Hope at last

[always right]

Sure we lost another game by 9 goals but at least today I saw hope for the future.

Johannisen, Tutt, Pearce, Talia, Wallis, Libba........play them all together for the rest of the year. Bring in Roberts for Skinner and Dahlhaus for Djukerra so we can build our team for next season.

Was anyone else encouraged by what they saw today?

[chef]

Re: Hope at last

Roughead was very good too.

[always right]

Re: Hope at last

Roughead was very good too.

Agree....breakout game for him today.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Hope at last

Johanissen was a good debut,ran out of puff.
Tutt nothing new really
Pearce Ok but hasn't stepped up yet
Talia encouraging but is at least 1 year off.
Wallis great year
Libba still early.
Roughead best game for a while
Addison good up forward but needs to kick more goals with the opportunities.

[always right]

Re: Hope at last

Johanissen was a good debut,ran out of puff.
Tutt nothing new really
Pearce Ok but hasn't stepped up yet
Talia encouraging but is at least 1 year off.
Wallis great year
Libba still early.
Roughead best game for a while
Addison good up forward but needs to kick more goals with the opportunities.

Disagree about Pearce.....love how he takes the game on. Has shown more in his first year than Howard has shown in three. Yes Talia is one year off as you would expect but that was a very encouraging first game. Tutt needs to find more of the ball but I like his pace and willingness to chase....good traits to have.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Hope at last

Encouraging signs.

JJ was impressive, Pearce showed improvement, Roughead was great, Wallis terrific and Talia a solid debut.

Some talent to work with in the list above.

[Bornadog]

Re: Hope at last

Agreed with all the players mentioned, throw in the mature age recruit Dickson and Smith who I thought played one of his better games. His tackling is sensational.

[Redemption97]

Re: Hope at last

Sure we lost another game by 9 goals but at least today I saw hope for the future.

Johannisen, Tutt, Pearce, Talia, Wallis, Libba........play them all together for the rest of the year. Bring in Roberts for Skinner and Dahlhaus for Djukerra so we can build our team for next season.

Was anyone else encouraged by what they saw today?

Yeah I was. Dickson and Roughead were great today. I liked Addison's game up forward, he could have kicked 4 had he kicked straight.

Smith also showed he's going to be a good player.

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Hope at last

I was certainly encouraged.

The coach is right about Roughead - can be a key defender - read the ball well. his best game of the year.

Johannisen - fantastic debut.

Talia - good defensively and plenty to work with.

Pearce - good run takes the game on

Dickson is natural replacement for Gia

[jazzadogs]

Re: Hope at last

Personally, not sure what we saw today that we hadn't already seen (Talia and Johannisen aside, obviously). We know we've got plenty of kids, we know that a lot of them are quality, the future is still bright.

Having said that, nice to see a change from the doom and gloom threads of last week.

[Eastdog]

Re: Hope at last

It definitely was a more 'positive' performance in the 1st half today and we have some great young kids coming through who are going to be great but we fail to run out games and what I conclude from that is our fitness is not up to scratch and we need to have a solid pre season starting early.

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

Re: Hope at last

Sure we lost another game by 9 goals but at least today I saw hope for the future.

Johannisen, Tutt, Pearce, Talia, Wallis, Libba........play them all together for the rest of the year. Bring in Roberts for Skinner and Dahlhaus for Djukerra so we can build our team for next season.

Was anyone else encouraged by what they saw today?

Good debuts by both Johannisen and Talia.Roughead played his best game at CHB, whilst Pearce did well. Addison was a good inclusion to the forward line which sorely missed both Dahlhaus and Williams. Club legend John Schultz is most impressed with Campbell's ruck work and clearly looks the best back up to Minson. Skinner and DJ failed to impress. Dickson has been terrific in his first year of League football.Howard still needs to do more and is yet to establish himself at senior level. You would have to be impressed with Clay Smith's attack on the ball today. The first half was encouraging although poor forward work again proved costly, which simply means that we still have a long way to go.

[Mofra]

Re: Hope at last

Sure we lost another game by 9 goals but at least today I saw hope for the future.

Johannisen, Tutt, Pearce, Talia, Wallis, Libba........play them all together for the rest of the year. Bring in Roberts for Skinner and Dahlhaus for Djukerra so we can build our team for next season.

Was anyone else encouraged by what they saw today?

I was over the moon with Wallis today - in under 12 months he's gone from "hope he makes it" to "will he be A grade?".
Earlier in the year I saw a bit of Priddis in him, and I was dead wrong - the Sam Mitchell comparisons are much better.

JJ - very happy. Harbrow mk 2.
Pearce looks a bit more settled and could be best 22 after a pre-season.
Talia was quite good too.

Roughy's marking was excellent, gave Tarrant a bath to 3/4 time. I'm still not entirely convinced his future lies as a backman.

Tutt I'm not comnvinced with - takes a short step far too often.

[MrMahatma]

Re: Hope at last

Was good to see some run and spread in the first half too. We'll go ok in another 18months or so.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Hope at last

What about the ironic cheers Tarrant got?
Quite staggered to be honest.First time someone other than Murphy took the game on (JJ)
Like the look of Pierce and Talia looks solid like his brother.If Smith and Talia can become at least competent kicks, they'll be good footballers.