Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

[westdog54]

This is the round 14 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against Essendon 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.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

1st Banker is 7mate Brisbane for showing a Saturday night Melbourne game.

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Bankers

Too few again to choose

Minson
Libba
Dahl

Anchors

Most of the others!
The future of the team is a worry..
Sherman
Roughead
Jones
Howard
Addison

And the senior leaders are ordinary
Lake
Boyd
and so on

Over it! Night!

[The Underdog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Bankers:
Lukey Dahlhaus - Hands down our best player. Gave non stop effort and never gave up on trying to win the ball back.
Clay Smith -Slow start but worked his way into it. Excellent 3rd quarter.
Will Minson - Came back with a strong effort and looked our most dangerous tall up forward

Anchors:
Justin Sherman - For a guy as important as he could be to us his game was really poor
Christian Howard - Some seriously non competitive efforts at times
Coaching staff - Roughhead as a sub. You've got to be *!*!*!*!ing kidding me. That's amateur stuff and I wouldn't rule it out as a factor in our fade out at the finish. Oh and if I hear the words teaching or development in another commentary of one of our games this year I'll spew up. It's an easy narrative that doesn't really apply to a good percentage of our team.

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Bankers: four straight goals that lifted our confidence - for a while
McCartney - for actually firing up and giving the players some 'strong feedback'.

Anchors: Our spread, kicking ability and lack of pressure.
Saw a few blokes giving each other a spray on the ground for various things. A bad sign.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Bank:
Libba
Dahl
Jobe Watson, (I turned on to watch the Dogs, I left it on to watch Jobe)

Ank:
Sherman
Jones (I had more second efforts tonight)
This weeks media that will rate Boyd BOG for 30+ possessions

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Bankers,
Dahl, Libba and Minson's game and Clay Smith's 3rd quarter.
Griff's efforts - I really feel for him, the lack of support see's him cop a bashing most weeks from the opposition.

Anchors -
Brian Lake- When the game or moments aren't going his way, is there a bigger head dropper amongst our team?
Higgins- for someone so long earmarked for a leadership role he really sets a poor example alot of times.

[The Underdog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

This weeks media that will rate Boyd BOG for 30+ possessions

I'm growing more disenchanted with him by the week

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

I'm growing more disenchanted with him by the week

As he has evolved into playing the prolific onballer role , we have become a poorer team for it. When he was a support act for Cooney, Griff he was a more accountable and valuable player for us. As soon as we started expecting him to play exapnd his role he has moved further and further out of his skill range and his deficiencies have become amplified.

[always right]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Staggered by some of the criticism of Boyd tonight. How many of you went to the game and how many watched on TV? Say what you like about the quality of his possessions but he did all he could to drag our team into the game. Wasn't our best but he was honest....as always. You only appreciate his effort when you are closer to the action.

Bankers:
Dahl.....so impressed with his effort tonight. Nearly won every contest he was involved in.
Minson.....strong contribution when he could have easily gone into his shell
Boyd....see above
Libba.....one of our more constructive midfielders
Smith......for his second half


Anchors:
Lake was half hearted
Sherman.....was ineffective
Jones......some promising signs in the first half but poor in the second half
Umpiring in the first half.....deadset disgraceful

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Let's face it Boyd's a supercoach dream team star. His disposal is ordinary.

Bankers- Dahlhaus (great game)
Minson- thought he was good
Libba - that goal was about two of his old man's kicks

Anchors- the disasterous recruiting of 1st round picks. The 06 draft is killing us
Addison - yes love his desperation, but how he was re- signed is baffling
3 Rucks - why are we persisting with this? The forwards don't know where to lead , and they can't find space!The coach made a serious mistake not tagging Watson.
Sherman - career is over at our club
Higgins- See above . Can we surgically remove Addison's intensity into Shaun's body ?
The corridor - can we please plug it up!

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Staggered by some of the criticism of Boyd tonight. How many of you went to the game and how many watched on TV? Say what you like about the quality of his possessions but he did all he could to drag our team into the game. Wasn't our best but he was honest....as always. You only appreciate his effort when you are closer to the action.

Bankers:
Dahl.....so impressed with his effort tonight. Nearly won every contest he was involved in.
Minson.....strong contribution when he could have easily gone into his shell
Boyd....see above
Libba.....one of our more constructive midfielders
Smith......for his second half


Anchors:
Lake was half hearted
Sherman.....was ineffective
Jones......some promising signs in the first half but poor in the second half
Umpiring in the first half.....deadset disgraceful

Crameri's first two goals were a disgrace! Brian Lake's zoning off is very annoying

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Staggered by some of the criticism of Boyd tonight. How many of you went to the game and how many watched on TV? Say what you like about the quality of his possessions but he did all he could to drag our team into the game. Wasn't our best but he was honest....as always. You only appreciate his effort when you are closer to the action.

Bankers:
Dahl.....so impressed with his effort tonight. Nearly won every contest he was involved in.
Minson.....strong contribution when he could have easily gone into his shell
Boyd....see above
Libba.....one of our more constructive midfielders
Smith......for his second half


Anchors:
Lake was half hearted
Sherman.....was ineffective
Jones......some promising signs in the first half but poor in the second half
Umpiring in the first half.....deadset disgraceful

Fair enough, but you don't think Boyd bears any responsibility for the smashing Watson gave him when it was up for grabs in the first quarter? I can never criticise his ability to keep running and trying all night, but his lack of accountability over a long period of time, is a worry is it not?

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

Staggered by some of the criticism of Boyd tonight. How many of you went to the game and how many watched on TV? Say what you like about the quality of his possessions but he did all he could to drag our team into the game. Wasn't our best but he was honest....as always. You only appreciate his effort when you are closer to the action.

I don't mind being corrected.

On TV all I saw was no effort, no tackles, 7-9 Boyd midfield snap kick to Essendon players.
Look I'm not saying he was worst on field, however I saw nothing to praise him over and the media (looking at his 30 touches) will say he was our only positive.

If you went to the game AR, what was he doing behind he camera?

[always right]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 14

I don't mind being corrected.

On TV all I saw was no effort, no tackles, 7-9 Boyd midfield snap kick to Essendon players.
Look I'm not saying he was worst on field, however I saw nothing to praise him over and the media (looking at his 30 touches) will say he was our only positive.

If you went to the game AR, what was he doing behind he camera?

His defensive game is not a strength but in a game where we lacked players who could impose themselves I thought he was one of a handful who tried to do this.

On a separate matter......where were the bulldogs supporters tonight? I could have had a conversation with each of them tonight. No twilight game excuse either.