Round 6 - Bankers and Anchors

[westdog54]

This is the round 6 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against Collingwood is concluded post your nominations for:

The Bankers = 3 guys that you we banked on to do the right thing during the game
The Anchors = 3 guys that weighed us down by their errors or poor play

Please limit it to no more than three of each, but feel free to make honourable/dishonourable mentions. As usual try to make it constructive criticism.

The thread is named in honour of a popular WOOF Contributor, The Banker, who passed away on 22/04/2012 after a six month battle with cancer.

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Round 6 - Bankers and Anchors

Banker
The Team - great effort, just ran out of juice
Minson - Great effort
Lake - Back to his best today

Anchor
Kicks in defence in last quarter - Higgins, Murph Addison - resulted in goals from memory
Jones - Poor fitness and no goals
Not winning this match when we had a chance!

[westdog54]

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Bankers

Griffen - Pure Class, easily our BOG
Lake - His best game in 18 months. Its official, he's back.
Cross - Turned back the clock a couple of years tonight.

Anchors

Jones - We've been bemoaning the poor delivery he has been getting, well, some of his disposal and decision making tonight was a bit of a square up. He's better than tonight's effort.
Addison - There was some endeavour there but that last turnover was the final nail in the teams coffin tonight.
Bear with me on this one, Minson - Ok. A disclaimer first up, I think he had a good game with his work around the ground, but, when you don't have the opposition ruckman contest at a centre bounce there's no excuse for the ball going straight to an opposition rover. He and Roughie dominated the ruck conetst but nowhere near enough of it went to advantage. Like I said I wasn't unhappy with his game but, again, he's better than that.

[Ghost Dog]

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:Bankers- The team. The fans.

Anchors - skill level under pressure. I have not given up on Vezpa and DA. They did some good stuff but cost us a few goals.

[EasternWest]

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Addison - There was some endeavour there but that last turnover was the final nail in the teams coffin tonight.

I know I sound like a broken record with Addison, but I think it's unfair to single out his admitted poor mistake when the game was arguably over. Murphy's turnover was at a more crucial stage of the game and he put it down Cloke's throat. But the worst of all was Higgins' turnover under little to no pressure and he dollied it up to O'Brien. These things are skill errors, and mistakes are made. I would be disinclined to single out Addison without mentioning the other two.

All that being said, my three anchor (moments) were Murphy, Higgins and Addison for the reasons listed above.

Bankers
Griff's goal. What a beauty.
Lake looking more assured, it's a welcome sight.
Hargrave - I didn't get to see the entire game, but he looked better to me tonight.

[Remi Moses]

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Bankers- Griffen, great again
Lake- held Cloke kickless(cloke's got an ordinary record against us)
Libba- he was excellent
Wood - was damaging early
Minson - playing well
Hargrave - very good tonight

Anchors - The skill errors that cost goals , by senior players!
Higgins - has to find some urgency or he'll get traded
Addison - yeah we know he's a goer, but errors and the fact he goes to ground to often.Geesh
The disfunctional forward 50! Jones has to lift, but the delivery into the F50 is awful!! We really need a lead up target urgently. Hence why we went after Bate of Melbourne.

[jeemak]

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Bankers

Griffen - A few more games like that and he will crack Sheehan's mid season top 20 (something all of the players and fans alike get up especially early for on publishing date)

Wood - Shame he jagged a hammy. Hopefully it's not that serious as he showed why we have been excited by him over the last year or two.

Minson - Better of the rucks for the day.

Anchors

Jones - Some of his kicking tonight was pretty bad. He needs to be told to move the ball laterally and short, or just short rather than kicking it soft and high to outnumbered team mates when he gets the ball outside HF.

Higgins and Sherman - Putting these two together as beyond their two efforts in the last I thought they were effective most of the night. First, Sherman should have had the shot from the pocket, and Higgins should have instructed him to do so. Second, Sherman should have kept his lead going towards the flank (to clear space behind him for one, but also to allow greater margin of error for Higgins kick - small thing though he ended up too narrow and at Etihad you get burnt doing that), and Higgins for that terrible skill error.

774 Comentary Team - After the game they were talking about a mid season draft and how one might affect the respective teams. Not only was the discussion sub-par, it detracted from a game that could have done with analysis rather than self indulgent ramblings. Made the drive home a bit frustrating.


Bornadog, take note. One week down without bagging Daniel Cross, 16 to go barring injury or suspension.

[LostDoggy]

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Bankers
-Griffen. Amazing. Deserved to win the medal BOG
-Minson really starting to build confidence and stringing good games together
-Hargrave/Lake really played well and combined beautifully most of the night

Anchors
-Dahlhous, feel bad doing this but after quarter time was not cited. Is he injured? Or getting tired?
-The turnovers in the last quarter. Higgins, Murphy and Addison! Ouch!
-Jones, tried hard. But stop running under the ball son!!

[azabob]

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Bankers
-Griffen. Amazing. Deserved to win the medal BOG
-Minson really starting to build confidence and stringing good games together
-Hargrave/Lake really played well and combined beautifully most of the night

Anchors
-Dahlhous, feel bad doing this but after quarter time was not cited. Is he injured? Or getting tired?
-The turnovers in the last quarter. Higgins, Murphy and Addison! Ouch!
-Jones, tried hard. But stop running under the ball son!!

Agree with all yours. Special mention to Roughead and Gia purple patch in the third.

[angelopetraglia]

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Bankers

Griff - Elite midfielder. They don't grow on trees. Just a an absolute a star. Always shines on the big stage. BOG.

Wood - Where has the real Easton Wood been all year? Just a massive reversal of form. Gutted for him that he hid his hammy.

Lake - Welcome back Brian. Super game. Did the the great defensive acts and that goal in the last quarter was ... dare I say it ... special.

Anchors

Higgins - Not good enough tonight. Disappointing. Really thought this kid was going to be a star of the competition after watching him in his debut season. He has gone backwards.

Dalhaus - Had no real impact tonight after being the real star for us in the last couple of weeks.

[LostDoggy]

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Bank:
Wood - He shut me up tonight
Griff - Gun, If I were gay (or drunk).
Defenders - Never thought they could put a game like that together without Dale or a
Williams playing the game of his life.

Wank:
Murphy's two mistakes - He played a good game, but those two resulted in two
Pie goals at the most critical time. (cost the game IMO)
Woods Hamstring - Really? Has showed nothing for ages, now gets some run into his legs and everyone is on board except his acual legs.

Higgins - You have lost me

[Bornadog]

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Bornadog, take note. One week down without bagging Daniel Cross, 16 to go barring injury or suspension.

if he deserves it fair enough. Tonight he played his best game.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Round 6 - Bankers and Anchors

Think we should trade Higgins personally.
While he has that word "potential" we'll get something.
Just not urgent enough for mine!!

[Bornadog]

Re: Round 6 - Bankers and Anchors

Bankers

Griffen what a star

Lake and Austin kept their opponents out of the game


Gia's two goals in the third kept us in it

Anchors

Addison, Murphy and Higgins turnovers in the last

Vez running back with the flight the ball and stops for fear of getting hurt

General team skill level - do they practice hitting someone on the chest with a pass?

[EasternWest]

Re: Round 6 - Bankers and Anchors

Anchors

Addison, Murphy turnovers

But Higgins' was ok?