN the wind sprung up a bit too towards the end Geelong kicked to. Not sure what impact that had though.

[stefoid]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

Probably our concentration dropped and our defensive pressure eased and geelong, very very good, started to score.

An object lesseon to the youngsters in maintaining focus for the whole game.

[Desipura]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

According to SEN the wind sprung up a bit too towards the end Geelong kicked to. Not sure what impact that had though.

When guys were kicking goals from 60 metres out, I would say a fair bit of an impact.

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Practise Match - Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs

According to SEN the wind sprung up a bit too towards the end Geelong kicked to. Not sure what impact that had though.

I heard there was a strong breeze all game although as you said in the third quarter it had picked up.. Guessing we eased off a bit and Geelong stepped it up a level along with the breeze.. Still happy with how we went we dont want to be beating the premiers in the pre season now do we would rather wait for the season proper..

Am very excited with what I saw with Cooney in the 2nd half aswell looks like he has found his feet and should be good to go round 1.. Also like Skinner up forward and Grant has really suprised me with all the little things looking like a very solid year for us!