Bankers and Anchors- Round 1

[Greystache]

Re: Bankers and Anchors- Round 1

Bankers

New recruits- Goodes was fantastic, Lower could be a hugely valuable player, Stevens won many clearances and really cracks in, and Young showed a bit.

Cordy- Showed some great signs in the first half, hopefully that's something to build on.

Ferocity- Our attack on the ball and the man with it was a real standout. Jonathon Brown said in the Brisbane function after the game that they were bullied out of the contest and couldn't handle the bulldogs physical pressure the way they crashed in. (I think he must have meant crack in )

Anchors- Gee the umpiring is overly pedantic these days. Let the game flow

[Mantis]

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Bankers

* Goodes - played like a seasoned veteran... Great debut.

* Griffen - high quality player, terrific performance.

* Liberatore- exercised a few demons today.

Anchors

* Not much went wrong today, but our lack of leg speed across the ground is going to expose us.

* Umpiring - Do they really need to make a decision at every 2nd contest?

[LostDoggy]

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Banker Top of the ladder

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bankers and Anchors- Round 1

Bankers

Griffen: Elite midfielder of the competition and showed why.
Liberatore: Absolutely dominated the contest with his insatiable hunger for the ball.
Minson: Rucked well but was most impressed by his contested marking and disposal around the ground.

Anchors

Score review system: 2 minutes to get the wrong decision, farcical.
Rules of the game: Paying free kicks for any contact to the back is penalising players who read the drop of the ball better than their opponent; ie. Jones in the first quarter.
Pearce Hanley: Enough said.

[Twodogs]

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Bankers

1. Dale Morris. His desperation and cool head has been missed. To come back after a leg break that bad and play so well is an amazing effort

2. Bob Murphy's captains goal. Brisbane were coming at us and Murph sat them on their arses with that goal.

3. The sliding in rule. Footy is a much better game to watch when the players are on their feet fighting for the ball.


Anchors

1. Score review system. That was farcical in that they got it wrong and how long it took to get it wrong.

2. I missed the kickoff before the game because I was picking up mt membership.

3. Umpiring. Too many soft frees.



Th, th, th, that's all folks.

[Eastdog]

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Bankers

Goodes - Great debut for the club and will look forward to see how he progresses in 2013.

Murphy - Loved that goal.

Dickson - Another very good forward who's going to keep getting better.

Also add for now we are top of the ladder

Anchors

Bad umpiring which happens in very game

Otherwise not too many things went wrong yesterday

[westdog54]

Re: Bankers and Anchors- Round 1

Bankers

1. Dale Morris. His desperation and cool head has been missed. To come back after a leg break that bad and play so well is an amazing effort

2. Bob Murphy's captains goal. Brisbane were coming at us and Murph sat them on their arses with that goal.

3. The sliding in rule. Footy is a much better game to watch when the players are on their feet fighting for the ball.


Anchors

1. Score review system. That was farcical in that they got it wrong and how long it took to get it wrong.

2. I missed the kickoff before the game because I was picking up mt membership.

3. Umpiring. Too many soft frees.



Th, th, th, that's all folks.

Did you go to a soccer game or are you just willing Arsenal to a CL spot?

Bankers

Goodes, should have been picked years ago.
Lower. Rich was a non factor.
Gia for defying father time.

Anchors

The video review. Farcical.
Danny Frawley for not telling the organisers of a concussion conference that he wasn't a doctor.
Damian Barrett for putting his hair through a hair straightener before appearing on The Footy Show.

[Twodogs]

Re: Bankers and Anchors- Round 1

Did you go to a soccer game or are you just willing Arsenal to a CL spot?

The Templeton/Grant/Johnno/Sandilands/supporter kickoff!


I got into the ground a couple of minutes before the ballup!!!! Just in time to see the ball bounce off the Brisbane defenders chest into Tory Dickson's hands for the mark (and the subsequent 50 metre penalty) for the first goal.

[Ozza]

Re: Bankers and Anchors- Round 1

Bankers:

Forward structure - worked well, Murphy obviously a big influence on that. Even Jones and Ayce - who may not have had a lot of the ball, brought the ball to ground and our smaller blokes were in the right spots.

Ball use - we used it smartly. Switching the play with purpose, hitting targets and only going long up the line when we had to. Our players seemed confident they could hit their leading targets.

Work rate - our work off the ball when we had it - meant the kicker had options, and kept the pressure on the lions.

Tackling - particularly from second efforts. For example- Dickson, Jones and Dahlhaus - if they didn't mark the ball would be up in a flash tackling. Dickson's influence with his pressure and tackling is at this stage underrated/understated.

Anchors:

I thought the crowd was a little poor. I know it was Easter weekend, but it was still very low. I am particularly thankful that the dogs rewarded me for my 2.5 hour drive to the game from where I was for the weekend....and the scarf was flown out of the window for most of the 2.5 hours back down to South Gippsland.

[AndrewP6]

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Anchors:
I thought the crowd was a little poor. I know it was Easter weekend, but it was still very low.

25k? I thought it was a pretty good crowd. Easter, playing an interstate team, the fact we've been down for quite some time.

[jeemak]

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25k? I thought it was a pretty good crowd. Easter, playing an interstate team, the fact we've been down for quite some time.

Wonder how much that'll cost us.

[Ozza]

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25k? I thought it was a pretty good crowd. Easter, playing an interstate team, the fact we've been down for quite some time.

I just thought we would have nudged 30K. Brisbane aren't an ordinary interstate team - they have a big Melbourne following - and I thought they carried us a fair way to 25K as it was.

Maybe I'm a hard marker on the crowd size. We did have 40K against them in a home & away game in 2009 (at the MCG) when we were going well.