Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

[GVGjr]

This is the round 17 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against Carlton has 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.

[azabob]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Bankers

1. Williams attacks the ball well and looks comfortable as a forward
2. Dahl kicking four
3. Wallis
4. Tutt kicking a pressure goal after the siren and his long kicking into the forward fifty in general.

Anchors

1. Griffs goal kicking
2. Higgins hammy, was starting to get some consistency
3. Poor disposal when kicking short and sidewards in defence
4. The person who jumped the fence when Dahl was kicking for goal on the boundary in the last.

Special mention out of bounds rule, twice in two weeks I'm confused by that rule, funnily enough both were in the same pocket.

[Bornadog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Bankers

* Dahl - Live wire and played in his rightful spot, ie in the forward line.

* Williams - Actually looks dangerous up forward, needs to learn to take a contested mark, but I guess he has been punching the ball all his career.

* Lake - Must be all Australian Fullback this year.

Anchors

* Carlton Supporters a pack of morons, jumping the fence and almost impeding Dahls shot at goal (the one that hit the post). Should have had another shot.

* Umpires - no idea. The one against Lake in the opening minutes of the last. What a joke. The deliberate out of bounce against Pearce, another joke. The free to Betts for the so called elbow when he instigated the whole thing. Three shots at goal for nothing.

* The Coach - Playing Murphy on Betts. Moving Griffo from the forward line in the second half. Having faith in DJ, VEZ, Giilbee, who are not up to it and leaving Shaggy out.

[Missing Dog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Bankers

Dahlhaus - Looked dangerous
Picken - Tried hard as always and made life hard for his opponent Murphy
Williams - Like him up forward a lot

Anchors

Pearce - Fumbled, made skill errors and struggled defensively. Why did we pick him over Hargarve? Or even JJ?
Vez - I'm going to have to change my avatar
Gia - Slow

[always right]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Bankers

Dahlhaus....only player in our side with any creativity
Cross....has had a very good season despite the critics on this board. Was brave as usual last night
Williams....we have our new centre half forward. He just needs to stay on the park..

Anchors

Gia.....sad but is now kinda irrelevant
Griffen....pretty good last night but nowadays rarely hurts the opposition. That missed goal on the run in the third, under little pressure, summed it up.
Coaches....lost count of the number of times Carlton had loose players out the back. So much for the claim pre season that we would be difficult to score against
Leadership.....who was prepared to stand up and make a statement when the tide turned in the third term.

[LostDoggy]

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Bankers
Williams....we have our new centre half forward. He just needs to stay on the park..

That's my worry. While he looks good, he is our most injury prone player playing in one of the hardest positions possible.
At the moment he can't do it for 4 quarters, I understand its after coming back from a long spell.

[GVGjr]

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That's my worry. While he looks good, he is our most injury prone player playing in one of the hardest positions possible.
At the moment he can't do it for 4 quarters, I understand its after coming back from a long spell.

Yep, he has a long way to go but most defenders turned forwards can't put 4 quarters together.
What I have been most happy about is that his decision making as a forward has been very good. Perhaps being pitted against some good forwards has given him some ideas of where to run and how to react.


If he can stay injury free I hope we stick with him as a forward for the balance of the season.

[F'scary]

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B: Williams (our new FF / CHF), Dahlhaus, Lake
A: Gia & Gilbee (they're cooked and need to retire), a number of our lesser experienced players who are just not stepping up this year and have me wondering if they ever will, our coaching team is a bit wooden with responding and with selections.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Yep, he has a long way to go but most defenders turned forwards can't put 4 quarters together.
What I have been most happy about is that his decision making as a forward has been very good. Perhaps being pitted against some good forwards has given him some ideas of where to run and how to react.


If he can stay injury free I hope we stick with him as a forward for the balance of the season.

I'd like to see him against better backs. In 2 weeks he has been on Bower and a hawk back(was it Gibson?) either way neither are the top class backs of the league.

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Yep, he has a long way to go but most defenders turned forwards can't put 4 quarters together.
What I have been most happy about is that his decision making as a forward has been very good. Perhaps being pitted against some good forwards has given him some ideas of where to run and how to react.


If he can stay injury free I hope we stick with him as a forward for the balance of the season.

The problem with playing Williams as a forward leaves us short of a CHB where both Austin and Markovic are only battlers and hardly good enough against quality forwards. Too much is required of Lake who desperately needs support particularly without the reliability of Morris.

[F'scary]

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The problem with playing Williams as a forward leaves us short of a CHB where both Austin and Markovic are only battlers and hardly good enough against quality forwards. Too much is required of Lake who desperately needs support particularly without the reliability of Morris.

Ok but where are the greater problems? For me one of Marko or Austin plugging CHB is less serious a problem than leaving Cordy or Roughead at full forward where they are complete duds. Jones needs to come back as CHF. Jones should play CHF, partly because I reckon FF will be kinder on William's dicky shoulders.

[SlimPickens]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Bankers
Dahl, Libba and Wallis- almost going to the footy to watch these lads exclusively.

Anchors
Murphy- Critical turnovers which cost us big time.

Griffen- Needs to work harder defensively.

Clearance work- very ordinary.

Cordy-

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Ok but where are the greater problems? For me one of Marko or Austin plugging CHB is less serious a problem than leaving Cordy or Roughead at full forward where they are complete duds. Jones needs to come back as CHF. Jones should play CHF, partly because I reckon FF will be kinder on William's dicky shoulders.

I agree on Roughead who is better suited as a ruckman and Cordy whilst Jones has been unconvincing. The only reason Williams is playing up forward is because the others have been so poor. That doesn't alter the fact that Williams is better suited at CHB.

[Mantis]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

The problem with playing Williams as a forward leaves us short of a CHB where both Austin and Markovic are only battlers and hardly good enough against quality forwards. Too much is required of Lake who desperately needs support particularly without the reliability of Morris.

And Lake probably only has one more year left too.

Hopefully the likes of Talia and Roberts can make some sort of impact next year.

[westdog54]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 17

Bankers

Dahlhaus - Found myself watching in awe virtually every time he got the ball. At the risk of sounding like Bruce, geez he's fun to watch, isn't he?
Williams - Loving his work leading up the ground
Cross - The best overhead mark at the club and his courage defies belief at times.

Anchors

Cordy - A liability again. He is offering us absolutely no value as a full forward. Works nowhere near hard enough to impact on the game.
Murphy - Some very uncharacteristic and costly turnovers.
Higgins' hamstring - The poor bloke just can't take a trick.