Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

[westdog54]

This is the round 9 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against Geelong 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: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Bankers
A bunch of players, who had question marks coming into the year
Will - week in week out playin well!
Gia/Higgins - 3 goals each did their job, although wished Higgins got in front at times
Wallis - has stepped up this season

Anchors -
Roughy - played well, just needed a few goals
Sherman - need more, only 14 possesion!
Poor 1st quarter, standing still not going in hard. Thankfully improved...but in the end too many rainmakers! Cats more polished in the end and showed how its done.

[jeemak]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Bankers:

Minson - Solid effort by big Willbur. Only criticism is he doesn't assert himself in marking contests enough, though his support around the contest is excellent.

Wallis - Battled very hard all day, and is a great user of his hands in close. He is becoming a very consistent midfielder in only his second year and I couldn't be happier with his progress.

Liberatore - See above.


Anchors:

Jones - Goal kicking (though he showed some very good signs from an aerial point of view, and I was pleased with him in that regard)

Roughead - Goal kicking

Six Day Break ex-Darwin - Geelong were handed a bit of an advantage this week, and I was talking to friends saying it was either going to be a sluggish start or a fade out at the finish. Luckily Geelong didn't smash us early on, as we could have been five or six down at quarter time.

Bulldogs Supporters - We all have players we don't like, and they do things that annoy us. What really pisses me off is when supporters are so biased towards certain players and liberal with their abuse towards them, that it blinds them of the things these players do well throughout the game. If you're going to have a crack at a player when you don't think they've acted as they should, at least acknowledge and applaud their good effort and results. Bulldogs supporters were turning on other Bulldogs supporters tonight over this issue, it was really disappointing.

[comrade]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Bankers

Libba, Wallis and Dahlhaus are a great foundation to build a midfield on. They all love to crack in and are intelligent footballers. It's refreshing.

Austin made Pods his bitch tonight. It's a shame he was allowed to crab forward and get on the end of an easy goal.

Picko deserves kudos for his job on Selwood. He was pretty much nullified, only having 22 touches (down from 36 week prior). The egg under his eye is a cracker, too.

Anchors

Sherman gave us nothing and needs to work harder. We really need him to drive us forward and take the game on but he's just not doing it. Maybe a spell will give him a kick?

Easy misses from Roughy and Jones. They let their teammates down by missing from 20m out.

Zone / corridor defense. Non existing for most of the night and we were crucified. If we'd forced Geelong wider, we would have won.

[westbulldog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Bankers
Will Minson - another strong 4 quarter game.
Mark Austin - Podsiadly kicked one SOFT goal.
Mitch Wallis - becoming very good.

Anchors
Daniel Pearce - first game so excusable
Pat Vespremi - goal to Chapman, goal to Hawkins then subbed.
Whoever the supposed goalkicking coach is - this game should have been won !

[EasternWest]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Anchors

Bulldogs Supporters - We all have players we don't like, and they do things that annoy us. What really pisses me off is when supporters are so biased towards certain players and liberal with their abuse towards them, that it blinds them of the things these players do well throughout the game. If you're going to have a crack at a player when you don't think they've acted as they should, at least acknowledge and applaud their good effort and results. Bulldogs supporters were turning on other Bulldogs supporters tonight over this issue, it was really disappointing.

Damn right jeemak. Not to put too fine a point on it but supporters like that can piss off back to Richmond.

On another note, I've enjoyed reading your posts of late. Keep up the good work.

Bankers

Pearce - nice little run down the wing and delivery to Dickson. Looked pretty cool and calm doing it.

Liberatore set shot - controlled, no fuss run up. Was never going to miss.

Jones shoulder ride - 28,500 odd members took that ride. Please become a gun, please become a gun.

Anchors

Goal kicking from the big guys - enough said.

Zeph drops a pudding - as someone stated it would be tough to come in cold at that stage in a high pressure game, but that's a gimme.

Grant not playing - if he was rested/injured then I take it back, but he shouldn't have been dropped on form.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Bankers - thought Matty Boyd was excellent
Minson - very pleased to be proven wrong, Will's been super this season.
Notice he gives less over aggressive dumb free kicks away, playing confidently.
Wallis- just going to be a very good player
Austin - Another surprise packet, been very very solid.
How he couldn't get a gig at Carlton ahead of Bower types is staggering.

Anchors- Sherman - He's a front runner of the highest order.
Veszpremi- To fumbley for mine under pressure.
Jones- thought his aerial work was outstanding, just hate how he leans back when he kicks.
Roughy- had a good game but both lads blotted their copybook with easy misses.

[always right]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Bankers
Will Minson - another strong 4 quarter game.
Mark Austin - Podsiadly kicked one SOFT goal.
Mitch Wallis - becoming very good.

Anchors
Daniel Pearce - first game so excusable
Pat Vespremi - goal to Chapman, goal to Hawkins then subbed.
Whoever the supposed goalkicking coach is - this game should have been won !

Not Patty's best game but a bit rough isolating those two incidents. The kick to Chapman was perfect and he was inlucky to be opposed to Hawkins when Lake was delayed getting onto the ground.

Bankers:
Wallis
Minson
Austin

Anchors:
Sherman...refused to pick up loose players
Coaches.....gave Johnston far too much freedom in the middle. He was the difference between the two sides
Missed shots on goal

[G-Mo77]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Anchors
Daniel Pearce - first game so excusable

I wouldn't usually want to give the anchor to a first gamer but do agree. Hopefully he'll learn from what he did wrong in that last quarter. Overall though had a pretty good debut.

[Eastdog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Banker or Anchor - Where would Tory Dickson be more toward.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Bankers
Will Minson - another strong 4 quarter game.
Mark Austin - Podsiadly kicked one SOFT goal.
Mitch Wallis - becoming very good.

Anchors
Daniel Pearce - first game so excusable
Pat Vespremi - goal to Chapman, goal to Hawkins then subbed.
Whoever the supposed goalkicking coach is - this game should have been won !

True, but they missed ones early. Thought we were lucky to be only 20odd pts down at quarter time.

[always right]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Banker or Anchor - Where would Tory Dickson be more toward.

That's easy......banker.

Did a fine defensive job on Scarlett and looked genuinely dangerous when one out against his opponent.

[EasternWest]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Banker or Anchor - Where would Tory Dickson be more toward.

Banker for sure. Tory was good tonight.

[comrade]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Banker or Anchor - Where would Tory Dickson be more toward.

Banker.

He kept Scarlett honest for most of the night and almost snagged two goals through some strong marking. He's an intelligent player, the more smarts we have in that team the better.

I reckon he has a real future but probably needs to add the ability to have a run through the midfield.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

Banker.

He kept Scarlett honest for most of the night and almost snagged two goals through some strong marking. He's an intelligent player, the more smarts we have in that team the better.

I reckon he has a real future but probably needs to add the ability to have a run through the midfield.

You think he needs to add the midfield bow? I feel like we have plenty of midfield runners and would prefer if he focuses on becoming a goalkicking machine with strong defensive efforts.